After the Fall: The Complete Collection (Taboo Erotica) by Merchant Anya

Author:Merchant, Anya [Merchant, Anya]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

The morning was a harsh one. Jack was in a moderate amount of pain when he awoke, his shoulder throbbing to the rhythm of the chirping birds. He sat up slowly and took stock of his surroundings.

Luckily, the bullet wound had not reopened overnight. He felt more energetic than he had the day before, even if the range of his arm was still limited.

I’m okay, but are they?

He stared off into the forest, listening to the gentle splash of the river. It was hard for him to keep his anger contained. He felt helpless, like he was out of options.

“I’m going to find you!” He yelled into the distance. “Mom! Molly!”

There was no answer back. Jack crawled out of the lean-to and spotted his handcrafted stone ax nearby. He picked up with his left arm and turned it around in his hand.

I’m going to put this through Dimitri’s skull.

Instead of waiting around the camp and wallowing in hopelessness, Jack began taking action. He foraged through the forest nearby, finding a scattering of strawberries, blueberries, and edible tubers to eat.

Using a stick of charcoal from the fire, he began to sketch out a crude map of the gorge on one of the rocks by his lean-to. He only had his memories of what it looked like from the surface and what little exploring he’d done to go on, but it was an effective way of organizing his thoughts.

The river goes down through the middle. There’s a good chance we would have run into him earlier if he were camped out on the same side of it as us.

Jack clearly remembered the man coming from the southeast, and it seemed as though he had been heading that way with the women after the encounter. He drew dividing lines from the center of his diagram and then circled the section he’d narrowed it down to.

I’ll search here, but first…

The stone ax wasn’t enough. He had managed to chisel it into a sharp edge, but with his right arm injured, it was impossible to imagine getting within range of Dimitri to use it. His opponent had a gun, and he only had his wits and the element of surprise.

Jack walked through the forest nearby until he had found what he was looking for. There had been a branch that he’d discarded during the building of the lean-to for being too thin to use on the roof. For a spear, however, it was perfect.

The branch was almost perfectly straight, and the wood was dry and hardened by the elements. He tested lifting it in his right hand, feeling the pain of his injury but also sensing that he could push through it.

If I have to, I can use it in my burned hand. But only if it comes down to it.

He took a seat in front of the ashes of the fire and got to work. His initial impulse was to try attaching a sharp piece of rock to it, but the more he thought about it, the less the approach appealed to him.

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