Surviving Sundown (Into the Dark Post-Apocalyptic EMP Thriller Book 2) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2018-05-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Holly stared into the hole in the ground that Harriet rested in and she’d never felt so low in her entire life.

The afternoon was dragging on. The sun had peaked, and now had disappeared mostly behind the clouds. They were well behind schedule. They’d put themselves behind schedule by visiting the medical centre, but now they were even more so.

And for what?

Harriet had died anyway. She’d died, and now she was gone, and all of them were behind.

She looked down at the ground as Harriet rested there. Gina and Kumal were by her side, both crying. First Benny, now Harriet. She’d managed to break down her inner boundaries and bond with Harriet. She didn’t think she liked her at first—didn’t think she could find a way to give her a chance because of how she acted with her.

But she’d broken past that idea of how Harriet was. She’d seen Harriet for how she really was, deep down. She was thoughtful. She was caring. Damaged, sure, but weren’t they all damaged now?

She hadn’t deserved this. Whatever had happened, she hadn’t deserved it.

She looked at Gina. Saw how she was just staring blankly down. It worried her, how Gina was acting. She was usually emotional and wore her heart on her sleeve. But she looked… broken. Like something had finally snapped inside her; something that’d been close to snapping for quite some time.

She’d have to keep an eye on her. She’d have to make sure she kept her cool, kept her composure.

She’d have to make sure she was okay.

“Are you ready, Holly?”

The second Holly heard her dad’s voice, her instinct was to recoil. She heard that niggling voice in her head blaming her dad for the fact Harriet had died.

But she knew that wasn’t true. It was the same destructive voice that had caused problems for her in the past in her relationship with her dad. The fact of the matter was, Dad had tried his best. He’d pushed past his comfort zone and gone into that medical centre solo. He didn’t have to do that, but he had.

And for that, she had to be grateful. They all had to be grateful.

Holly turned around and looked at her dad. She could see from the look in his eyes that he was beating himself up about this. But he was scared, too. Scared about those people—the people who he’d run into inside the medical centre.

Holly had seen them too, when she and the others had hidden from them as they passed by. She hadn’t heard them. She’d seen that they were armed. Only there was something different between this group and the prisoners they’d run into a few days ago. This group looked… organised, somehow. They didn’t look like scavengers.

They looked military.

She turned to the rest of the group. To Kumal, who taught her to give Harriet the benefit of the doubt in the first place. Then to Alison, Arya, Gina, and Richard. She looked at them all, saw their group sadness, and she found herself wanting to say something.

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