They Invaded: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival (Zero Power Book 3) by Max Lockwood

Author:Max Lockwood [Lockwood, Max]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The meeting dragged on for what Clara felt was longer than it really needed to.

Even with how much the world had changed, bureaucracy never died. Instead of picking out the finer points of the plan, people ended up arguing about a bunch of useless points, and it had made Clara so mad she'd almost shouted at them again.

But, she had held back. The last thing she wanted was to offend anyone and let the process get dragged along any further. It took a few voices of reason every time someone broke off on a different tangent, or else the effort would have taken even longer than it did in the end.

They did get to a resolution, though, at least. Not everyone was happy, but no one else had a better idea. At least, at the end, she managed to convince everyone that by not doing anything at all would simply kill them faster. They might have a chance by resisting. Slim, but they couldn’t just ignore it when the opportunity was there.

Clara arrived home and gathered her family again in the living room. Cooper sat beside her instead of picking a different seat, and she had to admit it made something in her chest ease up a bit. Whatever he'd thought of her before, he didn’t hate her now because she was changing. He would just have to get used to it, because she didn’t plan on going back to how she was before, not with what was at stake.

A lot was going to change again, drastically, she could feel it. Clara wondered how she could prepare her family for this, but she didn’t think there was a way. There wasn’t even much of a choice in this; change would come to them if they didn’t move first, and that was the one thing she wasn’t willing to let happen.

"What happened?" Viola asked once they were all settled and no one else was saying anything.

Tessa for once sat silently and was paying attention. Cooper moved a little closer, and Clara gave into temptation, leaning back into the touch.

"We had a meeting, a lot of people showed up. Well, there were a lot of arguments, but I think everyone is on board with the plan."

"And that is?" Tessa snapped impatiently.

Clara sighed. She had already worried her family enough, but she was going to have to continue doing it.

"I want to take a stand to protect the community," she told them seriously. "The whole town is going to chip in, and this will hopefully give us an edge. We're still waiting to hear back from the police about what they think of all of this, but it is their job to help us."

It was their duty to help, but considering the weight of the problem, they would be stretched thin. They hadn't hesitated before, even if they'd only sent a handful of police officers and some guns so that it was mostly members of the neighborhood fighting for their homes.

They would have to step up their game.

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