Fury Rising by Jeyn Roberts

Author:Jeyn Roberts [Roberts, Jeyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-08T07:00:00+00:00

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They walked for a good hour before Andrew spotted the car dealership. By then, the sun had completely disappeared, leaving them struggling to find anything in the darkness. Clementine often thought about how much she had taken things like streetlights for granted. To her, there was nothing spookier than a completely blacked out city.

She made the kids hide in the parking lot, sandwiched between a truck and an older model SUV. Andrew immediately hated the idea of waiting there. It probably made him remember his mother all over again. And with Michael’s death fresh on everyone’s minds, everyone wanted to stick together.

“I’ll be right back,” she said. “And you’re not alone. You have Janey. She’s just as good as me, maybe even better.”

“What if you don’t come back?” Andrew clenched the front of his shirt tightly. None of them were dressed for the evening and it was chilly. The clouds were coming in fast and Clementine worried that it might rain.

“I will,” she said. “I have no intentions of ever losing you. That’s a promise.”

The moment she slid open the showroom door, she knew she’d made the right decision to go alone. The smell of death and decay hit her nose, forcing her to pause and reconsider. She couldn’t see a thing.

It’s the grocery store all over again. And I don’t even have a flashlight, Heath. I dropped mine during the attack. How am I going to do this? I can’t go in there. It’s too much. I can’t go through that again. I wish you were here, brother. You were never afraid of dark spaces.

She let the door close and sat down on the curb, trying to consider her next move.

They had to get a car. That wasn’t even up for debate. The little ones simply couldn’t walk the entire way. It would take days. They were due back in a few hours. If they didn’t show up by morning, Aries might do something foolish like send out a search party. Clementine couldn’t take the chance of any of them accidently stumbling into the mall.

She looked out at the street. There weren’t a lot of abandoned cars on Lougheed Highway, but they might have better luck if they strayed off into the residential neighborhoods. Picking up a vehicle wasn’t the problem. Finding one with a set of keys attached was the challenge. Clementine had no idea how to hotwire a car, neither had any of the others. Raj had said he might be able to do it, but he’d never tried. They’d all relied on car dealerships and rental places. Clementine knew that each dealership usually had a room where all the keys were stored. Usually they were hanging on hooks or stored in drawers. But each place was different and without a flashlight, she’d be stumbling around blindly, going from room to room until she got lucky.

Judging from the smell inside the display room, there were other things she didn’t want to find.

If I go into that darkness, I’m going to remember.

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