Caught In The Crossfire (Escape The Dark Book 4) by K. M. Fawkes

Author:K. M. Fawkes [Fawkes, K. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

They came for him at first light.

Ella was feigning sleep when they arrived. She had stayed up with him all night, just as unwilling as Adam was to let any of what might be their last moments together slip away. As he rose from his cot, he gave her hand a last squeeze.

I promise I’ll come back, he thought, hoping she would somehow understand what he was trying to communicate. I promise I’ll get you and your family out of here. Stay strong while I’m gone. Take care of yourself. Wait for me.

She didn’t move, of course, and didn’t answer, but he felt her answer his squeeze with one of her own and hoped it meant she had understood.

Colonel White and Lieutenant Briggs were waiting for him outside the tent. Adam hadn’t seen either of these men since he’d been brought to the militia’s main base, and he’d half forgotten that they were the ones who had captured him and brought him in in the first place. It hadn’t occurred to him that they would be the ones to make the journey to Omaha with him, and his heart sank a little at the prospect. He wasn’t fond of either of the two men, and he didn’t think they liked him very much either.

“Are you ready?” Briggs asked.

“Ready as I’ll ever be,” Adam said, trying not to let the tension he felt show in in his voice. He wanted them to think he was calm and confident, that he had no doubts about what they were going to have to do. If only.

Briggs and White led him to a Humvee, and Adam climbed in without being asked to do so. The more he cooperated on this mission, he thought, the easier the journey would be.

They set off. Adam fixed his eyes on the floor of the vehicle, not wanting to look out the window and see the landscape they were passing. He didn’t know exactly what he would see if he looked, but it would certainly reflect the terrible traumas the world had been subjected to over the past few months. There might be corpses. There would certainly be a dearth of living humans.

He just didn’t want to think about it.

Instead, he turned his mind to thoughts of Ella, waiting patiently for him to come back. He missed her already. He couldn’t believe how wrong and unnatural it felt to be away from her. They’d been together for such a short time, but he had already learned to depend on her so greatly. Being without her now was like losing a limb.

“Breakfast?” Briggs asked, reaching into his backpack and producing some granola bars.

Adam accepted one wordlessly. He didn’t want to take anything from these men—he didn’t want to communicate with them at all—but it would be moronic to deny himself food. He tore the wrapper off the granola bar and ate quietly.

They had been driving for only about half an hour when the Humvee pulled to a stop and White got out.

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