"Excerpt for Volume 1"

[EXCERPT] (Only for Volume: 1)

"Samuel, you're going to be Nancy's bodyguard from today onwards," Roth stated.

Samuel's jaw almost dropped, not to the statement but to Nancy's surprised reaction.

Nancy couldn't believe the awkward situation guy was going to be with her 24/7.

"Wait what?! I don't agree! You guys can't select a bodyguard for me without my consent!" Nancy objected.

"We didn't ask for your opinion because we knew you were going to reject it anyway." Daniel, her father, smiled at her sarcastically.

Not acceptable!

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"So?" Nancy uttered finally, breaking the awkward silence because the robot-like person in front of her wouldn't say a word.

"So?..." Samuel asked politely. "Something seems to be troubling you, Miss?"

"Yeah. Drop the 'Miss'. Call me Nancy."

"Very well, Nancy."

"Are you AI? Why do you talk like that?"

"Is my way of speech unusual?" He asked as he physically oozed politeness.

"Uhh… It's way too formal. Weird." Nancy almost gagged. Though the man was handsome, what the hell was this conversation?

"If you do not like it, I will not talk."

She could only look at him with a disgusted face, only that.

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"Let me do it," Nancy ordered as she looked at the blood-drenched Samuel's unfazed reaction to his abdomen wound.

Samuel narrowed his eyes, showing a reaction only to her words.

"You must not. I am able to treat myself." Samuel clarified, moving away from her as she kept closing the distance with him seated on the couch in the motel room.

Nancy was irked, slapping his hand off of the wound. It was the first time she saw a gunshot wound. And the first time she saw someone unfazed by it.

"You had been bleeding all this time?!" Nancy asked, looking at blood spurting out.

"It has only been 15 minutes. And I can very well care for myself and you. You need not to tend to my wounds." Samuel explained calmly.

"You got the wound because of me. I'll treat it." Nancy insisted, narrowing her eyes in annoyance.

"If I get hurt, it is just because of my mere incompetence. I am your bodyguard. You have no reason to look after me while I claim all the reasons to look after you."

His words were soft like petals, grazing her ears lightly. Though, Nancy wasn't the type to fall for words.

"Shut up!"