Before this second preview starts, I just want to remind everyone that the previous books in this series are currently on sale at £0.99. The Alternate Adventures of Halesowen is currently on sale until midnight on the 8th, where Secrets Behind the Truth will then be the one on sale until midnight of the 16th. Twenty-four hours later, this book then releases.
Below is the preview, taken from the fourth short of the collection. Enjoy.
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The rest of the game passed with him not seeing anyone else, and once again he’d found himself on the top ring just as his gun announced, “Game end. Please return to the armoury.”
Below is the preview, taken from the fourth short of the collection. Enjoy.
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The rest of the game passed with him not seeing anyone else, and once again he’d found himself on the top ring just as his gun announced, “Game end. Please return to the armoury.”
The doors of the room were open when Brandon arrived.
Walking through them, he quickly sat down. He had been unaware of how hot he’d
felt while in the arena, and also how much he needed a rest.
Within a minute, everyone else had returned.
“Hey, Ghost Rider,” Ross called. “Careful you don’t burn
anyone with that flame of yours.”
Brandon looked confused at that remark. He ran a hand
over his head, and felt it was indeed hot.
“Look at that steam,” Ashley commented. “Have you turned
into a barbeque?”
“Really?” Brandon asked. “I’m steaming?”
“Like a fresh cup of tea,” Oliver remarked.
Brandon gave a nervous laugh as he looked over at the
other team. They were looking at him, all with laughter on their faces.
It had to have been funny to see. He wished he could see
it for himself.
“I’ve got the results of this first game,” the host
announced, coming out of the control room after a minute. “Team two earned
themselves twenty-five points. Team one earned twenty-six. Good job, teams. Are
you ready for the second game?”
They all affirmed they were, even Brandon, who felt he’d
have plenty of opportunity to rest while eating. Although for this second
battle, he’d certainly try to not overdo it – especially since there would be a
third game no matter who won this second.
The second game breezed by, with Brandon having made some
faster attacks, though he would still be caught off guard by someone barrelling
around a corner and freeze up, allowing that person to get the attack in.
After returning to the armoury, and having received yet
more comments about his steaming head, the host announced that they had won the
round twenty-two to eighteen. The third match would decide the overall winner,
and Brandon felt they stood a chance of winning.
Within the arena again, Brandon found his way to the
ramped overlook as fast as he could, and intended to stay there for as long as
he could. One of the other team had obviously thought of the idea before him,
as when he appeared at the lower end, someone was already there.
He fired a shot and disappeared back the way he had come,
found someone else in front of him, and managed to get a second hit before
diving down the nearest ramp and hoping he could quickly get across the open
area without being hit himself.
He managed to hit a few more of the other team during the
third game, though sometimes expected a hit to be confirmed but instead got hit
himself. Often he would run into Ross or Oliver, and once they all happened to
be caught in the open area, getting hit from all four sides before his sister
managed to open a route up for them by managing to hit three of them from the
very top overlook, which had made the three blocking the routes retreat into
the depths of the arena.
In the last five minutes of the game they had managed to
claw back enough points to hopefully win. Brandon wasn’t expecting it though,
as they had been caught in that open area for about a minute.
When they all met back at the armoury, Ashely stated,
“You know there are more than three ways out of that open space, right? You
could have saved yourself instead of being sitting ducks.”
Brandon hadn’t known that, and evidently the other two
hadn’t either.
“That was an interesting one,” the host called as he
entered from the control room. “It didn’t have too much of an impact on the
points, though. Team one managed thirty points, but team two managed to just
get ahead with thirty-one.”
They all cheered at that, with both teams shaking hands.
“Well done team two,” the host said. “Get those packs off
and I’ll take you back down to the lobby where you can get the results slips of
the three games.”
With the packs off and hooked back up, all eight followed
the host through the briefing room to a door on the middle of the left wall.
Walking down the ramp that followed the wall, they were back in the lobby. The
host waved them off and headed back up, with the eight heading to the reception
desk, where the receptionist handed out the results slips and pulled the boxes
that held their belongings from underneath the desk.
Having collected what was theirs, all eight shared more
good games and goodbyes, with the other team heading out before Brandon’s
group. Once out, Brandon inhaled deeply and let out a long breath.
“That was fun,” he stated. “We heading off to eat, now?”
“Yeah, we are,” Ross said.
Starting to walk, the four turned left at the end of the
road.
“I still can’t believe you didn’t know about those other
exits from that open space,” Ashley exclaimed. “You could have at least tried
to hide instead of looking like you’d been lassoed in place.”
“We obviously forgot to check in the heat of the moment,”
Brandon said with sarcasm.
“It should have been obvious with how open it was.”
“Thanks for the save, anyway,” Ross said. “But it was
fun, and that’s all that matters.”
“Indeed,” Oliver stated.
“I really did love it,” Brandon added.
“Speaking of love, I think that one with the blue hair wanted
to talk to you,” Ross teased. “Might have been a connection.”
“Nah,” Brandon said. “She might have been laughing at the
Ghost Rider comments, but they all were. Besides… Elizabeth…” He faltered on
that last part. Ross seemed to know exactly what he was thinking with that.
“Let it go,” he said. He continued in a very pointed
tone. “It’s been two months and you’ve barely talked to her. Either get
friendly with her again or give up dreaming anything will happen.”
Brandon remained silent at that, unsure exactly what to
think.
He wanted to be with Elizabeth. He wanted to be friendly
with her, continue talking normally to her. But fear had gripped him, and he
had shut himself off from her. He didn’t even know what he feared, but it was
there.
He hadn’t even considered that if he wasn’t wanting to be
her partner he might once again relax around her.
“Who is this Elizabeth?” he heard his sister ask the
other two.
“Someone in our group,” Ross stated. “Someone he’s been
pining for pretty much since we started the first year.”
“I haven’t,” Brandon burst out defensively, even though
he knew it to be the truth.
Ross grunted with laughter. “You haven’t exactly hidden
it. You were all over her in the first year.”
“And now he’s stopped trying to get her to notice him?”
Ashley asked.
“I expect there’s a bitterness that she rejected him when
he finally did ask her.”
“There isn’t,” Brandon defiantly said. “I just- I don’t
know. Can we leave this?”
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