Return from the Shadows-Ivan Dunn the Final Chapter by Perdue Frank A

Author:Perdue, Frank A. [Perdue, Frank A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2015-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

As usual they awoke early that Monday morning. Though each was reluctant to leave the other’s arms they both knew a part of their lives was ending. They couldn’t know just how much it would change, but that would come quickly.

After completing the menial work, Yasmin dressed in her nursing uniform. She’d given Jeb some of her father’s clothes, so he wouldn’t be quite so conspicuous. They ate a casual breakfast, sometimes stopping to hold hands.

It would take her over an hour to reach the prison camp, and she should have left before seven, but she couldn’t make herself leave her lover. It was eight-ten when they both finally walked out onto the farmhouse porch.

She reached up to brush a strand of hair from his forehead and he reacted by pulling her close once more. Their embrace was desperate. There was a finality neither was ready to accept. “I love you James.” The words came without thought, but the feeling was genuine.

He was about to reciprocate, when the ground shook. “Earthquake!” he said instead, as he pulled Yasmin away from the building that might fall on them.

Once in the yard, they both noticed a huge cloud off to the south. They thought it strange that a thunderstorm would occur in an otherwise clear sky. Before long the cloud took on the appearance of a giant mushroom.

At that point neither of them knew what happened, but Jeb had a feeling something wasn’t right. “Do you have a radio here?”

“Yes, but I must go. I am already very late.”

“I know, but this will just take a minute. If something like an explosion happened, surely it will be on the radio. I can’t understand Japanese, so you’ll have to stay and translate it for me.”

“All right.” They went back in the house, and Yasmin turned on the radio. There was nothing but static.

Jeb, looking out the window, took note that the cloud had grown even larger. The thought even occurred to him that a bomb might have exploded near Hiroshima, but he knew no amount of TNT could make a cloud that enormous. “I don’t think you should go to work.” He said.

“But I must.” There was a look of fear on Yasmin’s face. She too felt something was terribly wrong, but she had no idea what.

“Can you check with a neighbor?”

“I will try.” She picked up the telephone receiver from the cradle situated on an end table next to the sofa, and, apparently talking to an operator in Japanese, she asked for her neighbor’s number. Suddenly her face went white, and she dropped the phone on the hardwood floor. Her body followed as she fainted.

Jeb rushed to her side as her eyes opened, but with a blank stare. “What happened?” he said, as he cradled her head in his lap.

“It’s Hiroshima!”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s gone.”

“What’s gone?”

She looked up into his eyes, as she said, in little more than a whisper. “The whole city!”

“That’s impossible. Do you mean that a bomb struck

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