Fall of Houston Series | Book 2 | No Other Choice by Payne T.L

Author:Payne, T.L. [Payne, T.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival | Thriller
Published: 2021-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Isabella

Day Six

Between the heat and the pain in her arm, Isabella was quite irritable as she sat across from Stephens. She couldn’t help but notice her nails were neat and trimmed, nothing like the mess hers had become. The woman’s hair was clean, and there weren’t dark circles and bags under her eyes. Isabella hadn’t bothered to look in a mirror in days. Her vision was a little blurry due to her swollen eyelids. It seemed that once she’d allowed the tears to begin to flow, the pain and grief over everything that had occurred during the last few days had all come rushing out at once.

She’d been numb for the first few days. It was too much to process, all the death and the fear for her safety. Isabella had just started accepting the fact that things may take time to get back to normal but certainly hadn’t yet reached the point that she could begin looking toward the future. She’d seemed stuck in a moment-by-moment survival mode. Witnessing the brutality that had taken Kevin’s life had been her wake-up call. If she was to survive, she had to snap out of her fog and do something. She refused to be a victim. She refused to let anything like that happen to anyone else she cared about either.

Isabella studied the CIA analyst as she shuffled papers from one folder to another. She imagined she’d had a rough time in the male-dominated CIA. She must be fairly important to be working on such a crucial investigation. Thwarting a foreign insurgency and invasion couldn’t be easy. They’d want their best on the job, right?

After several hours of answering the woman’s questions, Isabella started getting pissed. She understood that Stephens was just trying to understand the incident with Kim, but how was answering the same questions twenty times remotely helpful? Isabella could smell the woman’s fear. That is what had her so freaked out. She was with the government. She was here, surrounded by sexy soldiers carrying guns. Yet Stephens was more afraid than Isabella had been out there on the streets. Stephens had to know something awful to have her so rattled.

“You can ask me a hundred times and I’ll still have the same answer. I never saw Kim hide anything. She didn’t tell me anything. I know nothing that can help you. I never for a moment suspected her and Betley of working together. I want to help you, Ms. Stephens. I do. But I can’t.”

“Let’s retrace your steps one more time,” Stephens said.

“No!” Isabella spat. “No. I’ve told you all I remember.”

“I keep asking to jog your memory. You could recall something new.”

She didn’t want to recall any more details about their time out there. She tried to forget the look in the crazy woman’s eyes as she lunged for her and sank her hands into Isabella’s hair. She needed to forget about the girl and her brother from the bar and the man they’d left dying in the middle of the street.

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