Chapter 10
Derek froze for a second.
Then he took a step back
“No,” he said. “I never liked her.”
I couldn’t name the look on his face.
But I knew one thing–he was afraid of me.
Good.
I nodded.
“Then it’s nothing.”
Derek fell silent for a few seconds.
Then he waved his hand.
“Get on the vehicles. We’re taking you to the base.”
The crowd surged toward the trucks.
I was the last to move.
At the door, I twitched my fingers slightly, ready to tear Elena’s body to dust with spatial power.
But suddenly, a small figure crashed into my arms like a cannonball, chattering about how much she’d missed me. It was Cissy.
Her interruption washed away most of my dark thoughts. I shrugged it off, figuring leaving her corpse to rot in the wild was punishment enough for Elena.
The truck set off.
I stared out the window–ruins, zombies, a gray sky.
Just like last life.
And yet nothing like it.
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This time, I was safe inside the vehicle. No one would shove me out. I would reach the base whole.
The convoy drove on, putting more and more distance behind us.
The stadium dwindled in the rearview, a shrinking scar on the landscape, until it finally vanished below the Chapter 10
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