Time of Zombies (Book 2): The Zombie Hunter's Wife by James Jill

Author:James, Jill [James, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Gray Sweater Press
Published: 2015-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

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Michelle plodded down the stairs from the motor home like a million pounds sat on her shoulders. The bloody, lumpy blanket she held in her arms said it all. Her red-rimmed eyes looked up at him and Teddy wanted to take all that weight off her shoulders and his heart ached with knowing he couldn’t. He didn’t care what anyone said. Women were the stronger sex, they had to be. How else could they keep getting pregnant and having babies?

“It was still-born. Can you ... you get rid of it, please?”

He took the bundle with all the care he would have given a newborn baby. His natural curiosity rose as he cradled it in his arms.

Why hadn’t she said he or she or even, the baby?

“Don’t ask,” she said, her eyes refusing to meet his.

“It will be okay,” he whispered, wanting to hold her instead of the bloody bundle.

“I’m not so sure,” she muttered as she turned and walked back to the motor home. Several people opened a walkway and gave her a wide berth.

At the click of the door, Teddy hefted the tiny load and headed out to the gate and the field across the road. He plodded along until the boys of Rogue Vantage met him at the gate. He shook his head as they tried to exit the yard with him.

“Not today, boys. You don’t need to be seeing this.”

“We can watch your back,” Aiden and Bryant piped up.

He gave them a weak smile. “You watch from the gate, just in case. Give a holler if you see anything.”

Trudging across the asphalt his gaze swept over the tidy field with its collection of makeshift memorials and crosses. Not a lot, but still too many. The first row contained the parents of the boys watching his back. Commander Canida told him of finding the little ones the only living beings in the yard. The bodies of their parents and the other grown-ups had been too heavy for the children to move and the skinbags had made it too dangerous for them to dig graves.

The next section held four graves of people with injuries that in the before Z time would have needed a shot of antibiotics and rest to cure. He scuffed his feet in the dirt as he passed the next section with three graves of the elderly who’d died in their sleep and needed to be put down after the turn.

He trudged along until he reached the empty section with a grave already dug, with Jed standing by its side. Teddy stopped and gripped the bundle tighter. “You don’t need to be here, bro.”

Jed’s hands gripped the handle of the shovel until his knuckles stood out against his pale skin. “Yes, I do. I let Beth down. I should have seen it coming.”

He knelt beside the grave and slowly lowered the blanket-wrapped bundle into the ground. His vision blurred with wetness as he stood and wiped his hands on his pants.

“Can you say a few words?” Jed blurted out, the tears rolling down his face.

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