Worse Than Dying by Van Valkenburg Brett

Author:Van Valkenburg, Brett [Van Valkenburg, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

VI

It was dusk when Adam Fitzpatrick reached the gas station at the end of the Walmart parking lot. By then the car alarm had stopped. His glassy eyes shifted toward the highway that ran beside the store and disappeared over a hill into the vermilion horizon on the edge of town. He stared long and hard at the road. It looked inviting—almost familiar.

Adam broke from the mob and shuffled toward the highway. A few undead took notice and followed him. They, in turn, attracted their own followers and so on like a chain of magnets pulling iron stragglers. By the time Fitzpatrick made it to the intersection, he had thirty acolytes in tow. Thirty escorts to accompany him home.

Alvin and Noah didn't see much of one another throughout the rest of the day. Noah spent his time scavenging, organizing and reorganizing supplies, discarding some things he now doubted as useful, and picking up other items he had overlooked. Alvin was lurking somewhere, Noah knew, but he didn't care where so long as the creep stayed away from him. Noah was thankful he would only have to see Alvin once more, at daybreak. They had agreed that it would be best to leave the store together before going their separate ways.

As the light from the skylights dimmed, Noah lay back on a faux leather recliner atop an elevated furniture display. He sharpened his machete on a mill file he'd found in the hardware department. What would he really do if Abby confirmed his suspicion? Could he really kill another man, a living man? He wondered. The only thing keeping him from snapping into a rage was the naïve optimism that Alvin was telling the truth. Perhaps he really hadn’t touched Abby, and the little girl in the produce aisle was the result of some undeniable, deviant urge brought on by months of celibacy. Either way, Alvin’s perversion had unleashed a revulsion in Noah that could never be undone.

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