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“What in the hell just happened?”I asked.
“Incoming undead.We’re supposed to get up.But from the looks of things, Molev was already up.”She lifted her arm, made a fist, and gestured from elbow to knuckles.“About this size.I’m going to need a minute to process.”
CHAPTEREIGHT
“We don’t have a minute,”I said, throwing back the covers.
The cold air on my legs had me calling myself seven kinds of stupid.We both hurried down the hall and ignored Ted’s wolf whistle as we started putting on our gear by the door.
“How many?”Roni asked.
“About a dozen,” Ted said.“They’re lingering at the edge of the trees again.Patrick thinks they’ll attack all at once.”
“Where did Molev go?”I asked.
“You mean the crazy, naked grey that just stormed out the door?”
I hurried outside in time to see Patrick disappear at a run around the opposite side of the barn.Roni and I both sprinted toward the vehicles where Katie was already climbing on top the MRAP.
“He wants us ready for retreat,” Katie said when she saw us.
I started for the Humvee when Patrick’s voice came over her radio.
“Stand down.The situation has been handled.”
A dozen infected handled in two minutes?
Turning around, I jogged to the other side of the barn.Bodies littered the light dusting of snow near the tree line.Molev bent and picked up something from the ground.Then he turned and ran toward us.Naked.
I wasn’t Katie or Tamra.But I wasn’t Roni either to openly gawk.So I looked at the snow when he neared.
“No survivors.”The wet sound that followed drew my attention up, and I saw the head tumble in the air.Patrick sidestepped the head Molev had tossed to him as Molev walked away from us all.
Patrick looked at me.
“Stay with him,” he said.
I didn’t immediately move.Instead, I glanced at the head on the ground.“If we want him to trust us, we need to treat him like an equal.”
“He’s far from being our equal,” Patrick said.
“He killed them all faster than I can take a shit,” Sean said.
“If he can still treat us like we’re his equals, despite our inferiorities, why can’t we do the same?”I asked.
“Understood,” Patrick said.“Help him move past this.We won’t be able to count on him if he’s holding a grudge.”
“He needs sleep.”
“We’ll give him as much as we can,” Patrick said.
Shivering, I jogged back toward the house.The sudden heat stung my legs, but I didn’t start stripping off my gear like Roni was already doing.
“Did you see him?”I asked.
“He was hard to miss.”
“Where’d he go?”I asked.
