Chronicles of the Infected (Book 1): Finding Her by Rick Wood

Author:Rick Wood [Wood, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Rick Wood Publishing
Published: 2017-12-21T18:30:00+00:00

Minus Fourteen Hours

27

Trusting Sadie and Donny to keep watch was a difficult decision, but Gus couldn’t have kept driving. His tiredness was causing him to veer across the road, and for their safety’s sake, he needed to rest.

Sadie was a talented fighter, and Donny… well, he had eyes. Perhaps between the two of them they could make a half-competent pair.

Either way, if he kept driving, he was more likely to die from falling asleep at the wheel than he was being eaten by a zombie the two of them didn’t notice – probably.

And he wasn’t about to let Donny drive.

In the end, it was a welcome rest. He feared that the anxiety of relinquishing a small piece of control to the other two would keep him awake – or, failing that, the desperate cold of the outdoors would. As it turned out, as soon as his head hit the mound of leaves he had pushed together, his eyes closed and his mind drifted to a dreamless sleep. Nestling in dirt wasn’t ideal, and he missed having a bed, but he’d endured worse.

His eyes opened hours later, revealing a peaceful early morning sun that cast a mild light upon him. The clouds were sparse, and it allowed him to feel a moment of resolution. A moment of relaxing his mind into submission, until all that he felt was a light head and an empty belly.

Then the aching in his calf returned. The bullet lodged securely inside his muscle that had since repaired itself around it.

I’m still alive.

They hadn’t let some stray undead into his makeshift nature-bed.

Wanting to retain another few moments of peace, he didn’t lift his head or twitch his body, hoping that the other two wouldn’t realise he was awake. He strained his eyes to see where they were, and spotted them a few yards away, in front of the car.

Donny had a knife in his hand.

Gus filled with alarm. He lifted himself up.

Sadie stood before Donny. She demonstrated a lunge with an imaginary knife, twisting her body to help put strength behind it.

Donny imitated her, thrusting the knife into the air before him.

She’s teaching him to fight.

Gus smiled.

He couldn’t help it.

Sadie took her imaginary knife and swept it backwards, then returned it to a guarding stance.

Donny copied, though less robustly. Sadie shook her head, making a disgruntled noise, and demonstrated the move once more.

Donny tried again, this time performing the move well enough to get Sadie’s approval.

With a satisfied grin, Donny placed the knife on the bonnet of the car.

“Now punches?” Donny asked. Gus hadn’t noticed before, but Donny’s brow was wet with perspiration. His t-shirt was sticking to him and he was red in the face. It wasn’t cold, but it was far from hot – he must have built up this sweat from his exertion.

The kid was trying.

Gus leant up fully, watching with intrigue.

Sadie demonstrated a striking move, taking her hand to her side, then stepping her foot forward as she lunged her fist with it.

Donny took the stance and pathetically threw his hand forward.

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