Author: Katie Reus 

Genre: Paranormal Romance

 

 

He saw her die in a vision… 

Before five years ago, Gabriel had never met Vega, but he knows how she’s going to die. He knows he’ll be involved… unless he can make sure they never meet, never cross paths, so that his vision will never come true. So he left his pack behind, joined the Stavros pack and was determined to never let that future play out. To never meet her at all. Fate had other plans—and she walked right into his life when he least expected it. For the last five years he’s avoided Vega whenever possible even while trying to keep an eye on her. But when she gets cagey with her pack and disappears, he has no choice but to follow her. Now, circumstances are forcing them to work together and he’s determined to protect her against any threat. If that means dying for her, he’s more than willing to. But she doesn’t want his protection. If anything, she’s determined to prove she’s stronger than everyone thinks. 

She’s writing her own future… 

Vega isn’t the same moody teenager who came to live with the Stavros pack all those years ago. With college behind her, she’s been recruited by a division of the government’s supernatural Black Ops. Trained and more than ready for her first mission, she doesn’t expect Gabriel to crash her assignment. To save her cover, they pretend to be a couple. But soon lines are blurred and neither can deny the incendiary attraction between them. As they race to stop a man who wants to sell out their people to the highest bidder, they find themselves fighting for a future together. With time running out, she has no choice but to rely on the irresistible male who’s turned her world upside down. Unfortunately, in order to save the woman he loves, Gabriel has to give her up. 

4.25 ‘No matter what, my heart will always belong to you’ Stars

I seriously can’t say it enough, this series is PHENOMENAL!
Darkness is without a doubt one of my all time favorite PNR series, and every time Katie Reus announces an upcoming new installment, it starts a religious countdown and stalking until release day!
For those of us Darkness addicts, Gabriel and Vega are two of recurring secondary characters in most of the books, so I couldn’t be happier that first, they are paired up, and second that we get to enjoy their story. Talk about a power couple!

Gabriel couldn’t help it. Couldn’t take his gaze off her. He had an addiction and her name was Vega.

Vega was off-limits. For a multitude of reasons. She was too damn young, for one. But mainly, he’d seen her death in a vision forced on him by a seer years ago. Long before he’d met Vega. He knew enough details about what could happen to her, where she could die, that he tried to keep his distance to protect her.

Gabriel has known Vega was his mate, for a very long time, well before even meeting her, and has always tried to run, figuratively and literally from his feelings and the destiny Fate had reserve for them. I understood his reasoning, in trying to protect her, and save her from death is a very valid reason, but upon running from his roots to avoid this dreaded fate, settling in Finn’s pack, making his place, and then non other than Vega showing up with her mom, being Finn’s daughter?! He should have gotten the message that you really can’t run from your destiny!

As Guardian his loyalty to Finn ran deep. His job was literally to protect his Alpha at all cost, to lay down his life for him. But Vega…she owned him.

Vega was absolutely brilliant! As the daughter of power couple that are Finn and Lyra, she had already immense expectations and eyes on her, but I loved that she wanted to carve her own place in the world. Should That she was more than her parents’ daughter, so much more than Stavro’s pack princess. And she did! She was totally kickass!

She’d wanted to ask Gabriel more last night, but he’d more than shocked her with what he’d said about them being future mates. Or in his case, apparently he’d decided to just give up on what might be.
Because of a stupid vision.

Yes, in a sense it was noble, what he’d tried to do. Beyond, even. But it was her future too and she got a say in it.

Yes, she has been fighting her feelings and physical attracton to Gabriel for years, thinking it was one sided emotions, but the second he confesses and she realizes why he’s deny them, like me she understood, but didn’t just accept it. She really told him how it was, lol!

No matter what, my heart will always belong to you. You claimed it a while ago and I don’t want it back.

Being ‘forced’ to work together, and be in close proximity, was fated to break their barries, there was no way to deny their insane chemistry. Everyone could see and even feel it. It was just a matter of time until stubborn Gabriel gave in. He really didn’t stand a chance. Even his wolf was driving him mad to claim their female.

All he wanted to do was shred their clothes, to push deep inside her, to mark her with his come, inside and out. He wanted his scent all over her. To mark her, claim her, let the whole damn world know that Vega was his.

Guardian of Darkness was a bit different in the romance feature, in my opinion, I always love how well Katie Reus balances the romantic element with the adventure subplot, but in this one, I don’t know if it was because Gabriel took so long to come to terms with his emotions and his fight against the vision, or because the sex scenes and intimacy only take part very late in the story, I felt their couple time was too reduced. Yes, the shift of his change in attitude was a too sudden by then, a complete one eighty, to be honest, but once we got to see his true emotions, it was impossible not to feel the depth of his love and devotion to Vega.

After years of worrying about her death, he needed to simply hold her. Because everything had changed and he knew that he couldn’t go back to his gray existence anymore. Not after all this.

Whatever the future held, he was tired of hiding, tired of trying to deny what he felt for her. He just hoped she wanted a future with him.

Another great installment to cement even more my already undying love to these Darness characters! I loved that we got a different setting that gave us the chance to meet more extraordinary side characters – speaking of, I need Judoc’s book, pleeeeeaaassseee – but we still got cameos from our favorite characters from the preceding books, specially Finn and Lyra, and their surprise WOW! What a action packed, emotional and sexy ride Guardian of Darkness was! On to stalking Ms. Reus for the next book. I wonder who it will be?! <3 <3 <3 <3 

“Mating is forever.”
“So? You afraid?” Because she wasn’t.
Heat flared in his green eyes. “Only of losing you.”

“Once you’re mine, I’m not letting you go.” A hot promise.
“I’ve always been yours, dumbass.”

No more living in fear. They got one life and he was taking everything it had to offer.
With her by his side.

 

Katie Reus is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Darkness series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it.

However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense.

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