Undead Rain (Book 3): Lightning (Fighting the Living Dead) by Harbinger Shaun

Author:Harbinger, Shaun [Harbinger, Shaun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Harbinger of Horror
Published: 2015-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“I don’t fucking believe this,” Sam said, throwing his backpack to the floor. “I knew we’d get screwed over by those fuckers on Apocalypse Island.” He paced back and forth along the length of the lab, muttering to himself.

“They didn’t know anything about it,” I reminded him. “They thought that everything they told us about the virus was correct.”

“Just shut the fuck up, Alex.”

I decided to let him work out his anger issues by himself. I didn’t want another punch to the gut.

Jax was standing by the window, looking out at the rainy night. I went over to her. “Hey, are you okay?”

She nodded but didn’t say anything.

“We’ll get through this,” I said. I didn’t really believe those words, not at that moment. We were only twenty-four hours from becoming creatures like the thing in the vents.

Jax sighed. “I don’t think so. Not this time, Alex. I’m going to die not knowing if my boyfriend is still alive or not. I’ll never know what happened to him. And he’ll never know what happened to me.”

“Don’t think like that,” I said. “This isn’t over yet.” I was trying to reassure Jax but I was in exactly the same situation; if I didn’t get that antivirus, and turned in twenty-four hours, I would never know what had become of Joe and my parents. Lucy’s fate, on the other hand, was certain; she would turn. I guessed that the guards at Alpha One would kill her once she ceased being a human being. Hart’s wife, Kate, would suffer the same fate.

An idea came into my head. It was probably too late for me, but if I could get my backpack full of H1NZ1 to the rendezvous site, Hart would find it and take it back to Apocalypse Island. Lucy and Kate could be saved, even if we couldn’t.

Jax reached inside her T-shirt and pulled on the thin gold chain she wore around her neck. “Derek gave me this,” she said. “He asked me to marry him.” A diamond engagement ring hung from the chain, sparkling in the lab’s artificial light. “I never wore it because I couldn’t decide if I was going to say yes. I was an idiot. I should have said yes without even a second thought. I didn’t realize how precious our time together was. I didn’t know it was going to end so suddenly.” Her shoulders began to hitch. I put my arms around her and let her cry against my chest.

I liked Jax. At times, she seemed to be the most vulnerable person in the group, and that was endearing. Even though she could be damn tough sometimes, she wasn’t in the same league as Tanya. Jax showed her softer side sometimes, and the fact that she wasn’t afraid to show it made me like her even more.

It felt good to hold another person, even if it was someone I really didn’t know. In the midst of death, destruction, and a countdown to our own demise, there was comfort in the touch of another human being.

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