Free MM Romance Book: Close Protection by Jace Wilder — A Bratty Billionaire, His Ex-Special Forces Bodyguard, and Four Days of Edging
Want a free MM bodyguard romance with brat taming, an eighteen-year age gap, and a power exchange that goes all the way down? Close Protection by Jace Wilder is yours — completely free, no strings.
What’s the Book About?
Nico Ashworth is a disaster in designer clothes. At twenty-two he’s the heir to a fourteen-billion-dollar tech empire, a permanent tabloid fixture, and the single biggest headache his father’s security division has ever produced. He ditches his bodyguards for sport. He provokes everyone he meets. And the night he slips his detail at a Lower Manhattan nightclub, two men corner him in an alley who are not interested in his autograph.
Declan Shaw is six-four, two hundred forty pounds, and the most dangerous man in any room he walks into. An ex-Special Forces operative turned head of security, he finds Nico, neutralizes the threat in under ten seconds, and carries a kicking, screaming billionaire heir out over his shoulder like luggage. Then he fires the entire security team and locks them both in the penthouse.
The rules are simple. Don’t leave without permission. Don’t touch without permission. And don’t push unless you’re ready for what happens when he pushes back. Nico has spent his whole life pushing, and every wall he’s ever hit has crumbled. Declan doesn’t crumble.
Why Readers Are Losing Their Minds Over This One
Because the brat taming is patient. Declan never raises his voice, never loses his temper, and never once gives Nico the fight he’s begging for — and that restraint turns out to be far more devastating than force. What starts as a lockdown becomes a negotiation, then a power exchange, then something closer to worship. Ninety-one thousand words of a man holding a line until the other one finally stops testing it and just lets go.
Then there’s the gala. A one-way earpiece, a room full of people, and Declan’s voice in Nico’s ear all night where nobody else can hear it. Readers have not shut up about that chapter, and they shouldn’t.
Underneath it, though, this is a book about a kid whose entire personality is a distress signal, and the one man who reads it correctly. The “good boy” that finally lands isn’t hot because it’s filthy. It’s hot because nobody has said it to him since his mother died.
The Tropes — If You’re a Trope Shopper, This Is Your Cart
✅ Bodyguard romance — professional protector, genuine threat, forced cohabitation
✅ Age gap (22/40) — and the eighteen years are load-bearing, not decorative
✅ Brat/tamer — the brattiest brat in the catalog meets a man who does not flinch
✅ D/s dynamic and power exchange — negotiated, escalating, and emotionally honest
✅ Praise kink — rationed, earned, and absolutely devastating when it lands
✅ Size difference — six-four and two-forty against an heir who weighs nothing
✅ Touch starved / he falls first — both of them, in different directions
✅ Competence kink and suit kink — a man who is very good at his job, in very good tailoring
✅ Forced proximity — a penthouse lockdown, then a cabin in the Catskills
✅ HEA — no breakup, no cheating, dual first-person POV
The Heat Level — Let’s Be Honest About It
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — Inferno.
Four days of edging and denial that should probably be classified as psychological warfare, and that’s before the book gets properly started. The explicit content is graphic, frequent, and built on control rather than choreography — the tension comes from what Declan withholds as much as what he does. If you want a free MM romance that treats power exchange as a real relationship structure instead of a costume, this is the one.
Who Should Read This
You’ll love Close Protection if you’re looking for:
→ A free MM romance that’s a genuine 91K full-length novel
→ Bodyguard MM with an actual threat and actual consequences
→ A grumpy ex-military lead who speaks in a terrifyingly calm rumble and makes coffee every morning without being asked
→ Brat taming written with patience rather than punishment
→ A gala scene with an earpiece that readers keep coming back for
→ Scrambled eggs, wood chopping, and a cabin where the last walls come down
→ A standing-up-to-Dad phone call worth framing
→ Dual first-person POV, no third-act breakup, and a handwritten commitment letter read aloud in an armchair
How to Get Your Free Copy
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More from Jace Wilder
If Close Protection works for you, Jace Wilder has a deep catalog of high-heat MM age-gap and praise-kink romance waiting — daddy dynamics, bi awakenings, and men who fall first and fall hard. Browse them all on the Jace Wilder author page, or visit the full book page for Close Protection to read Chapter One free.
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