Sudden Darkness: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Thriller by Alex Knightly

Author:Alex Knightly [Knightly, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-05T22:00:00+00:00

Clive

Clive couldn’t sleep. Everything was falling apart and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it.

He’d walked away. He’d talked the talk about how much he loved the force and helping people. But when it came down to it… He shook his head. He wasn’t thinking about old Charles Mackintosh now. He was thinking about the general public. Couldn’t he have gone down to the local police station to see if they needed a hand? Hadn’t it always been about the greater good than about any one person?

All the resentment he’d felt when they’d pulled him off the more challenging assignments… They’d been right. His dedication to the job had vanished when Livvy’s illness came to a head.

As much as she needed him, he’d be lost without her. She’d been his rock for so many years; always encouraging him and never asking for anything in return.

Olivia stirred beside him and he sighed.

He’d tried. He’d tried harder to convince her than he’d ever tried to convince anyone of anything, but it was no use.

All he’d succeeded in doing was giving her an anxiety attack once she understood the severity of what was happening. She didn’t want to leave her flat and that was the end of it.

He hadn’t told her the part about the army. He wasn’t sure he believed that himself.

Even so, she’d been on the verge of hysteria. He hated seeing her like that—his cool, calm, collected wife. She’d been an A&E nurse—the best there was. That made it even harder to see her like this.

His wife; his rock. She hadn’t left the flat in more than a year—he doubted she ever would again.

And she’s only fifty-five, he reminded himself. Younger than me.

That was the cruel part of it. Partly he blamed himself. They should never have bought that big house. There was only the two of them. But that’s all anyone had ever talked about: moving up the ladder; investing in a buy-to-let to provide income in retirement. They’d both been on good money—the bank was only too eager to give them a second mortgage to buy the flat when the mortgage on the house in Hampstead alone was sky-high. it had been manageable when they had two incomes coming in to pay the bills.

When Livvy stopped working, they’d had no choice but to sell the house and move into the flat. Clive couldn’t afford the mortgage on his own—especially now that he wasn’t able to work as much overtime—and the rent on the flat barely covered that mortgage.

He laughed sadly in the pitch darkness. He had no attachment to this place. Cycling north would have been a sound plan if things were different. He would have happily agreed to trade a few days of high risk for months of uncertainty.

He glanced over at Livvy’s sleeping form. He’d given her diazepam to help her sleep. As much as he hated giving her those drugs, she’d been so anxious he knew she wouldn’t get to sleep on her own.

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