Revelation Day (The Fall Book 6) by Joshua Guess

Author:Joshua Guess [Guess, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-03-25T06:00:00+00:00

Kell

“Mason has been taken,” Emily said.

Kell gave her a curious look. “Taken by the culture of New America, taken aback...”

“Into custody,” Emily clarified, a baleful gaze threatening to come out. “Word got out through our agents. They’re holding him inside Rebound itself. Presumably there are a lot of heavily armed guards outside his cell trying not to shit their pants and wishing they hadn’t drawn the short straw.”

“Okay,” Kell said, drawing out the word. “Do we have any idea why? Things were going well.”

Emily shook her head. “They didn’t put out a fucking press release, but I can guess. They’re using the hostilities with the Union as their justification, and you specifically. They’ll be claiming we’re at war and all that crap. Which is just a smokescreen for what they’re actually doing, which is using him as bait and leverage at the same time.”

“At least they’re efficient about it,” Kell mused. “Think he’ll be okay?”

It was almost a rhetorical question. They could joke while Mason was in danger because the idea that anyone could kill him was ludicrous. Kell immediately felt a pang of guilt at the thought, because of course Mason could die. His scars were indelible proof that he had, at least for a little while. Alone in a cell, all it would take was one man with a gun and a single bullet to the head.

No sympathy woke in his chest, however. For almost anyone else, Kell would have grown heartsick at the thought of being taken prisoner. Those feelings would have been based on feeling isolated, terrified, worried about what would come next. Mason wasn’t emotionless, something Kell knew all too well, but he was wired very differently. A man who has never fired a gun will flinch. His brain will scream that there is danger, causing all sorts of interesting biochemistry to happen. A man who fires a gun regularly will treat the act as normal.

Mason lived a life of extremes, from being in danger to doling out violence. Kell didn’t want him to die, but knew the man well enough to understand that for him, dying during the mission wasn’t as bad as not completing it. For nearly any other human being still alive, being taken captive by a ruthless enemy would be a life-changing event. For Mason, it was just another Monday.

“As okay as bait can ever be,” Emily said. “Though since we were already on our way, leverage seems like a better descriptor. They’re using him to make sure we behave.”

Kell stared out from their current rest area, another dead-drop location. This place was less likely to be targeted. Even with years of practice living and working in hellish surroundings when the need arose, this spot was enough to set his teeth on edge.

They sat on top of a small cylindrical water tower perhaps fifty feet high and ten wide, a smooth column of steel jutting out of broken, dead earth. The tower was the only intact structure anywhere in sight. Craters pocked the land, buildings rent and burned until only shattered fangs of blackened wood remained.

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