After The Apocalypse Season 1 Box Set [Books 1-3] by Hately Warren

Author:Hately, Warren [Hately, Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2019-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

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THE SERVERS STARTED bringing in food, which triggered the remaining guests making for their seats. Tom stepped past Wilhelm to make sure he was next to Lucas, with Lilianna on Luke’s other side. They swapped a familiar smile and Tom noted several tactical pin-up boards behind his daughter pushed to the back of the room bearing paperwork covered in scrawled marker pen and rough diagrams.

“You didn’t really think you were going to keep this story to yourself, did you, dad?”

Tom lit his gaze back on Lila while Lucas finished his second glass of juice.

“He didn’t have to name me in the paper,” Tom said.

“But it was the truth, wasn’t it?” she replied. “Isn’t that what you would do?”

“Yeah,” Tom shrugged. “You’re such a staunch supporter of local journalism, maybe you really are working the wrong job, huh?”

It was meant as indulgent sarcasm. Lilianna countered with a negligent shrug of her own, carefully designed just to irritate him and honed through years of practice.

“Why do you think I went there in the first place?”

The answer forced Tom’s mouth shut. He knew better than to inflame a thought bubble by giving it air. Instead, he switched attention to Lucas and ruffled the boy’s hair as the youngster smacked his lips appreciatively as he drank a whole glass of juice.

“Go easy there, hey buster?”

“Are you saying we shouldn’t get while the getting’s good, dad?”

“Na, I’m saying don’t piss your pants at the dinner table and ruin the family name.”

Lucas giggled at the joke delivered straight, but Tom felt Luke’s sister’s eyes still on him as she rested her chin on her fists, elbows on the table’s edge further along from him.

“Any other incidents you want to tell us about while you’re at it, dad?”

Social discomfort put Tom in the mood for sarcasm, but he had to close his mouth fast for the second time, remembering his hijinks armed with the longbow earlier in the day.

“I killed a biter today, actually,” he said.

The much-redacted admission was good enough to feel true. Lucas dropped his beaming smile at once.

“Damn it,” he said. “I’ve never killed anything.”

The words had a chill to them, but Tom told himself the remark was out of context.

“Deer don’t count?” he asked slowly.

“Animals are stupid.”

Tom drew a breath.

“Tasty, though.”

And a server with a metal cart wheeled into their pause, arrival adumbrated by the delicious steam of a braised casserole as Wilhelm quietly directed the woman towards the tight-knit Vanicek trio.

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