Cloverdale (Book 4): Confrontation by Miller Bruno

Author:Miller, Bruno [Miller, Bruno]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival
Publisher: Wordstream Books
Published: 2020-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Vince hurried the last few paces to the electrical room and readied the radio in his hand. “Come in, Tom. I’m ready to throw the switch. Over.”

“Go ahead. We’re ready. Over.” Tom answered right away, but Vince was already halfway there. Clank. The lever slid into place, and the hum of electricity filled the room, along with the flickering light from the ceiling fixture.

“You should be energized over there,” Vince said. “Everything seems good here. Over.” He expected that Tom would tell him to quickly shut everything down, but he didn’t say that at all.

“Looks good here, Major. Reese is on her way over to get that piece of wire from you. Over.”

Vince was about to tell them to stop her when Buster came flying into the room. He was all tongue and wagging tail as he greeted Vince.

“Roger that. Hey there, boy. You’re awfully excited tonight.” Vince was a little concerned about Reese crossing the street at this hour. Thankfully, the wall of cars reduced anyone’s chances of being a target while out in the open. He was probably being paranoid, but this was the time of day he worried about the most. The attacks usually came at night or in the early-morning hours, but after what happened to Tom and Cy today, all bets were off.

“Hey, Major. Oh, Buster. Come on now, boy. Leave Major alone,” Reese pleaded, but it was useless. Vince was giving Buster some good hard scratches, and he was eating it up.

“He’s a good dog. He deserves it.” Vince continued giving Buster attention for another moment or two before pulling a piece of wire out of a pile in the corner of the room. Buster nudged at Vince’s leg in an attempt to solicit more attention. “I better give you this.”

Reese straightened up from her leaning position in the doorway and took the length of wire from him. “Is that all they need?”

“Should be.”

“Okay then. Come on, Buster. Let’s get this back to the motel. Thanks, Major.” With a parting smile and a pat on her leg to entice Buster to follow her, they were gone. Vince followed them out as far as the garage bay, then remembered that Cy and Bill were outside. So she wasn’t alone after all.

He hadn’t heard back from Tom, and that was good. It probably meant that everything was running properly.

“Reese is on her way back with the wire. Over.”

“Roger that,” Tom answered. “It will probably take me a few minutes to get things working. I’ll let you know when we have water. Over.”

“Sounds good. Over.” Vince figured it would be best to hang here for a while, at least until the well pump was hooked up and running, just in case he had to shut the power down again. For the time being, he turned the light off in the electrical room and made his way around the place, checking to see if there was anything else running. Satisfied that everything nonessential was turned off, he found himself in his office.

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