Prologue

Damon Salvatore

Strictly speaking, I'm not a normal human being. I'm gifted. I have the power and the strength. I'm a shifter. I can feel the beast inside me but I can control it. With my talent, I can do a lot to help others.

The Special Paranormal Unit is an elite squad of supernaturals dedicated to solving missing person cases.

Using my job as head of the Special Paranormal Unit (SPU) to help others, I have done a great job of ignoring my lack of a personal life.

But Elena Gilbert is back as my boss.

How ironic is that?

Elena Gilbert, the woman I fell in love five years ago and the one I love so much.

My salvation. My first love.

But she left me.

I have lived all these years without the woman I loved.

I use the word loved because I thought she is past tense.

But now she is back. And I'm not willing to ignore our chemistry or our past.

I'm determined to claim my mate and prove that our passion is even hotter than before.

I want Elena and I want the explanation behind our separation.

Because this time I won't let her go away…

But Elena's reluctance to explain our lost love may be the one key to our destruction…

Elena Gilbert

My gift allows me to work in the SPU. But this means working with Agent Damon Salvatore.

He is the object of my secret desire and also the man I fell in love way back.

But I left him five years ago.

I had a very good reason to leave the only man I loved after I had accepted his marriage proposal.

I have to stop him from coming too close…