The Survival Games (Book 2): Hide & Seek by Everheart AJ

Author:Everheart, AJ [Everheart, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2020-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Donovan

The day fades into night, but Sammy and his band of merry fuckwads still haven’t left the services. I guess they’re stopping for the night to refuel. Ha. Refuel. At the services. I snort at my own joke as Fischer looks at me oddly. She’s offered to take the night watch, but we both know it’s only so I can sneak down into the camp without Galen breathing down my neck. I lean back into the base of a tree as I wait for him to fall asleep first, it’s only when an hour passes that I realise he isn’t my problem. A certain clingy eight-year-old is.

Luke’s got his arm linked through mine, his head resting on my arm as he dozes fitfully, waking himself up with a start every fifteen minutes or so. I try to de-tangle myself, but it only makes him hold on tighter, half-asleep. The fourth time I try, I’m a little more forceful; after all, I’m doing this for him. For her.

“Why do you keep trying to get away?” he asks groggily, and I feel a pang of guilt.

“Because I need to go somewhere,” I reply, keeping my voice at barely a whisper. Galen has hearing like a bastard bat, and knowing him, he’d hear me, even snoring like he is.

“Are you going to get Lily?”

“That’s the plan.”

“You want me to stay here with Charlie?”

I frown, who the heck is Charlie? I can feel his gaze on me, even though it’s too dark to see anything clearly. I can also feel his smile, it changes the air around us, and I’m grinning too, even though I don’t understand the joke.

“Charlotte Fischer,” he finally mumbles as he unwinds himself from me and creeps towards where Fischer is keeping watch.

Charlotte. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to ask her name, she was always just...Fischer. I take a deep breath and try to get up without making too much noise, I’ve already wasted precious time trying not to disturb Luke. No, wasted is the wrong word.

I creep back down the hill and pause briefly at the bottom. When I can’t hear any footsteps behind me, I let out a soft sigh. Now for the hard part, getting to Lily.

I follow the trees and overgrowth along as much as I can, keeping low and in the shadows. It isn’t hard, the light given off by the bonfires they’ve lit doesn’t exactly illuminate much. I find a panel of wire mesh in their homemade fence, and using some cutters I stole from Sonia earlier, I snip a hole just big enough for me to slip through. I don’t know how they always manage to do this in the movies, because it’s not exactly the quietest thing in the world. Thankfully, someone nearby keeps coughing and spluttering, the racket almost covers the small noises I’m making with the poxy fence.

I manage to get inside the perimeter with only one cut, a gash in the palm of my hand where one of the metal wire prongs caught me as I cut into it.

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