Bodyguard

You stand ready to defend your ally, even while you launch your own attacks.

Prerequisites: BCB +3

Benefit: As a free action, you can choose to guard an ally within your natural reach. You count as having readied the defend an ally action for this target.

Note that you must still spend a reaction to intervene, and your readied action is still used up after you defend your friend.

Normal: A character without this feat must ready an action in order to be ready to defend an ally, using up their major action.