Last Mayor Box Set: The Complete Post Apocalyptic Series - Books 1-9 by Michael John Grist

Author:Michael John Grist [Grist, Michael John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-14T23:00:00+00:00

5. DEFIANCE

Anna stared. He stared back defiantly.

She'd broken his throat then saved him, and maybe that was the mistake. It was done now, though, and he'd stuck a wedge into the crack that he would only pry further open.

He knew something. He wanted something. The ground had been well-laid, and asking him any further questions would be weakness now. To rage and flail would be just more displays of his power. She could threaten to kill him, but maybe then she'd never find out what he really wanted.

What did he want?

It didn't make sense. She tracked the night backwards, trying to grasp her arms around it. She'd picked him up outside the hangar near the RVs, but why would he ever go there if what he wanted was here? They didn't keep cell samples out by the Cessna. He'd climbed the ladder up to peer into the cockpit, for what? There was certainly nothing for him in there.

A hollow feeling opened up beneath her. He'd played her for some agenda she didn't know, and that made her angry.

"Ravi, can you fetch my wheelchair please?"

Ravi was watching her with wide eyes. He didn't get it, but that was fine.

"The wheelchair," she repeated, more softly now.

He nodded and started moving. Anna waited for his back to be turned, and made her next move. Sliding off the edge of the bench, she let her feet take her weight.

Oh dear God, that hurt; like icicles pushing deep into her heels. She almost buckled but held on to the bench. How many stitches had they used to sew her up, and how many now would need to be replaced?

It was worth it for the look on the man's face. She released the workbench edge. Sweat broke out on her forehead. She advanced on the intruder.

He could only watch her come.

"You'll tell it to me," she whispered, low enough for only him to hear. She leaned in and rested her fingers on his cheek. "What you're doing here, what you want, and do you know why?"

He stared at her, while Ravi was in the corridor outside struggling with the chair's parking brake.

"Because you're nothing. You're a comma in history, a footnote. Nobody would have cared if you'd died here. You're living on my mercy now, and if you want that mercy to go on, you'll tell me everything."

His lip lifted in a faint snarl. Anna wanted to laugh. How things changed.

Then her legs buckled and she barely caught herself.

"Anna, what are you doing?" Ravi called.

He rushed over with the wheelchair, took her arm and tried to guide her in, but she resisted. Just for another second, just a few more seconds of eye contact to fully sign, seal and deliver her message. Pain didn't matter. Loss and damage wouldn't stop her. At last the man on the bench looked away.

Anna wilted. She let Ravi fuss and guide her into the chair, then rush her out. They banged through the airlock door and out into the corridor with Ravi talking rapidly into his walkie.

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