Almawt Virus Series (Book 3): Days Since...Jenny [Day 986] by Wilson Robert

Author:Wilson, Robert [Wilson, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalypic | Dystpian
Publisher: Power Shift Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“This won’t end well,” Jenny huffed, slogging through the snow behind Danny and Sherman. She yanked her kerchief down. “I'm serious! They're no good!” Neither Danny nor Sherman reacted to her warning. She couldn't even be sure her voice reached them up the hill. The appearance of these Second Alliance strangers had Danny consumed by curiosity. Had him trekking home with seemingly endless strength, endless stamina. He kept plowing ahead. Sherman too. And Jenny was falling behind. Again. “Danny! Please! Just listen to me for a second. You can't go into this blind. You know it's not a good idea. Let me—”

“Let you what?” Finally, he slowed, but wouldn't stop. For him, the hill peaked only a few paces away.

“I’m telling you the S.A., er… The Second Alliance is no good!”

“How the hell do you know what they're called?”

“It's...” Jenny's voice faded, she tossed her head back in frustration, hating herself for not telling him earlier, for not sharing what Danny deserved to know. It had been wrong to keep it from him. She should’ve told him where she and her friends had come from and why they had fled. Maybe then Danny could’ve warned Griffin of the Second Alliance and the whole thing could have been avoided. Maybe we were wrong...

“How do you know who they are?” Danny asked again from atop the hill, clearly annoyed with Jenny's unwillingness to reveal all she knew. “We’ve never seen them before. Not even in as many times as we—” He pulled the kerchief from his mouth and scoffed. “Shit... How the hell didn't I see it sooner? These are the ones in black, aren't they? The ones you asked about in that house where we got shot at? The ones that had you so worried?” His tone became aggressive. “Why are they looking for you, Jenny? What did you do to them?”

“What did I do?! What the hell, Danny?!” Anger coursed through her veins—the accusation completely uncalled for. “After all we've been through, you're actually going to stand there and ask me that? What the hell do you think I could've done, Danny?!” She took pause from the conversation. The yelling was exhausting. Her strength was dwindling. It took everything inside herself to best that hill. To come even with Danny. To make him look her in the eyes with any more baseless claims.

“Alright, look.” She threw her rifle across her back. “Gimme a sec to explain before this gets any worse than it already is.”

His face read of impatience.

“We didn't do anything to them. Nothing. And that's the truth.” Their eyes locked. Hers felt fragile. His were steadfast. “Those assholes are why we had to come to the Depot in the first place. They're the reason why we had nowhere else to go. What they did...” She broke her gaze from his.

“What, Jenny?” She felt he wanted to grab hold of her and shake the words loose from inside her. “Tell me.”

Still unsure of how to phrase it, Jenny searched herself.

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