Reapers Mist: Third in the Reaper Trilogy by Justin Gowland Read Online Free

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    “That’s great did you get some food for Ghost?”
    “Yeah the store had three big bags that should last a couple of weeks.” I replied.
    “Did you get to talk to the new people? Becky says they are good folks, but I wanted to hear what you had to say.”
    “Jacob and his son Chris seem to be nice enough, only time will tell what kind of people they are.” I said.
    “Well, get out of here I am cooking and dinner should be ready in about ten minutes.” She said.
    I gave her a parting kiss and walked back out into the café. Rees was having a deep conversation with Mary and I could see her smile every now and again. That made me smile; I had never seen Rees chase after a woman so much. Mind you, to tell the truth this might have been the first time since I have known him that he has actively done it. Usually you would see him with a different woman each week in the clubs when we were in the Army. But now looking at him and the way he looked at Mary, apart from her being the only single female old enough. I think he may have fallen for her; I would have to talk to Maddie she would know. I mean after all she is our mother of sorts and the soul of the group.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Three
     
    I went to the urns and got my usual tea and sat down to watch people talk and started to feel a sense of community. Derek came in with Christine they looked round the room and Derek saw me and headed over with Christine in tow.
    “Hi Jay, is Maddie still making dinner?” She asked.
    “Yeah, she’s still in there.” I replied.
    “I’ll go give her a hand.” With that she gave Derek a small peck on the cheek and went into the kitchen.
    “Is it ok to sit down?” Derek asked.
    “Help yourself. Derek, I was surprised to see how much of the pistol range you got done!” I said.
    He pulled out a chair and sat down like he was exhausted and said “I did as much as I could today, and getting the soil for what do you call it, the backstop? That took the longest the rest is just a timber frame to hold it back.”
    “Yes, it’s called a backstop. You didn’t have to rush getting set up so quickly.” I replied.
    He lifted a hand to rub the side of his face and sighed.
    “Look, Derek you should have taken your time we didn’t expect you to have anything finished for at least a few days. We don’t expect anyone to push themselves to the point of exhaustion. How about you take the day off tomorrow, sleep in and lounge round.” I said.
    “Is that going to be a problem?” He said.
    “Of course it isn’t going to be a problem. I am sure we can handle things without you for a day.” I said with a smile.
    He nodded, got up and moved off to talk with Jacob and his son.
    Marc came bounding down the stairs with a grin on his face with wet hair and Becky came down after him at a statelier pace. I did notice that she had her hair tied up and was still wet. I covered my mouth with my hand and smiled. (Yeah, dirty thoughts abound, but he is my brother and that’s just wrong.)
    Becky came over and sat down in the chair that Derek had just left. She looked at me and said “So find anything today?”
    I told her about the church and the bodies, her face went white and then you could see hardness in her eyes. I couldn’t blame her that was the second time since this all began that we saw something like that. It still didn’t make what happened any more palatable. In society we had gone to members of the cloth of guidance and when society collapsed and people went to them and asked for that guidance they led them in the wrong direction.
    “So apart from that we checked on the boat that Simon had used, it’s grounded and the hull is probably fucked.” I said finishing off.
    “Well, you know we had a good run and came back with more survivors, but I guess you want to know more than just that?” She said smiling.
    “It would be nice.” I said.
    “Funny. Anyway, we left here and managed to get