Traitor: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series (Wasteland Book 2) by Devon C. Ford

Author:Devon C. Ford [Ford, Devon C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

Sure enough, the lawmen scuffed and banged inside the room, turning it upside down, until any place large enough for an adult to hide had been ruled out. Someone came along then and yelled at the searchers to do it all again, only properly this time, but the second round of searching took only a few minutes.

The biggest worry came when the hatch to the loft beneath them was pushed open, treating them to the colorful argument about who would get to climb into the dusty, spider-infested eaves to search.

The youngest and smallest among them was the lucky man. The noises they made launching him up into the loft threatened to make them both laugh, but the risk of discovery brought with it the very real prospect of a bullet in the back through the pitched roof they lay on.

The search of the loft was quick and filled with yelps of fright at sticky cobwebs. Soon all was quiet again.

“I need to tell you something,” Valentina whispered as they both looked up at the sky and the brooding clouds gathering to the west.

“What?”

“I really, really need to pee.”

Jaya slapped a hand over her mouth to stop her laughter. Maybe it was the stress, maybe it was the uncertainty about their future or the fact that they were lying on the roof of a building currently searched by armed, bumbling lawmen… maybe she was losing it.

“Me too,” she hissed back.

“If it rains… I’m just going to do it,” Valentina admitted.

“If the clouds come out of the west, peeing yourself is the least of your worries.”

Those words killed the mood. Valentina lay still, contemplating going back to sleep now that the adrenaline had worn off, but the painful cramp of her full bladder took that option away. So she just lay there doing nothing, letting her mind run riot.

“How did you know?” she asked Jaya after a while.

“How did I know what?”

“That they were coming. Did you hear them talking?” Valentina asked, genuinely curious about why one of the two people she didn’t trust fully was the one to know the dawn raid was happening.

“I heard noises. They didn’t sound right.”

“What do you mean?”

“They didn’t sound… natural. It was like… it was like the sound people make when they’re trying not to make a sound, you know?” she said, not sure if she was explaining herself well enough.

“I get that,” Valentina answered. “But how did that wake you up?”

“It didn’t. I was already awake.”

“After the week we’ve had, I’m amazed anyone would wake up early.”

“I’m used to it,” Jaya answered, but her next words were cut off by voices from below. Both women went still and silent to listen, but as much as she tried, Valentina couldn’t make out any words.

Without warning Jaya gasped and stood, stepping over Valentina to reach down for the roof’s edge before dropping out of sight.

What the fuck?

Valentina scrambled to the edge without caring who heard her. She leaned over to see two things. One was Jaya

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