Dead Days Zombie Apocalypse Series (Season 6) by Casey Ryan

Author:Casey, Ryan [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

“It’s going to be okay. I swear to you, everything’s going to be okay.”

Riley stood outside the cell. The bright morning sun peeked in through the dusty, murky window at the back, doing a stellar job of revealing just how dirty the white tiles in here were. Outside, Riley could hear voices. The muffled chatter of Hassan, James, Cody. His people, all waiting for him to join them. Waiting for him to lead them.

But Jordanna was behind the bars of this cell.

“It’s for your own safety more than anything,” Riley said. But even he felt uncomfortable speaking those words. ’Cause was it? Was this really just for her own protection? She’d killed Tamara. She had that potential inside her.

Was she really here because they needed to protect her?

Or was it to protect others? Protect himself?

Jordanna smiled back at him. She’d been smiling for a while now. Her hair looked greasy. Some of it stuck to her face, mixed with the tears. She had a glassy haze to her eyes. Not like the creatures. Not even like the things they were calling “hybrids”—those not-quite-dead humans who were infected with the parasites, or whatever they were.

But glassy. Just like a person who’d lost everything. Who’d had it all stripped away.

“We won’t leave without you,” Riley said. “I… I won’t leave without you. I promise.”

Jordanna just stayed crouched at the back of the cell. Sat up against the wall. Staring into space. Smiling.

“Jordanna, please,” Riley said. “Please just—just talk to me. Tell me it’s okay. Tell me you understand.”

She looked at him. And in the space of a second, Riley saw a mixture of emotions in Jordanna’s eyes. Fear. Hate. Loss.

But then the smile returned to her face little more than a moment later. “I understand.”

A bitter taste filled Riley’s mouth. He nodded. Smiled back at Jordanna. Scratched his head. “We’re getting as many people out of this place as possible. But while we do, you’re not—”

“I’m a threat,” Jordanna said.

Riley shook his head. “That’s not why—”

“I killed Tamara.”

“You didn’t kill Tamara.”

“I killed Tamara and I’m a threat. So I stay inside this… this prison until… well, whenever. I get that. I understand that. Now go do what you have to do.”

She looked away. There was a tinge of frustration in her final words. It’s like she understood what Riley was doing—what he’d been forced into doing. But she still couldn’t quite accept he was actually doing it. Actually going along with it.

Riley pulled open the cell door.

He walked across Jordanna’s cell floor. Crouched opposite. Put his hand behind her head, stroked her hair.

He moved in close. So close that he could feel the warmth of her body in front of him, so close that he could smell the sweetness that always mixed with her sweat. “I’m not leaving you behind. I promise you.”

Jordanna nodded. She opened her mouth to say something in return. In the end, she didn’t bother.

“Hey,” Riley said, reaching down and taking one of her hands. “Hey. Look at me.

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