Run Away (26 page)
Authors: Laura Salters
The instructor attached himself to the back of Kayla’s suit and gripped the ropes with both hands.
“There was a problem with Sam’s chute, you go now.”
“A problem? With his
chute?
”
“Go!”
“Now?”
“Now!”
“But wait, what do I do? Help! Oh my God! Wait!”
“Start running and don’t stop. If you stop, if you sit down, you will die. DON’T STOP.”
“But my shoelace is untied and my sunglasses are steamed up. I can’t see! What if I trip?”
“You will die. GO!”
So Kayla started running, because she knew if she didn’t shut down her thoughts and go, she never would. The last thing she saw before her three-sizes-too-big trainers began to pound the rubble was Sam, suffering from what appeared to be a violent panic attack.
And then she was flying.
LAURA SALTERS
is a twenty-something magazine journalist from the northernmost town in England.
Run Away
is her first novel.
www.laurasalters.com
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
RUN AWAY.
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EPub Edition MAY 2015 ISBN: 9780062403582
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062403575
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