Love Deserted: a tense yet romantic YA Disaster Distyopian (Deadly Earth Book 3) by L.B. Carter

Author:L.B. Carter [Carter, L.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

His baby pushed hard, yet they never caught up with the evacuees and their military escorts. Goddamn government got all the money while their family's hard-working non-profit struggled to fund themselves and do all the work the big boys weren't doing; Reed's Jeep had taken multiple years and scientists to build, limited by the volatility of the fuel as he'd explained to Henley once. Hydrogen was a dangerous element—highly explosive, which made it tricky in an engine that tended to get warm when running. The Green Solutions team had mostly figured it out. That Humvee would have been a good base for their modifications though. He'd watched it accelerate in way less than sixty, the bullet-proof window rolling up a foot or two above his eye level, with unbridled envy.

Reed mentally apologized to his baby. She was doing great. But with the poor water quality from whatever had been stored in that water tower, Reed was wary of his girl overheating. Or worse. He usually gave her only the purest. Sure, they had Henley to help them fix stuff, but if his girl went up in flames, the only thing that would help would be the fact that a wave was coming shortly to put the fire out before it caught the rest of the cornfields. Breaking down sooner than later would, in that respect, be better. Nearer to the tsunami zone meant less chance of their group causing more destructive wildfires. Or nearer to the seiche zone. His mental eyes rolled.

So, the further they went, the more Reed's vigilance increased. The more he coaxed out of his baby, the warmer she was getting, the more risk there was of hydrogen combustion. He spent as much time reading all the gages as watching the road. His passengers were all fairly quiet, so he was able to attune to her happy purr and isolate the moment she choked.

Nor was sulking in the passenger seat over the cumulative destruction of the Earth. It wasn't the first time. However, humans were the cause of the climate change at this point in Earth's extensive history—according to Val who he had thought was Jen the paleoclimatologist's daughter at the time. Guess she did know some geology, so Reed let her suggestion gain some traction in his mind that, unlike past warm periods on Earth, this one was human-induced and changing far too fast for nature to ever keep up and swing it back the other way.

This was just more of the same. Although, this was more directly the result of people they knew rather than a generic "humans" scapegoat. Henley started the fire, they'd admitted, and Valerie and Ace's mom was annihilating the glaciers.

See? This was what his family got for meddling with civilians. Things always went to shit. They needed to get back to home base, to Father, and maybe things would stop flushing down the toilet. It was worth a shot. He was going to have to do something to get Nor to let Sirena go.

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