Tightrope: Harem of Freaks 5 by Ash Crystal

Author:Ash, Crystal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

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MELODY

After more long hours of driving, night had just fallen when we reached our hotel in Miami.

“Oh my god, we’re right on the beach!” I pressed my nose to the window, unable to believe I was looking at the real world outside and not a post card.

“Let me guess, never seen the ocean, either?” Arjun teased. “I’m still not convinced you haven’t lived under a rock your whole life.”

“If by a rock you mean my morbidly obese, alcoholic mother, you’d be right.”

He laughed softly at that, brushing past me with the lightest of touches on my waist. I froze in place, unaccustomed to this new affectionate side of him but not entirely hating it.

He spent the last few hours teaching me how to meditate, taking ideas from his Hindu upbringing and integrating them with lessons he saw his stepfather teaching other shamans. I got frustrated quickly, not seeing the point at all in sitting with my eyes closed and breathing, but he was surprisingly patient with me.

By the time we reached Miami, I could feel the presence of the shifters clouding my consciousness again. They came through even more vividly, like we must have been closer. My heart sped up and my stomach churned at feeling those wounds and thoughts again, but I remembered how Arjun told me to create shields in my mind.

“Use whatever imagery resonates the most with you,” he told me. “Maybe a castle with walls surrounding it. An island surrounded by ocean where nothing can touch you. A wild sex party with all of your men, it’s completely up to you.”

I did use mental images of my men, but not in the way he suggested. The first line of defense in my shield was Connor, standing at attention like the proud Marine he was. He protected me from the first moment I ran into trouble at a carnival, so it made the most sense to me. To focus on my breath, I pictured Razvan breathing fire and imagined the strength in his lungs. What gave him life also gave him the power to destroy. To remember what I loved most, I pictured Hunter and the pups playing together, laughing and smiling. Love and protecting the innocent, those were the most important things, the reasons why I was doing this at all.

And if I ever lost focus, I pictured a Bengal tiger with blue-green eyes watching me with its silent wisdom. The guide and the teacher who pulled my mind out of a dark, hellish place and showed me how to defend myself.

Keeping these mental barriers firmly in place, I followed the guys out of the RV and into the fancy beachside hotel. My fingers flexed with tension at my sides as the cool, salty breeze washed over us. There were tons of shifters in this city. I sensed all of them easily now.

My feet carried me stiffly into the lobby and I hardly dared to breathe, for fear if I lost focus and my mind became consumed with suffering again.

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