Free Hide My Thoughts: A Romantic Suspense Thriller Book (Hide Me Series 2) by Lisa Ladew

have ever personally come across. There are rumors of holy men in other countries who can do what she did, but I’ve never found one, and believe me, I have looked. This is modern day, though. If you look back through history, there are many claims of people being able to heal with a touch. Second, like she suspected, she has sucked in little pieces of this guy’s psyche that she dealt with – I could feel them rolling around inside of her, like tumbleweeds caught in a windy corridor. I’m certain she can get rid of them, but she needs to learn a few tricks and exercises. Third, these angry moods and behaviors that she’s having? They are caused by the energy residue of that horrible man. They are causing her such problems because of the way she is.”
    “The way she is?”
    “Innocent. Sweet. Good. She’s a good girl, West. She’s always been a good girl her whole life and she’s never dealt with impulses like this before.”
    West’s confusion must have showed on his face, because Agnes tried a different tact.
    “When you were a boy, did you get in trouble a lot?”
    West grinned and nodded. He remembered things like throwing snowballs packed with rocks at cars and stealing candy bars from the local store.
    “So you know what it’s like to have a mischievous thought pop in your head. Then you have to decide whether to ignore it or act on it. Do you still ever get thoughts like that?”
    “Well sure, everybody does.”
    Agnes shook her head. “Not everybody does. Katerina has never had a mischievous or bad thought pop in her head before now. She’s always wanted to be a good girl, to please her parents and teachers, to do the right thing. And her thoughts have always been aligned with that. But now, she’s receiving thoughts, impulses, and emotions, that she’s never dealt with in her entire life. She’s like a two-year-old who doesn’t know how to control themselves yet, but instead of just wanting to climb up on the counter and get into the cookie jar, she is feeling much more dangerous impulses. She’s feeling uncontrollable anger for the first time in her life, and she just doesn’t have the experience to deal with it. It’s not her fault. She should’ve gone through her entire life never feeling the urge to hurt someone. That’s not who she is.” Agnes shook her head sadly. “But her experience with this man – this Phillips character – has destroyed that innocence and trampled on that sweetness. She has to learn how to control herself, how to ignore these dangerous thoughts. And it’s not just angry thoughts that you need to worry about. Phillips was a man with a deep hatred for himself. He never had a suicidal impulse, because he translated those into homicidal impulses. But I think we both know how different Katerina is. If she doesn’t get a handle on what’s going on inside her, you may have to worry about her trying to harm herself.”
    West felt panic erupt inside him. “Can’t she fix herself – heal herself?”
    “Possibly. She’ll have to try and see what happens. I suspect she has a multitude of abilities that would surprise both of us.”
    “What about these exercises you mentioned?”
    “Yes, there are a few. Isolating and expelling exercises. If she’ll come out, I’ll walk her through them, but it might be a better idea if you just have her call me later, after she calms down. Or even tomorrow. I’m not leaving until the evening so I could come back at any time during the day, or we could just talk on the phone if she would like that better. I don’t think she’ll need to see me face-to-face in order to learn the exercises.”
    West thought hard. “Maybe that would be best. Maybe I should try to talk to her tonight and see what she wants.”
    Agnes stood up as if that settled things. West noted how very easily she stood straight and tall, and how different she looked from when she had walked in the door. “Very well, West,” she said holding out her