Apocalypse Trail (Book 2): Valley of Reckoning by Broadley N.A

Author:Broadley, N.A. [Broadley, N.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Pandemic
Publisher: Angry Eagle Publishing
Published: 2019-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Henry watched the strangers, as they passed by, from behind the white linen curtain. His heart jolted with anger. Bobby must’ve failed. He stepped to the side of the window so not be seen and hollered to his wife. He motioned for her to sit on the sofa. She looked up at him with adoration in her brown eyes.

“Mother,” he sighed sadly, “the sinners have come. We’ve lost the battle.”

His wife nodded.

“God will see us through this. Fear not. Fear nothing that is not of our Godly ways,” he continued. With a fevered breath, Cathy cast her eyes downward and made the sign of the cross.

“Amen, husband,” she whispered. They would do what they needed to do. Henry pushed up from the couch and drew the blade from its sheath on his side. He walked over to their slave, a female child of fourteen. With one quick motion he slit her throat and turned, ignoring her gurgles and gasps, as she bled out and slowly died. Cathy smiled.

She followed him to the cellar and smiled deeply into his eyes. With gentle hands he taped the explosives to her chest. They were doing the Lord's work, and it made her proud. She, in turn, helped Henry with his belt of explosives. They had lost the battle, but not the war. The sinners were storming the town, setting all the whores and criminals free. It was their duty to the great Father to make one last stand. And they would take as many of the sinners with them as they could.

Henry turned his face toward her. With a soft moan, he kissed her deeply.

“With God’s grace we’ll see each other again soon, my love,” he murmured.

∞

Roger sat on the steps of the library with his head hung low. Exhaustion flooded every cell of his body. His heart ached with the extent of misery before him. Women, in tattered and stained clothes, wandered in circles, eyes wide with shock. Several children, ages ranging from as young as four years to young teens, clambered in groups; searching and seeking desperately to disappear from the sunshine, the crowds of prisoners, as well as any others around them. A mass of misery and desperation tinged the air, and Roger held his breath, overwhelmed with a rush of anxiety. What would he do with all these people? There were twenty women, and God knew how many children that Bobby turned into orphans.

Additionally, there were twenty-five prisoners. If it were up to him, they, the prisoners would be lined up against a wall and shot for what they’d put these poor people through; for the misery they’d caused. But then that would have put him on the same level with Bobby. And he would never be able to live with himself if he let himself become that kind of man.

His men, Cain, Mitch, Dennis and Joey, and the others, were standing around, not knowing what to do or which way to turn. They had their hands in

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