Vixen A.D.: A Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Harem by Lara X. Lust

Author:Lara X. Lust [Lust, Lara X.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

15. Comforts

Mace took the time to double-check the security cameras. Besides a stray shambler in the corridor between the living quarters and array, the place was mostly empty. There were a few skeletal bodies, sure, but nothing undead. After securing the cameras, he and Faye resealed the doors and activated the electronic locks.

There wasn’t any more fuel, unfortunately. Mace was disappointed; maybe if there had been more, they could have stayed longer. At least there was a break from the madness. They were even going to have dinner.

A real dinner.

The living quarters were mostly made from the diner, several booths, and reinforced metal plates over the polyacrylic windows. Even if the lights were on, you wouldn’t be able to see it from the road. That was good. Mace didn’t want wraiths or shamblers to show up.

Several of the booths were converted to bunks for sleeping. In the back, by the dishwasher, a mobile shower had been installed. It even had hot water. The toilet was functional, too. But what interested both the most was the stove, refrigerator, and drinks.

They had enough to make a medium, five-course meal with wine and fresh water. Mace planned on taking the remaining gallons of drinking water and some of the canned food they discovered. There was no sense in trying to save the perishable food, as they didn’t have the cooling to keep it chilled.

Which meant he could cook all the eggs, the vegetable steaks, the hash browns, and strips of faux bacon. All of it. The meals were microwave-based, but he didn’t give a fuck. Faye would pour the only bottle of wine and split the remaining soda over ice. They’d drink, eat, and laugh.

Enough to pretend things were just another night, that things were normal. It was a lie, but a good one; morals were set aside to tell just one fib for the night, that fib being “this evening is another evening like any other, here is dinner, etcetera, so on, so forth.” Mace was okay with that. So was Faye.

They’d found the sauce earlier. Mace left a jug of drinking water on the table in case it was spicey. Faye placed several napkins and cheap silverware on the table. Finally, the entire table was prepped for the scavenged microwave dinners and drinks.

He microwaved everything. His mouth was salivating. Mace could almost taste the fake bacon through his nose. Faye was eying the oven as it rotated and heated the food. She was probably drooling more than him.

“It’s almost done,” Mace said. “We can wolf all this down.”

Faye snickered. “Wolf it, huh?”

“What did you want me to say, fox it all down?”

She rolled her eyes. “Well, whatever you don’t want, I’ll finish.”

“Girl with an appetite, huh?”

Faye stuck her tongue out. “And I’m proud of it.”

“You don’t look like you are a pound overweight,” Mace laughed.

“I burn through calories pretty quickly, but I can also go a long time without them. I think the idea is that I can store dense energy when I need it and replenish it when required.

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