Darkness Falls: A Small Town Post Apocalypse EMP Thriller (EMP Survival in a Powerless World Book 75) by Walker Robert J
Author:Walker, Robert J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-16T00:00:00+00:00
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âMy God, are you sure? Murdered?â
âWithout any shadow of a doubt, Cindy. We all knew trouble would be coming, but we didnât know itâd arrive as rapidly as it did, I guess,â Deputy Cartwright said grimly.
Next to him, his horse, from which he had just dismounted, whinnied and stomped impatiently. It was mid-morning, and Cartwright had just ridden out to the small group of properties where Cindy, Chloe, and two other families lived at the end of the dirt road. Sheriff Cole and his other deputies had all ridden to separate outlying properties beyond the town borders to pass on the news about the murders that had taken place the previous night and to warn them about the danger of such killings happening again.
âIt must have been those bastards on their dirt bikes,â Yves muttered grimly. âThe ones who shot at me. Good thing I chased âem off. Itâs just a pity I only hit one of their bikes instead of them. If my aim had been a little better, maybe Alice and Bill would still be with us.â
âIt wasnât your fault, Yves,â Deputy Cartwright said. âDonât even think about blaming yourself. And the coroner thinks they were murdered around three, maybe four oâclock in the morning. That would have been before those bastards came out here, so you taking them out wouldnât have made a difference in what happened to Alice and Bill.â
âWh-why did they murder them?â Chloe stammered, her face a mask of shock. âAlice and Bill were good, kind people. Neither of them ever did anything to anyone!â
âThey were easy targets, I guess,â Cartwright answered. âTheir house was pretty isolatedâlike your houses out hereâso thatâs why those guys went after âem. We found Bill with his baseball bat lying near his body; I guess he tried to confront the guys when they broke in, so they just shot him. Alice, we found her in her bed, also shot. I guess she woke up when she heard the gunshot that killed her husband, but she didnât even have time to get out of bed before those sons of bitches shot her, too.â
âWhat did they take from the house?â Cindy asked. âIâm guessing they took somethingâthat had to have been the reason they broke in, right?â
âThey stole everything out of the pantry. They didnât leave a single morsel of food. They took all of Billâs wine and whisky, too, and whatever other drinks they could get their hands on. Emptied out of the medicine cabinet, too, it seemed. They took Aliceâs jewelry, too, and whatever cash was in the house, but they left the items that would usually be stolen in a robbery: the TVs, laptops, tablets, and phones. I guess theyâre wise to the fact that none of that is worth anything anymore.â
âNonperishable food is going to be worth its weight in gold in the days to come,â Cindy said grimly. âAnd clearly, these guys understand that. What happened to Alice and Bill is going to be the first of many such incidents, I think.
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