Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Nine by Rachel Higginson & Rachel Higginson

Author:Rachel Higginson & Rachel Higginson [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Reckless Siren Publishing
Published: 2017-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“I’m going,” I told Miller flatly, my tone brooking no argument.

He glanced down the hall before stepping fully into the room. “You’re trying to kill yourself? Is that it? This is suicide, Page.”

I wrinkled my nose and ignored the chill skittering over my skin. The oatmeal had helped nourish me, and I felt better than I had earlier, but I was ready for bed again.

Rationally, I didn’t believe I’d have the energy to fight a bunny rabbit at dawn, let alone twenty Feeders. And yet the drive to kill what had tried to kill me, what had tried to infect me, was too strong to ignore. I needed revenge and retaliation. I needed to make Zombies suffer in the same way I had.

“This is redemption,” I told Miller and my brothers and anyone else who could hear me.

Miller shook his head and crossed the room in five longs strides. He hovered over me with all of his imposing strength and dark aura, and I wanted nothing more than to collapse in his arms and let him hold me.

But I couldn’t let him walk all over me again. I cared for Miller. Deeply. But he could be as stubborn as my brothers, and I knew that letting him win this one battle would seal my fate forever.

Miller’s eyes flashed with frustration, and he leaned into me, resting one hand on the chair behind me and one on the table in front of me. His body became a cage. His will became a leash.

His voice gentled despite his imposing body language. “I get that you feel you have something to prove. I do. But what happened to you isn’t your fault. You didn’t fail. You saved a man’s life, and you should be proud of that.”

His soft reassurances only made me more determined. I knew the bite wasn’t a reflection on me or my fighting skills. It was a side effect of the hideous world where we lived. I didn’t need him to tell me I was still a big girl. Not when my fingers itched for my blades, and my blood burned hot with the need to kill.

I held his gaze and told him, “I don’t feel the need to prove anything. I feel the need to kill the things that tried to kill me. I feel the need for some justice and retribution. I nearly died, Miller. If I’m proving anything to anyone, I’m proving to myself that I still have what it takes to destroy the infection I can still feel lingering in my body. I want to eradicate it completely so I can go back to being me. Wholly me.”

Some of the tension lifted from his shoulders, and the hard angles of his face softened with understanding. “The last time you left, you didn’t come back, Page. How do you expect me to let you leave again? Especially when you can barely sit up.”

A shuddering breath shook from my lungs. My hand fluttered to his chest, surprising me as much as it did him.

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