The Age of Hysteria: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (The Age of Embers Book 2) by Ryan Schow

Author:Ryan Schow [Schow, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: River City Publishing
Published: 2019-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I think about putting Nasr and Kamal in the back seat. Then again, if we’re heading over to Xavier’s and there are a bunch of kids running around—plus Adeline and Eliana—it’s going to irritate me if I have to explain why I have two boys duct taped and zip-tied in the back seat of a purple muscle car that’s clearly seen better days.

So the trunk it is.

“I just want to say I have a problem with this,” Ice says as we’re heading over to Xavier’s house.

“Join the crowd,” I say.

“Serious, brother. This might be going too far.”

“First off, you told me to shoot Nasr back at the house,” I say. “Second, my kids are still gone. So between now and then, what changed?”

“I was trying to scare him,” he says. “I wasn’t really thinking you’d shoot him.”

“I might have if he tried to blow another bubble. But since I didn’t, I thought maybe I’d try to at least use a little common sense and not scare the women,” I tell him.

“So the trunk…” he says.

“Once we get done with Xavier, we’ll head back to my place, treat these little fellas with all the care and compassion a retired hitman like you could ask for.”

He nods his head, then shakes it, like he’s okay with what I said, but bothered that we’re in this situation in the first place.

Again, join the crowd.

“So what’s up with you and Eliana?” I ask. “It’s obvious she likes you. And she’s not exactly unattractive.”

“I like her,” he says.

“But?”

“There is no ‘but,’” he says. “You didn’t see what she went through, who she is when she’s got the proverbial gun to her head.”

“First off, I know what she does when she puts a gun to your head,” I say, remembering what she did just before we found Carolina. “Sergio Villarreal’s brains are still drying on the floors and walls inside his living room.”

Ice shrugs his shoulders, gives a slight chuckle I almost miss. “She’s from another world, Fire. You wouldn’t even have a clue about life south of the Mexican border. Hell, I don’t even know how bad it is down there. But I can tell you this, that girl has got some God-sized cajones doing what she did.”

“Which is what exactly?” I ask.

“Leave the only family or home she’s ever known to travel up the migrant lines into Juarez. It didn’t matter whether I was coming or not, she was after Carolina and come hell or high water, that girl was going to find her.”

“She’s lucky she wasn’t raped, or killed,” I say.

“The guys who did try to rape her? They’re every bit as dead as Sergio was when we left him there.”

“What?”

“She’s not the cute and cuddly type of girl you meet at the mall, or inside a Starbuck’s waiting for your Cappuccino, Fire. This girl will dig your heart out with a rusty spoon if she needs to and not think twice. We’re pampered here in America, protected from the world’s worst filth by cops and lawyers and judges.

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