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“I can,” she said as she walked through the dining room to the back hallway. Her bedroom was back there somewhere, so I assumed that’s where she was headed. “That will be so good for her. You have no idea. I can’t thank you enough.” I said the words to Cooper, even though it was for Ashley. Speaking to one was like speaking to both. It was odd watching them interact and move about, orbiting each other, like an old couple who’d been married fifty years or more. If reincarnation was possible, these kids had to have found their way to each other again, many times over. After an hour, Scarlet returned inside. She smiled at Zoe. “Do you have horses” she asked. Zoe held up a tiny horse in each hand. “Just these.” Scarlet nodded her head, her expression absent of condescension. “Better than that bull out there, that’s for sure.” “Butch” Cooper said. “He’s not a bad guy. He’s just sick of being cooped up in that pen. You’ve been feeding him, haven’t you” “He has hay,” Scarlet said, “and water. I’m worried he’s going to attract shufflers, though.” “Attract what” Cooper said, chuckling. Scarlet glanced at me, and then back at Cooper, clearly taken off guard by the question. “Shufflers. I can’t call them zombies,” she said, rolling her eyes at the word. “Zombies are from Hollywood. Zombies aren’t real. Those things need a name that’s real.” “Yeah, but shufflers” Cooper said, making a face. “They shuffle!” Scarlet said, mildly defensive. The conversation had drawn the attention of the rest of the group, and everyone else was congregating in the living room, too. “I’ve been calling them sick, or infected,” I said. “Those things,” Ashley said. Everyone craned their neck in her direction. She shrugged. “That’s what I call them: those things.” Miranda crossed her arms. “I can’t call them zombies, either. I call them dead ones.” “Biters,” Joey said. “I like biters,” Miranda said, nodding. “Well, I like shufflers. They shuffle,” Scarlet said. Joey laughed once without humor. “They also bite.” Scarlet frowned, but everyone seemed to be amused with the conversation. “I think we should call them cows,” Zoe said, still playing with her horses. “They sound like cows.” I laughed. “They groan.” “Hmmm . . . ,” Zoe said, thinking very hard. “What about ted It rhymes with dead. ‘Oh, no! There is a ted! Hide! Run, Cooper! Shoot the ted, Scarlet!’ ” She made all sorts of faces while she acted out the different scenarios in which we might yell ted. Everyone was smiling, everyone but Scarlet. “Why me Why do I have to shoot the ted” Scarlet asked. “Because you’re the best shot,” Zoe said. “I like you,” Scarlet said, smiling only with her eyes.
“I like you, too,” Zoe replied. Scarlet lifted her arms and let them fall to her thighs. “All right, I’m sold on ted. Anyone disagree” Everyone shook their heads. “Good choice, Zoe,” Cooper said. Zoe smiled wider than I’d seen in years, and in that moment, it was easy to believe everything was going to be okay.
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Prologue Scarlet THE WARNING WAS SH
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epidemic in Europe. Looking back, e
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“He’s twenty-seven, and don’t
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“I’ll take a few X-rays of your
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“She hasn’t traveled recently,
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Chapter Two Scarlet BY LUNCH, DANA
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ut a large area was saturated with
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and she would feel like her old sel
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need to run.” I didn’t wait for
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Chapter Three Scarlet “BIT OFF”
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intercom. “Code Blue, ER Three. C
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Shiny silver keys lay fanned out on
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News reports about a viral outbreak
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Mile after mile of farmland passed,
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outside of their cars and trucks, b
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waving around as it fishtailed with
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“I used to be.” Tobin nodded.
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crossing. A train was visible a lit
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sweet pea! Are you okay” Zoe dipp
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Jill squirmed. “I don’t want to
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in our terror, and passing all of t
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“Okay. But, uh . . . how am I goi
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was so still, as if moving would me
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Chapter Eight Nathan I LOWERED MY C
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light-brown hair. She’d kept the
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mouth and tightening his grip on th
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“Jesus Christ!” Bryce yelled.
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“Christ almighty, that’s Annabe
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Doris shook her head. “I’m not
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An army Humvee turned the corner, a
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I bolted from the house and let the
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door and reached back to grab Zoe.
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A woman was running down the street
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Skeeter nodded. “I’ve hunted ov
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weren’t cracked open, and none of
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Nathan “ZOE, TRY TO SLOW YOUR bre
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herd and make it back onto 123 with
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had stopped, and Bryce was awake, s
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Chapter Thirteen Scarlet THE BACKGR
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The sun had just peaked over the ho
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I shook off the thought, refusing t
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Page 140 and 141: Chapter Twenty Nathan ZOE HAD BEEN
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struggle to survive, even in her sl
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kissed Halle’s cheek. “I’ll w
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can off the shelf and looked up at
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were to see them. The helicopter’
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was that the end only led to one th
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