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Eli was only seven years old when he had been given to monsters.

 

Sixteen years later he finally gets the chance for revenge, and with his enhanced abilities changing, nothing and no one is gonna stop him, especially a new partner that seems to see right through the black holes in his soul.

 

Agent Daniel Connelly left Washington trying to keep his sanity, but the images of the innocent victims are still haunting him and knows the horror in Eli’s eyes is exactly what he is trying to forget.

 

Everybody Burns is a story about two men falling in love. Except, one doesn’t think he is capable of it…

 

And the other doesn’t think he deserves it.

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Gael perched on the edge of the bed Eli was lying on. “How about you start at the beginning, buddy?”

Eli seemed to wrestle with himself for a few seconds. “I could always feel people.”

Daniel didn’t react at all.

“Like their emotions. I knew when somebody hated me, or even when they were thinking about me. Made my skin all weird, like it was tight.”

“Always or since you changed?”

Eli seemed to consider this. “I honestly don’t know. When…when we were in the home, everything was so fucking screwed up. We were on edge like all the time. I didn’t know normal, so I wouldn’t have known if things were different.”

Daniel’s heart squeezed. Eli was describing reactions very common in abused children, hell, even abused adults. Hypervigilance. Very careful of their surroundings and their own space. Always on guard. Always waiting for a threat. He didn’t doubt Eli had suffered—was probably still suffering—PTSD.

“Then the last year or so it’s gotten a little stronger, so I kept to myself more. It was easier.” Daniel met Talon’s eyes. This was what Talon had felt as well. A “diluted” version as he had said.

Gael nodded. “Do you mean if you weren’t around people, you didn’t feel their emotions as much?”

Eli shrugged. “I guess.”

Daniel took another breath. Eli closing himself off was a protective mechanism. Mix that with his developing new ability, he was surprised the man hadn’t locked himself away in a box. Daniel studied Eli while he was looking at Talon. Was that what all this was? The surliness, being closed off, the don’t-touch-me vibes. It was the equivalent of a hedgehog curling itself into a ball, and he wondered if Eli let anyone get past his defenses. It didn’t look like it.

“And this morning was different?” Talon asked.

“It was totally different.”

“Because the man wasn’t there,” Gael said.

“Yeah, but it hurt. I got this intense pain in my head.” Daniel went over Eli’s reactions. Eli asking if he could buy—

“It was the gum.”

They all looked at him. “What?” Talon said.

“We watched the CCTV. The guy picked up two packets of gum, then put them back. You reacted just as you touched the same place.”

Eli nodded. “I could feel him. Feel what he was thinking. He was—” Eli bit his lip. “I think he’s going to kill someone.”

 

Victoria Sue fell in love with love stories as a child when she would hide away with her mom’s library books and dream of the dashing hero coming to rescue her from math homework. She never mastered math but never stopped loving her heroes and decided to give them the happy ever afters they fight so hard for.
She loves reading and writing about gorgeous boys loving each other the best—and creating a family for them to adore. Thrilled to hear from her readers, she can be found most days lurking on Facebook where she doesn’t need factor 1000 sun-cream to hide her freckles.

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