His Wife Can Fight. He Wins Anyway.

She is the bodyguard, and everyone in the room can see it. The threats that reach their door stop when she steps forward. Her husband is the well-dressed spendthrift people dismiss before he speaks, a man who seems to collect trouble for the pleasure of wearing it. / The mistake is thinking the marriage has only one dangerous half. Where her skill ends, in deals, grudges, and rooms where a fist is useless, he is strangely impossible to beat. She can protect his body. She cannot yet tell whether he is her safest ally or the reason the city keeps aiming at them.