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

“Can you point them out if you see them again?”


Eli frowned. The one in the car, absolutely, the one who’d given him the sandwich…He tried to recall, but all he remembered was that the man was huge, as most shifters were. “Just one, the one in the car.”


Jaecar studied him, his face blank. “Do you know where they are from? Do they belong to a pack?”


Eli shook his head. He’d paid no attention to packs or pack politics. Varg was always angry when he came home from pack meetings, and he took it out on Eli.


Jaecar’s face was still blank, but he could’ve sworn the eyes were more yellow. Eli’s pulse increased. Fuck, had he pissed Jaecar off? He pulled the knees closer to his chest.


“I can smell fear, Elijah. What are you thinking?”


Eli scanned for Jaecar’s emotional state, but he couldn’t read him. Varg had always been triggered by Eli’s fear, had always leered and made it worse. “Nothing.”


Chapter 19