This is one of the novella stories from the Dark Protector series by this author. This is where we have a bodyguard/protector type of situation. This was a very fast read, took me about 30 minutes to actually read it. It was fun returning to this series and I have been wanting to get to the novella's here. I really loved the way in which this story was implemented. I loved seeing our hero starting out in the prologue connecting with this young girl. And then to see the way he connects to the heroine was fabulous. I loved his alpha protective attitude and was willing to stand up to the heroine (man I LOVED that….one of my favorite microtropes actually) This is something so powerful about this author, she doesn't shy away from a good alpha male. The heroine was solid, I felt like she was a bit naïve and could act TSTL sometimes. Just would easily rush head first into a situation without thinking about it, but she does learn a bit. Overall though this was a fun quick vampire read that was the palette cleanser that I was looking for.