Resurgence: An Apocalyptic Thriller Novel (Hell on Earth Book 5) by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: www.iainrobwright.com
Published: 2019-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Maddy was sharing a bowl of baked beans with Diane in the dining room. It’d been a long, arduous day and General Thomas had run everyone ragged implementing his changes in Portsmouth. It was now six o’clock, and she was done for the day. Wickstaff had told Maddy to take a couple of days to herself while she and General Thomas learned to work together. Fine by Maddy.

Diane was off the clock too. As Wickstaff’s head of security, she could never truly take an evening off, but now that there were so many more armed men on base, it was as good a time as ever to take a break. It felt strange, sitting together just to chat. Almost normal.

“So, you hooked up with anyone on base yet?” asked Diane. The girl had once been a shy mouse, but months of survival had hardened her. She was now one of the scariest people on base – all smiles until she had to pull her gun and shoot something in the face. Diane never hesitated. That was why she was still alive despite her previously meek nature. The apocalypse had unlocked the deeper parts of her soul.

Maddy had changed too. This time last year, she’d been a married paramedic thinking about having kids. She’d never found out what had happened to her husband, but she had resigned herself to the fact he was almost certainly dead. For the most part, she never thought about him any more. She never said his name or pictured his face. He was from a different time – a different time when monsters didn’t exist. She couldn’t encumber herself with thoughts of what was lost. Not just her husband, but the millions of husbands all over the world. Billions of people torn to pieces with their lives unfulfilled, their goodbyes unsaid.

Maddy turned her mind back to the question Diane had asked her. “Have I hooked up with anyone? Erm, no, I haven’t. How do you even find time to think about that stuff?”

Diane smirked. “Are you kidding me? I barely think of anything else. I swear, if I don’t find a man soon, I might dry up down there.”

“Jesus, Diane.”

“Hey, we might die tomorrow.”

Maddy looked over at a table crowded with naval officers at the rear of the dining room. The newcomers were friendly enough, but mostly aloof and unwilling to make small talk. That might change after a little time for them to settle in, but for now it created an awkward atmosphere. “I feel as far away from dying as I have in a long time,” she admitted. “Wickstaff was right; we’re better off with Thomas and his people, even if it puts our noses out of joint.”

Diane shrugged. “More the merrier, I suppose. More men, for one thing. Time to start living our lives again.”

Maddy rolled her eyes. “You think this will ever truly be over? Something sent the demons into hiding, but they’re still out there. I can never shift this feeling that they’ll just reappear in force one day and wipe us all out.

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