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

Elora’s fridge wasn’t stacked exactly, but she had eggs and enough things to make an omelet.


Adrenaline hit as emotions rolled over him. They weren’t anything extreme, an odd mix of calm and violent, and they didn’t fit in a staircase. The sound of someone unlocking the front door had him glancing at the gun. The shower was still running in the bathroom.


Should he fight or come quietly? If he went with them, Elora would be safe, but he’d be going back to Varg. He dove for the gun as the door opened. The intruder only had to take two steps before he appeared in the doorway.


“Come quietly and no one gets hurt.” He aimed a gun at Eli, growling softly as the water was turned off in the bathroom.


Eli dropped the gun and raised his hands.


“Come here.” He continued to aim the gun at him, his emotions toned down, which had Eli suspecting this wasn’t the first time he’d kidnapped someone.


How had he found them? He’d left before Elora arrived, hadn’t he?


Chapter 22