The Hollows 2: Hollowmen by Amanda Hocking

Author:Amanda Hocking [Hocking, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Horror, Zombies
Amazon: B006520VDS
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2011-11-08T08:00:00+00:00

18.

All those months, after everything they’d done to me, and they hadn’t learned a single thing. I wanted to yell at him. I wanted to swear and punch him. But I didn’t. I just balled up my fists and closed my eyes.

And not just because it would wake everyone and freak them out if I just started randomly beating the shit out of Daniels.

Because despite everything, I knew that I would’ve done the same thing as him. Maybe I would’ve given the patient more pain meds, but I would’ve tested for everything, tried anything to learn how to stop this.

In the end, it was the lack of a cure that frustrated and pissed me off, not everything I’d endured for it.

“But you’re sure they don’t like the cold?” Boden asked.

“Like most other things, when exposed to the cold, the virus slowed down considerably,” Daniels said. “At the right temperature, it stopped moving completely. The cold doesn’t kill them, but it can freeze them.”

“And unlike us, they don’t know how to bundle up or create fire,” Boden said.

“Right,” Daniels said. “If we can find someplace cold enough, and make it stable for us, we should be able to survive a long time.”

“Assuming we have enough food and supplies to last us,” Boden said.

“We have food, and we can hunt,” Nolita said. “We’ll just have to get more resourceful.”

Daniels smiled down at her, as if suddenly remembering she was there. “And I believe we can do that.”

“Speaking of which, there’s a kitchen here.” Nolita pulled away from Daniels and stood up. “I should see if there’s any food that they left behind.”

“I’ll go with you,” Daniels offered.

Using a stick they’d brought in for the fire, Nolita made a torch. Then she and Daniels went back into the kitchen to explore and hopefully bring back some food.

Boden and I were left in silence, which gradually began to feel awkward. I was never one for small talk, but I didn’t want go to sleep yet.

“So what’s your story?” I asked him.

“My story?” He shrugged. “I don’t have one.”

“I don’t know anything about you,” I said. “I don’t even know your first name.”

“It’s Charlie.” He smiled at that and extended his hand to me. “Charlie Boden.”

“Remy King,” I said and shook his hand. “Nice to meet you.”

“Likewise.” He leaned back, stretching his legs out in front of him. “I really don’t have a story, though.”

“How’d you end up the quarantine?” I asked.

“I was in the army,” Boden said. “This was back before the zombies. I didn’t have any money for college, and there were no jobs in the town I grew up in. So I joined the army, thinking I’d do a couple years in the Middle East, build a career, then come home and go to school, get a job, all that.”

“And then the virus happened,” I said.

“I’d finished basic training, but I hadn’t gone overseas,” Boden said. “And then instead of fighting an enemy, I was staying here, killing my fellow Americans.”

“So you were in it from the start?” I asked.

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