Point of Extinction - The Extinction Series Book 1: A Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series by Tara Ellis & Mike Kraus

Author:Tara Ellis & Mike Kraus [Ellis, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2021-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

WILLOW

North of Seattle, Washington

The blackness was complete. Willow blinked against it, but it made no difference. Groaning, she shifted in the driver’s seat and immediately regretted it.

“Ahh,” her voice sounded weak and hollow in the cramped space of her crumpled car, intensifying the impression that the heavy darkness was pressing in on her. Only, Willow knew it wasn’t the dark. It was the car itself, crushed under the ungodly weight of the collapsed tunnel surrounding her.

She tried to ignore the creaking of the twisted metal, the pressure of the roof of the car against her head, and the smell of oil, exhaust, and some other Earthy mix of loam and dirt. With every additional vibration that worked its way through the carnage of disintegrating cement and groaning support posts, Willow held her breath; waiting for the end to come.

An early start out of the city had seemed like such a good idea that morning. She’d even taken the day off from work to give herself a long weekend with one of her sons, who lived up north in Bellingham. Now that he and his wife had a new baby, they rarely came into the city. Willow couldn’t blame them. Seattle wasn’t the thriving metropolis it once used to be, though she still thought the Woodland Park Zoo and Seattle Aquarium rocked. She’d had so many outings planned. Birthdays, Fourth of July on the beach, and Christmas on the lake.

Slowly, Willow moved a hand along the outer part of her right thigh and confirmed the rather large, grotesque lump was still there. She had enough medical knowledge to understand that a compound fracture of the femur would be life-threatening, even if she wasn’t also buried under an expressway.

If her femoral artery was even nicked, she could bleed out in minutes. Since she was still alive after more than an hour, either the artery was still intact, or else her positioning was putting enough pressure on it to staunch the flow. “It’s not like I’m set to go out for a walk anytime soon,” Willow muttered, wincing at the foreign sound of her own voice. She’d worked in emergency medicine during her younger years and knew she was utterly and completely screwed.

At sixty-three, Willow took pride in her trim, muscular physique. She worked hard every day for it. If there was any possible way to fight her way out of the situation she was in, she would have done it. She’d use her bare hands to peel back metal if need be, surviving off rain water finding its way down to her through the several feet of concrete and rebar. Except Willow’s extreme desire to live wouldn’t even get her out of the driver’s seat, let alone the tunnel.

Her left hand squeezed around her cell phone and then relaxed, allowing it to settle onto the seat. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes, though it didn’t really make any difference.

Breathe.

She was going to hyper-ventilate again if she didn’t calm down.

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