Into the Light: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Thriller (Into the Dark Book 10) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2019-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Twenty-Four Hours to Go…

Kelsie slammed against the bottom floor of the house, baby Holly in her arms, and the first thing she thought of was that armed group of outsiders getting closer and closer to the building she was inside.

She rolled over. Her back was aching like mad, and she could taste blood in her mouth. But there was no time to hang around. She had to get back to her feet. She had to hide. Because there was absolutely no way the group outside hadn’t heard them fall through to the floor below. There was no way they weren’t coming over here to check on things right now.

She had to get to her feet, and she had to get out of here ASAP.

She struggled upright. Her ankle was sore, but not bad enough that she couldn’t walk on it. She looked around, scanned the room, tried to find the rest of her people.

She didn’t see anyone at first.

Then she saw Arya Jr. By her side. Barking.

Her heart picked up. She froze still. Because Arya Jr barking was only going to draw those people outside even more towards her.

“Ssh!” she said.

Outside, those footsteps getting closer.

“Arya,” she said. “Be quiet. Now!”

Then she heard something else.

Something that caught her attention more than Arya Jr.

She heard a shout.

A cry.

She froze. Turned around.

That’s when she saw her people.

Most were getting to their feet. Tate. Trev. Jack. All of them seemed fine. All of them seemed okay.

And then she saw Manuel, and her heart sank.

Manuel was on his back.

He hadn’t got up.

And there was a reason he hadn’t got up.

The sharp spiked remnants of the lamp in the middle of the room that Kelsie had spotted on her way up.

Manuel had fallen right onto it.

It had impaled him. Pierced straight through him.

He was lying on it, crying out, wailing, trying to hold the wound. Trying to stop the flow of blood.

And all this time, Kelsie could hear the voices outside.

She could hear the footsteps getting closer.

She knew time was running out.

She rushed to Manuel’s side. Put a hand on his shoulder. But that didn’t help. It just made him wince even more.

“We… we need to get you off there.”

He couldn’t speak. He just shook his head. Blood trickled from the side of his mouth.

Kelsie looked at his wound. Looked at the metal piercing through his chest. It wasn’t good. It wasn’t good at all. And she felt bad for him. So bad for him. Because in the short time since she’d known him, he’d looked out for her. He’d had her back.

He’d helped her get to where she was.

If it wasn’t for him, she wasn’t sure she’d still be here at all.

But she knew that this situation had an inevitable ending.

She swallowed a lump in her throat. Fought back the tears. “I’m… I’m so sorry.”

And for a moment he looked like he was going to stand up to her. For a moment, it looked like he was going to protest. Like he was going to beg for her help or something like that.

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