Awakened Desires (Bound by love) by Claire Harris Read Free Book Online

Chapter 1
     
    The chartered plane bumped through the clouds dangerously and the pilot’s voice crackled over the sound of the engines. “Please make sure that you have your seatbelts well buckled.”
     
    Helen Smart dug her fingers into the smooth fabric of the seat that she was seated in and cursed quietly under her breath. She made a point in her mind that she was never going to take a flight that had no cockpit, because the sight before her looked scary as the pilot struggled with the plane. Lightening blinded her eyes, and as she shut them, a clap of thunder boomed like a volcano, and then just then she felt the tires of the plane hitting the rough runway of the airstrip.
     
    “I think that we are actually here,” the young pilot announced to them, wiping his sweaty forehead as the plane came to a stop.
     
    That was the best news that Helen had heard since the beginning of the flight, which had felt like a nightmare that would never end. She had felt suffocated in the plane, and she graciously breathed in deeply and then she unbuckled her seatbelt and then threw her handbag over her shoulder to make her way out of the plane, still trembling as it was. She had to really focus when she came to the narrow stairs that led out of the plane, and she breathed in the fresh air of the mountainous jungle before her gratefully. She felt good to actually be on the ground, even though it was muddy since it looked like there had been a storm. It had been an excruciating hour in the plane flying up to the mountains, and Helen was so grateful that she decided to kiss the ground. It was finally time to realize her dream and to make it start coming to life.
     
    All this had begun a couple of hours ago when she was at Fort Worth Airport where she had been waiting to board her flight with Trans American Airways, with her dad, her mother and her sister. They always seemed overly protective of her as if she was still a young woman, and her father had her hand in his and was busy rattling on about the dangers of going abroad and the safety precautions that she should take while out there. Her mother shifted nervously, patting her hair, while her sister went through her bag just to make sure that all of her things were in order, right from her travel documents to camera, notebooks and even wallet. There were a million things that she had added into Helena’s bag insisting that she was going to need them at some point during her month long trip. They all made Helen feel like a young child who should go away chaperoned by somebody, and it was driving her crazy.
     
    “Guys, please! Dad, mum, Louise, please just stop all this ranting and acting like I am a five year old, will you,” she said.
    “Stop what, honey?” her dad said, turning to look at her mother Anne quizzically. “What the hell is upsetting her now?”
    “I think it is the butterflies that are making her nervous,” Anne dismissed Helen with a wave of her hand and continued, “You really have to take care while out there, and make sure that you call us the moment that you touch the ground. We are staying at the Four Seasons all weekend, and Louise, I hope you gave her the number to the hotel.”
    Louise smiled broadly as she nodded,
    “Mum, I am twenty seven and can take great care of myself, okay,” Helen said calmly.
    “Listen to yourself, you know nothing about the world outside these borders, and so I suggest that you listen to what we are telling you,” her father turned back to her looking at her with mock sternness in his eyes. “Is your money safely stashed away?”
    Helen nodded. The money that he had given her to start off her business was stashed away in a satchel inside her bag.
    “Well then, follow the wind and chase your dream, and when you come back home, we will be right here waiting for you,” he finally said.
     
    Two flight connections later, Helen finally arrived in one of the Guatemalan rainforests where she was to begin the second step of