The McClane Apocalypse Book Eight by Kate Morris

Author:Kate Morris [Morris, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Ranger Publishing
Published: 2017-12-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Cory

Two days into their stay at Fort Knox, Cory is ready to pack their shit and head home to the farm, but Doc is in the middle of some work in the research lab with the CDC doctors and isn’t ready to leave. Cory’s going out of his mind with boredom and wants to be back on the farm, or more importantly, back on the road searching for those dickhead highwaymen.

Yesterday, they heard over Robert’s radio that Reagan had her baby, to which they’d all celebrated. Doc, however, had been upset that he wasn’t there, but Reagan had assured him and the rest of them that she and the baby are doing fine. To Cory, she’d seemed happy, which is not an emotion that Reagan exhibits often.

It makes him think about having kids. He likes to tease Paige about having kids with her, but Cory sure isn’t ready for such a responsibility just yet. Just getting her to bend to his will and marry him someday is proving a difficult task.

“Oh, yes, it’ll work. You’ll see,” Parker is saying to her as they walk along a narrow corridor in a dorm-style building.

“I don’t see how that’ll be possible,” Paige argues. “People aren’t going to want to live like this forever. If they could develop their own land and farms around the area, you’d have a more productive community.”

“Doc was saying last night that some of the people in Pleasant View are considering moving right outside the town and starting their own farm. It would be a possibility for your settlement to barter livestock and produce with them in exchange for whatever it is that you might have to trade in return,” Cory says to them. He is walking behind them, and Derek has taken Doc to the research clinic again. Derek has also been shadowing Robert McClane for the last few days learning everything he can about the fort and their way of life here. From what he told him and Doc and Paige last night after he’d tagged along with Robert all day yesterday was that it seems more and more like a socialist model than anything else. They even keep the food and weapons under lock and key and armed guards. People are being fed rations right now, too, since their food is still growing, and they don’t have too much in the way of livestock and have had to hunt for meat. Cory doesn’t like the changes he’s seen on the base. The people of their town don’t run Pleasant View like this. The only thing that is community-driven is their security. The sheriff has deputies, and they train new men and women to act as sentries and outriders. It helps to keep the place safe, but they don’t have community gardens or a shared reserve of food that is kept locked up. Anything that is shared is either bartered or given away because it is not needed by that family.

Their town has been generous and

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