Chapter Four“Again! And get it right this time!”
Emily bit her lip and blinked back tears. She would not let Major Lucas see her distress. He seemed to take perverse pleasure in making things more difficult for her than for the other students. While her classmates were indoors, she’d been outside all day, the last hour in fading daylight working on what he called concealment. Growing up, she’d called it hide-and-seek, and the game was much more fun than the current nightmare in which he was the hunter, and she was the prey.
“Yes, sir.” She crept deeper into the copse of trees attempting to walk on soundless feet. The temperatures had dropped well below freezing, and her extremities no longer had any feeling. Her breath and pounding heart were loud in her ears. Could he hear them? Bendin
