Fight For Everything (At Any Cost Book 2) by K. M. Fawkes

Author:K. M. Fawkes [Fawkes, K. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“What do you mean you just took it?” Steve, practically foaming at the mouth, shouted.

Garrett stared at the man, wondering if he was actually serious. “What do you mean, what do I mean?” he asked. “The men from the trucks were dead. There was no one else there, and there was an enormous tank of gasoline just sitting in the trailer. Do you think I should have, I don’t know, just left it there for the desert to claim for its own?”

Some scattered laughter echoed through the schoolhouse, where they were all gathered for a town meeting, and Garrett felt his shoulders relax a bit. For the most part, the reaction had been one of excitement. They might not have returned from the raid with much food and water, but his original thought had been correct: they’d come back with enough fuel to see them through to their trip to Mexico, and beyond.

It was a form of salvation.

Which was why Steve’s anger over the acquisition was so confusing.

“And you didn’t think to come here and get everyone’s consensus first?” Steve continued to rave. “Didn’t think we should get a say in the matter? Oh, I know, you don’t think our opinions are worth a thing, that must be it. Don’t think we have enough brains among us to help you make a decision! Got here and knew immediately that you were smarter than us, that you should be the only one deciding anything, is that it?”

Garrett opened his mouth to answer, but closed it again when he realized he didn’t know what exactly he was supposed to say. Steve sounded as if he’d gone completely insane. His accusations weren’t even making any sense anymore. Had he gotten into the wine while they were gone?

“Coming back and asking has never been part of our raid protocol,” Alice snapped. “Never before have we gone into a market somewhere, seen a bunch of food, and come all the way back here to ask everyone else whether we should take the food. Are you high? Been eating something you found growing in the desert or something? We weren’t going to just leave the fuel there and risk going back for it. Risk someone else taking it. That makes no sense at all.”

“And if anyone else had a claim on the tanker, you might have put our entire community at risk!” Steve shot back. “Did you ever think of that?”

“In case you haven’t noticed, our entire community is already at risk,” Garrett said coldly, putting a stop to the other man’s yammering. “We’ve been robbed, we’re dangerously low on supplies, and we’re running out of other towns to raid. We’re running very short on options, and though we know what our ultimate move is, we need fuel and supplies to get there. The fuel aspect is now taken care of. And that’s the end of it. You would have done the same damn thing if you’d been in our place, and you know it.”

He stared at Steve, daring the man to say anything else, and nodded when Steve fell back several steps.

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