Righteous Apostate: Raptor Apocalypse Book 3 by Yeager Steve R

Author:Yeager, Steve R. [Yeager, Steve R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

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RAT BASTARD

“WHO'S NOAH?” JESSE asked.

Cory smashed a neatly stacked row of manila folders lying on a desktop to his right and stormed out of the room. Papers scattered across the floor. Jesse watched the destruction for a brief second before turning and following behind, working to avoid the twin wrecking balls of Cory’s fists. With the painted and barren cement walls of the empty hallway outside the room, there was nothing else to destroy, which seemed to further infuriate Cory.

“What the hell was that all about?” Jesse asked Andrea, who had come up alongside him.

“I think he’s a little upset,” she answered.

Jesse screwed a half smile on his face and quickened his pace. Lacking items to destroy, Cory put a valiant effort into his non-destructive rampage. His arms flailed like wind-whipped branches, and he stumbled along, beating his fists against the walls every few feet. At the approaching intersection, he spun two complete circles before turning the corner and disappearing from sight.

“Hold up!” Jesse shouted, speeding up even faster to catch up with him. “You haven’t told me who this guy is yet.” Cory did not answer, but there were crashing noises in the distance that made his trail easy to follow.

Eve grabbed hold of Jesse’s shirt from behind and spun him around.

“Let him go,” she said. “I can tell you.”

“Tell me what?”

“That Noah is someone we both knew.”

“He what?” Jesse said, stopping.

“He took me in,” she continued. “He’s the one I told you about. The guy who lives north of Denver. The guy who kept me safe before Cory showed up. Before he showed up and ruined everything.”

“Ruined, huh?”

She nodded.

Jesse remembered her mentioning the man when she’d explained where she had come from. He’d dismissed it at the time because he had been too preoccupied with something slightly more important. Though, he could not remember what that was now. He had a vague memory of her telling him that she’d been sent by the guy to go after Cory and bring him back.

“Tell me,” Jesse said. “How the hell do these two things connect?” It wasn’t making a whole lot of sense.

“You are telling me that this Noah guy has had the means to wipe out these things all along, and he’s purposefully chosen not to?”

“Yes,” Eve admitted. “He sent me after Cory. I... I mean, we were supposed to bring him back. But I never knew anything about Noah being here. I swear it. It’s a surprise to me too.”

Jesse just couldn’t believe her. She had to be lying again. He was sure of it. But about what?

“Cory,” Jesse said, leaving her and heading after him again. “Hold up.”

Cory stopped when Jesse closed in on him. He spun, fists clenched, eyes narrowed to slits. Jesse slowed to a stop and approached him as if he were approaching a rabid dog. He almost gave up and let him continue his path of destruction. Maybe that would let him blow off a little of that steam he’d built up. But, the need to know what the hell was going on superseded his better senses.

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