Lives We Lost,The by Megan Crewe

Author:Megan Crewe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781423146179
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Published: 2013-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

sixteen Three people dead, because of us. Because we’d killed them. As the realization sank in, my legs wobbled. I dropped to the

ground, hugging my knees. Gav crouched with me, the gentle pressure of his arm around me feeling terribly distant. An acid taste

rose in the back of my throat. In that moment, it was all I could

do to keep my dinner down.

“Wow,” Justin said to Tobias. “That was some shooting.” Tobias whirled on him. “What the hell were you doing?” he

said. “That was a fucking mess, and it’s your mess. I could have

missed that last shot. I could have gotten to you too late to stop

the other guy from shooting you!”

“They were going to find us,” Justin protested. “Now we’re safe.

I saved us. None of you had the balls to do anything.” “We didn’t need to do anything yet,” Leo said quietly. “They

were looking like they might turn back. And if we were going to

do something, there are better plans than running out into plain

sight and then freezing up.”

Justin flushed. “I got her,” he said, pointing to the woman’s

body. “That one I did perfect. I didn’t know—I’ve never shot anyone before. It shook me up a little. Next time that won’t happen.” “Next time?” I said, raising my head. “How many people are you planning on shooting? We came all this way so we could stop

people from dying. We’re not supposed to be killing anyone!” Gav dragged in a breath, straightening up. “Well, it’s done now,

right? It was done stupidly, but it’s done. It sounded like they’d

have been happy to kill us, once they got the vaccine.” “They might have just given up,” I said, knowing that was more

a wish than a possibility.

“I don’t think they’d have moved on too quickly,” Tobias said.

“They knew we were here. But that doesn’t mean we couldn’t have

handled it better.”

“Look, I’m sorry, okay?” Justin snapped. “Next time I’ll let all

of you get shot instead, if that’ll make you happy.”

I pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes. My thoughts

were so scattered I couldn’t seem to catch hold of any of them. The

space around me felt strangely empty.

The cold storage box. I’d left the vaccine samples in the forest. I got up, a little shakily, and walked back through the trees to

pick up the box and my bag. The others were standing in the same

semicircle when I returned.

“If there’s anyone within a few miles of this place, they probably heard the gunshots,” Leo said. “Someone might come to see

what’s going on. And whoever sent those people, when they don’t

report back, another group might head here to check things out.

We can’t stay.”

He was right. I hugged the bag. “Where are we going to go?” Gav looked toward the road. “The van,” he said. His face had

gone hard. “One of them must have the keys. We might as well

use what we have.”

“We know it can handle the snow,” Tobias said, nodding. Every bone in my body resisted the thought. The thought of

getting into the van where the woman had sat with her rifle—the

woman who was lying there dead—made me shudder.

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