Kazzie, David - The Immune Box Set [Books 1-5] by Kazzie David

Author:Kazzie, David [Kazzie, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Pandemic
Publisher: Grub Club Publishing
Published: 2019-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

The morning passed by in a haze, Rachel stretched out on her bunk, her mind singularly focused on the idea of escape. She lay on top of the itchy woolen blanket these assholes provided, the one that barely covered her toes at night but that she dreaded losing. Now that she knew the lay of the land and had absorbed the routines and the rhythms, she knew she could get out of the compound on her own.

But that wouldn’t do. If she left the others behind, Chadwick’s retribution would be swift and terrible. He’d kill the others like he was throwing out a batch of burned brownies and start again. She’d done the math; even if the epidemic had been as bad as she feared, there were still a couple of million women out there, hundreds of thousands that would meet his needs. He’d slaughter her fellow captives.

No, if this were to work, she had to get them all out. No matter how much it ratcheted up the danger. It had to be this way or not at all.

At noon, a knock on her door. There was no need to get up, as it was a courtesy knock, and the door swung open a second later.

“Get up.”

She swung her legs over the side of the bed and sat up to greet her visitor. It was one of Chadwick’s men, one of the inner circle that she frequently saw by his side. A kind of caste system had come into play since the executions. Some had better access to Chadwick than others, and some seemed to barely be in the mix at all.

“Pack your things,” the man said, tossing a pair of plastic grocery bags at her feet.

“Why? We going on vacation?”

The retort earned her a hard smack to the side of the head, enough to fill her field of vision with a flash of white light.

“Get your stuff,” he snapped. “Don’t make me ask again. You’ve got thirty seconds.”

She packed quickly, sticking to the essentials as she stuffed the plastic bags, scolding herself for the pointless, illogical decision to give this guy lip. This was something a child would do, or someone capable of only child-like thinking. If she was going to lead these women out of here, she was going to have to start thinking like a grownup. No, she would have to think like a machine, a thing incapable of making irrational decisions, incapable of saying stupid things because they felt good to say.

She would have to inoculate herself against being human.

Outside, the sky was gray, the air cold and damp. The chill stung her nose, and she thought it might snow soon. Since Chadwick had cut their outdoor excursions, this was her first time outdoors in days, and she couldn’t even manage to draw a little sunshine. She climbed in the idling SUV, which zipped away before she even had a chance to buckle her seatbelt. The driver rambled east, away from the lake and toward the road that bisected the compound into two rectangles.

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