Rebellion by Aaron Hodges

Author:Aaron Hodges [Hodges, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780994147592
Published: 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Sam sat and held his hands out to the tiny flame burning on the concrete floor. It was all they could manage in the abandoned basement, and soon even that would be gone. The little collection of old magazines and newspapers they’d found in the corner would not last long.

He looked across at Jocelyn and her children and cursed under his breath. He shouldn’t blame her, but he couldn’t help it. It was her husband’s fault, foolishly keeping their meeting a secret, but it was clear he had already suffered for his stupidity. Yet here she sat, alive and well, while Sam’s friends were likely dead, their hopes of striking back at the government ruined.

At least the children were safe. He could not hold the crimes of their father against them. How exactly the government agents had managed to track the man—despite Harry’s precautions—he might never know. Unlike their fledgling resistance, the Director was not limited to twentieth century technology. Satellites or street cameras or GPS tracking; any one of them could have done it. All he knew was, they’d been found.

Sam had arrived at the safehouse well before the van. There had been lights and vehicles everywhere, and from his vantage point high in the sky he had taken in the destruction that had been wrought on the house. He hadn’t waited around to be spotted, but he’d lingered long enough to see the walls. They’d looked more like a cheese grater than solid wood.

Turning in the air, he’d headed off the van and diverted them away from the house. Knowing they had to get off the streets, they’d found an abandoned building nearby and hidden the van around back. It had been the best they could do at that point. They wouldn’t have gotten far with the soldiers crawling over the neighbourhood.

Now, morning was fast approaching, and Sam was no closer to knowing what had happened. He could still hear the choppers circling outside, and hoped it meant at least someone had gotten away. There was another safehouse they could have retreated too—though only those not involved with the next attack knew its location. Looking around at the other men, he cursed as he realised none of them knew where it was.

“It’s all over,” James was saying, his voice low, though the children would have no problem hearing him, “They’ve won.”

“Looks that way,” another of the men replied miserably.

“Maybe the girl was right,” James muttered, looking across at the family, “Maybe the doctor betrayed us.”

“Not deliberately,” Sam’s feathers bristled as he spoke over their muttering,

“How do you know?” Harry snapped back.

“Because we’re still alive. If it’d been a setup, we would have all been dead the moment we stepped into the apartment,” Sam growled. He nodded at the doctor’s wife, “They were watching her, waiting for her husband to show up. When he dropped by, they were probably listening to their conversation about the Mad Women and followed him. Whatever precautions you took brining him to the safehouse weren’t enough – he led them straight to us.

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