DISASTER: Too Late to Prep by Terry McDonald

Author:Terry McDonald
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-12-19T22:00:00+00:00

She finished singing and then turned to look at Max and spoke in short clipped sentences.

“I will obey my father. I’ll stay with you, stand with you, but if you push yourself on me, I swear I’ll kill you.”

Max moved to her, offering his hand to help her to her feet.

“Ada, I’ll honor my promise. I’m sure he would do the same for me if it were my daughter.”

She moved her father’s head gently from her lap and accepted his hand.

“Help me get the rifle. He laid on it so it wouldn’t get rained on.”

Using his good arm, Max grasped Jacob’s jacket and rolled him onto his side so Ada could remove the rifle. She searched his jacket for the spare mags. She found two empties which she handed to Max and then ejected the magazine from the rifle.

She snapped the magazine back in. “Nine rounds left. Let’s find Otis. Daddy said he hid him and his AR. We’ll both be armed.”

Ada was skilled in the woods. Max asked how she knew where to go. She claimed she’d spent more time in the forest than Otis and her father combined.

They found Otis’s body a hundred yards inside the tree line, not far from Max’s home. Jacob hid him by the trunk of a fallen tree and covered him with ground litter. A bullet had removed a large chunk from the side of his head, exposing bone and brains. His AR 15 was beside him. In addition to a partial magazine in the rifle, he had a full one along with an empty in his pants pocket.

Ada stood above her uncle’s body. “I don’t have any tears left, Uncle Otis. I’ll cry for you later. Right now, Max and I are going to stay alive so we can get more bullets and kill the bastards who did this. We have to so we can bury you and the rest of our folks.”

Though he couldn’t see his farm from where he stood, Max looked in that direction. He knew what was there, and he did have tears left to cry. They burst forth, the power of his grief, dropped him to his knees. After several minutes, he turned to Ada.

“I failed them. Kelly was smart. She wanted to hide in the woods, but I procrastinated. Never took her serious. I should have. It’s my fault they’re dead.”

Ada shook her head and replied fiercely to his words. “That’s a damn lie. Billy Ray Dobbs and his kin, in cahoots with the Simpson’s, killed our people. It’s their fault and that’s why you and I are going to kill them all. Help me get the clothes off Otis. I’m soaked and freezing and I don’t need to be running around in this thin nightgown giving you thoughts.”

Max normally would have replied with a witty rejoinder, but his heart was somewhere else. Otis had a wicked, serrated knife in a scabbard attached to his belt. Ada used it to punch a hole in the belt so she could keep the pants from falling off.

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