Hired for Heat by Leann Ryans

Author:Leann Ryans [Ryans, Leann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

25. Austin

The ride out to Mount Mornell Alpha-camp was marginally less uncomfortable than the wait in the cafeteria had been. Though all of the men on the bus with Austin were Alphas, he had been able to get a seat in the back where he could open the window and get a steady stream of air to wash the stink of the other Alphas away.

Resting his head on the back of the seat, he stared out of the window, able to keep himself distracted by the view instead of having to count. The city hadn’t really ended as much as seeming to fade away. There was no point where he could definitively say, ‘the city ends here.’ Nature had seemed to simply encroach more and more between the buildings until it finally took over completely, erasing all signs of humanity besides the road and the powerlines that followed it. The occasional plane overhead was the only thing to remind him that he hadn’t traveled back in time to some point where people were less populous and more at home in nature.

The scenery was soothing. Rolling hills covered in grass and wildflowers broken by the occasional clump of trees. Fluffy white clouds seeming to hang in the air, in no rush to move along. Austin was able to let his mind go blank and just float along until a wave of sadness descended over him. He wasn’t sure if it was due to leaving the city he called home his entire life, or something less tangible, but it felt as if his own private dark cloud had moved in to block the last rays of the sun as it sank below the hills.

Rubbing at his chest, he glanced around at the other men on the bus. There were seven of them, all heading out to the camp to help with the construction of a new dam. He couldn’t tell how much experience the others had, but most of them looked around his age with the weathered look of men who spent most of their time in the sun. Pouring concrete wasn’t hard though, so the guys could easily have no experience with carpentry.

Glancing back out the window, he caught his first glimpse of his new home and his heart sank even lower in his chest. While most Alpha-camps had a reputation of being fairly run down, this place looked like a pile of sticks in a mud pit. Hastily slapped together to house the workers as cheap and easily as possible, Mount Mornell was obviously not made to withstand the test of time. Having been built so that the Alphas working on the dam would have somewhere close-by to stay, it was only a semi-permanent camp, and looked as if no one had been taking care of it during the two years since its construction. It seemed like a strong storm could easily wash the whole place away.

Sighing, Austin stood as the bus pulled to a halt. Moving slowly so that

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