August Burning (Book 1): Outbreak by Lahey Tyler

Author:Lahey, Tyler [Lahey, Tyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Infected
Published: 2016-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

Adira forced herself to sit straight, even though she wanted to slink back into the crack in the couch. She felt anxious, a feeling that was strangely foreign to her. If her skin hadn’t been the color of bronze, it would have been flush red with embarrassment. Those around her attempted to make phone calls and scour the Internet for any information on the crisis. Often they got nothing; the systems were overloaded. Adira didn’t even know who these people were, truly. She had met most of them at a party a few nights before. As much as she could make it on her own, she couldn’t deny the feelings of relief she felt looking around the room. They felt capable, and confident, and Adira could see they had a fierce, unspoken loyalty to each other. The images on the TV would make her shake at night, she already knew. How could she get back to her family? She looked to her phone again. No messages. Until she could reach her sister or mother, she would stay with Bennett, and his friends.

She sighed. How had she gotten here? Her eyes drifted to Bennett shaggy blond hair and soft face. She knew at the heart of it, she was using him to feel better about herself. How many other boys had she chewed up and spat out, despite her own best efforts? There had to be something else she left behind. That had been the plan, anyways.

Adira had thought the boiling crisis in the north would have abruptly removed human sexuality from the equation. That couldn’t have been further from the truth. She eyed all the men in the room, looking for any distraction from her panic.

Elvis seemed a silly plaything, a peacock that was both charming and amusing at the same time, though the latter impression was not of his own design. Liam lorded over the group like a concerning uncle. Jaxton seemed to be the leader, of sorts. She wasn’t sure if it was just because he was the center of the wheel; the common denominator that all of them knew best. And her sweet Bennett was the eager school-boy.

Jaxton returned to the room. She saw the way he carried himself, and couldn’t fail to note a well-built musculature under that t-shirt. Those kinds of thoughts seemed to come unbidden to her, now that there was so much fear and tension in the air. Primal instincts had been elevated.

“Our parents aren’t going to reach us,” he started, and Adira saw his eyes lock on her own for a second too long. “I’m pretty sure Elvis’s are the only ones that aren’t stuck in transit right now. It sounds like air travel is being grounded. No one is going to be able to move on the highways,” he explained, looking around with fierce grey eyes. “I, for one, do not want to stay here. The government is most likely going to evacuate us south. I don’t care what the risk is- I want to meet up with my family if I can.

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