Twisted (Novella): Twisted Mind [A Broken World Novella] by Kate L. Mary

Author:Kate L. Mary [Mary, Kate L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian | Zombies
Published: 2017-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

Jackson was once again working at the CDC when he heard the news: Meg had been sent outside the wall. It was preposterous for so many reasons, but it had happened and Jackson didn’t have a doubt in his mind who had made it happen. His father. So that was the lesson he’d wanted to teach her. It wasn’t bad. She’d never been out and it was rare that a crew spent time patching the wall without running into trouble, but also rare that someone died—unless Garret Star wanted them to. For all her daydreaming about what the outside world had been like, Jackson knew she’d never had any real desire to explore the world. Not the zombie world, anyway.

He found himself smiling as he headed for home, most of his worries from the night before now gone. Meg would come to him soon. She’d had a close call—very close from what the report had said—and she would surely be ready to make up now. Jackson wouldn’t be surprised if she was ready to beg for help. For him to take care of her and keep her safe. He couldn’t wait to hear her beg.

A few people on the street coughed as he passed them, and he stepped away even though he’d already received the vaccine for the flu his father had released. It would get much, much worse before it got better, but it would also help clean up the shantytown Jackson loathed so much. His father had agreed with him that the shacks needed to be bulldozed, and Jackson looked forward to watching it happen.

Back home he made himself lunch, being sure to make extra, while he waited anxiously for Meg to show up. She still hadn’t come by the time his food was gone, so he ate her portion as well, ignoring the nagging at his insides that told him he was a fool.

The later it got, the more he found it impossible to deny. Meg wasn’t coming. She’d had a shitty day and come face to face with death, but she hadn’t come running to Jackson for comfort. It was a first. He’d been there for every tragic turn of events in her life, dating all the way back to when her sister had disappeared, but she wasn’t going to come running to him today.

Of course, that whole thing had been planned. Orchestrated by Garret Star for two very important reasons: to get Jackson in Meg’s good graces and to get his hands on more of the James blood.

Jackson had been waiting in an alley, watching as Vivian walked down the street with her two young daughters. The older one had dark hair and looked nothing like her mother—which Jackson knew was because they weren’t actually related—but the younger one had been the spitting image of Vivian. Blonde and dimpled, an oval face that exuded beauty even at the age of nine, Margot had been a gorgeous child, and the three of them had looked like a picture perfect family up until that very last second.

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