A Tearful Reunion by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

“I want you to understand something,” Parker told Sarah when they found themselves alone at the back part of the bunker.

“Manson doesn’t speak for me when he says you ladies are to provide for us in every way.

“He doesn’t speak for all of the men either. Some of the men will expect you to perform sexual favors. Others won’t. My advice to you is to find one of the men who is decent and will not ask you to do anything you’re not comfortable with. Then convince him you’re falling for him. Make him think you’re in love with him and then he can tell the others to back off.”

“I’m not sure I can do that. I’m a married woman.”

“You mean a widow.”

“No. The men you killed were no relation to me. They were just friends.”

“Then where is your husband?”

“When the blackout happened we weren’t together. I flew here with my girls for a wedding. He stayed behind in San Antonio.”

It wasn’t a lie. Not technically, anyway.

And that was a good thing, for Sarah was a lousy liar. Unlike many people, she didn’t do it often enough to be good at it.

“You said girls. How many did you have?”

“Two. You’ve already met Lindsey. My youngest, Beth… she’s gone.”

Also not a lie.

Not technically, anyway.

“I’m sorry,” he said.

“What about Karen? What is that savage going to do to her?”

“See if you can get word to her. “Tell her not to fight his advances. If she fights him she’ll be beaten severely. He can be a very brutal man when he doesn’t get his way.”

“That’s a very difficult position to put her in, asking her to give in to him sexually to save her own life. What kind of animals are you men, anyway?”

Her anger subsided as quickly as it flared up.

“I’m sorry. I know you’re trying to help make a bad situation better. And I appreciate that you’re not going to force me into anything. But damn it, she’s my sister. I’ve got to do something to help her.”

“Then let me finish. And yes, I am trying to help.

“Do you have any liquor?”

“Yes. The Dykes have a pretty good stock of whiskey and tequila in the supply room.”

“The Dykes?”

“The men you massacred. They were all brothers. They were decent men, every one of them. They didn’t deserve to be murdered.”

“I won’t debate with you the morality of our attack on your bunker. I won’t ask for your forgiveness. I’ll just say the world is a vastly different place than it was two years ago.

“These days people take what they want at the end of a gun. In many ways we’re returned to the days of the wild wild west.

“The guy with the biggest gun and the most ammunition wins.

“Sorry to put it so bluntly, but that’s the way it is in the modern world.”

“I don’t like the so-called modern world you describe. And I’m not so sure I believe you either. There are decent men still out there. Good men. Men who accept that they have to make sacrifices and who try to help others.

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