Chaos and Survival : A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller by Ryan Westfield

Author:Ryan Westfield [Westfield, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

19

JACK

One of the guys was still out cold. The other was awake, and his eyes followed Jack’s every movement, waiting.

“You’re not going to kill us in cold blood, are you?” said the man.

Jack didn't answer. He hadn’t yet said a word to him.

Olivia was downstairs packing. He needed to get this over with to get down there and help her.

He gripped the knife tighter, imagining himself bending down and making the killing stroke.

“You planning on slitting my throat or stabbing me in the heart?” said the man, his expression impossible to read, his tone mysterious and distant.

Jack surveyed the scene. Blood was everywhere. His wife’s blood.

“Slitting your throat will be easiest,” said Jack, not sure why he was answering man.

“What a way to go...” said the man, longing and despair in his voice.

“You’re not going to manipulate me out of it,” said Jack. “It’s the only way out of this. You’ve got to pay for what you’ve done. Maybe you don’t understand what the world will become, but there won’t be any real justice for people like you.”

“I’d never dream of trying to manipulate you out of it,” said the man.

“Sure,” muttered Jack, not really listening. He felt the heft of the knife in his hand, balancing it, moving his hand up and down, getting a sense of it.

In his mind’s eye, he pictured how he’d do it. Grab the man’s head and face with one hand wrapped around, bring the knife across his neck quickly and forcefully with the other.

There’d be nothing to it.

Or so he told himself.

“It’s just like killing chickens,” he muttered to himself. “Or rabbits. It sucks. But somebody’s got to do it.”

He didn’t know where that line came from. Maybe from a movie or something. Or maybe from one of those videos he’d watched on how to raise chickens for food, something he’d never gotten around to himself.

“It’s not like killing a chicken,” said the man. “Trust me.”

“Why would I trust you? Look what you tried to do to my wife.”

“Exactly,” said the man. “I’m the shadow of you. The dark side. I’ll say the things that you people won’t. You all lie to yourselves. I’m honest in a way that you can’t be.”

“So, you’ve killed before? Is that what you’re saying?”

“Of course. And I can tell you haven’t. Just by the way you move. By the way you talk.”

Jack lifted an eyebrow.

“You’re not going to be able to do it,” he said. “It’s going to weigh you down too much. Merely the idea of it is killing you.”

“You’d be surprised,” said Jack. “Maybe I look like some kind of weakling to you, some typical suburban dad with a normal suburban office job… The house is in order, the wife and kids all have their activities. The only thing we’re missing is a family dog. But you’d be surprised. I’ve had to grit my teeth and get on with it more times than you can count. I’ve gone through more than you’d think from looking at me.

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