The Survivors (Book 1): Summer by V. L. Dreyer

Author:V. L. Dreyer [Dreyer, V. L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: V. L. Dreyer
Published: 2014-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Maddy and I had finished our project and returned to her bedroom to play with her dolls when the ruckus started.

My head shot up. I was on my feet a moment later, immediately alert for danger. My hand instinctively went to the pockets of my cargos, but I swore when I realised my taser was not close at hand. Maddy gasped and giggled at my naughty language, but she didn't seem concerned at all.

"Granddaddy's back, Granddaddy's back!"

She leapt to her feet, chanting gleefully, and skipped out of the room before I could stop her. Concerned she might be mistaken, I hurried after her as fast as I could, but she was small and nimble and was gone before I even made it to the door.

Oh great. I’d lost my charge on my first day of babysitting duty. For all I knew there was a hoard of mutated infected coming this way right now.

Thankfully, I was wrong.

"Out the way, Maddy-monkey!"

The voice was deep and commandingly male. It took me a second to realise that it was Michael's voice, and that he just sounded a little different when he was out of breath. He rounded the corner a moment later, burdened by a huge box of god-knows-what but looking flushed and excited regardless. Madeline was bouncing around him trying to see what was in the box, full to the brim with energy in that way only a small child can be.

I grabbed the little girl as she passed by and gently restrained her to keep her out of the way as the loot-procession moved past us. It took them a couple of trips to bring in all of the goodies they found, with the men carrying the heavier items and insisting that Skylar only carry lighter objects. As much as their chivalry seemed to piss Skylar off, it gave me a bit of a warm feeling to see men being gentlemanly in this day and age.

She stopped beside me after one trip to catch her breath and greet Madeline, and while we were talking she mentioned that they found a lot of useful things in the store alongside the general home wares. They found camping equipment, tools, gardening utensils and even seeds that they suspected would probably still be viable. Although there was no space to grow them here, they brought them all anyway since they might prove vital in the future.

I agreed, of course. You never knew what you’d need one day. Even if we never used the seeds, a rake could be a handy weapon in a pickle. Besides, every one of us was aware in our own way that we couldn't keep living off the skeleton of a dead society forever. Eventually, we would need to fend for ourselves and become self-sufficient.

They wouldn't let me do much to help with the unpacking due to my injury, so I settled for keeping Madeline distracted and out from underfoot. For whatever reason, she was extremely excited and possessed more energy than all of us adults combined.

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