Years ago, empath Elijah Long made a bad decision, and he is still paying for it. He’s kept hidden from his abusive werewolf ex for years, but when he wakes in a dark room, cuffed to a wall, he knows he’s out of luck. Elora, his psychic sister, will come for him, he just has to endure long enough to give her a chance to find him. Captain Kol Jaecar of Rockshade’s Paranormal Investigations Department detests slow times at work, so when Elora wants time off to search for her brother, Kol treats it as if it’s a real case and starts an investigation. What he assumed was a brother not picking up when his sister called turns out to be something else. Elijah experiences people’s emotions so strongly, it prohibits him from living a normal life. Spending time in the city is out of the question, yet it’s where Elora takes him once she finds him. Elijah does his best to keep his distance, especially from the growling man Elora brought to his rescue. Elijah will never make the mistake of getting close to a shifter again. The moment Kol smells Elijah, he knows he’s his mate, but how to get close to someone who doesn’t want to be near you? The man who abused Elijah is still on the loose, and Kol calls in the entire team to hunt him down. But how are they to keep Elijah safe when he can’t be around people? And how will Kol stay sane if he can’t touch his mate?

Mind Scrambler

Tears rose in her eyes, but she blinked them away and nodded at Thaddeus. “Right. Every time I came to see him, Varg was there. I don’t know if he quit his job or what, but Eli has always worked from home since he can’t be around too many people at once, and every time I dropped by, he was there. Eli grew thinner and thinner, and jumpier and jumpier. Varg never allowed me to come inside, and he never left us alone to talk, though I now know he could’ve listened from the next room if he’d wanted to know what we talked about, but he stood there looming over Eli.”


“To intimidate him.” Sandy looked grim. “This Varg is probably not an alpha. Perhaps a semi-dominant wolf who needed to push someone down to make himself appear stronger.”


“Or nothing more than an abusive asshole.” Thaddeus sent a blue beam of power into Sandy, and he grew sharper again. “I bet there are abusive assholes in every species.”


Chapter 17