Color Me Yours

By Jae Greyn

Just an Elemental trying to make it in a Human world, Derrick Grant runs an art gallery by day, and uses his magic to find soul mates by night. Well, not exactly soul mates. 

 

Damon Webb is an ex-cop turned Private investigator now working on cases that have nothing whatsoever to do with murder. One case ten years before almost cost a skinny goth kid his life, and he didn't want to go through that again. Damon has been hired by one of the town's most influential to find out who is blackmailing them. His first suspect? The skinny goth kid from ten years before, who's changed his name, and now looks good enough to bite. 

 

This is a short story and a really quick read. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jae Greyn
• Release date: May 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223233503

Jae Greyn

Jae Greyn is the author of the Fire Pride Series. Born in the United States, Jae is an advocate for being good humans to animals and people. A consumer of coffee, chocolate, and romances.

Book preview

1Derrick

I DON’T KNOW HOW IT happened, really.

Jared Fenton sat on the end of my bed, thumb tapping furiously against his knee, his gaze glued to a determined spot on the floor. Kyle said you hooked him up.

It wouldn’t have been the oddest situation I’d ever been in later, but it made no sense at the time. Kyle was a one-time thing in my mind.

And then he wasn’t.

Jared was cute, with bright blue eyes and dirty blond hair. When he looked at me with that puppy dog stare, another face lay over his, and my mind worked to remember where I’d seen the face from.

It hit me, and I smiled. Yeah, I hooked Kyle up. Give me until Thursday? Won’t see your match again until then.

Jared nodded and held out his hand. Inwardly I cringed but took it anyway. Everything the guy had done since his last shower flooded my mind instantly. The other memories would come later, and it would be a very long night for me.

I pushed those aside and walked the guy to the door.

That had been ten years ago.

Today, I owned a cabin in the middle of nowhere with a secret room in the basement for parties.

Their requirements? Consistent dick.

My requirements? The latest test results for STDs, a five-hundred-dollar finders fee, and an extra two hundred to meet in a private room instead of the party. Some people were shy, and others were idiots who humiliated their soul mates.

Science said every person had two or three mates, but it wasn’t quite true. Not that I’d seen, anyway. Some people didn’t have one at all. Matching them up became a compatibility game.

That was my secret job- playing the compatibility game and hoping no one got burned.

2Derrick

EVERYONE KNEW SOPHIE Tara. She’d bought several pieces from the art gallery over the years; most were my sketches. She’d been coming to Durante’s when my Uncle ran the place and was invited to every showing.

This was my first Local Talent Night, and I had given three artists spaces to display their work. It was hard making it in this world, and I