Silver and Gold (Red and Black Book 3) by Nancy O'Toole Meservier

Author:Nancy O'Toole Meservier [Meservier, Nancy O'Toole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-05-24T22:00:00+00:00

15

Dawn

I raced across the room, past the half-scorched, overturned tables. Past Chloe, laughing, Joker-like, on the floor. By the time I reached the entrance of Pod Two, Bixby was already there, moving away the smaller pieces of rubble as fast as she could.

“Dammit.” She caught sight of me. “Why are you just standing there? Help me.”

I nodded, falling to my knees. Bixby reached for a boulder bigger than a basketball, much too heavy to move on her own. I grabbed the other side, willing myself to be strong like Golden Strike. To be powerful. To—

“Stop! Stop!”

At the sound of Karen’s voice, I faltered. And Bixby—well, she did a lot more than just that. She spun around, murder in her eyes.

“What the fuck, Karen? Casey is in there. Not to mention your Mark. I know that you’re perfectly okay letting people die, but—”

“The fact that I am not okay letting people die is why you need to stop.”

“Every time you move one of those rocks, the ones above them shift,” Diego said from behind Karen. “Move that rock and you risk burying them alive.”

Bixby went pale.

And on the other side of the rubble, I heard a man let out a muffled scream. I jerked automatically but it hadn’t been Mark. It was—

“Casey!” Bixby hollered. “Don’t worry, we’re gonna get you out of there. We’re—”

But her words had no effect. Instead, Casey hollered again. I heard a dull thud from the other side.

On this side, more people were beginning to gather, including Gerry. He held his notebook in his hands, subconsciously running his fingers over the pages. I backed up a step, so I was standing next to him.

“Who’s Casey?” I asked.

“Part of Pod Three,” Gerry replied, jaw tight. “He and Bixby have…a relationship.”

I don’t know how Sam puts up with that. Karen’s words came back to me.

“He sounds like he’s having a nervous breakdown in there,” Karen in the present said.

“Not that I’d blame him,” Diego said, surveying the rocks. “How the hell are we going to get them out of there?”

I looked over the rubble, at the broken slabs of rocks, and felt my heart sink. It would make the most sense to more-or-less start on the top, and work our way down, but it didn’t take long for the size of the rocks to approach “too big to carry” mode, especially given how many people we could fit in what remained of that narrow hallway. From behind me, I could hear Chloe giggle, and I wondered how long she had been planning this. It appeared that she needed to set up those explosions in advance, and the one inside of Pod Two had been much larger than anything in the Big Room.

I paused, catching sight of something right at floor level, a gap that had been revealed thanks to the smaller rocks Bixby had removed. I crouched, ducking my head down even farther. There was a pretty sizable gap between the larger rocks. It led down several feet, and on the other side I caught sight of something flesh-colored.

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