How We Adapt: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (How We Survive Book 2) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2021-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“Not another move. And I mean it. One wrong move, and I pull this trigger and blow us all to smithereens. That really how you want to play this?”

Mark turned around and saw the woman standing there. She was short. Blonde hair. A greyish hue to her right eye. She had a real mean expression to her face as she stood there, hunting rifle in hand. The look of a woman who you really didn’t want to bump into when you were out in the woods beside an old bunker stuffed with frigging explosives.

“I thought you said this place was a secret,” Mark muttered to Charlie.

“It was,” Charlie said. “Nobody knew about this place.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” the woman said. “So you’re all gonna want to step aside. You’re all gonna want to walk away from here. You haven’t seen a thing. A goddamned thing. Okay?”

Mark’s heart raced. He didn’t know why this woman was here. What she wanted. Who she was. He just knew he had a plan. A plan that hadn’t fully formed; a plan of what to do next, of how to launch their attack on Caleb and the Family, on how to save Ava and Faye.

And he knew that plan required these explosives. That was a large part of it. Maybe the largest damned part.

So there was no way he was losing these explosives. There was no way he was letting this go. None of them were letting this go.

“Hear us out,” Mark said.

The woman looked at him and narrowed her eyes. “Ain’t nothing worth listening to.”

“You don’t know that,” Mark said.

“No,” she said. “I do. I’ve listened for a long time. My people listened for a long time. We spent a long time listening to other groups, telling us what to do, how to live. But we’ve stopped doing that now. That’s not our way. Not anymore. So step aside. I’m giving you a chance to live here. You’d better be damned grateful for that.”

Charlie sighed. “I knew this was a bad idea. I knew this was a frigging bad idea.”

“Then maybe you should’ve followed those instincts,” the woman said. “Now come on. Back away. No need for any trouble here. It’s simple.”

Mark opened his mouth to respond, but he didn’t know what to say. They could shoot her. But truth was, they didn’t know how many people she had watching them.

And besides. There was something about the way she spoke that made him think she was serious about the whole blowing them all up thing.

He was at a loss. Maybe it was time to accept this battle wasn’t one he could win. Maybe this was a moment for admitting defeat. For accepting he needed to find another strategy.

He saw Charlie lowering his weapon. Lily, too. Even Seb lowered his head like he sensed defeat.

And he was so close to following them when an urgency filled him.

“No,” he said.

Charlie looked at him. So too did Lily.

But it was the woman who looked at him most.

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