# The Oathbound Guardian

Author: Violet Mercer
Site: ReadNovelHub
Canonical: https://readnovelhub.com/novel/the-oathbound-guardian
Genre: Billionaire-CEO

## World
You must trust the guardian sworn to kill you before his oath kills you.

## Tropes
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forced Proximity
- Billionaire Romance
- Cyberpunk Sci-Fi
- EnemiesToLovers
- ForcedProximity
- FoundFamily
- SlowBurn
- Deadly Soul Bond
- Protective Guardian
- Impossible Choice
- Vampire & Blood Bond

## FAQ
### What is The Oathbound Guardian about?
You must trust the guardian sworn to kill you before his oath kills you.

### Who is the author of The Oathbound Guardian?
The Oathbound Guardian is written by Violet Mercer. Read Chapter 1 free on ReadNovelHub.

### Is The Oathbound Guardian a Enemies to Lovers story?
Yes. The Oathbound Guardian is tagged for Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Billionaire Romance readers looking for North American romance-fantasy tropes.

### Can I read The Oathbound Guardian Chapter 1 for free?
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### What happens at the start of The Oathbound Guardian?
"Keep your hands off me!" I twisted against the enforcer's grip as his metal cuff bit into my wrist. "Calian! You hear me? Tell them to back off!" The crowd answered with a hundred raised phones and one ugly roar.

## Chapter 1 teaser
### The Guardian Who Let Me Fall

"Keep your hands off me!" I twisted against the enforcer's grip as his metal cuff bit into my wrist. "Calian! You hear me? Tell them to back off!" The crowd answered with a hundred raised phones and one ugly roar. Calian Vey stood three steps away, black coat buttoned to his throat, his oathblade hanging at his hip. He looked clean. Untouched. Like he hadn't just watched two armed men drag me off the council platform. My livestream phone lay on the stone at his boots. The red light was still blinking. "Calian," I snapped. "Say something." His eyes met mine. Gray. Cold. Too close to the color of the smoke still hanging over Esterport's eastern district. "Release her," he said. The enforcer's grip loosened by half an inch. Then Calian added, "Only after she gives up the device." My laugh came out sharp. "That's your big rescue?" "Lia, stop making this worse." "I was making it worse when I showed proof that the harbor collapse wasn't an accident? Or when I named the council auditor who signed the repair orders?" A woman in the front row gasped. Someone shouted, "Traitor!" The second enforcer yanked my arm behind my back. Pain shot up to my shoulder. "You don't get to call me a traitor," I said. "Not when your people buried my sister under a building they knew was going to fall." The crowd went strangely quiet. Calian's jaw tightened. Just once. Fast enough that anyone else would've missed it. I didn't. "The council denies your accusations," he said. "The council denies everything. That's why I brought the documents." I kicked backward. My heel caught the nearest enforcer's shin. He swore and shoved me down. My knees slammed into the platform. The impact rattled my teeth. The phones lifted higher. "Get up," Calian said. I stared at him from the stone. "Come make me." His mo

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