Hidden

By Jessi Hammond

Corbin's family is rich, but his family life is tense. He chooses to work in a supermarket instead of letting his step-father give him a job.

Millie works there too. She helps him learn the ropes and becomes a friend.

Then one day she disappears without a trace…

Only to reappear months later, her foot injured, her memory gone.

When Corbin tries to help her, he stumbles onto a plot that will put both of them in danger.

And that danger is closer than he knows…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kincaid Publishing
• Release date: Jun 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201133191

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Corbin’s family is rich, but his family life is tense. He chooses to work in a supermarket instead of letting his step-father give him a job.

Millie works there too. She helps him learn the ropes and becomes a friend.

Then one day she disappears without a trace… only to reappear months later, her foot injured, her memory gone.

When Corbin tries to help her, he stumbles onto a plot that will put both of them in danger.

And that danger is closer than he knows…

Hidden

One

The sun was poking long yellow beams of light across the front hallway as Corbin reached the bottom of the stairs, the light scattering off the wooden floors and bathing everything in a pale lemon glow. It was barely five-fifteen in the morning, and the rest of his family were still asleep. Corbin was used to moving silently in the morning; he’d been doing it for almost a year, since he’d been hired at Gregson’s Supermarket and been assigned the early morning shift.

But this morning he wasn’t heading off to work.

The day before, there had been a fire at Gregson’s. Some kind of electrical fault, the head baker reckoned as the staff and those customers who’d stayed around to rubberneck huddled in the corner of the carpark. The fire literally came out of the wall, he said, flames reaching for the roof. He’d attacked it with the fire extinguisher, but it barely made a dent in it. The fire alarms had gone off then, and the store had been evacuated, the firies arriving ten minutes later, sirens blaring.

Most of the store was okay, but the bakery was a black hole and the whole place smelled like smoke and burned plastic.

Tom Gregson had no choice but to shut up shop for the next week at least.

Which left Corbin with two problems.

The main one; Millie wouldn’t know the store would be shut when she arrived early this morning.

The annoying one; Ron would be at him again to ‘find a decent job, Corbin. Retail is not a profession.’.

So he’d decided not to tell anyone about the fire.

Instead he’d gone to bed at nine o’clock as normal the night before. Mum, who was sitting in the corner of the modular lounge rocking Corbin’s baby brother to sleep, had wished him a distracted ‘Good night,’, and his younger sisters, as usual, didn’t even look up from their iPads.

Ron would have said something if he was there, because he knew where Corbin worked and would probably have heard about the fire. But he was holed up in his home office with the door shut, which meant do not disturb except for fire or