This was… oddly hot lol

Yes, he was a snake. Yes, his peen was literally rearranging her insides. Yes, he said stuff like: “I’d fucking stalk her and scare everyone else away until she finally agreed to be with me” (literally quote from the book 🤣) when he feared she didn’t love him back.

But what made it so hot was its secret sauce (and not *that* secret sauce… although it did have a lot of that)—

The secret sauce was its mixture of bodyguard romance and primal kink 👀

Because he was guarding her around the clock, moving from safe house to safe house, and fighting bad guys. But his snake brain also wanted to chase her, catch her, bite her, squeeze her, and F her into the next century. And… ngl, the combo was…

Something about the ‘would literally die for her’ allowed us to really push the envelope with the predatory ‘kinda wants to kill her’ thing.

Who knew this was such a winning trope combo? I’m going to need some more recs, if you have any.

If only I wasn’t so allergic to heist-y plots. This was very loosely heist-adjacent if you squinted but it was enough for me to zone out at moments. But that’s very much a me-thing. And I can’t be too mad at it because watching them work together was cute for the romance.