Rise of the Dead (Book 2): Return of the Dead by Dyson Jeremy

Author:Dyson, Jeremy [Dyson, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Dartmoor Books
Published: 2017-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-three

The nylon awning over the entrance to the golf course flutters in the heavy wind and sheets of rain that pour down in the grey afternoon. My clothes are soaking wet as we finally push through the glass door and step inside the lobby. I scan the darkened bar and the dining area to see if there are any threats. All I see are the white table clothes and table settings, and the rows of liquor bottles lined up behind the empty bar.

“Don’t worry,” Blake says. “If there was anything in here, Stitch would have sniffed it out already. Right boy?” He cocks his head down at the happy dog and shrugs the heavy pack from his shoulders. The dog shakes itself off and pants and wags its tail. Blake crouches down and pulls a piece of jerky from his pocket and lets the dog take it from his fingers.

Hoff moves passed me with Lorento’s arm draped over his shoulder. He helps her into the dining room and pulls out a chair for her to sit down. Danielle hurries over to the table and drops her pack and opens the flap to dig around for something inside.

“Is she a doctor?” I ask Blake.

“Well, sort of,” he smirks. “Almost, I guess. She knows what she is doing.”

I nod and a cold shiver runs down my spine. I wish I had something other than these wet clothes to wear. My body aches from pain and exhaustion and all I want to do is lay down and curl up in ball and cry myself to sleep.

“You guys look like you’ve been through hell,” Blake says.

“We have,” I tell him. “You have no idea.”

“I’ve been there before,” he says and puts a hand on my arm. “You’re okay now. Get something to eat and get warm and tell me all about it after you rest a bit.”

“Lorento can probably tell you more than I can,” I say.

“Maybe,” he says. “But I’m more likely to believe you.”

“Thanks,” I smile. He almost smiles back but just gestures to the boxes of rations and tells me to help myself. I watch as he moves across the room and talks quietly to Quentin, Nat and the kid they called College Boy. As much as they seem like good people and I want to trust them, it makes me nervous to be around so many strangers that we don’t know anything about. When this whole thing started, the only thing that scared me was corpses, but after the last couple days I am more afraid of people than ever before.

I carry the box across the lobby and find Midhun sitting on a bench near the front doors looking outside.

“What’s wrong?” I ask him.

His head turns in my direction, his smile returning. His eyes flick to the side to peek at Fletcher. He eyes our new friends in their military fatigues with some apparent apprehension. The soldier stares at him with only a mild interest. Midhun lowers his eyes, then leans closer to me.

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