They moved to the back of the truck to unload the passengers. Kevin strode up to the couple and sighed.

“Good to see you’re safe and sound,” Kevin said in a low voice.

Travis looked over at the crying infected woman, then back at Kevin. “I wish everyone was. ”

“Yeah. But she probably won’t be the only one,” Kevin answered with a sad sigh.

Travis agreed silently with a grim look on his face.

“We have to do this. We can’t risk the fort. ”

“Doesn’t make it any easier, does it?” Travis reached out and patted Kevin’s shoulder. “I’m sorry about your friends back in the mall. They were brave. ”

“So was your friend,” Kevin said with a slight smile. “One helluva a feisty one, wasn’t she?”

“You have no idea,” Travis answered with a bittersweet laugh. “No idea. ”

Katie was holding onto Travis tightly and she even smiled at this comment. She looked exhausted. On impulse, Kevin reached out and tucked her hair back from her face.

“You did the right thing,” he said, slightly embarrassed.

“That doesn’t make it any easier. ”

“I understand,” Kevin assured her.

“Katie!”

Kevin looked up to see Bruce Kiel heading toward them. His wrist was heavily bandaged. Kevin felt his heart sink.

“Dad! No! Dad!” Katie was instantly on the edge of hysterics and rushed toward her father.

“Katie!” Travis dove after her, catching her about the waist. “Katie, no!”

“It’s okay, baby,” Bruce called out to her, his expression agonized. “It’s okay. Please don’t cry. ”

“Oh, Dad, no. Please, God, no. ”

“Oh, shit,” Kevin groaned. He rubbed his brow and looked back at the woman who was now silent. Either she was accepting her inevitable death or¯ The woman lurched to her feet and whirled around on the guard. He was ready and shot her point blank in the head.

The people in the parked vehicles cried out in horror as Kevin closed his eyes.

Fuck. Could this get any worse?

“Dad,” Katie exclaimed. “Please, not you!”

“I’m not sure it’s a bite,” Bruce said, his voice shaking. “I punched a few of them while escaping, but I also had to climb through a broken window to get out of a store. ”

“Let’s see it,” Bette ordered.

Bruce began to unwind what looked like bandages made of a shirtsleeve.

Slowly, the bloody cloth fell away to reveal a bad wound. Bette took his hand and leaned down to look at the gash.

Katie was sobbing, clinging to Travis, her body shaking. Travis looked pale as he tried to calm her.

Bette sighed then wrapped up the wound. “There is glass in the wound, but there are clear teeth indentations. ”

With shivering breath, Bruce closed his eyes and tersely nodded. “I understand. ”

Tags: Rhiannon Frater As the World Dies Horror
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