Chapter Four Shanti expected pain, but her whole body hummed, like that glowing feeling after an o****m. God, it had been so long since she'd felt that hum of electricity between her thighs. If only this feeling were from a man. But it wasn't. The last thing she remembered was the blue scorpion coming towards her. Then pain in her leg. She'd heard that some predators sent endorphins into their prey as they ate them. If so, she wished she'd gotten stung to death a few months earlier so that she could've experienced this kind of release before laying down a chunk of her savings in search of a spiritual release in India. This feeling traveling through her body was the ultimate release. Oh no, she grimaced. She was dead. That eight-legged freak killed her. All she'd been doing was looking

