The Ancient Storm (The Scourge Book 3) by Phil Maxey

Author:Phil Maxey [Maxey, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-07T22:00:00+00:00

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The lobby of the hotel was ablaze with candles, lighting the twenty by twenty space. Candleholders of various designs were perched on the long wooden counter, which greeted guests as they arrived, on the chestnut-colored bureau, near the glass entrance doors, and peppered around the small tables which sat between the low-backed chairs off to one side.

The air was smoky and Max and Bill were stifling coughs. Around them, in a few rows of chairs which were arranged in a circle, sat everyone they knew and a good number they didn’t.

To their surprise, it was Joel that started the meeting off.

“Chad has asked us all here, because he wants us to come up with a plan as to how we’re going to stop this town from being taken by Copeland.”

“No offence, Joel. But I’m the most senior military officer here. And I already have a plan,” said Carla, resting on one of the three columns that stood within the large room.

Joel went to respond, but Holland held his hand up. “Let the chick speak. Go on.”

Carla ignored the reference to her as a baby bird, and smiled. “Copeland wants hybrids and the other Alkrons.”

“Alkrons?” said Rachel.

“In the corporation that’s what we call the different scourge types. The most common are the vamps that ended everything. Most of the human population would have become them and Copeland can control them. That’s his thing, his ability… well and he can fly, but mostly it’s controlling the basic vamps.”

Max, as well as the other scientists, raised his eyebrows.

“It would seem you were much further along with your understanding of the—”

Holland frowned at Max. “Later old-timer, right now I want to hear the plan.” He looked back at Carla. “So, how do we stop him?”

She took out some simple pull-out maps of the local area, opened one up, and placed it on the large coffee table at the center of the surrounding low-backed chairs. She then took a pen from her jacket pocket and drew a large ring around the town. “So that’s roughly where the fence is, correct?” She looked at Art who nodded.

Holland leaned back. “If this plan is just build a bigger fence—”

“No, it’s the opposite. The area you have to defend is too big. At least, you would have to match whatever number of forces he comes at you with, and trust me, it will be a lot. There’s a whole lot of vamps eager to follow whatever he tells them to do. He attacked Haven with—”

Joel looked up at her. “How do you know about Haven?”

Her eyes briefly met his then returned to the map. “Because I was there. So trying to defend all that area, you’ll lose before the battle even begins.”

Holland looked at her. “This is where you tell me how we win, right?”

She pointed to a complex of buildings beyond the boundary of the town. “That place is how we win.”

Holland looked at Art then Boyd. “I ain’t going back to that place.”

“It’s a high-security prison. Multiple layers of fencing and walls.

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