Dog Eat Dog by P. H. Cooper

Author:P. H. Cooper [Cooper, P. H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Evelyn stood a short distance away from the man she had only just come to know as Dr. Will Finch. It was so strange to her how life now had a way of throwing people together these days, under these circumstances. Everyone seemed to be in varying stages of tiredness and shock, especially the good doctor. She knew it was not every day that a man was put in a situation where he had to make the heart-wrenching decision to put his own wife out of her misery. And, from the sound of what was going on in that room, she was certainly in misery. But nothing would rival the misery he was probably experiencing now from the mere trauma of having to look into the eyes of the woman he once knew as his loving wife, who had been transformed by this terrible disease into a raving aggressive lunatic. Not only, having to look her in the eyes and take on the full weight of the realization that she was no longer in there, but then to have to plunge a sharp object into her skull on top of that. Evelyn shuddered to herself at the very thought of having to do something like that to someone she loved, and she hoped she would never have to be put in that position. Even though, she was pretty certain that more than likely life would find a way to make her have to do the same thing eventually if this thing were to carry on as eternally as it threatened to at this point in time.

She observed the rest of her crew that sat in various places on what had once been the running track that ran around the top of the gym. She was not sure if their indifference to the barking and snarling beasts that roamed about on the gymnasium floor only a few feet below them was due to their exhaustion or the fact that they were used to living this way now. Either way, she was very proud of them for keeping their cool; because she was certainly unsure of how she was remaining so calm. She could only guess that it was because she felt obligated to behave stronger than she actually believed she was for their sake, and now for the new addition to their skeleton crew, the widower doctor Finch.

Evelyn walked over to the small case of bottled water sitting against the wall and pulled out a bottle. She took it over to doctor Finch and offered it to him before sitting down on the ice chest next to him as he sat on the floor with his head in his hands. He raised a weary maddened expression up to meet the best kind gaze that she could muster. She wasn’t really sure how to react or what to say in this situation. How do you comfort someone who has just had to kill their wife for the sake of their safety?

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