Dawn's End_Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series by Justin Bell & Mike Kraus

Author:Justin Bell & Mike Kraus [Bell, Justin & Kraus, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2018-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Now.

Friday, July 24th.

The Rocky Mountains.

Scott wasn’t sure what the feeling was, but it was hard, deep and sharp. Not like he’d been stabbed, but like his heart had grown knives from within it and they were thrusting their way out.

As the oldest son of a family who had existed mostly without a father figure, his role had caused him much confusion and stress throughout the years. Was he a father? Was he a son? Brother? Caretaker? Trying to balance all of those jobs as his mother struggled with her own issues had put a certain weight and heft on his shoulders that he was having trouble shedding. Even now, as he exited the mess hall with Pierce and looked across the vast campus of Travis’s camp, he could see his mother and his brother talking near the firing range. He couldn’t tell what they were talking about, but something dug at him, that strange, sharp stabbing, from the inside out. It wasn’t quite jealousy, it was something more, something deeper and angrier.

He’d spent nearly eighteen years of his life being the father figure, working alongside his mother, helping support the family, helping coach Keeler and helping raise Vera, and here they were in a time when they were all the most vulnerable and she stood there talking to Keeler as if he was the one. As if Keeler was the other adult in the family, the glue holding everything together while his father was gone.

“What do you think they’re talking about?” Pierce asked as he came up behind Scott, pressing a hand to his back.

“Don’t know,” Scott replied in a hushed, gruff whisper.

On the other side of the compound, Keeler stepped toward his mother embracing her and they stood in that position for a few slow moments. Scott and Pierce stood there shoulder-to-shoulder, not saying a word for a minute or so, then Pierce lifted his hand and slapped Scott’s back. Near the firing range, mother and son separated, then turned, walking back toward the barracks.

“We gonna go shoot something, boy?” Pierce asked.

A slight smile split Scott’s face as he nodded enthusiastically.

“Oh yeah,” he said. “We’re gonna go shoot something.”

Chuckling between them, the two men strode toward the firing range, already feeling the cold, hard grips of the weapons pressed into their flesh.

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