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He didn’t answer He had his MacBook open and was fiddling around with the touchpad, and he had that look on his face that had pulled Aned nonchalance It took practice to come up with that look Somebody who had been sha it, rather than changing to not do things he was ashamed of She wanted to slap hi is--"
"AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!" Amy bent over and screaht, if the Lord had given her Jih the windshield of the RV
"Fine," she said "All I want you to do is give ure out a way to get across I’ll figure out a way to find David and anyone else who needs help in there and I’ll figure out a way to get them out and if I don’t, then I will die And that’s okay because while I’ to save the people I love, you’ll be back here in your cocoon, playing your zo would be better than watching you do that"
The side door of the RV ripped open A short dusky kid who Amy remembered was called Fredo leaned in and said to Josh, "Did you hear?"
"I couldn’t hear anything over her"
"Outbreak inside the REPER command center All hell broke loose, there was an explosion, the building’s on fire, all their contain area"
"Holy shit"
"OGZA says fire trucks headed one way, then tenthe Green Zone Leaving everything"
"They’re pulling out of [Undisclosed]?"
"Looks like it"
Amy said, "So what does that mean?"
Josh said, "Itanyone fro the city, and anybody left behind is now on their own"
Fredo said, "OGZA put out a call for assistance, anybody and everybody with a gun They said this is about to go from a class two to a class three zombie outbreak"
Auys actually do soet us inside the city They got friends on the cordon but that’s only until the feds change the guard rotations"
Josh hesitated, studying the ridiculous collection of guns on the wall Finally, he said, "Tell everyone it’s a go The feds shit the bed, and now it’s up to us We roll in thirty minutes"
3 Hours Until the Massacre at Ffirth Asylum
John couldn’t help but notice that, while all of Undisclosed appeared to be the aftermath of a post–Super Bowl riot in Detroit, if you had woken up in Dave’s neighborhood you wouldn’t have noticed any difference Sa on porches John found this coe, of course, here Dave’s little eleven-hundred-foot bungalow had previously stood, there noasn’tthe black frames of two burned-out walls and piles of wet, charred debris Blackened drywall and two-by-fours and roofing and gnarled wiring
John really didn’t feel anything about this, one way or the other And not just because he had been the one to burn it down John didn’t get sentimental about houses Maybe it was because he bounced around so much as a kid, thanks to three different divorces But he liked to think it just s The et burned up with a house, or transferred to the neners if it got sold A house was just wood and nails Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end You save your love for the things that can love you back
Falconer wanted the Porsche out of view, in case REPER ca One of the abandoned houses down the street had left its garage door open, and Falconer pulled in John personally thought it iser to have the car within lunging distance in case they needed to etahat other people did in Falconer’s world, while Falconer chased theht to re the car door and stepping out into the night erased any illusions he had that this was the sahborhood In the rearview mirror, John saw curtains rustle in the dark house across the street An infected? Or somebody hunkered down, scared that John and Falconer were infected? Who knows If it was so that the Porsche would put theo, with that zoe door down, closing it behind the Porsche They headed down the sidewalk, at which point John thought he saw somebody slip around a corner, but then realized he didn’t He thought he heard footsteps, but it was a windy night and the sound was a strand of Christainst aat the neighbor’s place<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>