Chapter Four

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Chapter Four Wilkes rolled from his camp bed with a groan and pulled on his boots—no wandering about in socks in the desert. You never knew what you’d tread on. In spite of the light doing its best to pierce the canvas of the tent, he knew it was still early. That, and the fact his alarm hadn’t gone off yet, meant it wasn’t even six a.m. Ugh. Well, he’d wanted to make an early start, so he’d gotten his wish. Reaching for the clock, he turned off the alarm before it started screeching across the camp while he was washing up. It was only a few minutes before six, so he hadn’t missed out on too much sleep. He felt fairly awake, too, which was amazing considering it was still the middle of the night back home. That was probably why he’d been so deeply asleep he hadn’t even heard the morning

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