Sanctuary: A Post Apocalyptic Dystopian Thriller (Surrender the Sun Book 2) by A. R. Shaw

Author:A. R. Shaw [Shaw, A. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Two things happened in quick succession after Jax pronounced the man dead. The woman’s hand quickly bolted underneath her thigh, and in one swift move, she swung out with a long hammer, which clocked Jax on the side of his forehead. The funny thing was that he totally expected her to pull something, but he wasn’t ready for that.

The flashlight he’d held skittered to its side on the ice, spinning in circles, the light beam on circuitous path like a sped-up lighthouse. Then she was on him. Again, she swung the hammer down toward his head with one hand and jerked on his gun with the other as she tried to wrench it from his grasp.

He could have stopped her battering his skull in, but in his own mind, the greater risk was losing hold of his weapon rather than his consciousness. Then when the third strike was coming down, he’d had enough and used the weapon to block her descent and then used that same momentum to wallop her in the chin. Then he was up. She’d grabbed one of the packs on the ground and attempted to fling the weight of it at him.

He blocked her move with his forearm as he tried to raise his weapon in close quarters. She screamed in anticipation and ran out into the dark. With the flashlight swirling on end, his vision distorted, and when he did gain on the rhythmic dilation in his eyes, she was gone.

On one knee and breathing heavy in the hardened snow, Jax said to himself, “I’m getting too old for this.” The swirling flashlight finally came to rest on the body before him, casting a profile shadow beyond with the dead man’s eyes opened wide and frozen. The other canvas pack lay nearby. Hands shaking with the unused adrenaline in his system, Jax stood finally, thinking that perhaps he had not seen the last of the dead man’s companion.

That’s when he grabbed up the canvas satchel next to the body. A distinct odor wreaked from inside. Opening the pack, he knew. He knew from the smell alone what lay inside.

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