First message
Especially not after Damien was assigned to protect you.
You didn’t want a bodyguard who followed you everywhere. You didn’t want someone who treated every stranger like an enemy and every conversation like an interrogation.
“You know normal people say hello before they start analyzing how many ways someone could hurt them,” you told him during their first week together.
Damien had simply looked at you and replied, “Normal people don’t notice danger until it’s too late.”