Lights Out (Book 4): New Frontier by Cal Sarah

Author:Cal, Sarah [Cal, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, romance, Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival
Publisher: Sarah Cal
Published: 2018-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen:

Emma arranged a night watch to look after the farm and patrolled the cornfield herself.

They’d been on Harry’s farm only a few days, and a few of the day patrollers had come back with reports of tampering and theft in the fields.

She’d had to talk Harry into it, even though she’d initially agreed with him that it was too dangerous. But she’d learned it was better to cut down something like this before it grew to be a bigger problem. She hadn’t expected this kind of problem this soon, and she was prepared to deal with it, having most of everyone else stick near the house. Since the reports came from around the cornfield, she took it alone.

Chase had disapproved, even though he didn’t outright argue, but she overwrote his concerns. She had the same concerns, which was why she wasn’t willing to send someone else off if she couldn’t do it herself.

It was the hardest part about being ‘leader’ after all. It was dangerous out there, and she couldn’t just send someone out into it.

Chase caught her as she walked out, grabbing onto her arm and stopping her on the porch. She just sighed and rolled her eyes, then turned around and arched an eyebrow at him, waiting for the protest he hadn’t voiced before, but was very visible in his face.

“Let me go with you,” he said.

Emma wanted to be surprised, but after a second of being taken aback, she realized this was just like Chase. If he wouldn’t stop her, he would try to go with her. He hadn't done it when they were home, when she was going out to volunteer at the police station to help with the town, but she supposed this was different.

They were on a farm in the middle of seemingly nowhere, with food growing all over. Like it attracted them, it would attract others, possibly dangerous people. During the day, they went out patrolling in pairs for every field, but this time she was going out on her own, and it was dark. She didn’t tell him she usually patrolled alone even during the day. She just figured she worked better alone, so she did.

“Chase, please just stay here.”

“But you can't go out on your own—” he argued.

She cut him off. “I’m perfectly capable of going out on my own, Chase, I promise to be careful. I’m more worried about the guys I’ll be leaving here than myself.”

“What happens if you get into trouble? The others will be too far away if you need them.”

Emma could have told him she didn’t need them, but that would sound conceited, wouldn’t it? But the truth was, if they were too many in the fields and they all started shooting, the chances of injury by friendly fire were pretty high.

It wasn’t like she was doing this because she just wanted time to herself. And Chase was someone she would trust at her back, but she just didn’t want him out there if there was trouble.

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