The Battle: Alone: Book 4 by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Dave’s worries about whether the men of the compound had survived the onslaught weren’t unfounded. He’d hoped that the reason he hadn’t seen Tommy or any of the other men was because they were locked up in a room inside the farm house. If Dave was able to find them and free them, they’d make instant reinforcements and could help him clean the scourge from the compound.

Swain, when his head wasn’t clouded by the drugs he was taking, was a fairly good strategist. The battle to take the farmhouse had resulted in Tommy’s death, as well as his daughter’s and another man who worked for Tommy at the time of the blackout.

But the good guys hadn’t suffered the only casualties. Eight of Swain’s men had died during the vicious battle as well.

After the farm was overrun, all the residents were taken hostage and held at gunpoint while Swain decided what he wanted to do with them.

He’d determined that the men were liabilities that he didn’t need to undertake.

There had been three of them left. Tommy’s brother Mike happened to be visiting from Orlando when the lights went out. Two of Tommy and Karen’s neighbors had been part of Tommy’s plan from the beginning. They were invited to join Tommy and Karen’s family whenever the stuff hit the fan. Both were married and childless, and the addition of four additional adults meant enhanced security and more people to help with hunting and gathering and crop production.

Of course, nobody foresaw the prison break. If they had, Tommy would have invited several other friends to join him in his compound, and would have focused more on the security aspect of prepping. He hadn’t expected to face a small army of hardened criminals. Tommy’s worst case scenario involved nightly invasions by looters one or two at a time.

Swain wanted to send two messages. One was to the hostages. He wanted to give them a very real sense that they should fear for their very lives, each and every day.

The other was to his own men. There had been a couple of them who’d deserted in the heat of battle and lit out for parts unknown. Swain wanted the rest to know that he was absolutely ruthless.

To drive home both points, Swain gathered everyone in the large den on the farm house’s first floor.

The men were tied to dining room chairs in the center of the room, with guns pointed at their heads.

The women and children were seated on the couches, their hands tied behind their backs, two men standing over them with rifles.

Swain drew his handgun and calmly walked over to the three men and shot each of them in the head as the women and children screamed in terror.

Two of the three slumped down in their chairs, their deaths instantaneous.

The third and last of them fell over, still tied to his chair, his blood pooling onto the hardwood floor and his legs kicking wildly in nervous response to the assault.

Swain kicked the other two chairs over as well.

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