More Than Survival: A Zombie Apocalypse Love Story by Mary Kate L

Author:Mary, Kate L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Press, LLC
Published: 2016-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

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The morning came bright and clear, the snow drifts sparkling under the sunshine until they were blindingly bright. Sawyer and I ate the last two biscuits in the house and drank watered down tea as we stared out the front window. We had a couple feet of snow already and it was still early in the year. It was going to be a bad winter.

“When did you come up the mountain?” I asked between sips.

“Five years,” he said, his words quiet and sad.

Even though I doubted he wanted to answer me, I couldn’t stop the next question from coming out. “What did you do before?”

I tore my gaze off the snow and focused on the man at my side. His blue eyes were almost the same shade as the sky, but his hair was so long that it constantly fell over them. I wanted to push it back so I could get a better look at his face—it was such a pretty face—but after the kiss yesterday I had decided that keeping space between us was the best idea.

“The first two years flew by. There was never enough of anything. Food, sleep, water, time. It was like living in an hour glass.”

“Were you alone?”

He blinked twice before shaking his head. “No.”

I waited for him to elaborate but he didn’t, and after a few seconds I started to feel bad for asking to begin with. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have pried.”

“No, it’s okay. It’s just that I’ve never talked to anyone about it.” He let out a deep breath and said, “I was with my wife’s best friend. Everyone else we knew had died, so Lisa and I stuck together. She had been married to an Air Force buddy of mine, and even though we’d never really liked each other, it seemed natural. And it was better than being alone.”

Lisa. When he said her name his face scrunched up, but it was a different kind of pain than when he’d talked about his wife. With Mollie he’d been sad, but this was actual, physical pain manifesting itself on his face.

“How long were you together?” I asked hesitantly.

He was opening up to me for the first time, and even though I didn’t want to push him, I was curious to know more about this man and where he’d been for the last eleven years.

“Two years on the run, then nearly four years in the settlement.”

His eyes were still down, but his words made me sit up straighter. When he’d told me about the settlement, I’d thought all his experience there had been from trading. But he’d lived there.

“You lived in the unsanctioned town?”

He only nodded.

“What was it like?” I’d thought about it a lot, despite my uncle’s assertion that it wasn’t safe. At least the people there had friends and the chance at having a real life.

“Bad.” Sawyer’s word was hard and final, and a second later he was on his feet and heading for the kitchen. “We should get a move on.

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