Defending Hope: An EMP Survival Story (Surviving The Shock Book 1) by Connor Mccoy

Author:Connor Mccoy [Mccoy, Connor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Thomas Criver, tell me you’re not actually going to try.”

The tall man turned to the young woman who just had expressed her concerns about his handyman skills. “I’m telling you, a backyard porch will be amazing.”

The young lady, his wife Jessica, cradled a baby boy – his and hers – in her arms. “But Daddy,” she said in a squeaky voice, “I need money for my college so I can grow up and not sponge off you until I’m forty-five.”

Criver laughed. “My boy will not sound like that.” He strolled past the open back door in the kitchen. “I didn’t say I was going to get it right away.” He held out his arms, pointing to the grassy backyard. “If that offer from Roy Mintz comes through, paying for a porch won’t be a problem. But we’ll still kick the porch a year or two down the line.”

“I was more worried that you would try building it,” Jessica replied with a chuckle.

“Hey, that door frame in the kitchen still is standing.” Criver paced back to the door. He had tried a little home improvement project not too long ago, with so-so results. Thomas Criver may have been a skilled security guard, but a handyman, not so much.

Criver eyed his wife. With her hair in rollers and her body wrapped in a long white leisure gown, it was quite a change from the business suits she wore as part of the management team where she worked. And while Criver admitted to himself that he enjoyed the sight of Jessica’s legs in her pantyhose and business skirts, in her current get-up, she seemed more beautiful than ever, like an angel. The sight of her holding their newborn son, Michael Christian Criver, completed the picture.

“You got the mommy look down perfectly,” he said.

“Well, thank you very much.” She smiled.

Even so, Tom Criver felt a bit of guilt. Jessica had benched her corporate career to stay at home and care for Michael while he brought in the money as a security guard. She had made the switch with no visible regrets, but Tom still wondered if his wife harbored any ambitions to return after awhile.

He made a fist. “I was talking with Sullivan the other day. He mentioned they could use an at-home analyst, someday, perhaps.” Jessica turned. “Someday, when our little man is bigger?”

Criver nodded. “Hey, he didn’t say it had to be you.”

“Well, it’s very sweet of you to ask. But I don’t want to have my head anywhere but here. This is my life. This is what I want.”

“I just thought perhaps someday we might do a little…” Criver jiggled his hand. “…switch-up. It’s not like my line of work doesn’t have its risks. The only thing you ever had to worry about was tripping over the carpet.” His jaw clenched. “It only takes one psycho and one lucky shot to end it all for me.”

“I have a hard time imagining anything taking you out.” Jessica leaned close to him. “You’ve said before that almost nothing happens on your security details.

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