All he wants is to save himself from the baggage of a troubled past. But she just won’t stay away.

Eighteen years ago, Kevin’s parents were brutally murdered. Seventeen years after their death, Kevin is forced to watch helplessly as his fiancée is tortured to death.

Never fully recovering from the trauma, he moves into a new city, hoping to start his life anew, leaving his devastating past behind. But things didn’t go as planned. He did not expect to fall in love with Natasha—the daughter of a man hunting for his kind.

They soon discover the battered corpse of a missing detective assigned to investigate the murder of his fiancée several months ago. However, when the horror from his past returned, Kevin is forced to stay away from Natasha—or watch her fall victim to a ghoul who takes pleasure in tormenting him.

Stay-Away

Derik gulped air to steady himself. Straightening his arm at Kevin, he wrapped his fingers around the gun, not taking his eye off him. “Give me one reason I shouldn’t drop you where you stand.” 


“Derik, wait!” he hollered, hands raised a bit higher. “I’m not your enemy. I may be one of them, but I’m certainly not a killer.” 


Derik glared, his fierce eyes filled with rage and hatred. “You pinned a rod through a man’s eyes, how do you explain that?” 


“Those guys deserved what they got and you know it. Heck, they raped Natasha and walked away free, while she suffers in the hospital. I couldn’t live with that.” 


“You could have just left it to the authorities.” 


“I was just doing the cops a favour.” 


“That doesn’t change the fact that you’re a shifter and a killer.” he countered. 


“Does Natasha know? Does she know what you are?” he asked him, his fingers tightening around the gun. 


CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Burning Desire