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
“I had no choice. He found me.”Adam looked at the man standing in front of him.“So you agreed to continue using humans for your experiments? I saved you for nothing."The elderly scientist looked fearfully at the sword that Adam held at his throat.He had seen how fast that thing slashed down the men who were watching over them in the lab.He could almost feel the fury pulsing from the young man in front of him too, and he was sure that a wrong move or statement might make him meet the same fate.“He insisted on it. He was going to kill my grandchild if I didn’t do as he asked,” Dr. Carson said desperately.“And where is your grandchild now?” Adam asked.His anger was reducing by the moment.He knew what men like Walton were capable of; of course, he had seen it before, and he was sure that the older Walton was even worse than his son.Carson rubbed his hand over his tuft of hair. “I have no idea. He separated us. I will only get to see her if I give him what he wants. So far, we ha
The scene Adam met was far from what he was expecting. The scream was coming from Gwen, who wound herself like a vine around Maddy’s legs. Jared was blocking the door to a small room. Behind the door, a growling sound was coming out. “What the hell is going on here?” Adam asked aloud, and they all turned to him. The men whom Adam had sent to watch over Jared and his family were standing to one side with indecision on their faces. “Here comes another murderer!” Gwen screeched. Her hair updo had tumbled down, and strands of her brown hair were over her sweaty face. “Thank God you are here, Adam,” Maddy said as she tried to pull her leg free of Gwen’s tight hold once again. The latter held on like her life depended on it. “What are you even doing here, Maddy?” Adam asked in confusion. “I was trying to do the necessary, but these two wouldn’t let me. Can you hear that sound? She has turned!” The growling sound had stopped before, but when Maddy said that last statement, the sou
Carson couldn’t determine what exactly was wrong with Patricia immediately.He took some blood samples from her and promised Adam that he would have an answer soon.In the meantime, Adam forbade Jared and Gwen from going anywhere close to Patricia.It was when he threatened to kill her immediately after he saw either of them around her that the father-daughter duo hastily agreed not to go anywhere near her.That meant one thing: Layla had to be convinced to let the two back in the house until there was a decision to be made about Patricia.Layla was having none of it.“No! I don’t want either of them in this house,” she said adamantly when Adam told her of the recent development.Theo had been unable to do anything about Ralph.Though Ralph had some self-repairing properties, it was not enough for the type of damage that had been inflicted on him.To even be able to get it to power on at all, Theo needed an electromagnetic part that can only be gotten at a robotics company.The closes
Adam quelled the disappointment he felt when nobody picked up on the other end. He was about to redial the number again when he changed his mind. “What did you expect?” he thought to himself as he continued on his walk. He doubted that the man was even still alive to this day. The sickness had swept through the land globally like a wildfire, after all. He wondered what it must be like in an opulent country like Kuwait. He wondered what things must be like in rural areas. Adam wondered how bad things must be in less-privileged countries. Then he smiled at himself at the thought. Less-priviledge indeed. “If only zombies got the manual. Hey there, these countries are less privileged, so deal kindly with them. Or, oh wait, this particular country is known as the world giant, so please tread carefully. Will you?” He let out a low chuckle at his own silly rambling. “Please, tell me you are not going crazy,” Adam heard just as he turned around at the sound of approaching footsteps