After the Darkness: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Survive the Darkness Book 5) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2021-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Aoife stepped out of the cabin and looked out at the woods, knowing full well the dangers of the journey ahead.

The sun had disappeared behind some rare grey clouds. The air felt humid, and there was an ominous breeze to the air like a storm was on the horizon.

She saw the irony. Pathetic fallacy, it was called. She remembered studying it in English at school. When the weather matches the mood. Seemed a bit of a cliché in fiction, but it tended to be the case in reality more than anyone really gave it credit for.

The woods were silent. Silent, but for the rustling of the leaves against one another. She couldn’t hear Vince or Heather. Figured they’d given up on her. Moved on. Good. Better that way. ’Cause Aoife wasn’t having either of them stopping her journey. She wasn’t having either of them stand in her way.

She felt a knot in her stomach at the thought of walking away from them. Weird as it sounded… they seemed like decent people. And when she’d been searching for decent people for so long, it felt weird to just walk away from some like this.

But this wasn’t walking away from anyone. This was walking towards a discovery. This was walking towards something new.

She couldn’t just leave Kayleigh behind.

And she couldn’t lose Thomas, either.

She reached into her pocket. Pulled out the dog tag she’d found in there. Thomas Suzuki.

She hoped to God he was okay.

She looked down at Rex. Smiled.

“Let’s go,” she said. “We’ve dithered enough as it is.”

She went to walk when suddenly she heard something that made her freeze in her tracks.

A scream.

A man or a woman’s scream? She couldn’t tell. Whoever it was, it was high-pitched, and it was terrified, and it was close. Closer than she dared admit.

Vince?

Heather?

She looked ahead, into the woods, over towards where she’d heard the scream, and she tightened her grip on the blade she’d found in Kayleigh’s stash.

She couldn’t just walk away from whoever this was.

Whatever her responsibilities were to Kayleigh and Thomas, she couldn’t just disappear.

She started to run through the trees. Laying low. Keeping as low a profile as she could. She felt like she was being watched—a common feeling when she was in the woods. Felt like there were people all around her. Watching. Waiting. Whispering.

She kept on moving towards the scream. But the weird thing about it? It sounded like it was getting further away. Like whoever was screaming was on the run.

She had to be careful. Had to watch herself.

She’d heard about Robert’s traps. She’d seen them for herself when his people tried to get her to run down that alleyway in the middle of last night.

She had to keep as low a profile as possible. And she had to be careful.

She reached the edge of the woods, and she froze.

She stopped. She could see someone right up ahead. Someone standing there in the woods. On their own.

A woman.

Hands cupped around her mouth.

Screaming.

What the hell was she doing? She wasn’t in danger by the looks of things.

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