Lake, E.A - The No Where Apocalypse 04 - No Where by Lake E.A

Author:Lake, E.A [Lake, E.A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2016-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Day 1,161 - continued

I rose, expecting a flurry of gunfire to drop me in my place. But no one shot. That was a good sign, I figured. Peeking around the tree, I could see two men, perhaps 20 or 30 yards away, laughing at me. Probably not a great sign.

I inched around the tree into full view of our captors. “Shit,” I muttered. “Shit.”

There weren’t three of them. There were eight. Triple shit.

The two closest men slowly made their way towards me. “Where’s the girl?” one with a mouthful of brown teeth asked.

“Let’s talk,” I replied, holding my hands up. “Let’s just discuss this for a minute.”

“Or…” the man continued, smirking at his nearby friend. That one had long, stringy hair that looked like it hadn’t been washed in months and a beard that had probably never seen a pair of scissors. “Or, we can just kill you and take her. I don’t think we need to have any sort of discussion about this. Give us your damn packs and send the girl out.”

A pseudo-plan began to form inside my mind that might extend my time at least another 30 seconds, if I was lucky.

“If you kill me, she’ll shoot herself,” I replied, letting my hands slide down. “Then she’ll be no good to you.”

Watching their faces twist and turn, I noticed I had the leader’s attention.

“Okay, you got 10 seconds to state your case,” he said, eyeing me carefully. Okay, maybe I’d overestimated my remaining time.

“You can have our packs,” I said, noting his face go sour. “And…” his gun raised, “and I’ll give you my 45. How does that sound?”

His perturbed look remained unchanged. “We’re taking all that anyway, and the girl.” He stepped closer and took aim at me. “So get her out here and we’ll talk about you living.”

This wasn’t good. Of all the pickles I’d found myself in over the past four years, this one had all the appearances of my final stand. It looked like Violet and I were about to part ways.

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