"For you? I will take it all. All your pain. All your desire. Everything. It’s all mine."

Rafe is done giving Adri space. For thirteen years, he's waited for his jaguar shifter mate to be ready to acknowledge what's between them. Thirteen years of tracking the pack's fighting ring and racing to respond whenever they need a doctor. The night he turns up to find Adri brutalised by a feral shifter in the ring, he knows he'll never let him go again. Especially when shifters start going missing. It wasn't random chance that Adri's opponent turned feral.

Adri told the Doc he didn't need saving over a decade ago, and nothing’s changed since. The last thing he needs is Rafe's overbearing protectiveness when he's trying to save his friends from a new unsanctioned fighting ring and whatever bioweapon is at play. Waking up in Rafe's bed wasn't in the plan. As soon as he's healed, Adri is out of there.

His Mate by Defiance is an MM paranormal romance with a bite. It features age gap, hurt/comfort, and ridged and knotting fun.