Exigent Matters: an EMP survival story (The Off Grid Survivor Book 2) by Connor Mccoy

Author:Connor Mccoy [Mccoy, Connor]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-10-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

In the moment when Conrad laid eyes on Sarah, it seemed time had snapped backward three decades. No, it spiraled backward even longer than that. For a moment, Conrad saw a vision of a young Sarah Sandoval in her twenties flashing before his eyes, and it wasn’t hard to see why. While the woman standing before him showed her age, with her graying hair and deepening skin under her eyes, her cheeks remained smooth and her body was fit. Conrad even forgot that they weren’t married any longer. The divorce somehow had disappeared in the limbo of pleasant memory.

Sarah seemed just as awed by his presence. Conrad didn’t doubt she never expected to see him again. Was she astonished that, despite their acrimonious parting, that he had come to save her? Perhaps she was amazed to see his face again at all.

Conrad remembered words from their past. “So, what do you think, Sarah? A nice house out in the countryside, a place to open the front doors and let the breeze in without sucking in car fumes?”

Sarah would laugh in response. “Sounds like the hillbilly in you is coming out again. Sounds great for a week, Conrad, but I wouldn’t want to live out there.”

“Hillbilly.” It was Sarah’s nickname for Conrad, due to his background. At first, Conrad took it with good humor. After all, Conrad couldn’t deny his home was rustic, and that his family was rambunctious, even uncivilized. However, in time, it started grating on him. Perhaps it was one of the early signs that things were going south for the two of them.

Still, in the thirty years after they split, Conrad sometimes had wished to hear Sarah’s hillbilly jibes again.

“Conrad!” Tom shouted. “Sarah! C’mon, get your asses in gear! Why are you standing around?”

Sarah shook, as if Tom’s voice had pulled her out of a deep mental limbo. “Tom?” She turned around, finally getting a good view of Tom. “Tom!”

Tom nodded while letting out a laugh. “C’mon, Sarah! We’re getting you all out of here!”

Tom’s call also had caught the attention of the other nine women. By now, Conrad himself had returned to reality. He waved toward Tom while shouting, “Run, ladies! Run to that man over there! Go!”

Some of the captives already were rushing toward Tom. Conrad’s call provided the needed motivation for the rest to hurry. Conrad, however, wasn’t ready to bail just yet. He reached down and snatched a rifle from one of the men he had taken out with a taser.

Sarah remained. “Conrad?”

“We’ll need some firepower.” Conrad stood up with the rifle. “God knows how many men will be on our tail.” Then he pushed the weapon into her hands. “Take it. Go, now!” Sarah nodded as Conrad hurried to the henchman Tom had taken out with his weapon.

“Alright,” she said. She turned and fled toward Tom’s position.

Conrad’s instincts told him to flee, but there was one more downed man to relieve of his gun, the one he had shot. They’d need all the firepower they could gather just to make it out of Redmond.

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