Breaking Cadence by Rebecca Clare Smith

Author:Rebecca Clare Smith [Smith, Rebecca Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires, zombies, dark fantasy, dystopian, postapocacylptic
Publisher: Katarr Kanticles Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Allies?

I didn’t bother to look for sand spiders on my way back. I could have driven right down into one of their trapdoors and never have noticed. Mangled thoughts jerked between Alex and Zander. He’d made me choose between them, but I’d never meant to pull the trigger.

The idea of him with no help out there tugged in my stomach and several times I’d started to turn the car around, but familial instinct had me swerve it back with thoughts of my brother. I had to think of Alex, despite the uncomfortable damp reminder of Zander that lent discomfiture to my trousers and shamed heat to my cheeks. Betrayed.

But none of the mattered now. Focus was imperative. Where had Alex gone and why? I tried to convince myself he wasn’t stupid enough to go back to town, but I couldn’t do it. If he’d been thoughtless enough to take Sera’s rabbit when he’d known the score, then he was definitely capable of going back to that imprisonment under his own steam. What did he think he would do? Just walk in and be welcomed back with a slap on the wrist, I bet.

Idiot boy.

He had no idea. I felt over my eye for the worn leather patch but it was gone, strewn on the floor of the lighthouse with so many other careless memories. My hand returned to the wheel. There was no point in pretending any more. There was nothing to go back home for and no longer any reason to hide what they’d done to me. My life had to be about protecting Alex and Kitty, not living in terror of the committee and anyone else who sought to replace them.

Every now and again the voice would crackle over radio frequencies trying to get hold of Zander. I’d considered answering it, but even if I figured out the contraption there was no guarantee that I’d know what to say. Thankfully, they didn’t sound too concerned. Maybe that was because he was redundant now. He’d given Xanthia exactly what she’d wanted – the location of a cure.

He could have told her about me instead.

I wanted to believe that was in some kind of loyalty; that he’d chosen me over her, but I couldn’t. I knew it was just out of guilt. Pay back.

I stopped the car by Zander’s tent.

If he’d told them the truth about me then, even jealous, I doubted Xanthia would have agreed to ‘dispose’ of such a precious commodity. Not that it was definitely the truth. Zander was so caught up in his dream of an antidote that he could have dreamt up the whole thing.

Scraped tracks spelled out the haste of my brother’s departure in Zander’s stolen pickup. Canvas doors swiped back at my touch, the sacking scratch painful to my ears. Clutter was spread everywhere. Any sign of Alex was gone, not that he’d brought anything with him.

It didn’t matter. We wouldn’t be coming back, anyway.

I started stuffing things in the car that I

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