The Trouble on Highway One by Anne McClane

Author:Anne McClane [McClane, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, Romance
ISBN: 9780997779424
Publisher: McClane Fiction, LLC
Published: 2018-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

19

Lacey couldn’t comprehend the sight in front of her. There was road, and there were cars, but they were stopped. A little further ahead, the top of a building appeared where it shouldn’t be. It looked like it was rising out of the road.

She looked at the time on her phone. Had it really only been less than forty minutes since she and Eli “sheltered in place” on the bench at the resort?

They had parted ways once they felt the worst was over. Eli had said there was no way to be sure, but she had Ambrose to look after, and Eli wanted to check in with the management, to see if they needed assistance.

Just a few minutes later, Eli called, asking for her help. He told her to change into long pants and closed-toe shoes and said he’d pick her up at her cabin in five minutes.

Ambrose seemed unfazed by all the shaking. She let him out, changed clothes, and righted a few items that had toppled on the kitchen counter. Everything else in her cabin seemed in order.

She walked outside the front door, and saw Eli approaching in a truck. When he stopped, Lacey hustled over to the passenger side and let herself in.

He began driving before she had fastened her seatbelt. “The earthquake took out a building,” he said.

“Oh my god! Here at the resort? Is everyone okay?” Lacey felt her heart in her throat.

“No, not here. Everyone I encountered was okay. At least, no one was physically harmed. The building is a little further south from here. It was an older apartment building, I was told.”

Eli had spent much of the drive talking about earthquake building codes. She wasn’t very interested in it, and almost wished he’d revisit his more personal stories, but couldn’t think of a good way to ask, “Could you please tell me more about your dead brother, instead?”

Also, his driving made her nervous, for reasons she couldn’t quite explain. Eli, so sedate in most ways, was the same behind the wheel. Cool, measured, calculating. But Lacey couldn’t help but think that he might just calculate that driving the car off a cliff would be the most appropriate course of action at any time.

As they approached the building, Eli pulled the truck off the highway. In the distance, there was what looked like it was once a three-story building, collapsed on one side. The roof was canted at a hard angle, crushing the collapsed side, and pointing up into the open air above the non-collapsed side.

There were other apartment buildings around it, and fast food restaurants and strip mall establishments across the street, but none of them seemed any worse for wear.

She let Eli lead the way. “All these other building we’re seeing should be evacuated by now.”

They made it to the perimeter of the scene, flanked with first responder vehicles and a van with a satellite atop. A handful of civilian types watched, phones at the ready.

Lacey paid close attention to the paramedics.

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