Ravaged An End of Days Novel

Chapter 5: Brittany & Sam: Dancing With Danger

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Brittany

Dancing with Danger

I was leaning up against the door of my car, on the phone with my contact who was back at our shop we called "The House". And while it technically wasn't an actual shop, it's what we called it.

It was one of those things, that we came to you, not the other way around—yet at this moment in time, I had to resist the urge to go there myself. Not like I couldn't since I was the leader, but this situation required my more immediate attention.

"It's all over the place now." I was telling the voice that I was speaking to on the other end of our phone call. "Even the news is eating this up. For fucks sake Vaughn, they said the Military was getting involved."

"This is disturbing indeed." Vaughn replied over the line. "We have to get ahead of this, before it spirals out."

"We may not get the chance." I told him gently. "The connections I'm seeing, are the same one the girls are seeing as well; they think and feel that Elizabeth is involved."

"They're trust their gut, or do they know?" He really pressed the question on me. "We know how they get—feeling wise."

"Convenience is something they're seeing, and when they add everything up so far, along with the mysterious visit with Liz and Liv, it's a little inauspicious if you ask me."

"It is," He agreed, but the way his tone was from all my years of knowing him, told me he wasn't convinced. "Yet the incident with Julian and Sophie—it cannot be overlooked." He paused.

"Hence why we're taking this path Vaughn." I stretched my neck from side to side. "I have a feeling that we missed something the first time I had the girls spilt."

"Is D there with Kait?" He asked not sure whether what we were hearing earlier about a runaway was true or not. "She's here. It's all a mess with her. She chose to not tell mother dearest, and now...were here." I exhaled a sigh. "Though, that relationship...."

"Was pure toxic." Vaughn finished for me. "And that's putting it lightly."

I wouldn't use that word" I chewed on my lip. "But what were you or anyone else able to find on this rave site?" I asked him to change the subject.

"You're not gonna like this," he said over the line, and I could hear him clear his throat. "This place you're at now," he said as I looked at the building before me. "It's the same one that Kait was at prior when she found D."

I let out a shrieking gasp. "You're fucking kidding me!?" I stared down the building again, trying to take its features in, and as I did everyone was watching. "Are you sure about that?" Typically, I wouldn't question Vaughn, but this...

This just didn't add up.

"I'm absolutely correct on this," He started. "And at the same time, I can't explain to you the why. It's like the past 48 hours have been drastically altered somehow, or someone managed to magically change what the place looked like in that timeframe."

Well, fuck, this wasn't good. Maybe the girls were on to something. Yet at the same time, how could someone get here faster than us? It took us at least an hour and half driving.

Were they using alternate methods to get around?

"Can you do me a solid?" I asked him, and when I said that, somehow Sam caught it, and looked up at me, our eyes meeting. She too could sense a change.