The house was shrouded in grief. Even the kids seemed remorseful about the death of a baby they never got to know. “Poor baby,” Nina said as she sniffled into her bundled lab coat. “Poor baby survived that long only to die in the hands of a ninny,” Lisa said. Anger was evident in her tone. Anger at the wasteful death that could have been prevented if the situation had turned out differently. “I always knew that girl had a few wires crossed differently in her. Still, even I wouldn’t have believed her capable of this,” Marriane said in a forlorn voice, with her eyes on the direction of the back door. The back door opened and closed. Nina stood immediately from where she sat. She went straight to Adam, who was still in his soiled clothes. “Is it done? Did you at least give her the name?” she asked as more tears flooded down her face. “I did. I did,” Adam said quietly as he held her shoulder and led her back to the others. Adam was suddenly tired. It was not just physical tire
Adam couldn’t bring himself to stay around the others as he entered.His thoughts were tumbling over each other as he nodded slightly at his mother when she said,“It is not your fault, son.”He looked at his dirt-streaked clothes, hands, and feet as if he had no idea who they belonged to.Then he turned towards the staircase.He entered the room where he had found Jasmine and just stared at the blood stain on the white chrome, like it had a life of its own.“Want me to clean that up for you?” He heard a voice behind him.“I told you to be gone,” he snapped as he turned back to face Layla, who was leaning against the door jamb.She raised her brows nonchalantly as she said, “Technically, you said by the time you came out of the bath. From the look of things, you have not started yet.”“And you want to help me?” Adam said automatically.He just wanted her to go away.He wanted everyone to leave him alone for one damn minute!Jasmine had opened his eyes to the fact that everything he wa
“Are you seriously going to consider letting her stay with us after what she did? I say we kick her ass out.” Lisa said immediately Adam came out of the room. Adam had heard noises in the house while he was in the bathroom. From the look on Lisa’s face, he could tell what the noise had been about. “Not now, Lisa,” he said slowly as he stood there on the landing. He still didn’t feel like joining the rest yet. The smell of eggs got to him, but instead of feeling hungry, he only felt nauseous. He knew he was supposed to talk to them. To boost morale, or whatever the hell was expected of him. Even if none of them had officially stated it, he was seen as a kind of leader now. Adam had no idea how he had gone from being a lowly messenger to being a man responsible for about fifty people. All he knew was that he just wanted some time to himself. Maybe Layla was right after all. It had been so damn long since he had been with a woman. Ana had made it clear long ago that she wou
Adam felt reborn anew!“Pfft, that is an exaggeration,” he muttered to the silent ceiling as he stretched languorously on the bed.With a smile on his face, he looked around at the rumpled sheets at the edge of the bed.“Sorry, buddy. Three bouts of sex would do that to you,” he muttered with a silly grin on his face.As the morning light seeped into the room, Adam felt like singing.He felt lightweight, as if most of the burdens that had been holding him down had rolled away.“A good fuck would do that to you,” his subconsciousness muttered cheekily.Adam couldn’t deny the fact, though.That was a good fuck indeed.The girl had been fucking good with her mouth, her waist, and her strength.The first time had been like heaven.Adam had no idea that his body was so starved of intimacy until she touched him.Right then and there, he almost embarrassed himself by pouring right into her hands.She sent him a knowing smirk and made him lie down before she started her slow, torturous minist
Adam was feeling damn hungry by the time he came out of the bathroom.Reminded of the need to get more food before they run out of the ones they have, Adam got dressed to join the others.Plans needed to be made.He pulled open the door, and just as he was about to close it, his eyes caught on something towards the other end of the room.It was a radio.Adam turned back as a thought came to him.“So, that was what that was about?”“Huh?” Adam asked incomprehensibly as he turned to face Lisa’s furious face.“What was…”“So you wanted her to stay because you two were fucking? After all she did?” his sister tossed at him.She couldn't mean what he thought she meant, could she?“What are you talking about?”“Oh, don’t bother to deny it, brother, dear brother. Everyone fucking heard you last night. Mum too”“Oh sh*t," Adam muttered.“Oh sh*t indeed. Why would you want to do the nasty with such a piece of sh*t, Adam? You don’t even know the whore!”“Okay, Lisa. that was uncalled for. Don’t
“I guess the genius didn’t think of that.”Lisa muttered under her breath.Adam ignored her and focused his attention on the man who just spoke.“You are right. Otis, is it?”“Yes, my name is Otis,” the man said self-importantly.Adam nodded slightly as he thought fast.They were all gathered in the living room, and Adam just informed them about what he had learned.The recorded announcement was about the fact that the government had three secured facilities open to the public for protection.One was in Ohio.Another was in Sudan.And the last was in Nasca.People just needed to get themselves to those facilities.Or at least to the evacuation centers, and the authorities would make sure that they got to the closest safe facility.The closest evacuation center was in Supon.It was about 200 miles to the east of Maradoit.While Nasca was the closest facility to Maradoit.It was about 500 miles to the west.As Adam explained, they can decide to go towards Supon with the hope that they w
The preparation took two days.The Trents had a Mercedes Benz Sprinter and a 20-seater Toyota Bus in their warehouse.Both were so new that Adam wondered if they had used them for more than just decorations in their gigantic warehouse.The warehouse reeked of paint.Buckets after buckets of paint were stacked high in the warehouse.“Too fancy for the likes of us,” Carlisle muttered as he kicked one of the paint buckets.Adam could understand his hatred for the Troys after what happened to his brother.Still, he chided the man to keep it down.They had not had to face a lot of zombies on their way to the warehouse but Adam still wanted to be as careful as possible.He went to the warehouse with Ryan and Carlisle.He didn’t intend to make the one-eyed man feel like less of a man because of his condition.Marriane had told him that the eye was healing nicely.They had been able to treat it on time and there was no infection.Though the eye was still bandaged, Carlisle seemed to be fine.
“They are treating this like they were going on a goddamn trip!”Adam told Marriane when she called him aside to talk to him.Adam was about to lose his temper with the people before she called him aside, saying that she would like to have a talk with him.“You can’t really blame them,son,” Marriane said as she gestured to the kitchen stool for him to sit on.“I am fine,” Adam stated instead and he stood looking out of the window.His eyes went straight in the direction of the place where they buried the baby but he kept his mind away from the disturbing thoughts of her.“Do they not understand how serious this is? After all those deaths, they still do not understand how serious this is." Adam asked no one in particular, still looking out through the window.“Of course they know. They do know. They are scared, too. That is why they are clinging to things that bring them comfort. A semblance of familiarity,” she explained gently.“But they must know that they can’t just expect to bring