The Last Dawn: Horizons (The Last Dawn Series Book 3) by Richard C Hale

Author:Richard C Hale [Hale, Richard C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Thirty A.M. Publishing
Published: 2022-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Cori dreamed of a cool forest floor. The damp leaves sticking to her hair and the smell of earth and foliage strong in her nostrils. It was a good smell. A nice relaxing feeling of peace and tranquility.

Then a wave of nausea struck her like a wall of death. She sat up and vomited all over the floor next to her. She retched and retched for what seemed an eternity and then caught her breath as the wave of nausea subsided. She felt cool hands on her arms and thought Dak could even watch her throw up and still love her. She looked up and saw a face she didn’t recognize in the low light.

“Who…?”

But her voice failed her, and she coughed. She tried to pull away from the face and hands, but she was so weak. So weak.

“Take it easy,” a woman’s voice said in her ear. “You’ve been drugged. You’ll feel better tomorrow. Just rest.”

“Where am I?”

“You’re in his house. The basement.”

“Whose house?”

Then she remembered. Back at the airfield, Cori couldn’t get the picture of the boy out of her head. Nobody else seemed concerned by the fact that Trevor had not been truthful. That he wasn’t alone in the town. In fact, a little boy that appeared to be in bad shape roamed the streets and woods and claimed to have a mother that was with Trevor.

On the way back to the hangar, Cori had tried to argue with her dad and Dak that they needed to go back to Trevor’s and confront him. If he really did have some woman in his house, was she being held against her will? Or was she just a terrible mother who had abandoned her child for the only man left alive in town?

“It’s not our business,” Dak had said.

“The boy made it our business,” Cori said. “You heard him.”

“That’s the thing. I didn’t hear him. He spoke so softly that he could have said just about anything and I might have interpreted it differently.”

“But you didn’t. We all heard what he said, ‘He has my mom,’ right? That’s what I heard. And when I was back in the bathroom, I did hear something. I know it now. It was a voice, muffled and faint, shouting out.”

“You said it was the water heater.”

“Yes, that’s what made the most sense at the time because that’s what Trevor said it was.”

Then her memory became fuzzy. She had been tired. So tired. And so had everyone else. She had laid down on her pallet, and then…nothing. Until she woke from her pleasant dream and vomited all over the ground. Some hazy memories of a big man appearing in the hangar and somebody lifting her up and then floating. Floating away into nothingness.

Cori studied the woman in front of her more closely and felt like she should know her. Red hair, green eyes that were so beautiful they didn’t belong in these surroundings or with the sad face that held them, and a small and dainty nose that completed the face that most would call pretty.

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