Ruthless (CODE R.E.D. #1) by Cheyenne McCray EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cheyenne McCray
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Shaking the devil’s hand
March 27
Wednesday morning
THE HARSHNESS of the heat presses down on me. Sweat slips
from my forehead, drips over my brow, and into my eyes.
Can’t move to wipe the sweat away. Can’t blow my cover. I
don’t even dare blink as I site my target through the scope of
my M16. My spotter, Keets, remains as motionless as I do.
The mission is its own version of hell. Ever since we
landed in Nigeria, a crawling sensation along my spine has
told me that something is off about this whole setup.
Something desperately wrong.
When I told Captain Williams, the bastard blew me off. He
doesn’t like the fact I’m one of the first women snipers in
the history of the US Army. And I’m damned good at what I
do—
Killing terrorists, saving American lives.
Captain Williams—what a dick. But a soldier follows
orders.
My spotter, Keets, gives me the signal that I’ve got the
best shot possible.
Target in my sights. I squeeze the trigger of my M16.
At the same time, Keets gets some chatter over his comm.
He shouts,
“Wait!”
But it’s too late. I see the spurt, the telltale arc of blood
from my target’s forehead before he goes down.
One shot. One kill.
My heart thunders as I look at Keets, who says,
“Oh,
shit.”
Something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
I’m running.
Bars—I’m behind bars. Everything’s so close. Tight.
Damp. Pain riddles my body and I can barely keep
consciousness. I’ve been beaten so badly I have a hard time
grasping what’s real and what’s not. Was I captured? I was
following orders. What happened to my team? What
happened to Keets?
The pit of hell. How long have I been here? Why am I
here?
The urge to claw my way out of the pit makes my arms
and fingers ache as if I’ve already tried.
Oh, God, not again. The whip draws blood through my
shredded camouflage and I try not to scream. The pain—I
hold onto it, make it a part of me, pretend I want it. If I
don’t, they’ll break me.
Fists slam into my face, my temples, my belly, even my
breasts. I want to scream but I make my mind retreat into a
private place where I embrace the pain.
Four men, maybe five surround me. Huge men. Their
faces, so dark, so shadowed. Are they human? Their forms
sway and distort.
One man steps forward, but I still can’t make out his
features.
Fear tears through me. Fear like I’ve never felt before.
Fear worse than the agony threatening to cripple me. The
man—he’s the one. The one to introduce me to pain like I’ve
never known.
I don’t have the strength to recoil as he slides his palm
down the side of my face, through the blood running down
my cheek. What is he going to do to me now? Put a cloth sack
over my head again, nearly smothering me? Then submerge
my face in a water tank until I nearly drown? Shock me with
electricity a second time while I’m soaking wet and feeling
half dead already?
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