Protector: The Elect, Book 1 (16 page)

“You have some fat, yes. But I find it attractive.”

Hurt, familiar but unwelcome, flooded Margo. “Gee, thanks. I’m delighted to know you’d be willing to bang me despite the fact that I’m a fatty.” She bent her head and blinked, hating that tears had filled her eyes. She was twenty-six years old, and had accepted the fact that she was never going to be a size eight, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt.

Runako stood. “You are not aroused.”

“Being called a fat ugly cow will do that to a girl.”

“I said none of those things. And fat cows are tasty.”

“Great, now I’ll just sit here and worry that you’re going to eat me. I bet you wouldn’t want to eat a skinny girl.”

“I believed that Luke and Michael were weak because they seemed unable to control their human women,” he said, hands on his hips as he considered her. “Perhaps women are more complicated than I believed.”

With a murmur of “I will return” Runako left.

Protector

Loribelle Hunt

He will protect her. No matter the threat.

The Elect. They aren’t human. They’re the next step in evolution and they’re hiding in plain sight. They’re stronger, smarter, and faster. Nature’s perfect predator.

Welcome to the top of the food chain.
 

Braxton Lee is the protector of the Elect and it’s a job he takes seriously. As president of the committee that governs the Elect, he overseas everything from finance to security to keeping their existence hidden. He’s driven and ruthless. The Elect will not be exposed on his watch.
 

Unfortunately his research chief, Zach Littman, is contacted by a former colleague who’s run a DNA analysis of a blood sample and gotten weird results. The blood isn’t human, and Dr. Esme Durand is smart enough to know it. Brax will do whatever it takes to keep her silent. Until he meets her. Because Esme has a secret. She’s one of them. Brax wants nothing more but to bring her into the fold and into his bed.
 

Warning: This book contains hot sex, the next evolution of mankind, hot sex, a race to find a bad guy, a hot hero trying to prove his love, and did I mention the hot sex?

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Protector

Copyright © 2012 by Loribelle Hunt

ISBN: 978-1-60928-776-4

Edited by Amy Sherwood

Cover by Scott Carpenter

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