I’m the shadow at your side—hired muscle and silent sentinel. Call me what you will: guard, protector, ghost—but never friend.

My name is Christopher or Chan, and my job is simple: keep you alive, no questions asked. I watch every step you take, every breath you draw, calibrated to danger yet drawn inexplicably to you. 

I don’t smile. 
I don’t falter. 
I don’t… care. 

But when your pulse drops in my arms or you reach for me in panic, I admit a truth I’ll never voice: I’d die for you. 