A Stunning Betrayal: Alone: Book 9 by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-12-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Ronald Martinez had a key decision to make.

Quite possibly a life or death decision.

He sat beneath a majestic oak tree in the front yard of Sarah and Dave Spear’s house in San Antonio, watching the house for signs it might be occupied.

Surely it was, for Dave struck him as a prepper extraordinaire.

He had one great idea after another, not only to prepare for a worldwide catastrophe, but also how to hunker down and wait for the world to get better again.

Surely he wouldn’t go through all that trouble just to abandon his house and leave it for someone else to take refuge in.

Yes, Dave was in there. So was his family. There was no doubt in Ronald’s mind.

The problem was how to get them out.

Ronald tried to remember what Dave had told him about his family.

He seemed to remember meeting his wife and daughter at some PTA meeting his wife made him go to when she was sick.

He couldn’t remember the wife’s name, but remembered she was pretty.

He couldn’t remember the kid’s name either, but remembered her as a bit of a snot.

Ronald didn’t have any qualms about shooting women. He didn’t want to shoot any kids, but figured it was probably necessary. As thorough as Dave was as a prepper, he surely taught his kids how to shoot. They’d therefore be threats to him.

And that made them legal to shoot.

He knew Dave was a veteran. One of the things he recommended to Ronald was digging a cistern in his back yard.

He’d never heard of a cistern before and asked Dave where he’d learned about them.

Dave regaled him with stories about things he learned in Marine Corps survival school and how his training aided him in his prepping activities.

“I even learned which weeds and bugs I can eat and which ones to stay away from,” Ronald remembered hearing him say.

Ronald remembered thinking if it came to eating bugs to survive he might be better off dead.

Since Dave was a veteran he’d be loaded for bear and would be proficient with a weapon. Likely several weapons.

That was Ronald’s primary concern.

He had only one weapon: his AR-15 rifle. And while he was proficient with it, he was certainly no expert.

And while deadly and reliable, it was not a close-quarters weapon.

And with at least three shooters against him he’d have to use the handful of rounds he had left carefully.

Actually, truth be known, he almost didn’t come tonight. He wanted to wait a few more days, and ambush someone with a rifle similar to his.

That was how he typically got his ammunition, and some of his supplies.

Everybody was armed these days.

And many of the survivors were out and about, gathering provisions every day.

For a man like Ronald, who had no scruples, it was ridiculously easy to find a good sniper’s perch and just wait there, as a hunter waits in a deer stand, waiting for a deer to happen by.

Ronald typically found a perch atop an abandoned house.

Not just any abandoned house, but an older house with a tall tree.

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