Salvation by Stephanie Tyler

Author:Stephanie Tyler [Tyler, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Hours later, the rain was a dull pound on the earth above them and the thunder had stopped rumbling.

“Sounds like the storm’s gone. We just need to stay put until Keller confirms it,” Bishop said. There had been the hourly knocks at their door from the guards, and they were due for one again soon.

They’d only heard that giant tank-like roar a few more times, and each time, Bishop had visibly tensed. She knew he was AWOL—to hear the men talk about it, there were more men out of the military than in at this point.

Now, she asked him, “If that is the military...will Keller turn you in? Does he even know you’re AWOL?”

“No idea if he knows. But he’d turn anyone in if it benefitted him the most.”

“Maybe they’re not even keeping records. They probably don’t care.”

Bishop stared at her. “I was good, Luna. They’d want me back. Mathias too, but I’d never let them know where he is.”

Finally, she asked the question that neither of them wanted to say out loud. “Suppose they’ve already gone through Defiance?”

“We’re going to have to find a way to figure out if that’s happening.”

“So this has never happened before?”

“No. Then again, we haven’t had a storm this bad since I’ve been here. This could be a regular thing.”

“So what, Keller’s got the military in his pocket?” she asked.

“It makes sense, if Keller’s supporting a lot of the government’s plans,” he murmured. She knew which plans he was talking about too—the ones that brought Jessa to Defiance, in a roundabout way. The ones that had the president ordering the extermination of certain areas he deemed “trouble.”

It was only because of what Jessa knew, and promised to keep secret, that Defiance was off the list. Victor had been involved, but whether or not Keller knew...

“Keller knows everything,” Bishop said, as if reading her mind. They’d obviously gone to the same place while thinking about this possible military intervention happening above ground. “There’s no way he wouldn’t be in on this. Victor would need his help, his okay.”

She rubbed her arms. “Will we ever not be helpless?”

“We’re not, Luna. Not really. We just have to be smart about it.” He gave her a small smile. “Let’s concentrate on finding out about Defiance.”

He got out of bed, pulled on a pair of shorts and went into one of the cabinets. He came out with a SAT phone-like device, punched in a few numbers, then replaced the phone.

She got dressed as well, unable to stop thinking about the myriad of possibilities that a military presence brought with it these days.

There had always been rumors about the military coming through different towns, sweeping people away. She’d heard members of Defiance come back after long trips, post-Chaos, talking about stumbling upon ghost towns. They always seemed freaked out about that, because these were towns that had made it through the Chaos, that had appeared to be thriving. Places that had aligned themselves with Defiance.

Had the military

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