Smoke from the Ashes by William W. Johnstone

Author:William W. Johnstone [Johnstone, William W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-04T03:25:10+00:00

CHAPTER 6

He was pointed out to Tina, and as she drew nearer to the young man, she had to smile. This, then, was what her adopted father had looked like as a young man.

Buddy glanced up as the officer approached him. He stood up. New to this, he didn’t know whether to salute or not.

“Relax,” Tina told him. “I’m your sister, Tina Raines.”

Buddy smiled and held out his hand. She shook it. Brother and sister stood for a moment, looking at each other.

“The general adopted me, long years ago,” Tina said, clearing up any doubts that might be lingering in Buddy’s mind. “When I was just a little girl.”

“Where is the general?”

“Getting ready for a meeting tomorrow. I … don’t think he’s quite ready, yet, to meet you. It was quite a shock for him.”

Buddy smiled. “Yes, I bet it was. He send you up to check on me?”

“Yes. And to bring you to meet him tomorrow morning.”

“Well … what do I call you? Captain? What?”

“Tina will do. Or sis,” she added, smiling.

The young man and young woman put their arms around each other. Both of them began to softly weep.

“Sounds good to me, Ashley,” his men told him. “It’ll be an easy shot from this spot.” He punched a dirty finger at the map spread out on a table.

“With Ben Raines out of the picture,” Ashley said, “the Rebels will be completely demoralized and frozen in their tracks. They won’t know what to do. I want all of our troops ready to go at my command. The women and kids and old people in front of the point teams. Just as soon as Ben and Big Louie go down, move out and hit the bastards with everything we’ve got. Remember this: The first strike is going to be the most important one. And once we start, we cannot, we must not, stop our momentum. All right, men, move out and get your snipers in position. Good luck to you all.”

The field commanders moved out quickly. Night was fast approaching, and the men had to be briefed and the gunmen in position before dawn. All the field commanders of Big Louie’s army were smiling, one thought uppermost in their minds: It would be such a relief to get that idiot Louie dead and in the ground.

Why Ashley had put up with the silly prick was something that none could understand.

If they could pull this off, the entire United States could easily be theirs for the taking.

And Ashley had promised them all the women they could ever crave.

When the command post had emptied, Ashley sat down and propped his highly polished boots-shined by a slave, certainly not by Ashley-up on a table. He smiled, thinking that he really wished he could be the one to line up Ben Raines in the cross hairs of the scope and pull the trigger. He would like to see the expression on Ben Raines’s face as the bullet struck him in the center of the chest, exploding his heart.

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