The Day After Never - Insurrection (Book 5) by Russell Blake

Author:Russell Blake [Blake, Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reprobatio, Ltd.
Published: 2017-04-13T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Lucas stood beside Ruby’s bed, moonlight filtering through the dusty window panes, and turned when he heard the door open. A young woman in a homemade dress cut from the same cloth as Mary’s entered carrying more damp towels, followed by Sylvia. The nurse offered Lucas a fatigued smile and motioned to her companion.

“Lucas, this is Rosemary. Mary’s daughter.”

Lucas nodded, and Rosemary mumbled a greeting. Sylvia yawned and eyed Lucas.

“I’m going back to sleep, since you’re up. You can show Rosemary what to do.”

Sylvia left, and Lucas gestured to Ruby’s shoulder. “We change the dressing every four hours and apply your mother’s salve. Now that we’ve got antibiotics, every six hours she’s to take one. She’s still got two more hours to go for the pills, but we can change the bandage now.”

“Sylvia told me. I can do it by myself.”

Lucas shrugged. “Suit yourself. She’s been out cold since she took the first pill.”

Rosemary moved to the bed and set the towels on the metal rolling table beside it, and then removed a clean cloth from the top of the pile and went to work. Lucas watched with approval as she cleaned and dressed the wound, applying a liberal helping of salve before pressing the towel into place and lightly wrapping it with the gauze from the previous dressing. When she was done, she stepped back to study her work.

Lucas considered the neat job appreciatively. “Thank your mom again for me, would you?”

“For what?”

“Mixing the ointment.”

“Oh. Sure. Whenever I see her.”

“You don’t live with your parents?”

“Yeah, I do. We just keep different hours, is all.”

“You help out at the store?”

“Sometimes. Although not lately. We haven’t been getting along real well, so I mostly do my own thing and they do theirs.”

“Are you still in school, Rosemary?”

That drew a musical laugh. “For what?”

Lucas felt color rising to his cheeks. “I guess there aren’t a lot of high-paying careers that require an education these days.”

“You can say that again. Especially stuck in this town. It sucks if you’re not old.”

“I’d imagine it does. Not a lot of excitement, I bet.”

“And very few even close to my age. Most everyone’s a codger.” She paused and looked away. “Not you, I mean.”

It was his turn to laugh. “It’s okay. When I was your age, I’d have thought I was ancient. Just the way things work.” He paused. “Hard to find a boyfriend, I’d guess.”

Rosemary blushed in the dim light. “My parents would keep me locked up till I’m thirty if they had their way.”

“I can see them wanting to be protective after everything that’s happened.”

“Oh, me too. But the one guy I kind of like, they want me to have nothing to do with. That leaves me without any options, unless I run off and join the tent people or something.”

“Like Ray?”

Her eyes widened. “You know him?”

“Sylvia told me he was your cousin.”

“Yeah. They don’t like him, either. We’re too good for everybody, apparently.”

“I didn’t get that from them.”

“You haven’t been here that

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