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

company in the entire state, and doing an excellent job. He had graduated from business school with a 4.0 average, taking to it much easier than West ever had. He was born to make deals and amp up production. West had taken over the family business when their dad had shown early signs of Alzheimer's, but he’d never loved it. He’d sent his little brother to business school as soon as he could pull him off of the ski slopes or out of the ocean waves for more than a semester. Brody still surfed or skied most days, but Shepherd Industries was his first priority now.
    “So what’s new with you, West? Dad said you’re part of some police investigation?”
    “Yeah, there’s some crazy stuff going on up here. I’ve, uh, kind of gotten involved with someone who -”
    West broke off, a thought spearing into his brain and not letting go. Brody had always been interested in science, nature and the supernatural. He’d heavily researched the occult and miraculous phenomena on his own when he was in high school, all while taking advanced chemistry and biology classes. West was eight years older than Brody and hadn’t seen most of it firsthand, but he remembered his father calling and complaining about Brody’s newest obsession frequently. Their father had been quite worried about some of the more far-out aspects, but Brody had let most of it go when he had entered business school. West knew that Brody had spent a good deal of his trust fund tracking down things like Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich or crop circles in the Midwest between the ages of seventeen and twenty. He suddenly wondered how much his brother could help him with his current situation .
    “Hey Brody, I’m glad you called. I have a really serious question to ask you.” West took a deep breath and tried to figure out how to phrase what he was wanting to ask. Suddenly he knew Brody was his link to some answers to Katerina. He should have thought of him before! In fact, now that he was thinking about it, Brody was probably the reason he had come to accept Katerina’s ability even before she did. Many people automatically distrust the notion that psychic phenomena even exists, but West had come to terms with the probability that it did years before, when his brother, one of the smartest people he knew, fell in love with it.
    He phrased his question for Brody carefully. “Is there such a thing as a psychic for psychics?”
    West heard Brody laugh on the other end of the phone. “Are you making fun of me, big bro? I don’t mess around with that stuff too much anymore.”
    “I’m not making fun of you at all. That’s not really what I meant. I think I want to know if there’s an adviser for psychics or someone that helps people who have psychic powers learn how to control them. But someone for real, not some quack just trying to make money. Is there such a thing?”
    The phone was silent and West held his breath. Finally, Brody spoke again. “There’s a lot of fakes and bullshit out there West, But there is one lady who might be for real. I’ve heard some pretty amazing things about her but she’s more of a psychic to the stars these days. That's where the money is. She’d be the only person that I can think of in this country who might be able to provide that kind of a service, but I can’t say for sure. I’ve never talked to her in person. She’s expensive.”
    Expensive? West knew Brody’s trust fund that had matured when he turned twenty-one had been a bit over a million dollars, and his current salary as CEO earned him more than four times that in a year. But West didn’t like the doubt in Brody’s voice.
    “You said in this country – is there someone in another country that I would be better off going to?”
    “I’ve heard some pretty fantastic stories about what people are doing in other countries, and what kind of abilities they have, but I can’t verify any of them either. I’ll bet Madame Gabriel is your best bet. If she can’t