Slow Burn (Book 8): Grind by Adair Bobby

Author:Adair, Bobby [Adair, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Beezle Media, LLC
Published: 2015-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

We ran another mile or two before coming to a place where the fields gave way to a thick forest of pine, pecan, and oak. Having not seen a naked White since we left that group by the cows, we ran into the trees, and when we could see nothing around us but tree trunks and undergrowth, we slowed to a walk.

Murphy stopped, leaned over and put his hands on his knees. “We can’t keep getting lucky forever.”

“You been holding that in all morning?” I asked.

“It needed to be said.” He stood up and fished a bottle of water out of his bag. He drank half of it down and offered the rest to me.

I guzzled it and looked around, listening closely as I did.

Murphy grinned and put the empty bottle back in his bag. “That was some intense shit.”

I nodded with a chuckle.

Murphy looked around and started through the trees again. “You can only flip a coin so many times before it comes up tails. We can’t keep pushing our luck.”

Following along, I said, “I don’t agree.”

Murphy laughed loudly enough that animals hiding in the brown leaves skittered away. “Of course, you don’t agree. Okay, Professor, why don’t you explain to me why we haven’t been pushing our luck? I just can’t wait to hear this one.”

The undergrowth thinned out. The trees stood taller overhead. They were spaced widely enough that I was able to catch up a few steps to walk beside Murphy.

“You’ve got goosebumps all over you,” he said with a glance. “You feel cold?”

I looked at my arms. Indeed, they were covered with goosebumps, under a sheen of sweat that was evaporating away. "I don't feel chilly.”

Murphy blew out a big puff of condensation. “It’s getting colder. We need to find you something to wear.”

Still looking at my arms, I nodded and wondered again how the growing cold would affect the naked horde. "We're bound to find a house or something. I'll find some clothes and get dressed until I to go back out hunting for Mark again."

“And pushing your luck,” said Murphy.

“You know everything you’re calling luck isn’t luck, right?”

Murphy didn’t look at me when he replied. “Every time we make it through some sticky-ass situation, it seems like luck to me. Like it was pretty damn lucky those cows were there just when we needed them, right?”

“No.”

“No?” Murphy laughed some more. “I think the virus in your brain is turning you into a golf ball head who hasn’t figured out he stopped being smart about four months ago.”

“Maybe,” I allowed, “and I don’t disagree that we’ve gotten lucky plenty of times, but I’ll tell you what I think happened this morning. We got unlucky a lot more than we got lucky.”

“And here we are, unlucky enough to still be alive.”

I ignored the comment and said, “When we left the barn this morning there weren’t any Whites around, at least none close enough to bother us. We got unlucky when those Whites from inside the house spotted you in your GI Joe outfit and came after us.

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