Dead End (Infected City Book 6) by Boris Bacic

Author:Boris Bacic [Bacic, Boris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Daniel

Along with the rooftop, Daniel decided he would not be stepping into the break room anymore, either. Too many painful memories in there. He had kissed Melissa’s cold lips one final time, covered her with the blanket, and locked the break room. To stop himself from falling into temptation, he tossed the key to the break room out the window in the kitchen.

He was in a daze after that. He aimlessly wandered the building, dragging his feet across the floor, his head down, his arms limply swaying at his sides. If someone saw him, they’d think he was one of the infected.

At fleeting moments, he wished that would happen—for someone to mistake him for a crazy and put a bullet in his head, ending his miserable life.

He couldn’t get himself to end his own life. Something was stopping him, and he couldn’t tell what. Cowardice, maybe? The fact that he feared burning in hell for all eternity? No, something else. He felt as if he still had something to do, but he couldn’t yet tell what.

The passage in the maintenance room was still there, waiting for him to leave through it. The infected surrounding the building had thinned as well, making way for a pathway through the underground garage if he preferred the riskier routes.

The promise of escape was no longer alluring. What was there to escape to, anyway? Even if he managed to get out of the city, what then?

He’d either be hunted down by Welco Lab’s hitmen, or he’d lose his mind like his coworkers and infect the outside world. He’d sooner swallow a bullet than allow himself to cause more pain, even in death.

No. He wouldn’t be leaving. Welco Labs was his purgatory and his hell. He took immense satisfaction in the self-punishment he cast on himself and the contrition that plagued his mind. It wouldn’t make up for his crimes, but it would at least give him some solace.

He’d already come to terms with the fact that he was going to die in this building, and he was okay with it. In fact, he was waiting for the Grim Reaper to embrace him and release him from his torment even if it meant going to a worse place.

Daniel spent a lot of his time in front of the cameras, staring at the infected pounding on the glass walls. The cracks were larger, like webs woven by a gigantic spider. It wouldn’t be long now. The area just outside was interspersed with dead bodies of the infected who died from exhaustion.

Daniel liked staring at them, trying to predict who the next one to collapse was going to be. He tried to guess based on their haggard appearances, how dirty and wounded they were, and so on. He was almost always right, but from time to time, he’d be surprised.

A scrawny adolescent who looked like he hadn’t eaten in days would outlive the ones that looked a lot healthier than him, for example. He later died, too, much to Daniel’s sadness.

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