The Loudest Silence: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Novel (Oklahoma Wastelands Book 1) by Kate L. Mary
Author:Kate L. Mary [Mary, Kate L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Press, LLC
Published: 2018-07-22T16:00:00+00:00
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“It’s been weeks, and we haven’t seen a thing,” Kellan was saying when I walked into the common room. “I think it’s safe to head out.”
Jasper sat on the chair in front of him, rubbing the knuckles of his left hand the way he’d been doing more and more recently. “And I take it you’re the one who wants to go out?”
“We need supplies.”
“That’s not an answer,” Jasper snapped.
“I want to go,” Kellan said, not the least bit fazed by the older man’s tone.
I hurried toward them. “Me, too.”
Kellan shook his head without even looking my way.
He’d been avoiding my gaze more and more since he started sleeping in my bed, and it was infuriating. Three weeks of us sleeping side by side, and he hadn’t returned to his condo, yet during the day he acted like he could hardly look at me. I knew, just as well as he did, that he could have gone back to his own place days ago, and yet he hadn’t. Not that I was asking him to leave.
“No,” he said. “Not happening.”
“Why do you have to be such a controlling asshole all the time?” I muttered.
Jasper rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath that sounded a lot like too many hormones in this damn shelter.
Kellan shot him a look, but before he was able to say anything, Jasper had his hand up. “There’s no reason for Regan to stay behind if she wants to go.”
“How about the fact that it’s safer for her here?” Kellan fired back.
“That can be said of anybody, and you damn well know it.” Jasper hauled himself out of his chair, groaning from the effort. “You two go, but I want you to take Blake with you. I want the extra set of eyes out there, and Lord knows he could use some time away.”
Kellan exhaled but nodded his assent—still not looking at me. “I can live with that.”
“Good.” Jasper limped forward a few steps before bending down to rub his knee. “I feel like I’m damn close to falling apart these days.”
I went to him. “What’s wrong with your knee?”
“Just age, darlin’. There ain’t nothing anybody but God can do about it as this point.” He waved me off. “You two find Blake and let the others know what’s going on so you can head out. I want you in town before it gets dark. Just ‘cause we haven’t seen anybody doesn’t mean they ain’t out there, and the last thing you need to do is make yourself vulnerable.”
“Blake’s up in the control room, I think,” I said.
Jasper exhaled. “Go pack. I’ll head up there to get him and take a turn on lookout.”
“You sure?” Kellan asked.
“I’m not useless yet. My body may be falling apart, but there’s nothing wrong with my brain or my eyes.” Jasper snorted before turning away from Kellan, mumbling under his breath as he headed for the stairs.
Kellan was still standing in the middle of the room watching Jasper hobble away when I headed down, taking the steps two at once in my hurry to get to my room.
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