299 Days: The Change of Seasons by Tate Glen

Author:Tate, Glen [Tate, Glen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: 299 Days: The Change of Seasons
Publisher: Prepper Press
Published: 2013-12-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 234

Purple Heart

(Thanksgiving Day)

Scotty was in shock. He motioned for Grant to come over.

“Paul is missing,” Scotty whispered to Grant. “The Chief found his boat drifting without Paul in it. The Chief is looking for him.” Scotty looked very seriously at Grant. “It doesn’t look good.”

Oh God. The perfect, happy memorable Thanksgiving had just been shattered. It was memorable, all right. They would remember losing their first man that day. On Thanksgiving of all days. How would Mark and Tammy—and poor, sweet little Missy, Paul’s daughter—ever face Thanksgiving again?

“What do we do?” Scotty asked Grant who didn’t have any good answers.

“Go and try to find him,” was all Grant could say. He knew it would probably be futile. Paul had probably fallen into the water. He didn’t wear a life jacket, despite the Chief’s constant barking at him to put one on. Paul didn’t think a life jacket looked “tactical.” After a while, the Chief just gave up on it. There’s another victim in all this, Grant thought: the Chief. He would feel guilty the rest of his life for not somehow making Paul wear the life jacket.

“Should we tell Mark?” Scotty asked.

“I think we have to,” Grant said. He was dreading this, but he knew he would be doing this a lot in the coming months.

Grant got Mark and took him outside, to the back of the Grange so no one else would hear.

“We’re going to go and look for Paul,” Grant said. “The Chief found his boat.”

“Good!” Mark said. “Why did he have his radio off for so long?”

This was going to hurt. “Paul wasn’t in the boat,” Grant whispered.

Mark looked at Grant and tried to figure out what Grant was saying. How could Paul not be in the boat?

Then it hit Mark. Paul was gone. Forever.

“No!” Mark yelled. He would not accept that Paul was gone. “He’s on a beach somewhere,” Mark said it like he knew it was true. “He made it to shore! Let’s go pick him up.”

“Sure,” Grant said, wondering if maybe Mark knew something he didn’t. “Did you come in your truck?”

Mark nodded. He couldn’t speak. He just wanted to get down to the water to go find Paul.

“Bring it out back here,” Grant said.

“Get the Team,” Grant said to Scotty. “Make sure they do it discretely. If they run out, people will know something’s up and they’ll worry the whole time. I don’t want to blow this Thanksgiving for everyone.”

Scotty nodded. He calmly went back into the Grange and whispered to Pow, who nodded and whispered to the other guys. One by one, they discretely got up and excused themselves. The Team Chicks were upset that they finally had a nice meal with their guys and now they were leaving, but they had come to know that if the Team had to go and do something, it was important.

Scotty realized that they couldn’t leave their rifles there. They had felt naked without them slung across their chests. He went into the entryway

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