Betrayed: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (The Long Dark Book 5) by Kevin Partner

Author:Kevin Partner [Partner, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribbleit
Published: 2024-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Solly

Solly would have avoided Louisville if it hadn't been for the fact that one of the locations for the radio booster was on top of PNC Tower. He bitterly regretted not paying more attention when McBride had handed over the list but, especially given the events at Cincinnati, he felt more obliged than ever to fulfill his mission.

Was he being driven by guilt at having escaped from the firebomb at the gas station when the others hadn't? Probably. He saw that expanding ball of orange plasma every time he closed his eyes. And he saw the momentary fear on the face of fake Pastor Fisher when he realized that Solly was no longer the man he'd met all those months ago. But he couldn't find it in his heart to regret that at all. Fisher had been prepared to see others lose their lives on his mission while he observed from a safe distance. Although it didn't turn out to be that safe, after all.

No, he couldn't get beyond the explosion that Fisher and, as it transpired, the Lee Corporation had caused. It comforted him little that, by tackling Fisher, many of the women who'd have been consumed in the fire had been drawn away and had, therefore, survived. One Lee Corporation operative had made it within the defensive circle, and that had been enough.

Solly had contacted Wright-Patterson when he'd set up the next relay on I-71 between Cincinnati and Louisville. He'd been patched through to Colonel McBride, who was setting up a new base in Cincinnati and overseeing the ceremonies for the dead. After the explosion, Solly and the others had spent the night hidden in an underground parking lot before circling back to survey the devastation. He'd known there was no chance of any of the soldiers surviving. The explosion had rocked the Humvee, even though it was a couple of hundred yards away at the time. The gas station was a blackened pile of twisted and molten metal. There was no trace of Bryant or his team, or any of the attackers. They'd been consumed in that instant of combustion.

So, they'd headed south to resume their mission and Solly's mind had spent the time flitting between sadness, guilt and fear for what the events of that night meant for the country as a whole. The Lee Corporation was strong in the Northwest and Northeast, around its two power bases of Seattle and New York. Its sphere of influence extended into Pennsylvania and it was making an attempt to grab control of DC, but farther out it didn't have the resources, yet, to take over, so it sent its operatives out to prepare the ground for expansion by creating chaos as communities tried to come together. Solly ground his teeth in anger. Was there really nothing Lee Corp wouldn't sink to in their dash for domination over the American people?

He'd felt better once he'd been able to give his report to McBride. Truth to tell, the colonel

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