The Swiss Family RobinZOM (Book 4) by Perrin Briar

Author:Perrin Briar [Briar, Perrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zombie series, zombie apocalpyse, zombie adventure, zombie apocalyptic, zombie adventure books, zombie action zombie, zombie apocalypse survival
Published: 2015-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

II

Liz wore a long nightgown and rubbed cream on her hands, neck and face. Bill lay in bed watching her.

“You’re very quiet tonight,” he said.

“I’ve got a lot on my mind,” Liz said. “You know, I just wish you’d have mentioned this to me before, instead of just blurting it out like that. I’m not sure if it’s the best thing to take the kids away from civilisation.”

“It’d only be for a year or two,” Bill said. “They’d learn a lot from the experience. I would never go without you and the boys. If you say we won’t go then we won’t go.”

“It’s not up to me,” Liz said. “It’s up to all of us.”

“You’re right,” Bill said.

Liz stopped wiping her face with a cotton bud, tossing it on the table.

“Are you unhappy with your life, Bill?” Liz said. “Are you unfulfilled in some way?”

“I’m not saying I’m not happy with my life,” Bill said. “I am. I just… I mean…”

Bill sighed.

“Don’t you ever think that maybe you could do more with your life?” he said. “Not change the world or free a nation or be a hero, but… something different?”

Liz folded her arms.

“Yes,” she said. “At times. I wonder what if we hadn’t had the kids so young, what if we’d moved away, travelled the world a little. But then I think about all the things we have here, how lucky we are. There are people a lot worse off than us, you know.”

“I know,” Bill said. “And I’m really trying not to be selfish. I wish I could give you and the kids more.”

“You give us plenty,” Liz said. “And the boys have university to look forward to. Marriage. Their own kids. When we got married I never expected private jet planes or multiple houses around the world.”

“I know,” Bill said.

“What brought this on anyway?” Liz said.

Bill shrugged.

“I was just thinking it would be nice,” he said.

“But something must have made you start thinking about it today,” Liz said. “You had a bad day at work?”

“No, no,” Bill said. “Nothing like that.”

“Then what?” Liz said.

Bill pursed his lips, hedging.

“I saw a woman today,” he said.

“Is that an unusual occurrence?” Liz said. “We do make up half the population. You ought to see us sometimes.”

“No, not like that,” Bill said. “She’s not a patient. There’s a woman I see every day on the way to work in the mornings. Every day I just see her and carry on reading my newspaper. She looks like a traveller, like she’s done a thing or two in her life. And then today I decided to talk to her.”

A shadow of concern crossed Liz’s face.

“We got chatting,” Bill went on, “and do you know what I found out? She wasn’t a traveller. She hasn’t seen the world or experienced new things. She’s rarely even left the valley. And I felt sorry for her. Because she’ll never see anything beyond what she sees with her own two eyes. It made me think about my own life, about the things I want to do with you and the kids before I die.

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