The Day After: A Zombie Apocalypse Thriller by Bartholomew K

Author:Bartholomew, K. [Bartholomew, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2020-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

It took nearly two hours to drive the fourteen miles to UC Berkeley, over the Bay Bridge through traffic that barely ever seemed to budge.

“I tell you, maybe we can do something about all this after…” Drake didn’t elaborate and went back to complaining about his ex-wife. “Five thousand fucking dollars a month. That’s what I got to pay to an ex who bore me no children and gave nothing but headaches for twelve years. You know how many software packages I got to sell to earn that?” His grip tightened around the wheel of the battered Ford. There were several spots impressed by what had to be fingernails and at least one where the leather had been ripped away completely. “I’d intentionally downgraded jobs in prep for the hearing. 150k I was pulling in and on some bad advice from a lawyer friend, I quit for something only a fraction as lucrative. Yeah, you heard me right, I downgraded, hoping to do one over on the bitch. So, I turn up at family court with all the paperwork saying I only earned eighty-five,” he thumped the wheel. “Didn’t fucking matter though. She was used to the good life, 150k, so all must go on as though that’s what I was still making. After tax and being garnished, I’m left with barely enough to fucking eat, all while that cheating bitch spends her days, and my future, at the nail salon. Five thousand a month,” he glanced right and grinned at Jeff, “you can guarantee that’ll all be extinguished when nobody’s allowed to earn a penny more than anybody else. She’ll have to get herself a fucking job then, earning whatever low standard wage the state decides to set.” He laughed, “I pray I’m the one who gets to break her the news.” He shook his head. “I tell you, man, you went about it all the wrong way, waiting outside the old home like you did. There are much better ways of going about getting your vengeance. I mean, what the fuck were you gonna do if she came out anyway? Have angry words in full view of the whole fucking street?”

Jeff hadn’t known at the time. But Drake was right. Even a bad plan was better than none at all. The mistake he’d made was being drunk on Jack and getting emotional, which went against all his training, but when it came to her there was no way of helping himself. He’d not even seen her that day, just three cop cars that came screeching out from nowhere, threw him in front of Judge Taylor for breaking the terms of his bogus restraining order, and six months in jail. How the cops had missed him throwing the hammer into the bushes, Jeff didn’t know, and that, at least, had been a miracle, because otherwise such an incident would have meant a permanent end to his freedom.

Jeff couldn’t afford to make the same mistake again.

And even if Drake’s plan was full of uncertainty, there was no doubting it was better.

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