Outlaw by Amanda Lance

Author:Amanda Lance [Lance, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Suspense, Romance, New Adult & College, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Sports
Amazon: B00J3DBH3Y
Barnesnoble: B00J3DBH3Y
Goodreads: 20548824
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I was getting burned.

Like all my other dreams, everything was black and white just like an old-fashioned cartoon just with hurt instead of funny. The pain of it was crazy, wicked bad—but what was weird about it was that I couldn’t see the fire that was doing it. I could see the mountains made outta tangled hair and fat, the lakes outta pus and blood, and if I wasn’t so busy screamin’ I probably puked.

I tried to smell the brimstone that you hear ’bout, but there was none of that. More just like the smell of somethin’ rotten—like a corpse that ain’t been treated right. Other people were there too, getting burned by invisible fires and screaming so bad you thought eventually they woulda gotten hoarse…

Addie was the only one who wasn’t.

I only woke up by fallin’ off the bed, startled and swearing ’til I was blue in the face. Polo had a big cupcake shaped clock up against the wall and it told me it was already past ten. Three hours past what I had told myself I was gonna sleep. Again, I swore and unwrapped myself from my blanket, reaching around on the nightstand for my phone. While I had set the alarm, I had never confirmed the damn thing.

I got up quick and ran my fingers through my hair. I’d switched the second half of my lookout shift with one of the regular crew guys—only doing the first half ’cause I wanted to do my bit. And I thought after making sure Addie was okay in her cabin, four hours of sleep woulda done me okay…

The bad feeling came over me before I even threw on a shirt. It was why I put my boots on the wrong feet and tripped over myself just trying to put my pants on. But there was ’nough reason in it when I knocked on the door to find no answer. And when I opened up to not find her there at all, I got a brand new knot in my stomach that rode all the way up to my throat. What if something happened to her while I was sleepin’ just across the way? What if a couple of guys tied on too many and got brazen?

I slammed the door behind me and started making my way down the hall, searching for any clue that she had been there. Where could she had gotten off to so quick? If she was in trouble, I woulda heard it, right?

I poked my head into the weight room. Maybe she had made her way in there somehow? “Addie?”

All that came back at me was the smell of pit-stain and bad cologne.

My phone only had a little charge left, but I texted Yuri straight off, my spelling probably not even good ’nough for him to know what I was asking ’cause my hands had started to shake.

“Addie?”

I ran up the stairs to the deck, looking for herds of dudes and listening out for catcalls.

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