Point Of Transmission: A Post-Apocalyptic Epidemic Survival (The Morgan Strain Series Book 1) by Max Lockwood

Author:Max Lockwood
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Elaina’s legs were starting to burn. She wanted to stop running, but every time they stopped, they spotted someone who could be infected. After a while, she wasn’t sure if the people she saw were real or imaginary. The girls just kept running until they found something better.

They had been on the move for about an hour and a half when they finally stopped to rest at a campground. It had started to rain again, so the girls found shelter underneath a weathered picnic shelter. Elaina swished the contents from her last jar of water around her mouth before setting the container outside. It was a futile practice, seeing as they couldn’t stay long enough to collect enough fluids, but every drop counted.

“I don’t know about you,” Natalia said, “but I’m starting to feel really guilty about leaving Alec behind.”

Elaina nervously cracked her knuckles. “I’m sure he’s fine.”

“I’m not. Did you see how many infected were in the area by the time we got out of there? I know he’s a police officer and all, but that’s a lot of people to fight off without backup.”

“You heard the gunshot. I’m sure he’s in his truck right now, driving around town. Maybe he’s even looking for us.”

“Maybe,” the younger girl said, swinging her legs from the bench of the table, just sweeping the ground with the tips of her toes. “Do you think that was his gun that went off?”

“Whose gun would it be if not Alec’s?” Elaina asked, shivering.

“The police aren’t the only ones with guns,” she said darkly. “Those rednecks who took me had them. I’m certain a lot of the infected do too. Everyone does.”

“Except for us,” Elaina added.

“Except for us.”

“Call me crazy,” Natalia said after a few moments of quiet, “but I was starting to like Alec. He’s not a bad guy.”

“No, he’s not,” Elaina mused. “But that’s only because he didn’t know who I was. If he’d paid a little more attention to the wanted posters, it would have been a different story.”

“I’d like to think that even if he did know, he would help you out.”

Elaina scoffed. “Yeah, right. Why do you think that?”

“I don’t know,” she said dreamily. “I think he has a strong sense of justice. Not like he always has to follow the rules. You don’t give him enough credit. I think that if you would have told him what you were up to, he would have helped us.”

Elaina bit her lip. She wasn’t as sure of their companion as Natalia was, but she wondered if there were more to him than just the clean-cut cop she saw. Would he help them?

It didn’t matter now. She didn’t want to spoil Natalia’s hopes that he would rejoin them, but it didn’t look good for him. But if she could boost her spirits by telling her everything would be fine, then it was worth lying to herself.

All of Natalia’s doubts were warranted. He had been outnumbered. It would be one thing to go up against a group of healthy people.

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