Savage Love (HEATSTROKE HEARTS #3) by Bailey Hart EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Bailey Hart
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HANNAH
THIS IS the most important day of my life.
Fifty habanero peppers. Five contestants, and a crowd that’s filled with
so many familiar faces, my head swims. I can’t afford to choke. I’ve been
training for this for literal months.
“Welcome to Heatstroke’s Twenty-Fifth Annual Hot Pepper Eating
Contest!” The announcer, Richard Walton, is Heatstroke’s favorite
newscaster, and he’s exactly what I imagined he’d be like. Elaboratelycoiffed, overly friendly, with a thousand-watt smile and one of those combs
tucked into the top pocket of his snazzy suit jacket.
It’s easier to focus on his jacket than the way his gaze remains fixed on
the TV camera below the makeshift stage in the Heatstroke Public Park.
The crowd cheers and claps.
“Let’s go, Hannah!” June calls from somewhere in the masses.
I squeeze my eyes shut and exhale.
I am so not good with crowds. But I swore I would do this, and I’m not
backing out. The sky is peony blue, the grass in the park is lush, and the
heat of the day is threatening, though it’s barely past ten. And this is it. My
shot.
“As y’all know, this year’s contest is proudly sponsored by the
Heatstroke Board of Better Businesses, a collection of local businesses,
including the General Store, Beets and Yeets, Bagel’s Bakery, the
Heartstopper Diner, Longhorn’s, and your very own News Channel Nine,”
Richard continues, in his professional announcer voice. “And get this folks,
this year’s prize is bigger than ever before, with the winner walking away
with a grand prize of ten thousand dollars.”
Gasps and cheers follow that, and I steel myself, trying not to be
intimidated by the cameras, the mass of peppers on the plate, or Paul, who’s
last year’s winner, standing next to me with his arms folded, and a look on
his face that says, “Why did you even bother to show up?”
I’m here for two reasons.
First, because I want to show my family that “boring” little librarian
Hannah can be just as crazy and adventurous as the rest of my siblings.
Second, the money.
With that kind of money, I can revamp the children’s section of the
library before I leave.
My stomach twists, and I glance toward Richard.
“—how it’s going to work. In the first round, contestants will eat up to
fifty habanero peppers. Those who survive will move on to the final round,
in which they will eat as many Carolina Reaper peppers as they can handle.
The last person standing wins.”
Sweat beads on the back of my neck. The Carolina Reaper pepper is one
of the hottest in the world at over 1.5 million Scoville units. In other words,
hot enough to make a grown woman cry or eviscerate this particular
woman’s digestive system.
Why am I doing this again? The children. A parting gift. You can do
this.
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