Remnants (Fallen Earth Book 1) by Jason D. Morrow

Author:Jason D. Morrow [Morrow, Jason D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Henry immediately wanted to kick himself for going to the bathroom when he should have just stayed in the bedroom.

The thought came too late. It occurred to him as he was getting into the shower and closing the shower curtain around him, that a prisoner might be coming into the house to take a pee. The person walked down the hallway, then pushed open the bathroom door, and turned on the light. Henry held his breath, not daring to let it out of his lungs.

The trickle of urine into the toilet bowl seemed to last for ten minutes as Henry waited there, desperate for the prisoner to leave. It wasn’t that he was afraid of a fight, but he certainly didn’t want to attract the others and be surrounded by guns. He may have had a jumpsuit on under his hoodie and jeans, but that wouldn’t save him now.

Worse still, Henry didn’t have a gun. He was pretty sure Leland would jump in and try to help him if a fight did start, but would it be enough? He didn’t know what kind of gun this prisoner had in his hands. He had heard the clanking noise of the gun being set somewhere in the bathroom, and then he heard the noise of the man picking it back up. It seemed heavy, like a rifle or a shotgun, so if he lunged out of the shower he might have a chance before the man could swing his gun around. But if it was a pistol, the man could be quick or even accidentally fire it and kill him.

The man stood in front of the mirror for an unusually long time, or at least it felt that way. He didn’t wash his hands. Henry could hear him breathing. For a moment, he wondered if the man had heard him or at least sensed him in the same room and was too petrified to take action. Or the man was simply staring at himself in the mirror.

Finally, the man-made his way out of the bathroom, back up the hallway, to the screeching front door, and then closed it behind him. Henry let out a sigh of relief, his heart pounding, his head swimming from holding his breath for so long. He crept out into the hallway and back into Leland’s room where the sheriff was standing next to the bed, his eyes darting back-and-forth until finally resting on Henry.

“We need to get out of here,“ the sheriff said.

“Just what I was thinking.“

Leland held up a finger and went to the other side of the room and grabbed a pair of binoculars from his closet. Then the two of them slowly went back the way they had come, being sure to keep their eyes on the windows toward the front, counting the men outside. One. Two. Three. Four. Henry wanted to go to one of the windows and try to listen in on their conversation, to at least get an idea of what was going on in the town.

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