Resist the Darkness: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Survive the Darkness Book 3) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2021-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Aoife saw the man crouching over the trough and right away, she recognised him.

It might be dark and murky in here, other than that horrible bright artificial lamp shining down in the middle of the room. And he might be blindfolded. Gagged.

But she recognised him.

Recognised the shape of his body. The way the right side of his ribcage protruded just a little more than was natural.

She recognised the birthmark on the back of his neck.

And she recognised the way he shook when he was scared, too.

There was absolutely no doubt about it.

This man was her ex-husband.

This man was the man who’d broken her heart.

This man was Jason.

She stood there and watched as Max walked over to him. She couldn’t take her eyes off Jason, not for a second. She could hear Christopher saying things, going through that self-pitying bullshit again and again and again.

But she didn’t hear the content of his words. Not anymore.

She could only see Jason, kneeling there.

And she could only feel the conflicting emotions surging through her body.

Anger.

Anger towards him for what he’d done to her.

Anger towards him for being a sick, twisted pervert.

Anger towards him for making her feel like she wasn’t strong enough to get over him, even after everything he’d done.

And there was something else, too. Flashes of memories that she couldn’t force out of her mind even though they were tainted with the stains of what he’d done.

Covered with the sticky, greasy fingerprints of his sordid, twisted secrets.

The memories of being in the woods with him, camping, cooking sausages over a fire and ending up with food poisoning. Brutal and horrible at the time, but something they looked back on with such amusement. Such happiness.

Or the day he proposed in New York, on top of the Empire State Building. Cheesy as hell, and cliche as hell. Probably the ninetieth marriage proposal of the day up there.

But still, the sweetness of it. The happiness she’d felt.

The happiest moment of her life.

And then the other memory.

The dark memory, like a cloud above her.

A memory she tried to suppress.

A memory she fought against, even to this day.

A memory the drink suffocated.

Soon after she’d caught him masturbating over indecent images of children, and soon after she’d sworn she didn’t want to see his face again, she’d started feeling sick in the morning. She’d started peeing a lot. Started feeling exhausted and snappy. Throw in a missed period, and the signs were looking pretty clear.

And as much as she tried to ignore the symptoms and the signals, she couldn’t run away from them forever.

She remembered sitting in her bathroom, preparing to pee on that pregnancy test, and knowing already what the result was going to be. It was like God was fucking with her. Like he was throwing just one final spanner in the works. One final thing for her to deal with.

She couldn’t keep it. She knew that. She couldn’t look a kid in the eyes and know he was the offspring of that monster.

But at the same time… she didn’t want to get rid of it.

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