The Haven by Eliza Green

Author:Eliza Green [Green, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eliza Green Books
Published: 2019-12-04T22:00:00+00:00

21

Dom

Due to the drama of the visiting orb, nobody except Dom noticed three trucks approach the mountain pass high above the valley. It was how he and the others had arrived—by truck along a cliffside road that avoided the anti-magnetic barriers covering the valley bed. He’d been too out of it to notice much, but a quick flash of the sheer drop and the crisp, clean air had alerted him to their height.

One by one, the trucks disappeared into the cliff face inside a service elevator big enough to carry the trucks down to the valley. The wall surrounding the camp, as tall as half a house, blocked the view of the exit at the bottom. A flurry of activity told him the trucks had been spotted.

Dom heard one soldier shout, ‘Turn off the anti-magnetic field and get Max!’

A minute later, the sound of tyres kicking up gravel followed. Soldiers manning the gate wheeled it back. Max marched out of the town hall, taking long strides to the gate.

He looked relieved as he waved the three trucks in and followed the last one to the grassy verge where the trucks parked.

These must be the rebels Max had been waiting on from another town.

Dom stood back as soldiers not much older than him, dressed in green, camouflage gear and heavy, black boots, got out. Then he saw Kaylie: a girl from his past with whom he’d been intimate once. She had long, blonde hair drawn back into a ponytail and a beauty that rivalled Sheila’s.

The male soldiers took a second and third look when she got out of the truck and walked over to a waiting Max. Dom remembered Kaylie as being shallow and vain, a person who had been shocked by his scars when she’d seen them by accident. He hadn’t stuck around after their night together to wait for her verdict on them.

She shook Max’s outstretched hand with the confidence of someone who commanded her own team of rebels. It was like she was a completely different person.

‘We’re here to help,’ she said to Max. ‘Where do you need us?’

‘We’ve just had an orb from the city breach our defences.’

Kaylie nodded, not shocked or disturbed by this news, as Dom would have expected her to be. He stared at this new, confident version of the girl he’d left behind in one of the camps. Maybe he’d pegged her all wrong.

‘Things are under control, for now,’ said Max. ‘Your team should eat something, and after I’ll get you up to speed. We’re working on a project to prevent more orbs from breaching our defences.’

Kaylie nodded and Max waved Dom forward from where he stood, out of Kaylie’s line of sight. ‘You remember Dom Pavesi?’

Even with her back to him, Dom caught the stiffening of Kaylie’s shoulders. The name had surprised her. She turned slow enough so as to wipe her expression clean.

‘Dom,’ she said with a friendly smile. ‘It’s been a long time.’

She shook his hand—it was a slow pump, as though she was working this all out.

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