Zombie Reign (Book 1): Death in Detroit by Edward Joseph

Author:Edward, Joseph [Edward, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I no sooner had ushered Claire in the front door and closed it behind me when I was summoned. Any married man knows exactly what summons I am referring to. The one where your first, middle and last name are used when addressing you – ensuring that you understand both the serious nature of what is about to be discussed and that whatever is was you did to cause the summons is about to result in significant emotional trauma. Kate made it very clear, with her emphasis on using a few select cuss words in her request, that my presence was requested in the kitchen.

Knowing that if I ran out of the home my fate wouldn’t be much better, and (potentially) more physically painful, I wrapped my arm around Claire’s shoulder and began towards the kitchen. I didn’t get my first step completed when Claire stopped dead in her tracks.

“Come on Claire, I would like you to meet my wife, Kate.”

“You have got to be kidding me. I’m not going in there. I don’t even know her and whatever she has in mind to talk to you about, I don’t think that I was invited.”

“That’s because she doesn’t know you yet. I need you to come with me so that I can introduce you.”

“You need me so that she doesn’t kill you, don’t you?”

Smart kid, I thought. Which led me to do something that shames me to this day – I used Claire as a human shield as I entered the kitchen from the front room. I was very careful to make sure that Claire was the first thing that Kate saw as we entered the room.

“Oh, you poor dear! What on earth happened? Why is she here, Griff?” asked Kate as she focused on Claire as we entered the room. Now that Kate was no longer referring to me by three names and her tone changed significantly, I knew this was my opening to explain what had happened while she was resting.

Kate went into full nurture mode, as I gave Kate the closest to PG-13 run down on what had occurred that I could muster. Leaving out some of the details for the sake of Claire’s fragile young mind, Kate was brought up to speed. Kate was busy doting over Claire as I spoke, which gave me the first glimpse of what a wonderful mother she was going to be for our child. Not that I had any doubts. It’s just that I hadn’t seen Kate around kids that much and definitely not under these set of circumstances. (I know that anyone would have probably done the same damn thing - I was just so relieved that Claire saved me from an ass chewing that my rose colored glasses became hypersensitive!)

Having the false sense of security that I just dodged a nuclear warhead from Kate, I attempted to nonchalantly remove the large bag of armaments from the kitchen table. The look Kate gave me while tending to Claire

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