Enduring Chaos (EMP Disaster Book 2) by Grace Hamilton

Author:Grace Hamilton [Hamilton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-13T05:00:00+00:00

The factory wall emerged from the gloom in the first pink light of morning. Melanie saw the imposing edifice of Beaton’s Food Factory rising above, a pale fortress standing tall in the middle of the wasteland. The additions to the front gate were visible from a distance, dark metal twisted around the hinges and the latch. The shrapnel on the ground in front of the gate, however, was not. Good. They had planted it well.

Despite walking all night, Melanie was still seething. Blind to her own needs, she had let the enemy inside the factory. As she approached the gate, she began waving her free hand over her head, hoping to catch the attention of anyone who might be watching from the upstairs window. She stopped before she reached the field of shrapnel and waited.

When waving her hand didn’t draw anyone, she finally picked her way past the shrapnel to the locked gate and began tapping on it loudly with the handle of the Beretta. She kept this up for a good fifteen minutes or more before she heard the faint creak of the factory’s front door.

“Mel, oh my God, is that you?” Lizzy’s voice.

“Yes, let me in quick,” Melanie said.

She heard Lizzy fumbling with the lock, heard the sliding of the latch. And then the gate swung inward until it slammed against the blocker that Rita had installed. Melanie saw Lizzy’s wide-eyed face peering through the gap. She seemed terrified.

“Mel, where have you been?” she said. “You were gone so long! We’re all freaking out in here. Did you get the drugs?”

Melanie slipped through the gap and pushed past her friend, letting the rattling of pills in the overfilled backpack answer the question for her. “Where’s Rita? Where is she? I have to see her right now. I have to talk to her.”

Lizzy grabbed her arm and pulled her to a stop. As Melanie turned back, her friend grabbed both of her shoulders and held her fast.

“Mel, everything went to hell while you were gone,” Lizzy said. “Brian is gone. He vanished into thin air not long after you left. No one can find him anywhere, so we assume he left the factory.”

“And Rita?” Melanie asked.

“We’ve got her tied up in Derrick’s office,” Lizzy said. “Dad caught her stealing weapons out of the gun cabinet in the supply closet.”

Melanie bit her lower lip so hard she tasted blood. Shaking with anger, she reached up and swiped her lips on her sleeve.

“Take me to her,” she said through clenched teeth. “Take me to Rita right now.”

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