Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

Author:Andrew Joseph White [White, Andrew Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2022-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Halfway back to the ALC, Faith calls an apologetic stop for a leg cramp, and Cormac takes the opportunity to drag me behind a tractor trailer. I’ve been thinking about the girl the entire walk, and I barely recognize that Cormac is in my face until he’s shoving me. I hit the side of the truck and my guts burn, but slowly. A dying fire, exhausted and smothered.

I snap, “What.”

It takes Cormac a second of seething to put words together—his face flushed almost as red as his hair, pieces of it sticking to his forehead—and when he does, he says, “Do you have any idea how badly you just fucked us over?”

The girl’s broken face swallows me whole when I blink. I want to stick a finger down my throat and get it all out. “I messed up. Leave me alone.”

“Who knows if the Vanguard is gonna answer us next time we call?” He jabs a finger into my chest, right into the empty space of my sports bra. As much as I would love to grab Cormac’s hand and bend it back so hard it snaps at the wrist, I don’t. “And it’s on you. Even if Nick won’t say it, I will. When we run out of food, I’ll make sure everybody knows it’s your fault.”

“Nick won’t let you,” I say.

“I don’t give a shit. He’ll come to his senses. He’ll admit it. Because you want to know something? You want to hear something, Ben?”

He comes up close. Too close, close enough that his hair gets in my face, close enough that I can feel how warm he is. If it weren’t for the mask, I could have tasted him.

Cormac says, “Nick’s been calling you an it.”

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