Infected (Book 1): The Fall by Cleek Caleb

Author:Cleek, Caleb [Cleek, Caleb]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: zombies
Published: 2014-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I didn't want to open my eyes, but knew I had to. My senses were coming online, all except for sight. My ears were reveling in a soft sonnet sung by a flock of small birds. My skin felt the soft, yet crisp, sensation that went along with the floral aroma gently wafting through my sinuses. The unmistakable feel and smell of freshly washed sheets told me to stay where I was for as long as possible. That desire was countered by the bright rays assaulting my pupils through closed eyelids. Coupled with the warming sensations those rays were having on my skin, the sun was telling me I had already stayed too long. I finally convinced the tiny muscles around the eye orbits in my skull to pry my eyelids apart and bring my last sense online.

When my upper and lower lids parted, my eyes focused on the clock. The display confirmed what my other sense had already relayed. I had overslept. It was 7:33.

My body normally wakes up between 5:30 and 6:00 on its own. Last night, I made the mistake of not setting my alarm when I went to bed. After everything that happened yesterday, I guess I wasn't surprised that I needed more rest than the average night.

I sat up and rotated my body so that my feet touched the floor next to the bed and looked for my pants. They were still crumpled up on the floor where they had fallen when I took them off just prior to collapsing into my bed.

After the previous night’s gun battle, Eve had panicked. She heard the huge salvo of gunfire and saw the white van drive away afterward. She tried to call Matt, but as was his habit before tense situations, he had turned his phone off. With nothing else to do, she began cleaning our room for the sole sake of keeping her mind busy. By the time Matt called her from the pharmacy, she had completed her task. The carpet had blood stains and the mattress had bullet holes, but the room was serviceable. Matt and Eve slept in the guest bedroom and Toby had offered his bed to Dr. Kemp. Toby and Luke found a corner in the living room where they were happy to camp.

Before we went to bed, Katie remembered that she had a bottle of Vicodin she hadn't used up when her wisdom teeth were removed several years ago. The relief it provided enabled her to get some sleep which probably would have eluded her otherwise.

While I was removing my pistol from the night stand and placing it in my holster, my nose picked up another smell: frying bacon. I probably could have heard the sizzle of fat in the pan had my ears not still been ringing from the previous days unrelenting gun fire.

I walked into the kitchen, drawn to the smell of bacon like a sailor to the songs of the sirens. Matt, who was wearing Katie's pink

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