Pandemic (Book 4): Insurrection by Kersey Christine

Author:Kersey, Christine [Kersey, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Pandemic
Publisher: Sapphire Creek Press
Published: 2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Matt

It was two days later and the DMV was just ahead. Now that he was nearly there, Matt felt his gut roiling with nerves. He was a programmer, not a warrior.

Then he reminded himself that he’d been in a few gun fights since the world as he’d known it had come to an end. He could do this. He hoped.

“Ready?” Jessica asked from beside him as they walked hand in hand.

He turned to her and nodded. The plan was for the two of them to pose as a couple in need. The idea had been that a man and a woman coming to the government for help would seem less threatening than two men.

After what Jessica had been through, the way she’d gotten herself out of her deadly predicament, Matt had no doubt she could handle herself in this situation. Amazed by his wife, he gave her a side-glance, then tugged his ball cap lower on his head. If he could keep the government’s cameras from seeing his face, that would be ideal. Jessica, on the other hand, wore a blonde wig they’d managed to find. She’d done a good job of making it look like her real hair. If Matt didn’t know it was a wig, he wouldn’t have been able to tell.

Together, they walked toward the DMV, their pace unhurried, like they were a down-on-their-luck couple, not a pair of rebellious citizens with ill intent.

It was mid-morning, and as Matt opened the door to the DMV, he saw a handful of people waiting to exchange guns for supplies. The place was just as Derrick and Jeff had described, right down to an armed man marching toward them, his face serious.

“Hands where I can see them,” the man said.

Slightly alarmed at the man’s commanding tone, Matt did as instructed. Jessica did as well. The man searched them both, finding the one knife Matt had brought. Jessica wasn’t armed at all. They hadn’t wanted a repeat of what Derrick and Jeff had gone through, so they hadn’t brought any of the guns they’d taken off the Emperors. And they certainly didn’t want to give away their own identities, so they hadn’t brought any of their own weapons.

“This is a gun buyback,” the armed man said to Matt, his lip curling in annoyance like he had a lot to do and Matt was wasting his time.

“We know,” Jessica said with pleading in her voice. “Please, we need food. We’re desperate.”

The man shifted his attention to her, his eyes sliding up and down her body, then he frowned. “Can’t help you.”

Tears filled her eyes. “But you’re the government. I thought…I thought you were helping people.”

Matt was impressed with her acting.

The man huffed an impatient sigh, then shook his head before pointing to the chairs. “Take a seat.”

Okay. So far so good.

They huddled together, their hands clasped like they were in dire straits. Surreptitiously glancing around, Matt counted two men behind the counter and two men in the main space keeping an eye on the people who had come to exchange their guns for supplies.

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