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

“Nothing.” Eli took a deep breath. “I was trying to remember when I last ate and recalled I was about to cook when the man came to Elora’s apartment.”


Jaecar nodded. “Okay, first food, then you sleep.” He strode into the house, and Eli followed. He didn’t know what to do about Jaecar’s hurt feelings.


Varg never had hurt feelings, and Elora hardly ever did either, not around him at least. Other than those two, he only ever spoke to old man Frank who lived near the beach by his lake, and nothing Eli did or said ever hurt him.


Jaecar turned to look at him with raised eyebrows.


“I didn’t mean to hurt you, but you had your…junk in my face.”


The corner of Jaecar’s mouth twitched, a sparkle lit in his eyes. “Darling, next time I have my junk in your face, it’ll be because you begged me to put it there. You have nothing to worry about.”


Eli blinked, his face heating. “You had…You were—” He meant to say naked, “—hard.”


Chapter 31