Confrontation (Implanted Book 3) by Chris B. Porter

Author:Chris B. Porter [Porter, Chris B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-21T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Blackness, a few flashes of random blue light, and Jamie awoke to pounding lightning mere yards away. He stared at where it had hit, smoke curling up from what used to be the parlor room of the ranch house.

McElroy neglected to mention that the reason one of the walls was down was because it was on fire. One of the electric lanterns must have been knocked just right and set off a spark.

Could have been lightning.

He shook himself, then muttered, “Get a grip, find the kids. Worry about the burning wall later.” He jumped up, but felt wobbly and weak, as though he hadn’t slept in two days. He scanned the main room. Water flowed in the front open doors in a torrent, ploughing through the hall, and tearing a hole in the fire of the remains of the back wall.

Odd, dark and murky puddles sloshed with the fat rain. The wind felt like the cause of Jamie’s weakness. He couldn’t hardly stand against it, so he got low on the ground and went toward the water that flowed freely.

He saw others, but none he recognized until he saw dark blonde wet hair washing against a broken chair at the edge of the water and front door. He crouched low and scampered to her.

Mandy.

And she held Junior’s hand.

They’d come out of the convulsions, which were still a mystery, and it looked to Jamie like they tried to get out the front door, but the water washed them into the large wooden loveseat chair thing. Jamie didn’t know what it was supposed to be. He was too busy checking their breathing and feeling their heads. Mandy had a lump on her forehead, and Junior’s arm was scraped up the entire side to his shoulder. They must’ve been terrified.

He said their names and gently shook their shoulders one after the other. They slowly woke, the hot firelight gleaming off their soaked faces.

“John unlocked the door, he tried so hard to get us out,” Mandy told him. “He got washed through there.” She pointed through the fiery hole in the wall, and now water flooded the base of the flames. The light died down as the fire was swallowed by the torrential downpour.

The water ran too hard and fast for Jamie and the kids to make it to the door. He told them, “It’ll be fine, we just have to find Cecily and another way out. A safe way.”

Their faces weren’t afraid, but somber. He called Cecily’s name and heard her call back, “I’m fine. I’m with him.”

He crouched low to his children. He thought the first time he saw them was the best, but now was even better. He thought…horrible things, fears. He touched their faces.

“What? What’s wrong? We’ll wait till the wall’s done burning, see? Then find a little creek-like flow of water, drift right out of the ranch and into the woods where we’ll be safe.”

Junior ducked his chin low and held Mandy’s hand. “Because of what we did in the seat, six people are gone.

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