Dark Days of the Purge: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Dark Days of the After Book 5) by Ryan Schow

Author:Ryan Schow [Schow, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: River City Publishing
Published: 2020-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Logan hauled the five gallon bucket into Felicity’s kitchen. It was full to the rim with water from the catch out back. He poured the raw water over a clean t-shirt Harper had stretched over another five gallon bucket, then they ran the loosely filtered water through Felicity’s Alexapur Pro countertop water filtration system. The system filtered two and a quarter gallons of water relatively quickly, and though processed water would certainly filter better, they were making do with what they could. He’d just poured clean water into a three gallon jug and added the appropriate amount of bleach when his sat phone beeped. He capped the jug, then looked at the incoming number. Smiling, he stepped away for a moment. He answered the call, provided the caller with directions to Felicity’s home, then hung up, walked out back and looked around.

“Where’s Longwei and his crew?” he asked.

“They’re going house to house in search of food,” Orbey said. She and Harper were filling up another five gallon bucket of water from the water catch system. Harper looked up, pushed her hair out of her face and said, “Who was that?”

“A surprise,” he said. “And a good one at that.” It was about time they received some good news.

Felicity stepped out on the back porch and said, “Boone just got back. He and Clay got a couple of rabbits and three pheasants.”

“Nice!” Logan said. “Where’s Skylar?”

“Off to the side of the house helping to skin the rabbits.”

He nodded, then went back inside, checked the water he was filtering, and added it to the next three-gallon jug of water. A few minutes later, he heard the vehicle out front. Out in the back, he saw others looking up at the sound of an engine. They stopped what they were doing, but he said, “I’ll check it out.”

Smiling, Logan wiped his wet hands on the thighs of his pants, then went and opened the door to a friendly, but badly bruised face and one very excited young German Shepherd.

Cooper started jumping all over him, barking and squirting little bits of pee everywhere. Logan hugged Stephani and said, “We were missing you. I’m glad you came.”

“It’s barely even been a day,” she grinned.

“Yet it felt like forever.”

The others joined them and in seconds, Orbey had her daughter in her arms, holding her tight. Boone came around the side of the house and saw her, his face lighting up with joy. Harper emerged holding Rowdy, who started crying and reaching for Stephani the second he saw her.

“I missed you!” Stephani said, taking Rowdy and peppering his cheeks with kisses.

She’d grown so fond of the child, she once told Harper she’d like to be the boy’s mother. Even though Rowdy would never know his real mother, he’d need someone to love and nurture him in his older years, and Stephani wanted to be that woman.

Boone watched her with the child, and that’s when Logan saw it. Something in Boone had changed. He wasn’t just looking at the woman who’d taken care of him and his son for the last several months.

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