Beg For Mercy by Jami Gray

Author:Jami Gray [Gray, Jami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing
Published: 2018-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

As evening closed in, Havoc led Mercy into Salt Lake, taking the road that ran along the foot of the Wasatch Front. What used to be a well-organised city sprawled in the valley between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake, was now a lakeside community. After years of flooding and crazy ass weather, the Great Salt Lake and the surrounding underground rivers reclaimed their ancient paths and left the western half of Salt Lake City drowning underwater. Wanting to keep their feet dry, residents moved east and tugged their homes up the slopes of the Wasatch Mountains.

After hours on the road and riding through the cooler evening weather, he was looking forward to a hot meal, but first up, they needed a place to crash. With that thought in mind he turned his bike towards the main drag, the snarls of Mercy’s bike following in his wake. It took another twenty minutes to find the place he wanted. He turned into a dirt lot where an eclectic collection of bikes (motorised and pedal) kept space with shifting mules and horses gathered around various size wagons. As he parked his bike and shut it down, he didn’t have to look around to feel the attention he and Mercy gathered. Seeing how Salt Lake was bigger than Page but smaller than say, Portland or New Seattle, visitors were nothing new. But for the folks calling Salt Lake home, visitors who rode in on modified bikes looking as rough as they did, got wide berths. Especially from nice little families like the one currently hooking up a swaybacked mare to a wagon.

Freeing his bag from the back of his bike, he met Mercy on the sidewalk that led back to the main street. She had a battered saddlebag slung over one slim shoulder. The same one, despite his grumbles, she nagged his ass to swing by to pick up from where she stashed it, before they headed north. Didn’t help that he left Margo’s in a pisser of a mood. For one, he didn’t appreciate her trying to take them to a level they’d never shared. Even more unwelcomed was the history she tried to resurrect. He also hadn’t missed Mercy’s sidelong glances as he took them back to Lee’s. Those glances asked all kinds of questions he wasn’t ready to answer. Thankfully, instead of verbalising, she decided to hound him into picking up her stuff. Once she had her bag, they hit the road. Of course that was miles of road and hours ago, so he had a feeling her hiatus on questions was about to come to an end.

Sure enough, she fell into step beside him and asked, ‘Where are we going?’

They moved down the sidewalk and hit the street. ‘Getting us a room, then a meal.’

‘Right,’ she muttered under her breath. They moved with the light foot traffic, the babble of voices mixing with the clatter of wheels, while hooves and motors made their way between the shop-lined streets.

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