Where There's Hope by Frank Tayell

Author:Frank Tayell [Tayell, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2018-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 - The Danger of Assumptions

Chateau des Fleurs, Chemin de la Grimpette

“This is my fault,” Bill said, stretching his arms, then his legs. The cords tying him to the chair were too expertly tied. There was no give. “I thought Cavalie was a man. I just assumed all of Dernier’s people were.”

“What’s that thing Americans say about assumptions?” Chester said. “Any slack on your ropes?”

“No. You?”

“None. They’ve done this before.”

He and Bill were each tied to a wooden chair. In turn, those chairs were tied back to back, but with the ropes then secured to a rusting bracket bolted to the floor. Having searched them, taken their weapons and bags, and tied them up, Cavalie and her two goons had gone outside.

“Any chance you have a knife in your pocket?” Bill asked.

“Nope. You?”

“No. Can’t be many of them,” Bill added. “Not if one didn’t stay inside.”

“Probably not,” Chester said.

“Any idea why they tied us up?”

“Only the obvious,” Chester said. “They have questions. Otherwise, they’d have shot us.”

“Okay. We can’t cut the ropes, nor wriggle free. I say we topple the chairs over, breaking them in the fall.”

“Nah,” Chester said. “That never works in real life. Trust me. Seriously, think about it, how many chairs have you knocked over, and how many of those have splintered when they fell? Besides, the noise always brings the guards.”

“You’ve done this before?”

“That’s a conversation for another time,” Chester said. “But, listen, there is something I want to talk to you about.”

“Oh, yes?” Bill said, again heaving against the ropes with fruitless optimism.

“I wanted to tell you back on Anglesey,” Chester said. “There was never the right moment. There hasn’t been since we crashed, either.”

“Whatever it is, I don’t think this is the moment either. But if it’s about London, back at the beginning of the outbreak, forget about it.”

“Nah, it’s not that,” Chester said. “That was just one of those unfortunate twists of circumstance. Both of us were too caught up in our own personal misery to know how to do what needed to be done. No, it’s about Stewart, the guy who kidnapped your two girls.”

“Stewart?”

“Yeah. You see, back in London, there was a guy with us called Stewart.”

“It’s hardly an uncommon name,” Bill said. “And I killed Stewart.”

“You shot him,” Chester said. “Near Kew Gardens. He didn’t die. He managed to get to the river. Tuck and Jay found him there in a boat filled with supplies. The boat you, Kim, and your brother used to travel down the Thames. You left it tied up on the river.”

“He told you this?”

“No. After you shot him, the zombies took a few bites out of him. He never properly recovered from that. He became… disconnected from the present. I pieced together what little he did say with what you wrote in your journal. He was shot, bitten, bleeding out when he made it to that boat. He was dying, but that was about the same time as Tuck and Jay were on the other side of the Thames.

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