Persecution: God's Other Children. Book 2 by Rob Mclean

Author:Rob Mclean
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2018-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

John watched from the front passenger seat, through the heavily tinted windows of the transport van, as his squads arrived for the pre-dawn raid on the first church on his list.

Following the referendum, and in what John thought was a premature show of fealty to the new United Nations and the alien emissary, the state of California had decided to enforce the new world order.

A long list had been made of all the churches, mosques, synagogues and temples that were within the jurisdiction of the vast majority of the state that had accepted the alien’s offer. There had been land swap deals hammered out with the counties across the former United States that had rejected the offer. Largely the swaps had been accepted, but there were stubborn groups of previous owners and tenants who had declined to accept the new reality and move on, and now had to be evicted more persuasively.

This church was not on the historically significant, protected list. It stood as an ugly 1960’s, brick and concrete construct, with aluminium windows and tiled roof. Except for the beat-up, east L.A. excuses for trees, it wasn’t a lot different from Angela’s church, but hers wasn’t on any of his lists as yet.

He had tried to put her out of his mind, along with the things she had said, but her words kept reverberating in his head. Despite that, he still couldn’t tell how she felt towards him now.

It had only been a couple of days since the weekend that he had taken his half-sister, Maddie, to Angela’s church. She had really enjoyed it. Like him, she loved the singing, although she didn’t know the words and couldn’t keep up with the words on the screen, she had hummed along happily. Angela had seemed genuinely happy that he had brought Maddie along, unlike the last time he had brought his brother to that engagement party.

John smiled as he remembered how Maddie had squealed with delight and had run to throw herself at Angela when she spied her in the crowd. He couldn’t blame her; he felt much the same way too whenever he saw her, maybe without the squealing though.

He could only hope she felt the same about him. But what if she didn’t?

He shook his head to clear away those thoughts and to refocus on the events now unfolding.

Today, as his squads arrived, they found a small group of protesters camped on the grounds. They had set up tents days before and had been living on site, anticipating the eventual eviction.

People were stumbling out of sleeping bags, sleepy eyed and yawning to stare at his squads spilling out of the vans and trucks. Dressed in pyjamas, track suits and t-shirts, they looked soft and vulnerable next to his people in their black bullet-proof vests, heavy boots and riot shields.

They didn’t anticipate the protesters to carry any guns, but in L.A. it was always a possibility, and his squads were armed for such a contingency. It made the civilians look even more overwhelmed.

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