Hide No Secrets by Lily Campbell

Author:Lily Campbell [Campbell, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tokyo House
Published: 2021-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“Ken, come in!” Adam growled into a tired walkie-talkie. “Cody?”

When silence answered Adam, anger and rage scorched the man's eyes. “Idiots!” he hissed, standing on the roof staring across a dry street at a run down general store. The store, it appeared, was deserted.

“Ken, get back to me right now or you're a dead man, do you hear me?” The bright, blistering sun was settling down in the west, casting long, eerie shadows over the sea of corn fields. A hot wind wandered through the corn fields, shaking the corn stalks like a mad man trying to strangle an innocent victim.

“I ain't in the store. Cody and me getting out of town,” Ken's voice finally came back. “We ain't dying for you. Too many of our friends are dead already! You can… cram it, pal. You ain't no prophet!”

Adam eyed the general store and then threw down the walkie-talkie so hard that Mack heard the crash. “Keep giving away your position,” Mack whispered, using his hands to pull away the last of some dry, weathered plywood. The underside of old, dirty, roof shingles appeared. All Mack had to do was get rid of the shingles and then he would have a clear opening to the roof. “When it gets dark.”

While Cody and Ken ran out the back of the general store, Josh was running all the way home to a dusty, parched white farmhouse surrounded by corn fields. “Ma!” he screamed, bursting through a screen door. “Ma!”

Josh ran into a bland living room with mismatched furniture. A skinny, sick woman was laying on a threadbare brown couch holding a liquor bottle in her hand. “Ma!”

“What… who is it?” Josh's mother moaned, drunk out of her mind. “Who's there?”

“It's me, Josh!” Josh looked down at his mother's drunken face. “Ma… you drunk again?”

“Go… away, Josh… leave me alone!” Josh's mother dropped the empty liquor bottle, turned her face toward the wall, and began mumbling something about an old boyfriend.

“Oh Ma...” Josh knew his mother was done for. His thin cheeks flushed with anger for a split second and then he ran back outside and looked around. “I can't stay here no more. Those cops will help me. Ma don't care about me anyways.”

Josh took off running like a scalded cat, making his way back to town. As soon as he hit the end of his house’s long, sunburned driveway, he ran into a tall man wearing a gray combat suit.

“Going somewhere, son?” The man grabbed Josh by his arm before the boy could run. “What's the rush?”

“Hey, let me go!” Josh yelled.

Rhode glared down at the helpless boy with murderous eyes. “Sure,” he hissed as he used his left hand to pull out a vicious combat knife. “I'll let you go.”

Josh bit down onto the right hand of the killer holding his arm, and tried to take a chunk of flesh out. Rhode hissed and released Josh, tossing him off to the side. Josh managed to stay on his feet

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