Escaping Darkness (Book 3): Landslide by Richards E.S. & Kraus Mike

Author:Richards, E.S. & Kraus, Mike [Richards, E.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Thriller
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2019-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Sitting across from his friends, Patrick couldn’t believe what had happened. Since Mia left, he, Vern, and Tracy had moved into the living room, but none of them had said a word. Vern and Tracy sat on the couch, their hands in each other’s while Patrick perched on the large armchair across from them, trying to figure out what to say. The pressure was all on him. For the one person in the room who still had the ability to speak, he had no idea what to say.

“How long ago did this happen?” Patrick eventually asked, coming up with a question that he knew they could answer without words. Vern held up two fingers. Two days. For two days his friends had been unable to speak, forced to wait for their final day to arrive. Patrick thought back to where he’d been two days ago and remembered the farmhouse they had stayed in. The two bodies they’d found dead at the kitchen table. It was too close to home—Mia had told him the similarities between the farmhouse and where she had been brought up and now, he saw the similarities between the dead couple and his friends. He hoped Vern and Tracy would be able to survive, but the odds didn’t appear to be in their favor.

“How?” Patrick asked, though he knew it was a question they wouldn’t be able to answer easily. He just couldn’t control his words. His emotions were running too high. “How could this have happened? I don’t understand.”

Letting his body keel over, Patrick dropped his head into his hands and rocked his body slightly. Ever since that day in the airport when he’d lost Harriet and Tilly, he hadn’t been able to grieve. A selfish part of him had been hoping that once they arrived in Tanner, he could take that moment. Vern and Tracy were some of his oldest friends—Vern in particular—and Patrick had been hoping for a moment of safety and security in their home. Now that he was there, he felt the complete opposite. He had already lost his wife and a daughter; now he felt like he’d lost his friends as well.

Feeling an added weight on the arm of the chair, Patrick tilted his head to one side to see Tracy perched there, a piece of paper held in her hand. He sniffed and looked up at her, an understanding smile on her face. Straightening up again, Patrick looked over at Vern and watched as his friend nodded at him, indicating for Patrick to take the piece of paper. When he read what was written, he felt himself threatening to break down even more. Three words in Tracy’s delicate handwriting: Talk to us.

Patrick sensed tears prick at his eyes. Despite everything—despite the terrible things that had happened to their own bodies and the things the pair of them must have endured—Vern and Tracy were still there for him. They wanted him to be okay and more than anything, they were able to listen.

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