Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 108211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 541(@200wpm)___ 433(@250wpm)___ 361(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 108211 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 541(@200wpm)___ 433(@250wpm)___ 361(@300wpm)
There was nothing spontaneous about their lovemaking—nothing primal, which was what Andi longed for. She wanted a man who was big enough and strong enough to just take her. And Cade would have fit the bill perfectly…if only her big Hybrid Protector had been interested.
But alas, it was clear he wasn’t. Despite complimenting her eyes and catching her when she fell and buckling her in long after she ought to have figured out the five-point harness herself, Cade remained nothing but her Protector and he never seemed to want more.
Andi wished he did. She wished he would sweep her off her feet and take her in the bedroom and ravish her—to use a word from her mom’s old Harlequin romance novels. Just once she wanted to feel out of control—swept away by passion.
She had no idea how soon her dream would come true…or what a wild ride it would turn out to be.
2
CADE
“If you’re ready to go, I’ll notify the Mother Ship to fold space for us.”
Cade cast a sidelong glance at the little human female that was his charge as he spoke. Dr. Andrea Smyth was looking at him from behind her thick oculars, her long, wavy brown hair falling over her shoulders. She wasn’t as tiny as some Earth females—but he liked that about her.
As a Hybrid, Cade was even bigger than most Kindred warriors, which meant that the vast majority of human women were too tiny and fragile compared with him. He was afraid he might break them if he dared to touch them. Andrea, on the other hand, had, as the humans said, “some meat on her bones.” She was what the Kindred called an Elite—a female the Goddess had blessed with extra full curves.
Especially in her hips and ass. Gods, if he could ever get his face between those gorgeous thick thighs…
Stop it, Cade warned himself. Stop thinking like that—you’re her Protector, not her mate. And you know you have no chance of ever being her mate, so don’t even start imagining her naked.
But of course, that thought only made him think of her more and wonder what her sweet, curvy body would look like unclothed. He couldn’t help picturing her full breasts and curving hips in the nude. He wondered what color her nipples were and if she had a sweet little patch of curls between her thighs or if she was shaved or waxed bare down there. He wondered what she would sound like moaning his name as he tasted her, lapping her pussy open and bathing her hot little clit with his tongue…
Such lustful thoughts made it really fucking difficult to do his job, so Cade tried again to push them out of his head. It was just that he found Andrea so incredibly fucking attractive and he had from the very first.
He still remembered the moment they had met in the office of Commander Sylvan, who was the head of the Kindred High Council and also his Commanding Officer. The purpose of the meeting was just to introduce the two of them and Cade hadn’t expected much. He was perfectly willing to be a Protector, but he wasn’t interested in human females because they were too tiny and fragile. But then Andrea had walked in, so tall and full-figured and gorgeous…and had promptly tripped on the edge of the carpet.
Cade had jumped to his feet and caught her all in one motion—noting as he did so, how soft her full curves were. He’d caught a whiff of her sweet, feminine scent too and her big brown eyes had gone wide behind the thick oculars she wore.
“Oh…thank you!” she’d gasped as Cade had reluctantly set her on her feet again. “I’m sorry—I’m so clumsy!”
“You’re fine,” Cade had told her, hardly knowing what he was saying. He’d been lost in her eyes…in the feeling of her soft curves and her warm, feminine scent.
He’d become aware that his shaft was rock hard in his trousers and the Mating Fist at its base was swelling with need. His fangs had been itching as well and when he touched the tip of his tongue to one, he found it was razor sharp.
But perhaps most dangerous of all was the low, growling voice that seemed to rise from the back of his mind—the feral part of him that rarely spoke because it had few words.
“MINE!” Cade had heard it growl and a feeling of possessiveness had rushed through him like primal fire.
The incident had surprised him—he’d never had such an immediate and visceral reaction to a female before. Probably because he’d always guarded against it, knowing he could never call a mate. But somehow Andrea Smyth had gotten under his guard and blindsided him with her beauty and intelligence…and her full, curvy body that he longed to lick all over…