The Undead Age Series (Book 2): Damage In An Undead Age by Geever A.M

Author:Geever, A.M. [Geever, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: ZBZ-1 Press
Published: 2020-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

23

Just another minute. You can do another minute without screaming.

Doug’s jaw ached. For the first five minutes of the trip, he kept reminding himself to relax it, but he clenched it again so quickly he gave up. Skye sat in the front passenger seat of the SUV, her eyes straight ahead or looking to her right, where she would not accidentally catch sight of him. Her posture was so stiff she looked like she would break if jostled. She answered Rocco, who was driving, in one-word sentences. Normally the two talked up a storm. Doug had no idea why she had decided to accompany them to the Institute, but if her intent was to torture him, she was succeeding.

Next to him in the back seat, Miranda twitched and fidgeted like an unmedicated kid with ADHD hopped up on sugar and caffeine. Her anxiety was palpable, even with Delilah next to her. The pit bull had picked up on Miranda’s anxiety and lay beside her mistress, her head resting on Miranda’s knee instead of hanging out the window. The dog’s presence usually relaxed Miranda, but several times already, Doug had asked her to loosen the death grip on his hand.

When the SUV finally came to a halt in the front of the parking lot at the Institute, Doug sagged with relief. Skye and Miranda were out of the vehicle so fast it might as well have been on fire, and Delilah was already on hind legs, peering up a tree at an angry macaque. Doug watched them go, feeling more demoralized than he could recall. His hand that Miranda had held was still blotchy red and white. She had left fingernail marks on his palm.

Miranda needed to talk to Mario. Her growing anxiety during the ten-day-long shelter-in-place at LO had been tough to watch, mostly because there was nothing he could do to alleviate it. Things had started off well enough as she brave-faced her way through the first two days. They had stayed with River, who busted out her emergency Blu-Ray player. She had everything from The Godfather to John Wick, which was impressive since Blu-Rays were obsolete tech before the ZA started. It had been an almost successful way for Doug to not think about Skye until River selected Notorious with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. The combination of a secret, tortured love affair and Nazis had done him in. The movies lost their special treat charm. By day three, Miranda spent her time brooding or scribbling furiously in her journal and cursing when she needed to sharpen the pencil with a ferocity that was impressive even for her. There was, apparently, a better kind of pencil but it was at her place. Doug wallowed in self-recrimination and self-pity about how spectacularly he had fucked up with Skye. He had done the right thing the wrong way. He told himself he should feel relieved, but he was dying inside.

Doug got out of the SUV and shut the door. The monkeys were screeching as they scooted on the ground or leaped from tree to tree.

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