After The Purge: Vendetta Box Set [Books 1-3] by Sisavath Sam

Author:Sisavath, Sam [Sisavath, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Infected
Publisher: Road To Babylon Media LLC
Published: 2020-02-16T22:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

“Remember your promise. You won’t do something stupid. You’ll find him and come back as soon as you can.”

Ana smiled. “When have I ever done anything stupid?”

Emily didn’t answer right away, which was a sign she was going to disagree. But instead, her little sister handed Ana the backpack. “Just be careful. I don’t want to lose you, Annie.”

“You’re not going to lose me. Not if I have anything to say about it.”

“You might not have a choice.”

“You always have a choice. Even when you don’t think there is one. Look closely enough; there’s always a choice. Didn’t I teach you that?”

Ana slipped the pack on. It was what Wash would call a tactical pack and was probably a little too big for her frame and filled with too many things she didn’t need, but Ana had decided to err on taking “too much” instead of “not enough.”

“How are you going to find him?” Emily asked.

“I don’t know. But I know he’s going to Texas.”

“Texas is a big state, Annie. If you don’t know where he’s going exactly, how are you going to find him?”

“I don’t know, Em, but I have to try. He saved our lives. I owe him. We owe him.”

“Which is why I should be coming with you.”

“No.”

“Why the hell not?”

Ana took a moment to adjust the other supply bags around the Tennessee Walker’s saddle before she responded. She knew this conversation was coming and had been dreading it. Emily had the same kind of stubbornness that they both inherited from their mother; add to that the sometimes aggravating righteousness that they’d both gotten from their father.

I can’t blame her. Stubbornness and righteousness are why we’re still here.

She looked back at Emily. “You’re going to stay here with Marie until I come back. Then we’re going home with the others. And that’s all there is to it.”

Emily frowned. “I don’t like this. I should be coming with you. I owe him, Annie. I owe him. You always said the Harrington sisters always repay their debts.”

“What do you think I’m doing?”

“I’m a Harrington, too.”

“You’re my little sister.”

“I’m both.”

Ana sighed. “Not this time.”

“You’re going to need my help.”

That’s what I’m trying to avoid, Ana thought as she put her hands on Emily’s shoulders and squeezed. “I need you to stay here.”

“Why?”

“Because I need you to be safe.”

“I’m safer with you. Isn’t that what you always say, too?”

“I hate it when you repeat things I say to you.”

Emily smiled. “It’s true, though. I’m always safer with you. That’s always been true, and it still is. So let me go with you.”

“Not this time.”

“Why not?”

Because I don’t know what I’m going to find down there, she thought. If I even manage to find Wash again—and that scares me. God, that scares me so much.

She thought about the girl at the farm shooting herself in the head. She thought about the look on Wash’s face as he told her about where he was going, about having accepted that he might not come back from it.

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