Seeking Hope: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by Kim Cresswell

Seeking Hope: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by Kim Cresswell

Author:Kim Cresswell [Cresswell, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KC Publishing
Published: 2021-12-25T16:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER SEVEN

As the clouds thickened and blotted out the sun, Jude popped two pills into his mouth and swallowed them. Sitting on a small grassy patch away from everyone else, he spotted Astra stopping some of the adolescents and showing them the photograph of Hope. She had wanted to look for her sister alone. Of course, he had protested, not that it did him any good. He had learned it was pointless to argue with her.

Out of the corner of his eye, he watched a horde of rats skitter one by one along the bottom of a nearby decrepit tent and scurry inside. His heart beat suddenly faster. It was hard to think, witnessing the undeniable misery, the way despair curved some of the teenager’s shoulders. He knew this wasn’t their fight to save them. They couldn’t save everyone.

There was no denying the living conditions were cruel, but so was the post-apocalyptic environment on the other side of the barbed wire. Jude had noticed the numerous rusted fire barrels scattered throughout the camp. Were the teenagers forced to live outside in the winter too? With summer coming, the adolescents would swelter in the humidity and heat. He shut his eyes and blocked out an alarming scream coming from somewhere deep within the camp. He couldn’t imagine what it was like at night and didn’t want to find out.

There had to be something better than living like this. If the kids were outside of The Closure, they would have their choice of shelter and could hunt for food, not fight for it. They would either make it or they wouldn’t. It was a fifty-fifty chance for everyone who survived. Pre-packaged processed was more than scarce. Whether Astra liked it or not, when they returned home, they would have to hunt rabbits, squirrels, and catch fish. It was something she would have to come to grips with no matter how she felt about eating anything with a face. Hunt or starve. It was their new reality.

Ayden Webb and his followers were delusional, the locked-up-kind-of-delusional. From what Jude had read about cults long before the virus, their leaders were narcissistic, charismatic, craved status and power and that made them unpredictable. By the sounds of it, Ayden Webb was both deranged and dangerous.

There was no such thing as the second coming of Christ or holy children of light. The UXB virus had been injected into the wild by accident, a devastating event of epic proportions that no one could have predicted. The mess they were in had nothing to do with God. After what they had witnessed during the past five years, God no longer existed in his mind. If he did, he would never have allowed this to happen in the first place. They were in a predicament, as his mother used to say. He wished his father was here. His father was a natural problem solver and he’d know what to do. Jude had to figure a way to get them out and back to the security of the underground bunker.



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