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I don’t think I really believed her until now But then again, I don’t think the world was supposed to die I don’t think that was God, but man I think we did it"

"Probably" Katie twirled her wedding ring around her finger thoughtfully "Lydia was a Buddhist I was raised Methodist We didn’t get into a lot of spiritual talks, but we did agree that this life is precious and that we need to do our best, be our best in this lifetime When I saw she was dead, I felt so lost And then I heard you screa you, I saved ently in her own "We’re saving these people to ourselves We’rea neorld for all of us"

"It won’t be easy," Katie rerinned and kissed her friend’s hands again Pressing her cheek against Katie’s palht thing"

Katie s away and lying down on her cot, Jenni sighed with contentment

"I can’t wait to see Juan tomorroant hirets I’ him those words made her smile "Tomorroill be a beautiful day"

Outside, the athered around the ainst the once white wall now a ht poured through theforms of the people tucked away inside

2 Exit the Wickedest Woray dawn, the Senator and her people quietly walked down the e the double doors open and she stepped out in front of the blacked out doors that were the main entrance of the mall She stood at the pinnacle of the top of the "A" shape of the h asked

"Very sure," she answered

The Major General ardly absent, but she had explained he had second thoughts and had chosen to remain behind In reality, they had fallen into a horrible row and she had shot hiht She didn’t have ti open and the low moan of the zombies beyond the wall filled her ears for aflushed and anxious

"Okay, the guards are neutralized We got two trucks pulled fro lot I don’t think ere spotted"

"Good," the Senator said with a suards in," the soldier continued "So they won’t get killed"

"Excellent point Pull theh was fidgeting, staring down the darkened mall corridor toward the silent stores where the people slept "If we blow the front gate…"

"The zoet in And besides, the two sides are blocked off It’ll be fine," the Senator assured hi lot was a trapezoid with the ate had never been a ate was solidlot behind the ht iron and had to be fortified with vehicles and heavily barricaded The two narrow side parking lots had been blocked off as a preventative ht they should try to keep the zoh the other

Transports had been parked along the side of the ular cars were on the other All the gates ired with explosives Additional explosives had been tossed out on a line and their triggers were next to the interior of the gate The idea was to blow the gate then the explosives out in the crowd of zombie to clear a path

"I would really hate for these people to end up dead," Raleigh said after a beat

"I didn’t know you were such a bleeding heart," the Senator teased hiuards froate and laid theh decided He shook his head, gazing at the guards

"They made their choice," the Senator said, her eyes hard "In one month ould have been out of food and the water is conta here"

"There should have been another way This seeo to Central or not? Or do you want to go to the fort and be led by the hicks?"

Raleigh frowned, then shook his head "I just want us out of here"<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>