Mine to Protect by Lynn Hagen

After failing to execute a kill warrant, Rhys faces the consequences when Stephen is attacked and converted into a vampire. When Lucian discovers Stephen’s predicament, the Master vampire demands Stephen be handed over.

Stephen was already kidnapped and tortured by a feral lion shifter. He’s still having nightmares about the ordeal when he’s assaulted and bitten in an alley late at night. The daylight has become too bright, and he can’t stop staring at Rhys’s jugular with a thirst and need that nearly drives him over the edge. When Rhys agrees to feed him, the act becomes intimate, and Stephen finds himself not only turned on by the muscled warrior, but falling for him, too.

Miguel is on the hunt for the human he converted, the Master tries to lure Stephen away, and one of the Grizzly Bastards is taunting Rhys and following him everywhere he goes. But Rhys has only one objective, and that is to protect his mate.