Advanced by Susanne Valenti

Author:Susanne Valenti [Valenti, Susanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Reese

It was hot. Like, burning river of lava, sweating my damn balls off hot. The sun beat down on us in a sea of blue sky that went on and on forever.

The hard hat and hi-vis vest Lacey had given me were not getting a look-in today. Neither were the steel toe-capped boots she’d presented me with last night. I mean, I appreciated the gesture and all; it’s always nice to know someone cares about you keeping all of your toes attached to your body, but no. Hell no. It was hot enough to scald a lizard today.

I’d burned my damn ass when I’d first taken my seat in the bulldozer; the black leather was practically bubbling where the sun had found its way in through a window. A window which did not open. At least it hadn’t until I’d thrown a rock through it. No air-con. I didn’t even know they made vehicles with no air-con. Oh sure, it’s damn well electric and solar enhanced and all that shit but no air-con. What the hell?

Sweat trickled down my back in a steady current and I could have sworn I was getting to the point where I was wiping my brow more often than I was breathing.

Our demolition team had doubled in numbers today thanks to Jason’s census. We now had a plumber and a HGV driver manning the machinery with us. They were as near to qualified for this shit as it was going to get and the additional help was definitely speeding up the process of clearing our new ‘dead zone’. Santos didn’t like my name for the barren area we were creating around our little town but I happened to think it was going to catch on. She’d bet me a hundred press-ups that I was wrong about that and I looked forward to watching her do them once everyone was using my term. Dead zone was a badass name. If you crossed into our dead zone you were... well, dead. Did exactly what it said on the tin. Who doesn’t like a name like that?

Water. Damn, water was so good. If there was one thing the ass-cheek-sticking weather made better it was the satisfaction of drinking a cold bottle of water. And we were getting through a hell of a lot of it. Spencer and Ryan had hauled a few big coolers filled with it down to the dead zone for us and I praised their names every time I took a swig.

I swung my bulldozer around, thankfully taking aim away from the cursed sun, and ploughed into my newest target. In my opinion, I’d snagged the best job. I got to do the smashing while plumber and driver-boy had the task of cleaning up the mess I’d left behind. No debris could be left in the dead zone if it was big enough to conceal anything approaching the town. Once this job was finished, we’d have to clear the rubble completely to make way for planting crops but the initial job was just to create a clear line of sight for the lookouts.

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