The Green Fields Series Box Set: Books 1-3 by Adrienne Lecter

Author:Adrienne Lecter [Lecter, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dystopia, zombie apocalypse
Publisher: Adrienne Lecter
Published: 2016-07-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Getting out of the base was a lot easier than getting in, and within an hour we were back in the relative safety of our camp. The other team followed about an hour later, laden down even heavier than we were, but we’d definitely scored the better loot. Although I didn’t complain about the huge tub of dehydrated mashed potatoes and several crates of apples that they’d liberated, mind you.

I spent the better part of ten minutes scrubbing my right hand with bleach, until it burned too much in the few scrapes and cuts I’d inflicted in the process for me to continue. I couldn’t deny that I was concerned about that, but there was nothing I could do about that now. If I’d been infected, I’d know it soon enough.

Although none of us caught more than three hours of sleep, we were up and moving shortly after first light. Warmed up potatoes with a side of full magazines was definitely the breakfast of champions.

My own good mood was up to par with most of the group’s. The fear of running out of ammo had clearly been weighing on more than one mind. In hindsight, I should probably have been more worried, but it wasn’t the first time since we’d left Lexington that I’d realized that I still had to get my priorities straight. In that, Nate had been right—even if I didn’t like that one bit.

By the time we took a quick break over lunch, Burns had regaled everyone who couldn’t flee quickly enough with the tale of my newfound skill, as he called it. I still wasn’t sure if it was that or just dumb luck, but I minded less than I pretended to. Even Madeline didn’t rain on our parade, and we covered a good chunk of ground before we dug in for the night.

The day would have been perfect if not for the fact that over dinner, Innes keeled over, sweating and choking on his own vomit.

He’d been unusually quiet the entire day, but I hadn’t really noticed because he wasn’t one of the guys I usually walked next to, and with Burns running his mouth up and down nonstop, there hadn’t been any reason for anyone else to try to entertain the lot of us.

Martinez got up, ready to check on him, but Pia shoved him out of the way.

“Stay put. I’ll handle this.”

I couldn’t help but stare at Innes, the need to inch away making my skin crawl.

Laboriously pushing himself back onto the log he’d been sitting on, Innes stared up at the Ice Queen, panting from even that little bit of exertion. “I’m good. Just some food gone bad. And dehydration, probably.”

“Doesn’t look like sunstroke to me,” she said, her voice hard, but with a note of compassion that was as unfamiliar as it was frightening. If anything, it was that which made Innes blanch. Not that he sounded very convincing—or convinced—but no one spoke up. Within seconds, Pia had him bent over, first checking his hands and neck, ignoring his feeble protest.

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