Wake Me After the Apocalypse by Jordan Rivet

Author:Jordan Rivet [Rivet, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Joanna was out the door in a flash. She stared wildly around the mining complex. Someone had been here. While she was down in the bunker or busy organizing supplies in the shaft house, someone had walked into her lair and stolen the weapons.

Fear bubbled in her stomach, oozing like oil. She was going to vomit. Someone had discovered her little hideout.

And the only things they took were the guns.

It couldn’t be her BRP cohort, liberated from the bunker through the other mineshaft. They would make contact, not creep in while she was underground to steal her stuff. They weren’t even her rifles, really. She hadn’t touched them since she made a home out of the vine-covered office.

She shuddered. This strange someone must have been watching her. They had waited until she was down in the bunker to sneak into her camp. She spun around, fighting panic, searching for some sign of her visitors.

The mine complex was quiet. Noon sunshine spilled across the greenery, which looked as fresh and untainted as ever. It was supposed to be her peaceful Garden of Eden at the beginning of a new world. So much for that.

A soft rustle made her jump for cover behind a moss-covered rubble heap, but it was only the wind hissing through the tall grass. She was alone.

Joanna crouched on the ground, her mind racing. Could her mysterious intruders be from a different BRP bunker? Would they have had time to make it this far? All the countdowns were supposed to end at the same time, and they were all supposed to remain near their own bunkers at first. She wanted to believe everyone would stick to the program rules, but she couldn’t deny that some cohorts might have rejected the guidelines already. Colonel Waters had certainly thought it likely.

Or had some people survived the comet’s impact after all? Perhaps the abandoned mining complex wasn’t representative of the rest of the country. Maybe the earth was already filled, already subdued. The virgin landscape she’d found upon waking could be an illusion. She had only seen this tiny corner of the world so far.

Hands shaking, Joanna hoisted her travel pack onto her back and crept out of hiding. She knew what to do. She would walk to the other mineshaft as planned. The idea of strolling into the wild filled her with terror, but she had to know if anyone had made it out of her own bunker—and she had to know now. She might need backup.

Joanna returned to the shaft house, trying to look in every direction at once, and retrieved her pickaxe. Whoever was out there was armed and potentially hostile. She wasn’t about to march into the wilderness empty-handed. When she went back outside, she closed the shaft house doors and piled a few branches in front of them. The obstruction wouldn’t keep intruders away from her supplies, but if it moved she would know someone had come back into camp in her absence.

Joanna took a deep breath and set out from the mineshaft, heading due east.

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