The Security Guard No One Saw Coming

Ethan Carter walked into Claire Bishop at the airport and ruined the stockings she was wearing. They cost more than he could pay, and she ran the company, so the debt was settled by putting him on its security staff until it was worked off. Before that he had spent nineteen years on Kunlun Mountain. A woman skilled in martial arts had taken him in as a child and trained him there, and he had come within one step of ascending, held up by the last tempering of his own mind. She unsealed the memories of his childhood and sent him down into the world to finish that part himself, which is how he came back to the city he was born in. The job kept him next to Claire Bishop and her problems. He used the fighting he had been taught and a knack for reading fortunes to clear one crisis after another at the company, and while he worked off what he owed he looked for the family he had been separated from as a child.