Final Days by Scott Jasper T. & Hystad Nathan

Author:Scott, Jasper T. & Hystad, Nathan [Scott, Jasper T. & Hystad, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, thriller, Mystery, Fantasy
Amazon: B087C99ZGF
Goodreads: 53643592
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2020-06-09T07:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Kendra

4 Days Left…

The day after the evacuation notice, San Diego was a ghost town. Garbage was strewn about; cars burned on the side of the streets. This is what happens to humanity under pressure. Instead of uniting to achieve a goal, they destroy everything they worked so hard to build. Kendra shook her head as she pushed her disdain to the side.

She’d had trouble sleeping last night, and the coffee wasn’t strong enough this morning. There were no stores open, so she had to rely on her own brew from home, and she took another swig, tasting grounds between her teeth.

When she’d first moved to the city, she’d loved it. She’d had aspirations… so many dreams that never came true. She was going to learn to surf, to buy a paddleboard and spend weekends in the water: just her, the board, the sand, and the sun. She’d only been in the ocean twice over the years, and once was when an old FBI acquaintance from out of town came to visit. She’d wanted to make the woman think she was embracing the coastal dwelling.

The truth was, Kendra had never felt at home here. She missed the smell of crops in the summer, the flat Midwestern land, the friendly faces. She missed her sister most of all.

“Goddamn it, Ken, get it together. She’s gone.” Kendra slapped the steering wheel with a palm, hard enough to hurt. “She’s gone! And if you’re not careful, you’ll be gone too.”

The roads were dead, a complete juxtaposition to yesterday’s entire day of gridlock. A streetlight turned red, and she instinctively pressed the brake, rubbing her head as the car idled at the light. A horn blared, and a banged-up Ferrari tore through the intersection, its exhaust sounding like a sonic boom. She expected to see a plume of smoke as it crashed into a street pole a block away, but it didn’t. She could still hear it as it drove farther and farther away.

“Looky what we have here,” a voice said through her open window, and Kendra spun to see a group of men approaching the car. A few settled in front of the vehicle before she could drive away. They were thugs, undoubtedly. She’d seen their type a million times. They were always lurking in dark corners, waiting for someone weaker than them so they could exploit them, use them, steal from them, or worse. Not today.

More of them emerged from the other alley, and Kendra didn’t hesitate. She pulled her gun out, flashing the steel, and the lead man raised his hands in the air.

“We only want… your car.” He sneered at her with squinted eyes, his face wild, twitchy.

“Move!” she shouted to the guys standing near the front of the car with bats in their hands. She was feeling twitchy herself.

When they didn’t move, she knew what she had to do. It was the end of times, and she didn’t need to play by the rules anymore. It was survival. Someone was at the passenger side of her car, testing the handle, which was locked.

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