Aftermath: Dark Days Book 5: A post-apocalyptic series by Mark Lukens

Author:Mark Lukens [Lukens, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-24T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

It was like Brooke had been acting lethargic and traumatized; it was like she had been waiting for the perfect moment to attack. It was like she had finally snapped awake and realized what was about to happen, what these men had planned.

Baseball Cap tried to grab Brooke again, but she became a whirlwind of slaps and kicks, her high-pitched screams echoing across the parking lot, into the woods, and down the road.

“Make her shut up!” Messed-up Nose yelled as he pushed Kate—a hard shove right in the middle of her back that almost pitched her too far forward.

“I’m trying,” Baseball Cap said as he attempted to grab Brooke again. But she squealed and bit his hand, sinking her small teeth down into his flesh.

He yelled and pushed her back into the side of the van, the back of her head thumping against the metal. But she had taken a piece of his skin with her when he had pushed her back, her chin spotted with blood now. She spit out the chunk of flesh and kept on screaming as loud as she could.

Kate knew why the men were concerned about Brooke’s screams—they were going to alert any rippers nearby.

And then Kate heard the distinct screeches and yells of the rippers. At least a dozen of them had cried out from the woods. How many were there? How close were they? Kate realized that if these men hadn’t have come when they had, the rippers might have gotten to them anyway.

God works in mysterious ways, that’s what Kate’s mom would have said.

Baseball Cap pushed Brooke back against the side of the van again, harder this time, the back of her head slamming into the metal. Kate was sure that Brooke was going to pass out, slide down to the pavement.

“Don’t hurt her,” Messed-up Nose said, and Kate could hear the fear in his voice. He had stepped in front of Kate, his gun pointed down at the ground by his side, his full attention on his partner and what he was doing to Brooke.

For just a second Kate thought the man was worried about his prize getting damaged, and the thought of it turned her stomach. But then she realized that the man was really afraid; there was something else to this. The man was afraid she and Brooke would be hurt too badly before they brought them to the Dragon.

Was that what they called the Evil One? Did they work for him? It didn’t matter. What mattered was that these two men were going to take them to the Dragon, probably to the town Kate had seen in her dreams, the decimated town with the dead bodies everywhere, the hell town.

She couldn’t go there. Maybe these two men weren’t allowed to seriously hurt her or Brooke, but when they got to the town things would be very different.

In God’s hands, her mom’s voice echoed in her mind as she looked around at the ground all around them. The motel parking lot, like so many other places now, was littered with trash and debris.

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