Zombies Apocalypse

Chapter 108

He started away, but stopped and turned back. “Oh, one last thing Gabriel . The description of your rescue I got, it made it sound like this vampire was pretty dead set on getting you over all the others. Did you… did you know this vampire?”

“Yes.” As the words came out, Gabriel ’s head drooped into his chest. “Before she was a vampire. That…”

He took a deep breath and swallowed, barely able to wrap his head around the words, let alone speak them.

“That… was Jake.”

Not much later Claire brought him some actual food, which he gulped down gratefully. He realized with some remorse that he hadn’t eaten since before the car crash, which was before he’d entered the cave. And that, according to the timGabriel ne Joe had given, had been five days earlier. He’d been living on just whatever Claire pumped into his I.V. since then.

Gabriel couldn’t imagine going nearly six days without food. Before the outbreak he’d almost never gone six hours without food. He realized somewhat depressingly th