CORAM by Burrows Bonnie & Shifters Simply

Author:Burrows, Bonnie & Shifters, Simply [Burrows, Bonnie & Shifters, Simply]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ONE

The air rushed out of Cambria when she hit the ground, but she kept moving. She army-crawled under the barbwire, careful to keep her entire body as low to the ground as possible. More than once, her curly brown locks got tangled in the wire, but she pressed forward. She had a time to beat, and stopping to worry about her hair wasn’t going to help her beat her best time.

When she was able to stand, she ran to the vertical wall and grabbed the knotted rope that hung from the top. She shimmied up the rope, smiling to herself as she reached the top and flipped over and onto the ground. She dashed through the knee deep water hazard and back onto the dry ground to a table.

On the table lay a dismantled assault rifle. This is where Cambria had choked before, and she wasn’t about to screw it up this time. She put it together, reminding herself to go slow and keep her hands steady. It would do her no good to move too fast and drop pieces as she went.

The last piece clicked in and she ran to the next station, laying down on her belly and putting the rifle on the short tripod before lining up the sights. She squeezed the trigger and knew in that instant that she had pulled it too soon.

She forgot to check the wind before firing. Her shot went wide and missed the center of the target, lodging itself in the outer edge of the wooden board.

And just like that she’d failed again.

A whistle blew and she laid her rifle down and stood to address her instructor. Gary, an older, portly man with thinning gray hair and horrible oral hygiene, waddled up to Cambria. His lips pulled into a snarl and he looked her over. She squirmed under his gaze. Not because she was ashamed of her run today, but because Gary was obviously undressing her with his eyes. Again.

At nineteen, she’d lived with the men from the brotherhood for the last six years of their lives. Most treated her like an annoying kid sister, but only Gary, who was old enough to be her grandfather, looked at her like a man who was starved.

It made her ill. After her uncle Laskin had rescued her from the woods, Gary was one of the first people she’d met. At thirteen and so scared, she’d latched onto anyone that showed her any love. She’d been so starved for any kind of affection from her parents that every hug, every smile had felt like a million bucks.

As soon as Cambria turned eighteen, Gary’s attitude towards her changed. It had gotten worse and worse over the last year and a half, but Cambria wasn’t sure how to broach the subject with Laskin. Gary was his right-hand man, and the two were super close. Cambria was special to Laskin, but she wasn’t so sure that would extend beyond his friendship with Gary. This place was

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