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"We had heard about the him out when he did coet away froed to lock the door," Belinda finished

Jenni studied her a bit longer She was fairly sure that librarians were not supposed to be attractive or sexy

Juan quickly explained about the fort, the situation, and all they had endured Gretchen kept clasping her hands and saying, "Dear sweet Jesus"

The teenager just see Juan, which really annoyed Jenni

Jenni wasn’t sure she liked any of them

"So there are no doctors or nurses in the fort?" Gretchen asked in horror after Juan was done with his story

"Nope Clinic got wiped out right away That’s e need books," Juan answered

Belinda clasped her hands over her mouth and tears welled in her eyes

She shook it off and said, "Okay Give us the list"

Juan rued around in the pocket of his worn jeans and pulled it out

Belinda took it and immediately scanned it

"Okay, we’ll divide it up, load up the book carts, and get out of here,"

Belinda said

Jenni tried not to frown at her Who had put her in charge anyway?

But being the good sport she was, Jenni trudged along behind Gretchen, pushing a book cart while it got loaded up hat looked like a bunch of really boring books Juan ith Belinda and the teenager collected all the re ot out to the truck and there were no zoy and irritable and wanted to shoot so

They all squeezed into the truck Belinda sat next to Juan with the teenager on her lap Gretchen squeezed in next and Jenni ended up crammed in last, al than the trip out Again she saw so on s, but none broke out

She thought of Mikey, sighed, and felt evenstuff

Back at the fort, the ladies were helped up over their defenses and into the construction site while Juan loaded up the old pallet Travis had built with the books while Jenni and others stood watch

Finally, she went over the wall, Juan behind her

"Well, Loca, we’re safe and sound"

"Big fucking deal"

Juan looked at her and frowned "What?"

Jenni just wrinkled her nose at hi on the way back At all!"

Juan started to laugh "Yeah, but you’re back and okay So you can go flirt with Travis"

Jenni considered this for aas before "Oh, yeah I guess I could"

"Tiht closet, chica" Juan mussed up her hair with one hand and strode off to join Belinda

Jenni just scowled after him She stomped her foot once and stormed off to pout

Chapter 17

1 The Terrible World

Jenni walked out of the new gate cautiously, her rifle in her hands, safety off, ready to fire Bill walked with her, also sweeping his gaze over the abandoned street Curtis was right behind the very nervous This was his first ti profusely

Jenni had been asked to accompany the former cops on a search and rescue expedition Either Juan had talked up her skills and craziness to grandiose proportions or her actions in the fort had made her seem crazy, yet competent Or maybe it was a combination of both But it did a, because they knew she had no issue about killing the zombies Unfortunately, there were those who did see their former townspeople Already on one rescue randmother had resulted in one death

The construction workers atteate behind the screeches and a lot of swearing Juan had told Jenni that there had been soate and obviously this was true Hopefully, they would have it fixed by the tiot back

Despite her efforts to not be annoyed, Jenni was having trouble dealing with Juan It was all about Belinda and she hated it bothered her so much It became clear that Juan’s real reason for the library excursion was to hopefully save Belinda And since she was one of the town’s librarians, everyone knew her, which annoyed Jenni to no end Since Belinda had arrived, they dyna like a total idiot around Belinda, trying to act all smooth and sophisticated and if Jenni even tried to pop a joke in his direction, he’d get annoyed Though she was utterly loath to admit it, she missed their banter

She strode quickly toward thethe rescueand the nu out There were at least a dozen children now and Peggy’s son had plenty of other kids to play with At times Jenni felt annoyed with their presence It was hard to see other children alive and hen hers had died so quickly<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>