Final Dread_A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller by Ryan Westfield

Author:Ryan Westfield [Westfield, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-10T06:00:00+00:00

13

Rob

Rob had a tremendous headache, and his whole body ached. But other than that, he felt surprisingly good for having been knocked out for who knew how long. He’d just had his mouth hanging open in complete surprise while Aly told him everything that had happened.

Granted, his own experience had been pretty strange on its own. Apparently what had happened was that the second crash had woken Rob up from his passed-out state. It had only taken him a few seconds to realize that something was horribly wrong. And then? He’d done what he had to do. No matter how unpleasant, he wasn’t going to let Aly die, no matter how dazed he was. He’d been aware enough to realize that she was about to die unless he did something. So he’d done it. There wasn’t a point, the way Rob saw it, in overthinking it.

Rob and Aly were standing outside the RV, surveying the damage. They’d just finished dragging the corpse of the man Rob had killed a few meters away from the RV. It seemed frivolous, maybe, but this way they didn’t have to actually look at the corpse. But there was still blood all over the front seat. And bits of bone. Both Rob and Aly had his blood on them. And it was still fresh.

“So there’s no way it’s going to work again?” said Aly, standing there with her hands on her hips, as if she was trying to solve some difficult-but-resolvable problem.

Rob couldn’t help but let out a frustrated chuckle that sounded half like he was exhaling sharply and half like he was laughing at a not-so-great joke. “Seriously, Aly?” he said. “Look at it. The engine’s completely caved in.”

The RV had really done a number on the engine. There was no way they could even get the hood up.

“But don’t you think that...” Aly paused, as if thinking that if she thought just hard enough she’d come up with something that would work. “Maybe just try starting the engine again?”

“We’ve already tried that, Aly. There’s no way it’s going to crank. There’s just no way.”

“I thought some of these RVs had engines in the rear or something.”

“Well, not this one,” said Rob. “Come on, we’re wasting daylight. We’ve got to come up with a plan. And it can’t include the RV. We’ve got to give up on this.”

“But... Come on, isn’t there something?”

It was getting ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. But Rob understood where she was coming from.

After all, they’d left Jim back at the pharmacy. Who knew if he was still alive? All Aly wanted to do, understandably, was to get back to her husband as quickly as possible. And to do that, they’d need a vehicle. And the only vehicle they had was the RV that was clearly never going to start again.

Rob just needed to figure out how to tear her away from this idea that she was getting fixated on. The fixation had something to do with desperation and a lot to do with exhaustion.

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