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

Eli didn’t know, but he suspected Jaecar allowed his panther to decide on the course of action, and then his human side decided if it was the right thing to do legally. There were no hurt feelings, but the need following Jaecar wherever he went throbbed in the background.


It was increasing. Eli tried to ignore it, but the need grew more and more savage for each hour passing, and he had no idea how to handle it. Jaecar was hot, if a bit too dangerous. He knew sex could be good, he’d enjoyed it before he met Varg, but he couldn’t…he couldn’t.


He allowed Jaecar’s emotions to course through him. He couldn’t hear him speak or move around, but there was an ebb and flow of emotions. Eli never found peace in other people’s emotions, but there was something soothing in how Jaecar never exploded the way Varg had. There were no volcanic eruptions, only various stages of frustration, anger, worry, but also joy. He liked what he did.


Chapter 37