Too Tough to Tame: Red: Book 2 by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2015-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

A little east, two days’ walk from Red’s location, lie the sleepy little town of Morgan, Texas. It was nothing more than a way stop, really, with a mom and pop service station and a run-down motel for the occasional vacationer or trucker who was too tired to go on to the next city.

Since the blackout there was no longer a need for the gas station or the tiny grocery it contained in the back room. Its shelves once consisted mostly of soda and snacks, a few magazines and maps, and three different brands of motor oil.

The snacks were all gone now, and the mom and pop, Beth and Milam Sanders, had gone into retirement mode.

There was simply nothing for them to do, once the cars and trucks stopped rolling.

Oh, she tended to her garden and he to his cows, and they visited with any travelers who happened by on horseback or on foot.

They’d been pretty lucky, in that the marauders had pretty much left them alone. They figured the old codgers were of no use to them. She was too old to rape, and fresh beef wasn’t much good if they had to take the time to slaughter and cook it. Maybe later on, after all the trucks were depleted. But for the foreseeable future, there was still plenty of beef jerky and Cheetos on the abandoned tractor trailers to get the marauders by.

So they let the Sanders live. Not because the marauders were kind or gracious, but because there simply wasn’t much to gain by killing them.

Then the Dykes brothers came along.

The Dykes were twins, Danny and Billy, who were bad news even before the blackout happened. The product of a drug dealer father and a spaced out junkie mom, they never really had a chance. In and out of Juvenile Hall throughout their youth, they graduated to the big time when they stole a car and used it to rob a convenience store at sixteen. While most kids their age were struggling with algebra and world history, the Dykes twins were wielding guns and striking terror into the hearts of innocent people.

Their lousy sense of timing finally did them in.

They’d cased out the convenience store two days before and deemed it to be an easy lick. No cameras, so silent alarms, a solitary clerk on duty after the hours of darkness.

But they didn’t know the day after their visit a van marked “Alarms R Us” pulled up in the lot to install a brand new state of the art surveillance system.

A detective recognized their faces immediately. He had an extensive selection of mugshots to compare them with.

The Dykes brothers served time in separate prisons a thousand miles apart, communicating only by an occasional letter, scrawled in barely legible handwriting by brothers who’d never really learned to write.

Danny served six years, and Billy served eight. Because Billy was the one brandishing the weapon that fateful night.

After they got out, they stumbled around from town to town, doing the only thing they ever really learned how to do: steal.

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