Divided We Rot by Raymond Lee

Author:Raymond Lee [Lee, Raymond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Raven shook her head as Cruz attempted to spoon her more soup. She fell back against the pillows and groaned as every part of her body ached and tears steadily streamed from her hot eyes.

“You told me to make sure you ate,” Cruz reminded her, his voice gentle.

“One more bite and I’m pretty sure I’ll puke all over you. Not very attractive, huh?”

“No.” He smiled. “But I’d still like you.”

Raven started to smile in response, but felt the tightness in her chapped lips and knew they’d crack if she did. She knew she had to look a fright but Cruz hadn’t left her side since she’d told him she had no intention of dying. “I’ll try again later.”

Cruz set the bowl on the bedside table and removed a rag from a bowl of water he kept there. He wrung it out and wiped her face and neck with the terrycloth. “You need to at least drink more water.”

“OK.”

He picked up a glass and filled it with well water from a pitcher before settling next to her on the bed. He slid his arm under her back and helped support her as she rose her aching body into a sitting position. “The Tylenol do anything?”

“If it did, I can’t tell. Everything hurts.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Not your fault.” She sipped from the glass as he held it to her mouth. The water was room temperature, but she didn’t mind. It felt good in her parched mouth.

“If I had gotten to you sooner this wouldn’t have happened.”

She finished drinking and allowed him to help her lie back against the pillows before she spoke again. “It’s not your fault. I fell out of the truck. The zombies were on me in a blink of an eye. You didn’t have to jump out but you did, and you did save me. This isn’t going to kill me, but those things would have eaten me if you hadn’t stopped them.”

“I hope that’s true. About you surviving this, I mean.”

“It’s true.” She’d told him about the dream she’d had, which wasn’t a dream. She’d been dying, going toward the light people always spoke about when they told their near-death experience stories, but her parents had been there to give her a message. “Sky’s alive and both of us are immune or something. I’m going to kick this virus’s ass and then I’m going to find my little sister and spend the rest of my life doing whatever is necessary to make up for leaving her. I just pray she’ll forgive me.”

“You thought she was dead.”

“I don’t know if that will matter to her. She’s only nine years old and I left her. That’s all she knows.” For the millionth time since she’d discovered her sister was alive she wondered where she’d been the past six and a half months, how she’d survived, and what she’d seen. What she’d felt, abandoned and afraid. Who had she met along the way? Tears continued to run the length of Raven’s face, not entirely due to the heat behind them.

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