Set Adrift: Shattered Dawn Book 3: (A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller) by Kenny Soward & Mike Kraus

Author:Kenny Soward & Mike Kraus [Soward, Kenny & Kraus, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2024-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Bob Summers, Coast of Georgia

“Dad, is Mary going to punch a Marine?”

“I don’t know, son.”

Mary marched toward midship where Gideon was talking to his Marines. Bob got up from his seated position to go after her, weaving through several groups of refugees who sat along the rail, their pale, disheartened faces glancing up as he went by. By the time he reached Mary and the Sergeant, they were already in a heated debate, Mary gesturing and shaking her head, Gideon with his arms folded over his ample chest, his fiery flat top leaning in as he looked down his nose at her.

While Mary stood several inches shorter than Gideon, her words sizzled and hissed against the Sergeant’s cold, stoic demeanor. “Sergeant, you need to turn this boat around and take me back.”

“That’s not going to happen,” Gideon replied coolly. “We have another destination.”

“Where are we going?”

“I can’t disclose that.”

“You can’t just take us where we don’t want to go. We’re United States citizens.”

“I have my orders,” the big Sergeant harrumphed. “I thought you’d be grateful for us plucking you out of the water.”

“I am grateful — we’re grateful, for everything you’ve done — but it doesn’t give you any right to transport us halfway up the United States coastline.”

“We’re not headed halfway up the coastline.”

“Then where are you taking us?”

“I can’t give you that information, so you might as well stop asking.”

Mary stood with her fists clenched to her sides, glaring from Gideon to the chuckling Private Strand, then back to Gideon again. Her chin was trembling, her tone laced with barely suppressed anger. “Well, can you take us to the closest shore? Just drop me off at the next spot of land, and I’ll go it alone from there.”

“That’s not happening either. You’re stuck on the ship until it stops. After that, you can do whatever you want.”

“But my husband’s back there!” Mary raised her right fist and transformed it into a skinny, bony finger, which she jabbed into the Sergeant’s chest. “He could be in trouble. He needs me.”

Strand reached around Gideon to grab Mary’s wrist and twist it backward. “Hands off the Sergeant.”

Mary twisted her body to go with her bending appendage. “Ow! You’re hurting me!”

Bob had been lingering a few steps behind Mary, waiting for a chance to intercede, finally sliding forward and circling Mary to intercede. “Private Strand, is that entirely necessary?”

Without letting go of Mary, Strand regarded Bob with cold eyes. “It is if she’s touching Sergeant Gideon. And you, sir... you need to return to your spot on the rail.”

“As soon as you let go of the lady, I will.”

“She struck an officer.”

“I get it, man,” Bob said, holding Mary by the elbow to keep his own anger from bubbling over. “You don’t want people disrespecting your Sergeant, but I’d hardly call that striking an officer. She’s barely half his size.”

“Doesn’t matter,” Strand said. “She shouldn’t be up here demanding things.”

“Look, she’s just upset because her husband’s back there on shore somewhere, probably dozens of miles behind us by now.

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