Primal Shift: Volume 1 (A Post Apocalyptic Thriller) by Hayes Griffin

Author:Hayes, Griffin [Hayes, Griffin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: survival fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, apocalypse, Thriller, dystopian
Publisher: Trebor Books
Published: 2013-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Finn

Interstate 15, NV

At the first sight of the car headlights creeping up behind him, Finn sat up so fast his spine made a cracking sound. The windows were fogged over. All he could see was the diffused yellow glow from a pair of high beams.

When the approaching car slowed down and pulled alongside him, his already racing heart really started to gallop. The vehicle was unlike any he’d seen before; a black minivan with tinted windows and encased in a protective metal cage. Whoever this was, they came prepared and sure as hell meant business. The metal pipe was resting on the passenger seat next to him. He grabbed it and opened the door, a sheet of rain water rolling off the roof and onto his left shoulder as he did so. A man with a prominent belly that bounced up and down as he ran came toward him, and it was only as the guy emerged from the rain that Finn relaxed his grip on the pipe.

“I didn't expect to see you here, Lou.”

Lou was holding the brim of his baseball cap as though that would block any of the fat drops exploding like tiny water balloons.

“I ain't never seen anything like it,” he said glancing up briefly, his almost feminine eyelashes dancing as he blinked away the watery assault. “You mind if I come in and talk to you for a minute?”

“Sure thing. Mi Casa, Su Casa, Lou,” Finn said, waving him in.

Lou got in the passenger side, pulled the door shut, and ran a hand over his face. “We weren't sure we’d find you at all. Just saw a speck of red in the distance before your tail lights went off. Visibility was so poor I didn’t want to risk rear ending some piece of crap Buick left in the middle of the road.”

“I take it Ethan’s in the car with you?”

Lou nodded.

“Sounded like you were dead set against the idea of coming to Salt Lake City. Why the change of heart?”

His eyes fell to his lap. Beads of rain water dripped from his brow, and Finn wondered if it might be sweat.

“My brother-in-law, Philip, didn’t make it.”

“I’m sorry to hear that, really I am.”

“After what happened at the grocery store, I couldn’t lie to myself anymore. Staying in Vegas didn’t make a lick of sense no more. We left the others. Said they were ready to defend their property from looters and groups of those ... savages, but none of them have a kid to look after.”

“And your wife?”

Lou snapped the dripping baseball cap off his head and rung it out at his feet. “She didn’t make it.”

“I’m afraid the world doesn’t go easy on someone ‘cause they’re having a bad day,” Finn said, feeling like Lou was trying to build up the courage to say something. “Trying to find some kind of meaning in all of this is liable to drive a man insane.”

That seemed to stir something deep inside Lou. “We were in the backyard, drinking beers and playing volleyball in the pool, when it happened.

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