Six Days by Theresa Kay

Author:Theresa Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theresa Kay
Published: 2017-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Day Four

“Lee, that’s enough!” Jenna’s voice snaps to my right.

I open my eyes. They’re both standing over me in the pale dawn light and Lee has a gun held down at his side in a white knuckled grip. Jenna inhales sharply and takes a step back, before offering me a weak smile. Lee simply scowls.

“Why didn’t you tell us you were infected?” snaps Lee.

My gaze goes to the gun in his hand and I pull Benjamin in closer to my body. I hiss and curl over my son. Hissing? I’m hissing now? I give my head a brisk shake and force my limbs to relax. “Sorry…I…What does it matter anyway? I told you the truth. I’m just—” My stomach growls. Lee flinches and slides to the side so Jenna is behind him. “I’m just trying to find a safe place for Benjamin before…before…well, I’m sure you realize what’s going to happen to me soon. I have to find a way to protect him. He has to make it out of this.”

Pity, or maybe empathy, softens Jenna’s face. She walks around her husband and crouches down across from me, her eyes boring into mine. “It’s what any mother would do.” She turns to look up at Lee. “Put that damn thing away. If she wanted to hurt us, she could have easily done it last night.”

He grumbles, but complies with her command.

“How far into the process are you?” Jenna asks softly.

It takes a moment to pull the number from my head. The days are all running together now. “Day four,” I say.

“Not much time then.”

I shake my head. “Maybe two days. If I’m lucky.”

She stands and absently rubs her belly. As she bites her lower lips her eyes travel to Lee and then back to me. “We’ll take him,” she says. Lee opens his mouth as if he’s about to protest, but she silences him with a hand on his arm. “It’s what I’d hope for if anything ever happened to me…someone to watch over my child.”

Despite Lee’s obvious reservations, relief takes over my body. I release a sigh and relax my muscles. “Thank you.”

“Yeah, don’t thank us yet,” says Lee. “We still have to get to the city without running into any more infected.”

I push a hand against the tree behind me and use it to slide up into a standing position. My time is getting shorter. I can feel it in the…wrongness…that’s crawling into my limbs and creeping into my mind. Lee and Jenna will have to do. “You can take the ATV. Just leave me a gun,” I say.

Jenna’s brow furrows and she tilts her head to the side. But Lee gets it. He meets my eyes and gives me a slight nod. Then, he wraps one arm around his wife’s shoulder and leans down to speak directly into her ear.

Her mouth turns downward and she shakes her head. “We can’t…that’s not…” The words trail off as she meets my eyes.

I’m opening my mouth to reply when I hear it: a sort of snuffling, snarling noise in the direction of the road.

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