Catharsis: Outbreak Z: Books 1-4 by Roberts EM

Author:Roberts, EM [Roberts, EM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: EM Roberts
Published: 2014-07-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: The Girl Who Was Forgotten

Izzy sunk the knife into the infected creatures eyeball. Normally, if she were in hand to hand combat with one of the creatures, Ella had taught her to try and knife it in the temporal part of the head, but she’d awakened to find the creature almost on top of her so she’d settled for the closest path to the brain. So, the bowie knife was currently protruding from the creature’s eye socket.

She pulled the knife from the creature, grimacing when it pulled the eyeball and optic nerve from the orbital socket. She leaned down and wiped the gore from the blood onto the grass. Sticking the knife back in its scabbard on her belt, she looked around. She was just on the outskirts of Kingsport. She’d decided to hide out in the woods until she could make a plan. There was no way she would abandon Carlos and Ella.

After Ella had been restrained and Carlos taken off to God knows where, the Captain had ordered Izzy to return to the Johnson farm with the envoy he was dispatching. Somewhere along the way, both the Captain and the men had forgotten about Izzy. So, she’d stealthily made her way out of the town. It had been a good five mile walk, but she was young, healthy, and reasonable good shape.

She’d spent the night in the woods. It’d been several months since she’d been alone and every sound jerked her awake—except for the one that mattered most of all. The infected creature had made its way to Izzy’s small camping area without her hearing it. She thought it was probably because she’d been so tired from falling asleep and jerking awake that she’d finally succumbed to a deep sleep.

Now, she was hidden on a rise beside the interstate. She knew the officers would return with Parker, and she thought it highly likely Theo would come as well. She didn’t see him just sitting back and accepting his daughter’s draft into the service.

Izzy really admired Ella and hoped someday she would be as strong as the other woman. Izzy, sometimes, let her emotions get the better of her, and she knew this was something she needed to control. The last few months had helped her become more mature. She liked being part of a group.

Like everyone else, she had regrets. Sometimes, she thought about the day the outbreak began. The last day she’d really spoken to her parents had been at their wedding anniversary party. It had resulted in a yelling match about how ungrateful she was. She supposed in a way she was ungrateful, but she just wanted to be herself and not what her parents wanted her to be. Was that so wrong?

Sometimes she thought about the abortion she’d had that week, and wondered if that would be her only chance to ever have a child. She certainly didn’t want to bring a child into this world, and looking back, she couldn’t say she was disappointed in her decision.

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