The City Burns: A Prepper's Struggle for The Truth (8 page)

Brett and Twink laughed. Jim saw Samantha and Annie in a jeep in the distance. He stood for a moment, then decided to walk over. Samantha saw him coming and she met him in the middle before he got all the way over to the jeep. Jim looked back into the jeep and saw Annie staring blankly into Tigs who sat on her lap. “How’s she doing?” he asked.

“Not good,” she said. The words came out icy, cold.

Samantha stood there with her arms crossed, with bits of caked mud on her face and shirt stained with her husband’s blood.

“I know why you did it,” she said.

Jim stood there silently.

“I’ll be able to forgive you one day. Just not now,” she said.

Jim simply nodded without response. Samantha turned and went back to her daughter. As Jim watched her walk away he’d thought about all he’d lost. He lost his home in San Diego. He lost his family in the desert. He’d been shot at and beaten bloody by people who wanted to hurt him. Now he had only one thing left.

He only had one thought on his mind. He was going to find the people behind this. He would hunt them down and make sure they’d pay. He was going to make them feel what he felt and God help anyone that got in his way.