Four Bonds by Kelsey Soliz

Author:Kelsey Soliz [Soliz, Kelsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

The guys helped me down hallway, letting me lean on them as we walked towards the final element of the ceremony. In the next cave we came across we found their fathers waiting next to a stone table in the middle of the room. We approached and gentle smiles made their way onto their faces but I cringed a little when I noticed that behind them there was an ornate dagger. Flashbacks to that night where I was bound and nearly forced into mate bond with Jasper made me start panicking, and suddenly I couldn’t breathe.

Logically I knew that I was safe, that the men surrounding me were mine, but trauma was a bitch. That night in the woods had been the most traumatic I’d experienced, and I started gagging at the memory of Jasper’s hands all over me and the sickening crunch of ribs as he barraged me with his feet.

I fell to my hands and knees, gasping for breath as I tried to claw my way out of a full-scale panic attack. I felt hands on my back trying to soothe me, but my mind was blocking out their voices. I could feel the vibrations coming from their vocal chords but if they were actually trying to communicate something with me then I was completely ignorant.

I rolled into a ball, trying to protect myself from the unseen threat. I remembered being paralyzed and touched against my will, I remembered the sickly-sweet wine he made me drink and the way his pants tented as he assaulted me. Everything about that night was awful. But awful was too tame of a word. I know that people had experienced worse things, but for me, in what should be a happy moment, I was pissed that Jasper’s memory was overshadowing it.

Somebody picked me up and started rocking me gently, Declan if I was going by scents. When I felt bodies on every side of me and their individual scents finally hit me, I started focusing on slowing down my breathing so I could pull myself out of the panic-induced haze. Eventually I felt my heart stop trying to beat its way out of my chest, and then finally my limbs were able to unfurl themselves.

I looked around at the faces all around me and felt embarrassed that I had reacted so drastically. I sank further into Declan and allowed him to soothe me for a moment.

“What happened Isla? What set that off? Do you not want to bind yourselves to us? If you’re not ready we can wait.”

“No, it’s nothing like that.” I swallowed, giving myself a chance to form words. “I definitely want this. This is going to sound stupid. I saw the knife on the table and it just instantly brought back flashbacks from that night when…”

I let my voice trail off, unable to give that man power by vocalizing his name.

“Ah, I’m sorry for that dear. If we’d have known that you’d react in such a way, we would have taken precautions.

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