e forest clearing. The cameras were already wait

glasses onto his face. He straightened his shoulders, trying to pro

ee Cecil struggling with the modern door

r door

trousers and a crisp, white button-down shirt, topped with a long, tailo

oked powerful. She looked

the production

hit, i

oks am

osts more t

ound the campsite with an expression of mild distaste. The cheap tents,

looked at Aedan over t

glance. But it carried

ulders slumping slightly. He reached up and took off

chin toward the

body, conditioned by the previous day's torment, moved on it

suitcases. They looked like

t nearly pulled his arms out of their socket

rned and began walking toward the cabins,

ases catching on every rock and root. The cameras f

rrying h

ll is a bagg

best thing I

the other contestants were gathering.

her shoulders. She gripped her sunglasses so tightly her knuckles turned w

oked Cecil up and down, a slow, appreciative smile spreading acr

a polite, if

wheel of one suitcase caught on a large stone

one. He dropped the bags, his chest

top walking. She simply raised her han

feeling of his bones about to snap, flo

andles again. He yanked the suitcase free and continued w

e a trai

man and where

hem. She turned and looked at Aedan, who was swea

aid, her voice

eavy thud. He glared at her for a second, then st

d her lips. She looked up at the sky, watching a news helicopter circling in the d

bin, leaving the other contestant