Outpost (Cascade Book 6) by Maxey Phil

Author:Maxey, Phil [Maxey, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-07-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

A chugging came from the engine of the yellow pickup, causing it to slow.

Bryan Teller pumped the gas pedal but it wasn’t having any effect.

“Why we slowing,” growled Clovis in the back seats.

Bryan pointed at the digital screen on the dashboard. “We’re out of gas.” Silence came from behind him. That was worse than if Clovis had exploded in rage. Being a doctor he knew Clovis needed him, but he didn’t want to push his luck.

Bryan pushed on the brake and parked at the side of the highway. The other pickup did the same behind them.

Bryan sat not knowing what to do. He nervously flicked his eyes at the rear mirror being acutely aware of who was sitting just a few feet behind his head. There was no sighing or any indication of what Clovis was thinking, instead one of the rear doors opened and Clovis got out. Bryan figured he better do the same.

“Why we stopping?” said Lilly walking up to them.

“No gas,” said Bryan.

Clovis continued walking until he got to the back of the second of the three pickups they took from the people in the Colorado town. The sound of canisters and bags crashing down to the ground, could be heard.

He then emerged from behind the pickup and walked towards Lilly who started to take a step back. With one movement his hand sprung forward grabbing her around her throat, and lifted her a full foot off the ground slamming her against the side of the pickup. “Where’s the gas?”

She struggled to speak. He let go and she dropped to the ground grabbing her throat.

“Where’s the gas?” he repeated.

Bryan noticed the bear like creatures starting to gather on the grass banks, around the highway they had stopped on.

“It should be in the back,” she spurted out.

Clovis leaned down grabbing her by her hair and half dragged her to the back of the pickup where numerous items laid on the ground. “Find it.”

Clovis’s pets started to growl and scrape at the ground.

Lilly desperately sorted through the heavy packs and boxes that were left in the back of the pickup. The faces of the others watching in the pickup behind grew dark, some drew a cross in the air across their chest.

“There was a full canister here I—”

Clovis grabbed her by the back of the neck and pulled her through the air, making her land with a clump on the hard ground of the highway. She knew her time was up, and tried to reach around the back of her pants for her handgun, and then realized it wasn’t there.

“You want this?” said Clovis. He then turned and threw it twenty feet away. It landed and scattered across the gray concrete. He then knelt next to her. “I’ll give you a chance. If you can make it to your gun, before my creatures get you, I’ll call them off and you can have one shot at me…”

“No. No I don’t want too, please just let me—”

Clovis’s expression changed to one which was as close to a smile as he ever got.

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