Supernova EMP Series (Book 2): Deep End by Hamilton Grace

Author:Hamilton, Grace [Hamilton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP
Published: 2020-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

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The firing was coming from behind them.

Josh and the others ducked as the first ranks of people running from city hall went down in a welter of bullets. Bodies splashed down in their own blood as the machine gun rounds chewed into them. Josh couldn’t help noticing the blissful expressions on some of the dead as they went down, as if they were happy to be released from their torment. Such was the rush of people from the building that the next wave began tripping and falling over the bodies of their dead and dying compatriots.

Josh and his men found their own weapons and set to firing into the crowd of attackers. The city-hallers began to scatter, running back up Bull Street and around the corners out of sight.

It was all over in twenty seconds, and a terrible silence descended that was only punctuated by the sounds of boots thumping over the hood of one of the wrecked vehicles in the barricade.

“Are you guys crazy? Don’t you know coming out here in daylight is going to get you killed?” The voice was female and sounded like it had lived a thousand lifetimes already. It belonged to a thick-set woman who was nearly as tall as Josh. She looked to be in her mid-forties, with thick blond hair tied back in a rag. Her face was streaked with dirt and dust, and her clothes—denim shirt and pants stuffed into the tops of tan leather cowboy boots—had all seen better days.

“No, don’t answer that,” she said, holding up her hand. “Of course, you didn’t know. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have done it.”

She’d been followed over the barricade by a man who appeared to be in his thirties, just as dusty and crumpled as the woman. He had a beard you could hide a rat in and was slinging an AR-15 by its strap over his shoulders. He walked stiffly past Josh and the woman to the straggling line of people who’d been shot. Those who were still alive, he dispatched quickly and cleanly with a Beretta pulled from a leg holster.

“We can’t leave them alive,” the woman responded to the look of distaste on Josh’s face. “They try to attack again. They crawl after us. If you don’t finish them off, then when they can’t get at you, you just hear them sobbing all night. It’s… kinder this way.”

Josh shook his head and sighed. The woman had spoken so matter-of-factly, as if she were reeling off a shopping list or what she wanted to watch on the tube that night. “I understand. It’s just…”

Josh didn’t get any further, as he was interrupted by Timothy groaning, resting his hands on an overturned SUV and suddenly vomiting copiously, only just avoiding his shoes with the spatter.

“It got me like that the first time,” the woman said to Timothy.

Timothy nodded as he retched.

Her name was Jayce Barker, and the man was Elvis Mandle. Once Jayce had gotten over laughing, like she said she did every time

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