Black Ice (After the Shift Book 3) by Grace Hamilton

Author:Grace Hamilton [Hamilton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-09T22:00:00+00:00

Only three A1s had made it away from the roadblock.

Thirty minutes later, while Nathan and the others were planning their next move, what was left of the military presence in the area scythed up through arcs of snow and came to a stop nearby. The vehicles were built for nine soldiers each, but both had a wounded tenth laying on the cargo plate over its rear axle. Both injured men were in a bad way, blood seeping from gunshot damage beneath battlefield wound packs.

Toothill herself had been winged in the top of her arm; luckily, it was just a deep scrape, but one that had made a bloody mess of her ragged uniform. As she climbed out of the A1, a medic was trying to run a bandage around the wound.

“We don’t have the capacity to escort you, as we have to get these injured men to Denver stat, but I strongly recommend you follow us at your own pace. There’s a FEMA camp there where you’ll be safe and sheltered.”

The thought that flashed across Nathan’s mind just then was that hanging out with the government anywhere right now was a recipe for getting yourself shot. “Thanks for the advice, but we’re heading much further south than Denver.”

“Suit yourself,” Toothill answered as the medic finished her bandage, “but this is not the first time we’ve come under sniper fire, or attack. There are people out there who don’t want a return to a lawful country.”

“We know. We saw it in the north. It’s why we’re keeping away from cities where we can. Robber barons taking over, running cities like mafia gangs and cartels. Little men thinking they’re Bond villains.” Nathan stopped himself from going further, remembering that he’d used an alias for a reason with Toothill, and it wouldn’t do to be giving her any ancillary information that might link the party to Detroit and Brant.

She nodded, and replied, “There are people out there who have had a taste of power, and they’re not going to let it go easily. What’s left of the structure of the government and the military is doing what it can to help in Denver, but there’s few of us, and as you can see from today, there are people out there who want there to be fewer still. Be wary, Mr. Grieves. Be very wary, indeed.”

The lieutenant shook Nathan’s hand, then turned to her men.

“Okay, move out!”

Toothill got back into the lead A1 and the unit shhhhhsed and bumped away along the highway.

When the military vehicles had finished clearing the Toyota and the Ford, Nathan could see there were thick splashes of soldiers’ blood in the snow surrounding them.

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