Free psychic crystal 03 - killer cruise by Marilyn Baron Page B

Juliette’s mouth curved, and she barely hid a smile. “You’re becoming more… tolerable.”
    “You’re a tough woman. I’ve never had so much trouble getting a woman to warm to me. I thought maybe I’d have to handcuff you to the bed with these.” Will brought out a pair of silver handcuffs from his back pocket and jangled them in front of her.
    “Don’t be a cretin.” Juliette started to push them away and then she pulled them back and examined them more closely. “Are these real silver? They’re really beautiful and shiny.”
    Will straightened and took them out of Juliette’s hands. “Yes. My deputies gave them to me on my fifteen-year anniversary with the force. They’re not regulation, but they work. They must have set the guys back a pretty penny. I always carry them with me. They’re my good-luck charm.”
    “Well, your charm doesn’t work with me, Will Bradley.”
    “Not even a little?” Will smiled and flashed his dimples.
    Juliette shook her head. “We have more important things to worry about than your sex appeal or lack of appeal to women.”
    “You think I’m sexy?” Will coaxed.
    “I know you’re as conceited as a peacock.”
    Will held up the handcuffs. “We can always take these babies out for a test drive, whenever you’re ready.”
    “I’m not into hanky panky, Will Bradley.”
    “You’re no fun.” Will laughed good-naturedly and placed the cuffs in his back pants pocket.
    Juliette took out a velvet pouch and emptied some smooth stones onto the table.
    “What are those? Magic rocks?”
    “In a way. They’re healing stones. They have healing properties,” Juliette said, as she lifted each one in turn. “This amethyst releases tension and stress. The carnelian stimulates vitality and metabolic energy. The rose quartz strengthens the heart and lungs. And the sodalite blocks radiation and negative energies. Each of them have other properties, as well, for specific physical conditions.”
    Juliette pulled out another pouch.
    “What’s in there?”
    “These are pure energy rock quartz crystals used to amplify energy. Rock quartz absorbs, stores, and regulates energy. It’s a master healer for any condition. The crystals work on a number of levels, and I can tune them to help attract what I desire in life.”
    “And what is that? I know it’s not me.”
    “Well, I can tune them to the specific quality I want to attract in life, whether it be love, prosperity, inner peace, health, travel, creativity, or body image.”
    “You don’t need any help in that department.”
    “It’s not your image of my body I’m concerned about. I’m making a broad appeal to the universe for the safe passage of this ship.”
    “Well, I think it’s a little too late for that dead man in the helicopter.”
    “I’m afraid so,” Juliette admitted. She held the crystals up to the sunlight.
    “Sunlight restores their energy.”
    Then she held them in her hand, rolling them quickly back and forth.
    “This activates the crystals’ personal connection with me.”
    “Maybe I need some of those crystals so I can improve our personal connection.”
    “If you want to win a woman, you don’t do it by sorcery, although there are love spells.”
    “Well, then, how do I get through to you?”
    Juliette looked at Will and pursed her lips.
    “By being genuine. Just be yourself, Will, if that’s even possible.”
    Juliette gathered her stones and crystals and replaced them in her handbag. They got up from the table and strolled around the ship.
    “Let’s sit here,” Juliette said. “The sun is so warm here. We can hear the music by the pool, and I want to get one of those fancy drinks with an umbrella.”
    Will flagged down a woman with a notepad.
    “Miss, we’ll take two of those piña coladas with the fancy umbrellas.” He gave her their cabin number, and she was on her way.
    As they passed the cabana station, Will grabbed two thick cornflower blue towels engraved with Sea Nymph