Exodus: Extinction Event by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2017-09-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Kael took the torch from Meeka’s slack hand before she could drop it or set Dar on fire.

“You will break her if you keep that up,” he said tightly.

Dar immediately loosened his grip, but he gave no other indication that he had heard and Kael was not completely convinced that was a response since Dar shifted his grip to her face and tipped her head back to kiss her.

Struggling to dismiss his own stomach churning fear that something had happened to her, Kael moved away from them, using the torch to help him examine the area better than he had been able to when he and Dar had conducted their initial sweep to make certain they had no dangerous tenants in their cave. And, for that matter, the later exploration when they had searched for anything that might be useful.

He dismissed the temptation to dig, convinced that anything under the rubble was not likely to be of much use. Instead, he climbed the piles and peered through partially collapsed walls and door frames until he came upon … treasure. It looked as if it might have been a break room or snack bar and since it was still blocked, he thought that there was a chance that whatever had survived the collapse of the building could still be there and possibly intact.

Stepping back, he lifted the torch and studied the rubble and, more importantly, the opening, trying to decide if the rubble was holding the structure in place or if it had simply piled in that spot. Finally, he decided not to attempt it alone. He wasn’t going to do anyone any good if he got crushed and killed—or worse, crushed and lived long enough to create more difficulties.

It was the latter thought that cinched the matter. He could not think of a more gruesome or lingering death and he did not want to go that way.

He found Dar and Meeka pretty much as he had left them except that they had progressed to trying to figure out how and where to couple.

“I have found something that I believe is significant.”

They might have been deaf for all either reacted to his momentous announcement.

“You do know that she has begun another cycle, right?”

* * * *

Dar had no idea when Meeka had ceased to be merely an obligation he was honor bound to protect and become the lifeline he needed to stay sane, but there was no denying that his reaction to the discovery that she was missing was not mild enough to refer to it as dismay. His consternation was so profound that he instantly went into a state of blind panic.

They had seen no sign of her outside—and he was certain they would have if she had been close by—so he expected to find her inside. When he did not, his mind instantly leapt to horrific images that may or may not have been completely sane and logical considering there was no sign of resistance of any kind.

He could not take comfort in that.

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