Siege by Richard Murray

Author:Richard Murray [Murray, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2019-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I couldn’t help my irritation. The man was definitely not one for following rules, but even so, he would have to learn how to. I couldn’t spend my days telling everyone else they had to and then ignore his breaking of any rule he chose.

Part of the problem was that I could see the wildness in him. It had been growing since the earliest days when he had shed his thin veneer of civility and embraced the insanity of the battle for survival in the apocalypse.

For nearly two years that wildness had been allowed to grow and like Pandora with her box of all the world’s evils, I wasn’t sure that what had been let loose in the man I loved could ever be reined back in.

It was a problem that I wrestled with in the darker hours before the dawn, as I watched him sleep, wondering if the next day would be the one where he realised that a safe little island wasn’t for him.

But, I pushed that irritation to one side as we rushed back to the command centre, and I dragged my thoughts back to more immediate problems. It would be the best place to find out what had happened. At the door, the Admiral went in first and I was stopped by a hand on my arm.

“What?”

“If someone has broken through and come ashore, they will head for the power or water plants. I’ll take some of my people to the water plant.”

I stared at him a moment, not sure why he was telling me and then it dawned on me and I frowned at his grinning face.

“Yes, fine. I’ll radio ahead so you don’t get any problems.”

His grin widened and I leant in and planted a too brief kiss on his lips before pulling away. I ignored how Gregg rolled his eyes before he shared a smirk with Isaac.

“Send more people to the power plant,” Ryan instructed as he turned to leave. “And the food depots.”

Once again, I ignored that fact that he was issuing orders despite me being the one in charge and just shook my head before moving into the building.

Inside the main command room, electric heaters had been set up to provide some defence against the winter's chill. Techs hurried about or huddled over their terminals, hard at work. A couple of soldiers in the blue uniform of the CDF moved about, offering hot drinks and sandwiches.

Charlie, wheeled herself from one station to another, barking orders and issuing demands. She rarely left the command centre and had even set herself up with a small living area in one of the old offices.

She had reasoned that she had little real mobility and wasn’t interested in suffering the indignity of being carried up and down the stairs whenever she went out. Plus, she had her drones and those were her eyes, showing her the world in a way few others would ever see it.

So, she lived and worked in the old office building.

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