Synergist by Chloe Adler

Author:Chloe Adler [Adler, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947156036
Publisher: Signum Publishing

Ice

I’m getting ready for bed when someone knocks on my door.

“Who is it?”

The door opens a crack and light from the hallway creeps in. “Amaya? Do you have a minute?” Bodhi asks.

“Sure.” Is he here to finish what we started earlier? I find myself wanting to explore him but I want to explore Vasily more first. What is wrong with me? I can’t have both men. Can I?

I flip the bedside lamp back on.

He enters, closes the door behind him and sits on the edge of my bed. “I know this all probably seems strange to you.”

“Yeah. Very.”

“I hope you’ll give us a chance.” His voice is so soft I have to concentrate to hear it. “We’re good people, fighting a good fight for a very important cause.”

Huh? A fight? A cause? “What cause?”

He shakes his cropped blond mane and turns toward me, reaching out a hand. His fingers are long and thin, slender and quite beautiful. I reach for them and he clasps mine in return. His skin is cool and soft. “Do you trust me?”

I do. I nod, afraid to speak it.

“We need you, Amaya. But you need us too.”

“How’s that?”

“Don’t you feel the connection? Aren’t you drawn to us?”

I feel something all right, but I’m pretty sure it’s just lust. “No. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

He sighs and lets my hand fall away but the moment he does I want him back again. I want him to keep touching me. When he touches me, it seems like everything is right in the world. Like Bob and Miss Cheryl can’t touch me or it wouldn’t matter if they tried. Like my parents’ house will be fine. Like my parents will be fine. Like my troubles have ceased to exist. And to forget my problems for a few moments is bliss.

“I hope that you trust me enough to wait this out and make your decision to stay or go once you have all the facts.”

“And when will that be?”

“Soon.” He stands up.

Out of nowhere, an intense chill rushes through me. Uncontrollable shaking overwhelms me and I fall back onto the bed, curling into a ball. He leaps, practically landing on top of me, and throws his arms around me.

“It’s okay,” he whispers into my hair. “Your powers are blooming.”

“So . . . c-c-cold,” I manage to say through chattering teeth. My hands are numb. My heart rate is slowing. My muscles are locked. “I’m freezing.” My teeth chatter so hard my entire head hurts.

Bodhi wraps the blanket around me and then his arms and his own body, pinning me to the bed. Still the cold ravages me, and soon I’m shaking so hard that he’s shaking too.

“I’m going . . . to freeze . . . to death.”

Bodhi pushes the button on the wall behind my bed. “Get up here now,” he shouts into it, his normally calm voice on the verge of hysteria. Several agonizing minutes later, all four men rush into my room.

“Shit.” Vasily. “Get her out of her clothes, now.

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