UKD2: UK Dark Series Book 2 by Chris Harris

Author:Chris Harris [Harris, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DHP Publishing
Published: 2017-06-19T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Inside the vehicle, Jon motioned for me to come up to the front and sit beside him. Squeezing my shoulder, he said, “Thanks for trusting me and agreeing to do this. Because of Private Eddy’s injury I’ve had to change some of my plans and bring the rest forward. But to be fair, I think I’ve seen enough of your group and what you’ve achieved to realise that your model is about as good as it can get. If the decision makers back at the base can get their answers straight from you, it’ll speed up the whole process and we’ll be able to start saving lives sooner rather than later.”

“Apart from Jerry and Private Eddy, who else is coming back with us?”

“I’ve tried to keep our numbers as low as possible. I wanted to leave as many men behind as possible to help keep your people safe. Apart from the drivers, including the gunners up top, there are ten soldiers in all, twelve if you count us old guys,” he said, pointing to us both. “Those with less serious injuries are coming as well. They’ll still need medical attention, and as I’m bringing your only doctor with us, they had to be included really. Oh, and I’ve invited all the advisors along and surprisingly, they’ve all agreed with alacrity. They all insisted on staying to start with, but then it suddenly occurred to them that they urgently needed to get back to start ‘advising’ their bosses.” Chuckling, he added, “And I didn’t want to leave them behind to start annoying young Captain Wales about what he should or shouldn’t be doing. None of them enjoyed what they experienced today, and between you and me, one or two of them had a few little accidents when they were sheltering in their bullet, bomb and fire-proof armoured car and we were all out there dealing with the situation. But I suppose that’s why we chose to be soldiers and they chose to sit behind desks in Whitehall.

As long as everything goes to plan and we can maintain our current speed, it should only take about four hours to get to the base.”

“Four hours! Are we that close?” I exclaimed.

He laughed and said, “Before the event, you could have driven from here to Scotland in four hours and it would probably have taken just over an hour to get to the base. You’re already thinking like someone who relies on walking to get everywhere.”

Smiling, I agreed, and we talked about how our outlooks and perceptions had changed. I told Jon about my old Land Rover, and how I hadn’t felt the need to use it yet, particularly because of the risks. I explained how in the early days I’d found another Land Rover, managed to get it running, and used it to move Jerry, his family and his supplies into our road so that they could live with us.

Things had ended in tragedy when some of the residents of our road

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