One Last Choice: An Atlantica Universe Adventure (John Chambers Book 3) by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle [Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649714190
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Doug Nevill was bored.

The apartment was basic by the best of standards. He paced the rooms like a caged lion and wondered, not for the first time, how long he would have to remain locked inside.

They had been kind to him and found a place to keep him protected from the monsters that hid in the city, but from the moment Valentina left the apartment, he couldn’t help but feel as though he was being watched. Which was insane, considering the windows were all boarded over, and only a few strands of daylight made it through the knots and cracks in the wood.

He didn’t have a TV, and there were no board games or puzzles to keep him occupied. The only thing the apartment boasted was a solitary bookshelf filled to the brim with books that had warped and swollen over time, each displaying yellowed and dog-eared pages from former readers.

Doug wasn’t a reader. He was a military man. He stuck to a schedule and kept moving. He was growing anxious at being stuck inside, and the more he was alone with his thoughts, the more he wondered about his sudden U-turn with Dick. He knew that his former best friend made sense, and perhaps it wasn’t Dick’s fault that they’d been separated for so long, but the scars on his legs, face, and body spoke, and they told a different tale—one of neglect and abandonment.

Doug sat on the couch. A minute later, he was back on his feet as he ran his hands through his hair. What was the alternative to being trapped in here? Admitting to the woman that he had betrayed them and now played for the other team? That would be a much worse fate, surely? He’d known many a murderer in his lifetime, and even the cruelest of killers tended to hold a hint of empathy in their eyes as they snuffed out the life of another living, breathing human. She didn’t have that. The ponytailed woman—who he had briefly mistaken Valentina for when they’d first met—looked at Sadie with cold, dead eyes. She killed for sport, and that concerned Doug.

How long would he last out there, away from The Red Countess’ protection? How many hours or days would he have before he ate a bullet and joined the list of obituaries?

Surely it was better than this.

Doug wandered to the bookshelf and picked out a leatherback tome. Gold lettering read Moby Dick. He made it through the first page, then hurled the book across the room. His next read was Paradise Lost. He made it through three pages before dumping the tome on the floor. Twenty minutes later, he couldn’t walk for books and pages.

Doug sighed and was about to find his way back to the couch, contemplating taking a nap when there came the faintest of thuds in the other room. There were four rooms in the apartment: the living room, the kitchen, a single bedroom, and a bathroom. He was certain something stirred in the bedroom.

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