Apocalypse by Erik Handy

Author:Erik Handy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: supernatural suspense, supernatural thriller, paranormal thriller, paranormal suspense
Publisher: Erik Handy
Published: 2018-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Calling out for Leigh elicited no response. He hoped for Jeremy’s sake that she wasn’t dead. D couldn’t let himself believe that Leigh would fall victim to Jeremy’s thrall. That woman was so hard-headed that she constantly infuriated him. He needed her stability. He had gone through life never knowing the next scene, as it were. With Leigh, the script wasn’t written, but at least it was outlined. There was a plan. D wasn’t the sort to flail about without focus.

You better be okay, he thought as he plunged into the darkness of the last apartment before Finnick’s – the girl across the hall’s.

He spared the girl a well-wish into the afterlife. He didn’t relish the idea of killing children, but these were bad times and even good people – decent, in my case – did bad things to survive. Here, D wasn’t only trying to survive, he was trying to stop the wholesale madness Jeremy unfurled. For all D knew, Jeremy’s influence spread throughout the entire city and beyond to a sleeping world.

No.

Jeremy wasn’t that powerful. If he was, why would he only dredge up a recent incident to try to stop D? Why wouldn’t he go further back, before Leigh, before D was D and had an actual name?

Because Jeremy Profera was stretched too thin. Yes, he was to be taken seriously, but the boy’s grip was slipping. D hoped breaking the mental bond slapped some wind from Jeremy’s sails.

Demon, human, whatever Jeremy was, he wasn’t the omniscient force he could have been.

This particular apartment was the same as the other six. Without their occupants, the collection of rooms didn’t feel like a home. They were shells crammed full of junk, items that might have sparked great memories or simply took up space. D thought it was fine for a wall to be bare. Sometimes a wall just had to be a wall.

D called out for Leigh again, bracing for a response, good or bad. He couldn’t hear much because the refrigerator ran loud.

D wondered where everyone went. Out to the streets to add to the chaos? D hoped the two women and girl he sent to safety were out of harm’s way, but he suspected they were anywhere but.

Maybe they would’ve been fine without me telling them what to do, D thought.

The refrigerator finally shut off. D could not only listen for tell-tale signs of activity, but also focus better. He feared his headache returning to haunt him, which would mean Jeremy was fucking with him again. So far, so good. No headache and no altered reality. This cramped apartment was as real as Life got.

He carefully swept through the place, didn’t find Leigh, and made his way back into the hall. He lowered his gun. His shoulder was getting sore.

The scene was so still, bringing to mind the similar atmosphere back at Eternal Light and further back on Michelle Latta’s front yard. D slowed his breathing, creating a calm of his own. His focus became even more honed.

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