Backlash: Prequel to The Wildblood Series by Hoag S. A

Author:Hoag, S. A. [Hoag, S. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-20T07:00:00+00:00

“Central Dispatch, all local primary teams. Will someone please go out to the barricade on Frontage Road and pick up Officer Juno? His wife is in labor and wants him there an hour ago.”

“I suppose our little side trek could have been worse,” Mac made small talk. Escorting a caravan out to the Ranchlands broke up the monotony of their afternoon, for most of an hour.

“Seriously,” Shan rolled her eyes. “Please, please, let us get rotated back to Depot South tomorrow.” They'd already driven the route through town, around the city limits and along the access road three times.

“Better than a good chance. Wade wants us out there and Command wants Wade happy. Therefore, we get rotated where he wants and usually when he wants. Right now, things are off-track with this damned blackout. In a month . . .” he shrugged. “Back to the same old, same old.”

“I get a lot of reading done in Dispatch over the winter,” she mused.

“Don't we all?” he asked and they both laughed.

“Central Dispatch, all teams, all Stations. Half an hour warning to curfew.”

Then the car died. They were clipping down the access road at fifty. The car slowed, not even sputtering. “Fantastic,” Shan's voice ran full of sarcasm with a single word. She pulled to the side of the road and stopped. The car merely clicked when she tried to start it.

“Pop the hood,” Mac said, climbing out. She did, following him. They stared at all the parts, wondering which was broke. “I don't suppose you've taken any classes in mechanics.”

“Exactly the same number as you.”

“One.” The single class all Security officers got in the basics of car maintenance. He checked the battery cables first. “Try it now.”

Sitting back down, she turned the key and the car clicked. “It's not getting any power. The dashboard lights aren't even coming on.”

“Alternator,” he thought out loud. “Turn on your headlights and try to start the car.” He paced a few feet out in front to watch. The lights dimmed as she tried it again. “That's my best guess.” He came around and sat back in the passenger's seat.

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