Born In The Apocalypse (Book 3): Jericho by Talluto Joseph

Author:Talluto, Joseph [Talluto, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

I woke to the sound of voices. The house was very cold, but it was warm under my blankets and I wasn’t in any itching hurry to go anywhere. I was home, my horses were safe, and the big bad world was left behind the wall.

Thoughts about the wall started to drive sleep from my mind, but the voices outside seemed to become louder, like they were getting closer.

I groaned inwardly and outwardly, and roused myself from my sleep. I pumped up some very cold water which woke me up fully, and then I restarted the fire in the fireplace. A quick look at my wood supply told me I’d have to go scrounging up some more if I wanted to keep warm in the winter.

The door to the garage opened, and I stood by the table with a casual hand on my rifle. My Colt was hanging from the back of a chair, but it was too far away to be useful. The rifle was already on the table and pointed in the right direction.

Kim walked through the door, and when she saw me, she stopped dead. Her hand flew up to her mouth and tears filled her eyes. I had to admit, she was the best-looking thing I had seen in a week.

“Hey. Miss me?” I asked casually.

Kim flew across the kitchen knocking over a chair in the process. She jumped into my arms and gave me a huge hug, burying her face in my shoulder. I hugged her back, breathing her in, suddenly realizing how much I had actually missed her as well.

She pulled back and smiled, with tears streaming down her face.

“I thought you were gone. When you didn’t come back, I thought you were gone,” Kim said quietly. “What happened to you?” She didn’t wait for an answer, she just hugged me again, and when she finished with that, she took my face in her hands and stared into my eyes for a very long time. When she figured out that I was actually back and not dead, she gave me a very long, lingering kiss. It was the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for me.

“Well, hello. Sorry to interrupt,” a strange voice came from across the kitchen and I pulled Kim aside, bringing up my rifle to bear on a man I had seen before.

“Whoa! Sorry! I’ll wait outside.” The man was blond with blue eyes, and a smile I remembered.

“No, you won’t,” I said. “You move and I’ll shoot you.”

“What? What did I do? You don’t even know me!” the man said, backing up with his hands in the air.

Kim pulled at my arm, but she may as well have been pulling at a tree branch for all I moved.

“Josh, what are you doing? This is…” Kim started to say.

“Kevin. We’ve met,” I said. “You were too interested in my horse the last time we met. I could have shot you then.”

Kevin’s eyes narrowed and then they widened. “Oh my God!

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