TWENTY-FOUR
Svana had explained the importance of an ice bath for intimate injuries. After enduring a night of being passed around, Tulsi dreaded to imagine what her new friend had been through. Still, there was an element of deception in her urgency to leave the others.
So many things were going through Tulsi’s mind as she went into the bathroom to begin filling the tub with cold water. The permission Svana had given to Kieran and the other men wasn’t genuine, it was coerced. During their conversation in the hotel bathroom, Svana had told her it was best to just do as she was told. That was what she’d done, taken the path of least resistance and fallen back on Merchant’s rules.
If her future was going to be the same as Svana’s, Tulsi would have to undergo one helluva transformation to
