Chp 196 - Afraid Of Hope

Adam was on his way to the virology center at dawn when he saw Theo coming from the direction of the stream.

The man had a local gun hefted over his shoulder and a rabbit in his hand.

“You shot that?” Adam called to him in greeting.

The man looked up at him and answered “Nahw” in the rarely-spoken Essex accent. “This was caught in the snare.”

“The snare?” Adam asked in confusion as he saw the blood matted in front of the big rabbit.

“It is a type of trap used here. There used to be a lot of games around here. Old man Reuben never had any interest in killing them for food, so they ran free in the land. Less of them now but then, we still get lucky from time to time.”

Adam nodded as he thought of the fact that his decision to help this man was right after all.

In this crucial time, more men like him would be really needed.

There was a reason why he stopped the man before: “Layla told me about the spray of the perimeter.”

Thomas’s lips tightened a bit as he spoke, expressionless. “Yes, t
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