Beyond the New Horizon (Book 3): Living on the Edge by Conaway Christine

Author:Conaway, Christine [Conaway, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2017-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve; Someone has shot Gus!

Gina looked down, she’d been wearing one of Sam’s white tee shirts, and while it wasn’t as clean as when she’d put it on, it hadn’t been covered in fresh blood as it was now. It had to have come off of Gus. Gina ran her hands all over Gus’s head and neck until she found the source. “He must have hurt himself when he fell in.”

Parting the hair on his whithers, Gina could see the injury, and at first, she didn’t believe it. She used her finger to prod the hole, and fresh blood seeped out. Gus flinched when she put pressure on it. She looked up at the three faces peering down at her, “Someone has shot Gus.” His body was wet and his hair dirty, and the injury had dirt on it making her think it had happened before he fell. The shot had to have come from up top.

“How bad? Can we get him out of there?”

“I don’t think its life threatening. I can feel the bullet or at least the end of it just under the hair. What worries me is that whoever shot him is up there with you guys.”

Sam and Willy both disappeared out of sight. Gina saw where she was going to have to take Gus downstream where the banks weren’t quite so high to get him out. Gina knew the men could probably put ropes around him and pull him up, but she wasn’t altogether sure if it was a bullet she felt or a piece of his shoulder blade. She didn’t want to take the chance that it was the bone.

“Come on Gus, let’s find a place to get out of here.” Gina led him downstream. Olivia walked the upper edge carrying the shotgun she’d claimed as her own the day before. Gina knew she still had her Targus. It was the first thing that she’d checked after she’d fallen and she knew it would still shoot. Gina also knew that as soon as they hit the ranch, she would be breaking it down and cleaning it. She couldn’t afford to have it rust.

The further they went east the lower the bank became. When it was only a matter of three feet, Gina passed the lead rope up to Olivia, “Is Sam there too?”

“Nope. He and Willy are looking for whoever shot Gus.”

Gina nodded and realized she had done the thing that pissed her off about conversations. If someone wasn’t looking at you, they couldn’t hear your head shake or nod. “Okay, you pull, and I’m going to push.”

Gus made three or four lunges, and he was standing on top, shaking. Olivia stretched her hand down and helped Gina up the last step. As soon as they were on firm ground, Gina went over Gus’s body to make sure he only had the one injury. He had some hair missing on the inside of his cannon bone, but it looked like it had been scraped off on a rock.

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