Z-Minus (Book 6) by Briar Perrin

Author:Briar, Perrin [Briar, Perrin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2016-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Z-MINUS: 3 hours 7 minutes

Ian’s skin was pale, his features already turning blue. He lay on the cold unforgiving metal of a morgue-like tray behind Hamish’s work desk. A tag was attached to his big toe. There was something odd about that, something so impersonal, like labeling an item in a store on short-term sale. Jeff slid the drawer shut. Just another specimen.

Kate’s eyes were sunken, her mouth turned down. Daniel wrapped an arm around her, kissing her on the top of the head.

“Lindsey and I should get to our rooms,” Jeff said.

“Why?” Kate said. “Are you showing signs of being infected?”

“No, not yet,” Jeff said. “But it’s likely I was what with Ian’s projectile blood vomiting. There’s a chance Lindsey isn’t infected. I’d prefer to keep her away from me until we’re certain one way or the other.”

Kate nodded. She didn’t like it, but it made sense.

“But I don’t want to be separated from you,” Lindsey said, pressing a hand to Jeff’s chest.

“Neither do I,” Jeff said. “But there’s no other way round it. We have to keep separate. Only until we know whether we’re infected or not.”

It was an intimate moment, and Hamish wasn’t the only one to avert his eyes.

“I don’t like it,” Lindsey said.

“You don’t have to like it,” Jeff said. “You just have to know that this is what we have to do. To keep you and the others safe. Just in case. When we’re certain we’re clean they’ll let us out and we can be together again. But until then, I don’t want you to get infected accidentally. One of us has to get back to Robbie.”

Lindsey nodded, though she was still upset.

“All right,” she said.

She stepped forward to hug Jeff, but he stepped back.

“No skin to skin contact,” he said. “Not until we’re certain.”

Lindsey clasped her hands together in front of herself, looking like a child who had been chastised and didn’t know what to do. Her eyes were glistening by the time they put her in her room. She looked from one person to the next, looking for the love she’d given them on countless occasions, but none of them could meet her eye.

“You’ll be all right,” Jeff said.

He closed the door on her. He let his shoulders relax. He thumbed a tear out the corners of his eyes, and then set to applying the lock on the door. He moved to the room opposite.

“Would you like something to occupy your time?” Kate said. “A book or something?”

“I wouldn’t be able to focus on it anyway,” Jeff said.

He stepped inside the room, his prison, for the next twenty-four hours. He leaned in close and whispered in Hamish’s ear.

“Don’t let Lindsey out,” he said. “No matter what she says or does. She might not be herself if the virus gets a hold of her. You’re new here and don’t know her as well as the others. You need to remain firm. Let everyone know everything is going to work out. Figure out a way to give her food safely if she is infected.

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