CyberWar: World War C Trilogy Book 3 by Matthew Mather

Author:Matthew Mather [Mather, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Matthew Mather ULC
Published: 2021-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I WATCHED AMINA, flanked by four large men in black armor and face masks, force-march Ellarose to the patio doors of the house. To our right, Archer had slipped a steel wire around the neck of the man who had pressed a hand against the invisible window and discovered us. He’d dragged the man off into the blackness of the tall grass and bushes behind the workshop.

Archer returned a moment later, just as Amina walked past the truck, which provided him cover. Instead of coming back to us, Archer took up position exactly where the man he just took out had been. Archer had on the man’s vest and armor and helmet. He nodded at Amina as she walked by with the other men.

With mounting, desperate fear, I was afraid Chuck was about to single-handedly try to take out the four men who were with Amina. As tough as he might be, he only had one good arm, and these were professionals. After the bullet he’d taken a few days before, he could barely use his left arm with the prosthetic. Chuck appeared in the underbrush to our left, the glow of his face just visible in the light of the crescent moon.

He didn’t shoot his submachine gun, though.

He cupped his hand around his mouth and mimicked a bird call.

“Is that an owl?” I whispered.

One of the men with Amina turned in Chuck’s direction. The man clicked on a flashlight and played it along the bushes. Amina said something to him and he turned the light off and rejoined the group.

“I’m going out there to help him,” Lauren whispered to me.

I held her in place. “You are not. I’ll go.”

“I’m the better shot,” my wife said.

“Exactly. You stay here in the truck. Three of these are full.” I dropped one of my submachine gun’s magazines on the seat. I had a new one loaded in my weapon. Two half-empty ones on the seat on the other side of her. “You keep the children safe. Anything happens, you take off. Stay with the senator, he’s your only family now.”

Lauren squeezed my hand. “You’re my family, Mike.”

I kissed her, lingered for an instant, then leaned over and gave Olivia a little peck.

“I’m coming too,” Luke declared.

“Whatever you’re doing,” Damon said from the front, “do it now. Amina has gone inside. Chuck looks like he might be about to dive right into the house.”

“You stay here, protect mom,” I said to Luke. “And if those drones get too close, you push the button on this.” I gave him the EMP device, now almost fully charged. “You got that?”

He nodded.

“Damon, Tyrell, are you guys really inside their network?”

I readied myself by the left side door, gripped the submachine gun, and made sure the safety was off. Out the back window of the truck, faint glows came from the men back by the Baylor driveway, still searching for whatever had made the brief commotion there a few minutes ago.

We were surrounded. And about to attack.

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