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

Grabbing his phone, he called the station. “Ric!” He relayed the information and asked Ric to take over the scene. Hanging up, he called Leo to inform him of having found Elijah. Elora was still out, but Leo would tell her as soon as she came to. He didn’t tell Leo where he and Elijah would go, and Leo didn’t ask. He might tell Ric when he got here, but it was sensitive information, and he had no idea who was listening. 10


Eli could hardly breathe. The place was swarming with police—in reality it wasn’t too many, but their emotions all collided in him, and he wanted to run away. Jaecar never let him out of his sight though, and as soon as he edged away from the activity, he was there by his side.


“Go?” Eli wanted nothing else. His legs had turned into spaghetti, and he believed he could sleep for a week if only he got to be alone.


“Yeah, Ric is taking over, and we’ll disappear.”


Chapter 26