The man barely glanced at the newly arrived. One could see that he counted them unworthy of his presence and recognition. Instead, he looked straight at the general and asked, “Is she here now?” “Yes, she is,” the general answered immediately with respect. "Good. I am sure Jaden would talk some sense to her, and we can start operations.” Talk sense into her? Operations? Adam wondered what he was talking about. From the look on Maddy's face, she was thinking the same thing. So saying, the man continued on his walk, followed by the men behind him. “Excuse me, sir. I need to talk to you about... The general hurried after him, leaving Adam and Maddy standing. “I still don’t know why dad has to call her here, though." The lady called Gwen said as she went to sit in one of the lounge chairs placed around. She sighed and flicked imainary dirt off her nails. “Now, she will think she is so important.” “Keep it down, Gwen,” her mother said as she went to join her. She corked her
“I never get the surmon,” Jared Walton, Layla’s dad, said smoothly without any change in his countenance. Layla scoffed. “Of course, how convenient.” Her father shrugged again “I guess it is up to you to believe me. We were also battling those vermin back at home. There we were one day, planning board meetings and how to make things work, and then the next day we were fighting off crazy brain eaters. Everything was in chaos. We almost lost our lives too. Patricia was hysterical. We almost didn’t get to Gwen on time, and..." “And of course, it didn’t matter what happened to me. Inasmuch as your precious daughter and wife are okay, it was not necessary to look for the prodigal daughter, was it?” “Layla…” “No, it is fine. I totally get it. Why did you get me here this time? You don’t look like you are dying to me.” “You wish I was dying?” he asked as he leaned back against his chair. “Oh, don’t flatter yourself. I stopped wishing anything concerning you a long time ago. Why would I
Adam disconnected the call and looked over to where Maddie was exchanging barbed statements with the young miss, who had a problem with her sitting with them. “Cut it out, Maddie. We are leaving.” “Maddie. What sort of crappy name is that?” Gwen muttered with a roll of her eyes. “One I wouldn’t want to swap with a name like Gwendolyn, Gwen," Maddie said as she deliberately picked up a handful of the canapes they had on the table and stuffed them in her mouth while giving Gwen the finger. They had barely taken a step towards the gate, though, before the general came running. “And where do you think you are going?” the man asked. “Away from here, obviously,” Maddie answered with a roll of her eyes. “You are not allowed to leave unless told to.” “Why not try to stop us?” Maddie asked as she shifted her stance into a defensive one. Adam laid his hand on her arm and asked, “Told to by who?" “That is none of your business. It is enough to know that you are not going anywhere yet.”
“No!” Even Maddie was startled by Adam’s outburst. The men who were carrying Layla ahead of her father stopped, and they all looked back. “We are not going in there with you. Whatever you have to say, say it out here. What the hell did you do to Layla?!” he asked firmly. Walton looked at Walton and they both turned to Adam. “I will not hurt my daughter. I just need her to sign something and you will all be on your way” the man Adam assumed was Layla’s father said. “So you knocked her out? You would hurt your daughter because of whatever the fuck you have going on here? She left where she was immediately she heard that you needed to see her, you asshole. She left everything for you, and what did you do? You knocked her out?” Not even a semblance of guilt crossed Jared Walton’s face as he said “Stop being dramatic. I didn’t knock her out.” “Then wake her up. Whatever the hell you did that made her like that, make it stop now or I swear this precious daughter of yours will be dea
Gwen’s mocking laughter was what shattered the deafening silence that followed Layla’s statement.“What a loser,” she crowed. “I don’t believe you have to hitch yourself to any common fool now just to make a statement. Aww, poor darling, you are so unwanted by everyone that you even have to force a man to marry you now."Adam had had enough of the girl’s bullshit.He stepped towards Layla as he said, “Actually, Layla was just a bit faster than I was. I was about to ask her to marry me before a certain call came in, and we had to rush off. Why do you think I am here with her? Because I love her, of course.” Adam was beside Layla by the time he made his last statement.He cupped Layla’s face as he smiled fondly at the surprise in her eyes at his words.Then he leaned towards her and gave her a deep kiss that had Maddie hooting.“Well, I hate to be a bearer of bad news,” Walton started.Adam stepped back from Layla and smiled a bit at the dazed look in her eyes.With a smile firmly on h
The black blood of the zombie spewed.As the zombie groaned in the hold of the blade, the men standing nearby were already riddling its brain with bullets.Even before he was finally cut in half, its feral cries had died in its throat.Maddie rushed aside and threw up violently.“You are sick, man. What the...? oh my God,” More vomit stopped her words.“You see that,” Sybil’s dad said calmly as he faced Adam and Layla.“You would do that to me?” Layla asked in a disbelieving tone. “My dad would let you do that to me?"He shrugged. “Seeing that you are family, I hoped it wouldn’t come to this, but just as you said, you are hardly family in the real sense. So, yeah. I would. I want your consent on this, you see, and I will get it. What I am going to do is huge. It will save a lot of people. We will turn things around. You see, if you happen to still be here in the new world I will create, I don’t want you pestering me later about the unauthorised usage of your land. So, you see, we have
Adam did the honours.All of Walton’s men were bitten.Just as Layla and Maddie took them out one after the other, Adam went over to Walton.The man was gurgling on his own blood as he tried to hold his hollowed-out neck.Adam stood over him while ignoring the screaming banshee close to them.He pointed his gun at the man’s head as he smiled and said, "I'm just doing you a favour. I am sure you understand, right?”Walton’s eyes widened as Adam’s smile disappeared, and he said, “Regards to my dad.”He shot the man straight in the brain just as Jared Walton came running.“You! What did you do?! You killed him? Patricia, stop that noise for one second, please!”No, I didn’t kill him. This fucker got him. Your wife can testify to that. Me? I only did him a favour so he wouldn’t turn to what he hates. I would have said you should ask him, but well..." he clicked his tongue as he turned away from the dead bodies.“You might want to take care of your wife there. She is in shock.”Layla came
Rotten-faced, black saliva dripping, the zombie got up close to her, as it said in a guttural, growling voice.“You are mine!”Maddy jerked out of her dream with a half-scream in her throat.Layla, who was pacing not far from her, turned around and quickly came to her when she saw the expression on her face.“What is it?” Layla asked with concern in her voice. “Bad dream?”Maddy tried to talk, but she found her throat parched.She swallowed hard and said, “Nothing. Nothing, just a silly dream.”"That scream doesn't seem silly to me,” Layla answered as she sat close to her.“Any luck?” Maddy asked in a thready tone in a bid to change the conversation.She wished she could guzzle down about a gallon of water to soothe her throat and calm her raging nerves, but since that would mean she was bothered by the dream, she simply turned her head towards the closed door near where they were.Layla looked in the same direction as she said, “No, Theo has not been out of there yet. He did say it w