Blood Run – The Complete Trilogy – First Promise, Two Riders, Last Chance by Dougherty Christine

Author:Dougherty, Christine [Dougherty, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christine Dougherty Books
Published: 2013-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

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“Hillsborough is the next outpost, and it’s about thirty miles,” Miller said, looking up at the riders. “Think they can do that today?” Peter nodded and smiled, but Miller noticed that Promise looked tired and distracted. She slumped in a soft C-shape, gazing back at Netcong with something almost like fear. Miller didn’t know what had happened to change the girl overnight, but she suspected it had something to do with Peter. And she hoped it didn’t have anything to do with Evans. “Promise?” Miller said, and the girl turned, her eyes focusing slowly.

“Yeah?” Promise asked.

Miller smiled patiently, although inside, her anxiety to get going was a growing force. Delaware, home base and home, were not so far away now. She was slightly dismayed at her own homesickness–she’d been a Guard soldier since long before the plague and was not usually prone to such feelings…but reminded herself that it had so far been a rough tour. The roughest she’d had yet.

“Are you okay, Promise?” Miller asked and noted that Peter’s attention swung over to the girl, too. Good. He should be keeping a closer eye on her, in Miller’s opinion.

Promise glanced back at Netcong. “Yeah, I’m okay. Let’s just get out of here, okay? This place is…” she trailed off, shaking her head. How to explain the stress of the things that had been given and taken away from her last night? Her confusion over Evans and Peter seemed almost tied to Netcong in some indescribable way. There was no way to express it, not in her limited vocabulary.

“Haunted,” Miller supplied, and Promise nodded.

“Yeah, it’s haunted,” Promise agreed, relieved to have a word for it. “Let’s just go.”

They moved out, taking the off ramp for Route 206 South. 206 had been cleared by the Netcong outpost so the going would be easy for quite some distance. The horses cantered quickly behind the Humvees, and Miller felt as though they were making good time for the first time on this miserable tour. She also couldn’t help an irrational thrill at the thought of heading south…she pictured them tumbling down a slope, gaining speed as they went, and at the bottom–Delaware. And home. She couldn’t wait to see Tara.

Maybe it was time to request an extended leave or at least a steady posting. With Riker gone, she had a suspicion that she might have lost her taste for this kind of sortie. A year was enough. Too long, maybe.

In the second Humvee, Billet was telling Evans the plot to the last movie he’d seen before the plague had come to his town…something about a guy who had a car accident and woke up a psychic then went crazy and tried to kill a politician–something like that, anyway–Evans was barely listening.

His eyes strayed to the rearview mirror. Promise rode in and out of his sightline, leaning into the cold wind as she concentrated on watching the road ahead, keeping an eye out for stones or debris that might harm Ash. She was beautiful.

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