Fighting Rough: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (The EMP Book 5) by Ryan Westfield

Author:Ryan Westfield [Westfield, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-18T22:00:00+00:00

19

Max

There wasn’t much time.

Max was taking up the rear, running behind Mandy and James. All three ran in all-out sprints. Max’s leg was killing him, but he was doing everything he could to not let it slow him down.

Max had chosen the positions carefully. If everything worked out, they’d be slightly behind and off to the side of the enemy.

If there was one thing Max had learned, it was that things rarely went the way they were supposed to. He’d have to be on his toes, on the top of his game. But expecting the unexpected was easier said than done.

Up ahead, Max saw Mandy dart behind a tree. She moved swiftly, getting onto one knee, getting her rifle into position.

There was some noise off in the direction the enemy was expected to come. Max couldn’t see them yet. But there wasn’t much time.

James was next. He ducked behind his tree.

Max took the last tree, the one closest to the camp, and closest to where the enemy would probably be. He was about twenty feet from James. It was another twenty feet or so to Mandy.

Max glanced at James, who glanced back, and gave a stiff nod. There was nothing but grim determination on James’s face.

Max hoped that’d be enough.

Not that there was time to hope. Only time to act.

Max wasn’t sure how much ammo he had left in his Glock. Some of it was spent. He knew that much. He was about to throw a spare magazine into the Glock, but that was right when he saw them.

They were walking through the snow slowly, keeping low to the ground. They wore large white parkas. Max remembered that he’d seen those very same parkas in the compound in one of the gear rooms.

The men carried semi-automatics, and by the way they held them, it seemed like they knew what they were doing with them.

James and Mandy were glancing over at Max, waiting for the signal. They should have been keeping their eyes more on the men.

The plan had sounded good. It had sounded like it would work.

But now that Max was in it, he realized once again that while he may have been practically minded, he was really nothing more than an office worker. Sure, he was turning into something much more. The situations were forcing him to adapt. But he hadn’t been in the military. He didn’t have years of experience in tactical situations.

He felt like a fool, and his heart sank. There was no reason that the men would continue firing at the campsite once Max and the others opened fire on them. No, the enemy would direct their fire to the trees where Max hid.

But…

All they really needed was that early advantage, that element of surprise, those precious seconds in which they could get off the initial shots.

Max didn’t let hopelessness get to him. He didn’t let himself worry that his plan might have put all his friends in danger. He didn’t let himself dwell on the fact that he might have killed them all.

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