Vindicta by A.L. Masters

Author:A.L. Masters [Masters, A.L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2022-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

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“They won’t be here,” Storm said to Red as they eyed the destroyed armory.

Kate leaned on the Humvee they had parked at the gate, remembering the smiling face of the medic that had flirted with her…Starnes had been his name.

Did he get out? Did any of them?

“I’ve got to go in and check,” Storm uttered bleakly. “Make sure.”

“Storm—”

“Kate, I’ve got to.”

“Let me go instead. I didn’t know them as well. It’ll be easier for me.”

“I can’t allow that. It’s too dangerous, besides that, they might have left a message. You might not recognize it.”

“I’m going too,” Red said.

“And me,” Kate added. Storm started to object, but she crossed her arms. “I’m going.”

“You can’t run,” he said.

“I can if I have to.” She didn’t know that for sure, but he didn’t need to know that.

“Fine.”

They followed him back to the group that clustered around the convoy. They had a perimeter set up around the vehicles, but she was still nervous. Whatever had destroyed the existing barricades and broken through the armory windows had been massive. The destruction was complete.

If they were still around, their little group couldn’t hope to fight them off with only the few rounds of ammo they had left. They would have to run for it. Run for their lives.

It was a staggering contrast to the way they had left this place last time, as rescuers…the cavalry—so to speak.

Storm finished giving instructions to those remaining behind and she grabbed her extra magazines from her bag. She wasn’t taking it with her because she couldn’t handle the extra weight, especially if they had to run. She chugged some water and rebraided her hair.

Her leg ached, but that was all. The sharp pains had faded away, but the scars would be there forever.

Her body was full of scars already, and it hadn’t even been that long since the first day.

“Let’s go.”

They followed Storm through the gap in the gate and into the parking lot of the armory. The windows were jagged, black teeth in the cloudy day. Inside was gloomy and foreboding. Light penetrated the outer hallways and seemed to stop in the middle in an almost supernatural blackness.

They stopped first inside one of the exits.

She gazed at the wreckage and the stains splattering the walls and floor. The dead soldiers that lay nearby had died very violently in this spot. One was missing his head, and the other was nearly so. The flesh was putrefying and the sickly sweet rotting stench had her covering her nose.

She couldn’t identify them, and she didn’t want to.

Red swooped down and snagged a pair of dog tags. He swallowed and looked ill. “Starnes.”

Kate felt that name like a punch to the gut and she put a hand to her stomach. She couldn’t hold back the silent tears for the kind man that had helped her and made her first day a little easier and more comfortable.

Storm nodded stonily at her and she nodded back. Red searched for the other tags, but couldn’t find them.

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