Stay Out of the Shadows: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by A.P. Madden

Author:A.P. Madden [Madden, A.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Luke woke, but he had no sense of how long he was asleep. He sat up slowly, testing his side. Judging by the light coming in through the windows, it was morning. He had slept through the night.

His eyes landed on Naomi and Seth, sitting together at a table, and his stomach relaxed. He didn’t realise he was worried about them until he saw them chatting and laughing. Anything could have happened while he was passed out, and he would have been completely useless if they needed him.

That won’t happen again, he promised himself.

Luke sat up carefully, propping himself up against the single cushion. It wasn’t comfortable, but it was better than the floor. He tentatively touched the wound on his side, but he could already feel that it was slightly better than the night before.

Naomi and Seth were looking at a map spread across the table. It was the same one they used to plot their route to find Seth, and it looked like she was teaching the kid how to read it. He seemed like he was genuinely interested, to Luke’s surprise.

“Supply run,” Naomi told him, seeing that he had woken.

“Okay,” Luke said. “Give me a few minutes to-”

“Not you,” she added. “Us,” she said, gesturing to herself and the kid.

“We’re not splitting up,” Luke said. “And I’m fine.” To prove the point, he pushed himself up and got to his feet. He made a good effort of not wavering, even though his vision spun as soon as he stood. “See?”

Naomi made a small, disbelieving noise. “You need to stay off your feet for at least one more day. Then you can go running and fighting whoever you want.”

“But-”

“Doctor’s orders.”

Luke frowned. “Splitting up is still a bad idea.”

“We need food,” Naomi said. “The factory is still a few days away. We need to restock before we start travelling again. Even if we left right now, we wouldn’t make it the whole way there.”

Luke couldn’t argue with logic and reason. “Have you ever seen a horror movie? The characters always split up and bad things always happen.”

“That’s a good point,” Seth said.

“We won’t be alone,” Naomi said. “I’ll be with Seth. We’ll have each others’ backs. You can hold down the fort here by yourself, can’t you?”

“Of course.”

“Great. Then it’s settled.”

Luke frowned. He wasn’t sure how she won the argument, but she was already packing her things, and Seth was too eager to go exploring, so he didn’t question it.

Luke sighed and sat back down on the couch. He wouldn’t say it out loud, but his entire body breathed a sigh of relief when he got off his feet.

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