Defiant by A.M. Flynn

Author:A.M. Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alternative future, survivalists, sexual assault, young love, dysfunctional family
Publisher: DashingBooks
Published: 2018-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

“ANNIE, I HAVE A FAVOR to ask.”

Wolf had driven up to her family farm and found her out in the field behind the house, fixing the fence.

She had long blonde hair the color of straw and blue eyes the color of the summer sky. Wolf remembered her from that last year at school. All the boys were panting after her, but with two brothers they couldn’t do anything else. She had been transformed from the rounded little thing into a sinewy farm girl, who could keep up with the chores right alongside her brothers.

“Okay.”

“I haven’t asked yet.”

“I wouldn’t say no to you. But make it worth my while and help me with this wire.”

“Where’s Nedward?”

Her twin brothers, Edward and Nye, had always been name-melded.

“They went to deliver a couple cows to the Fenadays.”

Wolf pulled the wire taut while she stapled it back onto the post.

“Thanks.”

“Sure.”

As the wind gusted up the hill, she pulled off her deerskin gloves and pushed the stray hairs off her face. “What do you need?”

“Donnie Russell raped Sophie Cook.”

“I heard about that. She’s that new girl from the city. Is she okay?”

They started back down the hill. “Yeah, she’s resilient.”

“Are you going to give her a gun?”

“I was thinking about it.”

“Don’t think. Just do it.”

“I don’t want to put a gun in the hands of someone who’s upset enough as it is.”

“Is she that upset?”

“She was hit, punched, dragged, thrown to the ground and raped. She’s not over it.”

“Give her the means to protect herself and she’ll get over it faster. It sure worked for Alise.”

“Sophie’s different.”

“Because she’s a city girl?”

“No, that has nothing to do with my decision. It’s true she doesn’t know much about living out here. She hasn’t been exposed to the real world.”

“Especially not this real world.”

“She’s had her own real world to deal with. I don’t want to put too much on her.”

Annie nodded. “Don’t drag it out. It’s hard for everyone.”

“We’ve all had years to get used to it. Sophie was going to a private school last month.”

“Private, huh?”

“Not in the way you’re thinking. It was an isolated situation in some ways.”

“Life’s always been tough.”

“We don’t have to make it harder.”

Annie nodded. “So what do you want?”

“I want you to come with us over to Coturnix and flirt with Donnie Russell so that he thinks he’s going to get lucky. You’ll lead him away from the bar to our truck, we’ll jump him and you don’t need to know what happens next.”

“It sounds like a mistake.”

“The council decided.”

“It still sounds like a mistake.”

“Why?”

“I live on a dairy farm. If you provoke a bull enough, they will charge.”

Wolf nodded. “I know.”

They crossed the driveway to his truck.

“Would you like a piece of pumpkin pie?”

He put his hand on the door handle of his truck. “That’s sounds good but I have to see Billy about backup.”

“Let me know when and I’ll wear something short and tight. Something I wore when I was twelve should do.”

Wolf sat in the driver’s seat. “Could you do me another favor?”

“Sure.

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