Southern Shifters: Pryde and Precious (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Paranormal, Werewolves & Shifters
Amazon: B01BG0KMY6
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-02-01T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The water plastered her hair to her face, and her clothes stuck to her. The cold, like the metal earlier, proved bracing to her system. At first, she wasn’t sure how she stayed on her feet, then strong hands on her hips swung her from directly beneath the water to leaning against the tile. John gazed down at her with his intense blue eyes, and she tipped her head to rest against the tile. The rush of water, the sound of it, filled her ears and blotted out the last of the voices. Firmer walls replaced the thin mesh of her shields and the world went quiet. Finally.

Sighing, she relaxed and pressed a hand to his chest. “Thank you.” It took real effort to exhale the words.

“What happened?” Was it her imagination or did he growl?

“I told you, I’m not a very good psi.” Had she told him? She didn’t remember. “Not really exceptional in any way. My shields collapsed the day you came to my apartment.” Yesterday? It was only the yesterday she’d met him. Why did it seem so much longer?

“Why didn’t you say anything? Does this contact hurt you?”

“No.” She licked the moisture off her lips, suddenly thirsty. “You don’t—the other four. They were so angry, or maybe they just needed answers. I couldn’t take hearing them.”

“They’re gone.”

“I know.” She’d wanted to curl into a ball after she’d managed to mute the voices, but it had taken forever. The ice picks their words had driven into her brain left her feeling punctured, as though by real weapons. “My shields are firming again. I’ve never been very good at it.”

“That’s why you live away from others?” The speed at which he grasped her situation should have concerned her. John was her kidnapper—albeit a friendly, caring, and protective kidnapper. Was she suffering from Stockholm syndrome in less than a day? Shoving aside the distractions of her wandering mind, she studied the man standing in the shower with her. Like her, he was fully clothed and the water soaked him, but he made no attempt to protect himself from the water. Thankfully, the coolness turned to heat so her shivering began to ease.

“Yes.” The truth didn’t endanger anyone nor betray any great secrets save her own. “It was something of artists’ colony. The humans there were very focused on themselves or their work. Their thoughts didn’t leak the way others do—those in security or military…” How ironic. Hadn’t he said he was in the military? Didn’t he do security for his clan? So why did his thoughts not pummel her? A question to explore later. “I could work and live there comfortably. It wasn’t easy within the clan nor in other places…”

“What about your job?”

“What about it?” With every breath, she grew a little stronger. Her shields held and the bruises in her mind eased. The water warmed her, even if it did leave her clothes uncomfortably stuck to her flesh. “I work in a greenhouse primarily and in a lab.

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