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“You don’t understand, Andie. I’ve seen what you’re getting on the regular. I’ve heard how amazing it is. It’s okay for me to be jealous as fuck and needy. Let me have my dreams.”
“Fine. You’re right. If you’re lucky, your dream fey will trip while he’s whisking you away to his sex dungeon and accidentally impale you, sending you into an instant orgasmic spiral. Better?”
“And here we thought you were an unemotional robot incapable of relating to us,” she said, grinning at me. “You get me.”
Her gaze caught on Molev near the house, and she started waving at him.
“I need to talk to you, big guy. It’s urgent.”
The second he headed in our direction, I said goodbye and veered toward the front door. I had no reason to listen to any more of Roni’s sex requests.
Inside, a group was working together to make a late lunch for everyone from the supplies we’d taken from the FOB. Rachel, my sister-in-law, was one of them and waved me over when she saw me.
“There aren’t a lot of beds here,” she said. “So I told the moms with their kids to take them.”
“Makes sense,” I said. “Did anyone have a problem with it?”
“No. Just wanted you to know so Molev didn’t try claiming one with you. Not that he doesn’t deserve the downtime and some decent rest,” she added quickly.
“Don’t worry about it. He’ll be fine.”
“Do you think we’ll reach Whiteman tomorrow?” she asked.
The work in the kitchen slowed as they all waited for my answer.
“If luck’s on our side, we should,” I said.
CHAPTERFIFTEEN
“I see our destination ahead, folks,”Roni said over the radio. She was in the lead vehicle, something she’d worked out with Molev, and I really hoped she still had her shirt on.
We’d kept the fact that we were headed toward Tolerance, Molev’s home, instead of Whiteman from everyone but the core team. While I didn’t think the end destination would matter, I hadn’t wanted anyone to panic over the fact we weren’t going to a so-called secure base.
“Ben just ran ahead and disappeared over the wall,” she added. “We’re almost home, people.”
I could hear the excitement in her voice and shared it to a degree. Yes, we’d made it to Molev’s home, but I knew we weren’t truly safe. A tsunami of infected and hounds would be headed our way as soon as they finished with the coasts. And then what? We didn’t have a cure to stop people from turning, and the method we had to kill the hounds was dangerous, especially if we were fighting off infected at the same time.
We needed more than a cure. We needed a miracle.
“Thanks for letting me ride with you,” Rachel said. “This beats riding in the back.”
She’d been pretty quiet the whole ride.
“I wasn’t trying to ignore you,” I said.
She chuckled. “I know that. You were being smart about who you assigned as a lookout and rotated. Plus, I had experience with kids and could help with the moms. Those poor kids. Terrified and bored isn’t working for them.”
Rachel got quiet again and stared off at nothing for a moment. That was the exact reason I hadn’t assigned her as a lookout. She hadn’t been the only one, though. So many of these women were dealing with some level of grief or trauma. I didn’t hold it against any of them. They hadn’t signed up to be guards or lookouts. They’d signed up for a better life. And now, hopefully, they’d have the chance.
“Get ready, ladies,” Roni said over the radio. “We’re getting a welcoming committee, and half of them forgot their shirts.”
“Molev, you better block Roni’s door, or she’s going to scare a lot of people,” Steve said.
“I like that you’re all close,” Rachel said. “It’s like a family.”
“I guess so,” I said. “A slightly annoying one.”
She laughed. “Aren’t all families just a little annoying sometimes? But you know you can count on them, and that’s what really matters.”
