Frozen Collapse: Book 8 of the Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series: (The Long Fall - Book 8) by Logan Keys & Mike Kraus

Author:Logan Keys & Mike Kraus [Keys, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2018-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

“Where is Rex?”

Bentley asked in the early morning and Colton froze.

Had he seen the dog since last night’s storm?

“He must have…” Rufus and Colton exchanged a frightened look.

“I let him out last night,” Colton said, heart sinking. “Into the storm. He’s so self sufficient I didn’t ever think he’d run off.”

The children panicked, as did Colton and Rufus. Rex was like a part of their family now. They spent an entire precious hour searching, when they needed to be on their way.

They found nothing. No trace.

Finally Colton pressed them to move on. “He will sniff us out. Trust me. He knows how to find us.”

No one was happy about it. Colton felt tremendous guilt over how he let the dog out…into a storm. Without thinking.

Colton and Rufus and the children made their way back to the crash site of the plane. It was not far from where they'd stayed overnight, hiding from the storm. Now, they had to pass by it again, only, since they were on foot this time, they could simply walk around it. Besides, they didn't want to be on that side road again anyway since those people could be waiting for them to steal the kids again.

Benton held onto Colton's hand. He was terrified still, and Lily held Benton's. When they approached the plane, it was eerily quiet and like a giant grave instead of a road. Colton tried not to look too closely at the debris, because when he did, he pictured a piece of a rib cage here and a foot bone or skull in another spot. At least, he hoped he was imagining it. Mostly, he kept the kids busy looking elsewhere, and no one stared at any one spot for overlong.

They picked their way through quickly but on the other side, Colton and Rufus were met with a strange sight. "What in the world?" Rufus asked.

"I'm not even sure what's going on,” Colton said.

The road right after the airplane had cars on either side, wrecked or pulled over. The highway looked fine, the roads were still in service, so it wasn't that.

"A tornado maybe?" Rufus asked.

"No. Nothing looks ripped up." Other than the plane, everything on the road or near it was normal. The cars should have had no problem driving if they turned back from the crash site.

Rufus shrugged and as they got clots he covered his nose. "Wow, do you smell that? something died on this road. That’s for sure.”

Colton's heartbeat picked up beats as he caught a whiff of what Rufus was smelling. "Or a lot of somethings."

He lifted Lily up and told her. "Put your face into my shoulder, sweetheart. Benton, don't look inside any of the cars."

"What? Why?" the boy whined clinging to his hand for dear life.

"Just keep walking, guys."

They did but it was clear that the smell was going to be unbearable until they got clear of that area. The deceased that had pulled over, lay dead inside their vehicles, blue faces in each seemed to be staring right at Colton.

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