Survival of the Fittest Box Set | Books 1-3 by Fawkes K.M

Author:Fawkes, K.M. [Fawkes, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2021-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The sun was starting to peek over the horizon by the time we made it down the freeway—littered with cars and bodies, just as the town had been—and into the mall’s parking lot. And here, we found the exact same scene. The parking lot was completely packed, like the mall was currently open for business or something.

Only, the people who owned those cars were never going to go on a shopping spree again. Here, in the more open setting of a parking lot, where there were no buildings to shield them, the bodies had been… well, ‘cooking’ was the only verb I could think of… for a week now, and man, were they ripe. The stench of death was like a fog over the place, and I gagged at not only the scent but also the things I was being forced to look at.

Will and I glanced at each other, cringing, and then rushed across the parking lot, our shirts up over our mouths and noses, in an unspoken agreement about getting through it—and through this current chore—as quickly as possible. We needed to get into the mall, get supplies, and get out again as quickly as possible.

Because the mall was, as I’d observed, the easiest and most obvious place for us to have come. Which made it the easiest and most obvious place for Sally and her goons to search.

We both wanted to be long gone before they showed up. And we wanted to have enough food and water that we didn’t have to make any other stop before we got to a place where we thought we could find safety.

I also didn’t want to spend more time here than we had to. The dead bodies were creeping me out and the smell was making me feel as if I was going to throw up. Soon. The carnage was also a constant reminder that what I’d thought I had known about life was completely moot, and that the world as we’d known it…

Well, I didn’t think it was an exaggeration to say that it was never going to exist again.

Give me the wide open freeway, free of bodies (well, at least they were locked in the car wrecks), and I’d be happier. Get us back on the road as quickly as possible, and I’d be ecstatic.

Once we got to the mall, though, we found it—weirdly—locked.

“Who the hell took the time to lock the doors of the mall during a biochemical weapon attack?” I asked, shoving at doors that should have slid right open.

Yeah, it made sense that the electricity wasn’t working anymore. That was fine. But the doors still should have opened with manual pressure. And it had been the middle of the day when the attack happened. The mall shouldn’t have been locked up for the night or anything like that.

“Someone who probably thought they were saving everyone inside,” Will observed, frowning.

“Which was pretty stupid, considering these things aren’t exactly airtight,” I responded, kicking at the door in front of me.

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