Damien

Jake is back in Gillham, hoping to talk some sense into his father. Jake still thinks Sei is too young to be mated with an eighty-six-year-old bear shifter, but his dad doesn't listen, no matter how many times Jake tries to tell him that.

When Damien and Jake meet, Damien's age is a problem for Jake from the very beginning. There are only twenty years between them, which isn't a lot for shifters, but Jake can't see beyond it and beyond how fragile Damien looks. So he leaves.

Damien accepts a job as a bodyguard in the hope he'll start forgetting Jake. They're in the same city, though, and when Jake tentatively reaches out to him, Damien will have to choose whether he wants to give his mate a second chance or not. To complicate things, someone is after Hudson, the man Damien is protecting and who also is a friend of Jake's family.

Will Damien give Jake another chance? Or will something happen to separate them before they can get over their problems?