Commune: Book One (Commune Series 1) by Joshua Gayou

Author:Joshua Gayou [Gayou, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-03-29T07:00:00+00:00

9 – Reunited

Amanda

Billy and I returned to the meeting area by the warehouse not long before dusk. I was following him in the Jeep and when we came over the hill and brought the area into view, he immediately sped up. It caught me by surprise but I soon saw what he was doing. We were at least a hundred yards away but that was still close enough to see that the van was gone and that there was a body in the dirt.

We both pulled up to the body and jumped out to examine it. I was so convinced that it was Jake when we came up that I became confused at the unfamiliar face. I stood there a few beats trying to reconcile what I was seeing. My brain kept telling me that he must have been beaten unrecognizable but that didn’t make any sense; there was no trauma to the face outside of the small hole just underneath his chin and the larger, baseball sized hole in the top of his head.

Billy took his hand off the pump of his shotgun and pointed to the dirt next to the body. “Look,” he said, “someone stumbled away from this.”

A part of me giggled internally when he said that (Really? You’re going to do the Indian Tracker thing?) but most of me just wanted to know where the hell Elizabeth was. Also, being fair, the tracks were hard to miss. No one had been this way for a while.

He followed the path of the footprints down the side of the building, hunched over slightly, shotgun shouldered, barrel down. I followed behind with the Tavor pointed out in front and to the right so the muzzle wouldn’t be in his back. It seemed Billy had forgotten to be afraid of having me behind him with a loaded gun.

We rounded the corner and started to run the length of this new wall. At the end we came to a door. Billy came to stand in front of it and then motioned for me to come around him and get on the other side. The door opened outside, right to left, so he wanted me positioned to get in behind him without having to navigate around the door. He grabbed the handle, turned it, and pulled the door open, plunging in with me trailing close after him.

Just as my eyes were adjusting to the lower light, I saw a door closing on the other side directly across from us with two men rushing into the room. I felt Billy’s hand on my shoulder as he shoved me down in front of one of the line machines and he took a knee right next to me. As soon as his knee touched the ground, I heard gunshots from the other side of the warehouse.

He peeked his head over the top to look, and then pulled it down again as a few more shots rang out. He lifted his shotgun over the machine and sent a few blasts back their way, more on general principle than any real hope of hitting them.

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