Great book. Love the story and character building. The author’s great story telling gave my imagination a visual of the beautiful scenes and individuals during this area. I recommend this book!

This is my favorite book of the series! Lyc is more reserved but also more intense, and Subject 66C is so heart wrenching I didn’t want to stop reading.

Finally we get Lyc’s story! A fascinating male full of mystery and visions. The story begins from when the Alpha Elite save the omegas from Veena’s rescue. Commander Steil and Lyc move the traumatized omegas to safety but encounter an ambush that Lyc tries to avoid. Things go to pot for our amazing Alpha complete with amazing fight scenes. I could visualize him on the big screen performing these Cirque du Soliel feats - that incredible. I am a huge Alpha Elite fan. These males are so macho to see them practically on their knees for their female life mates is humbling for such a fierce warrior. I love it. It’s like comparing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson humbled by something small as a child or puppy. Long time I waited for Lyc to get his story and it is so appropriate and fitting. His female Subject 66C has no real name (don’t worry she does get one later) and her power competes and powers over Lyc. Reading their story makes me want to hug myself because they are incredible together and adding a bit of ice breaker comic relief with Evie is a perfect means of exercising the stress and angst felt in reading their high action scenes. Well done to the author, and I continue to love this series.

I am continually amazed by the intense omega-verse that V.T. Bonds is able to share with us, especially in her Warrior Elite series. Subject 66C and Lyc’s story punched a hole in my heart. It took an even deeper step into the world of the ISC and the incredibly dangerous and deadly scientists, Enforcers, and the Director who took young Omegas and experimented on them. Watching Lyc’s turmoil, as his visions provided endlessly hostile results, also kept this story perilously close to the edge of sanity. A happy ending is fleeting in a world of such terror, but Bonds uses her language to build bridges of understanding between unexpected mates. Protected and Punished, book 4 in her series, defies true romanticism, yet provides it nonetheless.