Restitution: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival series (The Dark Road series Book 8) by Bruno Miller

Author:Bruno Miller [Miller, Bruno]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wordstream books
Published: 2020-10-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Ben wanted to sprint, but he was too tired, and even if he had the energy, he needed to proceed with caution. He still managed to set a quick pace that Joel and Gunner had no trouble matching, but Martin was falling behind. Ben didn’t want to lose sight of the guy, but he had to make a choice, and Martin was the lesser of his concerns.

He had a feeling the engine they were hearing was the sound of the remaining moonshiners making a run for it. But even more concerning was the thought of them taking the Jeep or the Blazer to make their escape. Whatever gear and food hadn’t been stripped from the vehicles at this point would be lost for good, along with one of their vehicles, if they got away.

Ben slowed down when they approached the main entrance, and for the first time since they’d been captured, he laid eyes on their trucks. He breathed a sigh of relief when he spotted the Jeep and Blazer parked outside the gate, alongside two other vehicles. The pickup they’d been loaded into when they were captured was one of them, along with another truck Ben didn’t recognize.

Before he had a chance to react, the unfamiliar truck launched forward. The wheels cut hard as the driver maneuvered the long-bed Ford through a nearly 180-degree pivot while spinning the back tires and flinging gravel everywhere.

“Gunner, no.” Luckily, Gunner hadn’t gotten too far, and Ben still had a clear shot. He wished he had a few rounds left in the .338, but he didn’t. With the pistol as his quickest and only real option, he opened up on the truck.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Using the taillights for reference, he did his best to take out the left rear tire, but the truck didn’t show any signs of slowing down. They couldn’t let them get away and warn the other camps.

Crack! Crack…crack! Crack! Joel joined the fight before Ben had a chance to get off any more shots. The truck violently dipped to the right as it hit a large pothole and ran off the trail and into the woods. Ben thought they were down, but to his disappointment, the truck somehow corrected and continued on down the trail. He watched as the taillights bounced along, growing dimmer by the second. He was about to give up hope when the truck stopped dead half a mile or more down the side of the mountain.

“Great,” Ben uttered out loud.

“Well, at least they didn’t get away,” Joel added.

“Yeah, that’s true.”

Ben watched the truck for a while and saw no movement. He wanted to go check on the occupants, but it was too far away from the others for his comfort, and he didn’t want to waste the time it would take. And if he was being totally honest, he wasn’t sure if he had it in him to hike back up the mountain afterward. If the people in the truck were dead, so be it.

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