EMP:The Reckoning: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Story (The Fall Book 3) by Mathews Mark

Author:Mathews,Mark [Mathews,Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Phoenix Books
Published: 2016-09-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It felt like the night was crushing them. Silence enveloped them as they drove. Garrett barely was paying attention to what was going on around him because his mind was back at the factory with Wren. He was fully aware of the fact that Wren could be gone by the time they got back, and there would be nothing he could do about it. That thought stabbed deep into his heart. He had feelings for her, that much he knew. He was falling in love with her, and that was true, too. But he still was a little up in the air about whether he should be with Wren or Alice. Alice had told him he could be with Wren, and he had believed her at the time. Now, he wasn’t so sure. A rabbit ran out across the road, and he slammed on the brakes. It was a good thing that he and Nat had their seat belts on. It jerked him out of his reverie about Wren, but the pain in his heart didn’t go away.

Nat was thinking about his own problems when Garrett slammed on the brakes, and it sort of woke him up, but the thoughts didn’t go away. Guilt ate at his very core. Nat couldn’t believe he’d let Alice and Seth down like that. He’d been a coward. What if he got to be a father at some point in his life? What if he acted the same way? His child deserved better than that. Seth had deserved better than that, too. That poor little baby had depended on him to protect him from the evil in the world, and Nat had failed. He’d given Seth to Austin to save his own skin, and guilt was heaped on top of more guilt for not only letting down the baby, but also Alice and Garrett. He could feel his mother’s accusing eyes on him, even though she never said a word to him about it. He knew his mother, and she was disappointed in him. She didn’t have to say it, he just knew. It felt like someone had punched him in the gut, and now he was curling up around the wound.

“Are you okay?”

Nat was vaguely aware that Garrett was talking to him. He snapped himself out of his daze. He tried composing his face into one that looked like he was just tired, rather than trying to tear himself apart on the inside.

“Um, yeah. I’m good.”

His voice sounded wooden, hollow. It made Garrett look at him with a sidelong glance. Damn it. He’d failed. The look that Garrett was giving him right now made him aware that he hadn’t been able to pull it off after all. Or Garrett just was really good at reading people. It was one of the two, or maybe even both, but Nat couldn’t change the fact now that he’d failed at hiding his true feelings.

“What’s going on?”

That was a loaded question, and not one that Nat wanted to talk about.

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