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Chapter 4 When Jealousy Turned Deadly

مؤلف: Sael Walker
"Long time no see." I forced down the sting in my eyes and nodded at him.

Four simple words, yet they carried the weight of two lifetimes.

"This is my squad," I said briefly, gesturing behind me. "We're rendezvousing with the main force."

"Same here." Alec nodded. "This area's unstable—lots of mutated infected. Since we're heading the same way, let's travel together."

"Gladly."

As we talked, Eliza climbed down from the vehicle. The sight of us facing each other like that stabbed straight into her, and jealousy burned brightly in her eyes.

Even before the apocalypse, she'd had a crush on Alec. I just hadn't expected that love would rot into hatred—and that she'd end up killing him because of it.

She walked over, deliberately edging closer to Alec. He frowned, stepped back without a word, and positioned himself at my side instead. "Miss, keep your distance," he said coldly.

Rebuffed outright, Eliza bit her lip, clearly wanting to say more. However…

'Clang. Clang. Clang.'

A shrill metallic banging suddenly tore through the air.

"Shit—that's a lure!" Alec's expression instantly turned grim.

From within the green fog came countless hoarse roars. Dense black shapes crawled out from every direction, their skin rotting, eyes blood-red, surging toward us like a tide.

"Horde incoming—get in the vehicles!" Alec shouted, already raising his gun and firing.

"What's going on?! Where did all these zombies come from?" Eliza screamed, her legs going weak.

I whipped toward the source of the sound. On top of an abandoned water tower not far away, the man who'd begged for a detonator earlier was standing there, wildly hammering an oil drum with an iron rod.

"I was planning to scam a detonator and blow open a vault. Since you wouldn't give me one and got my brothers starved to death on the road, none of you get to live! I'll drag in a zombie horde and send you all to hell with me!"

Just as I thought—he was anything but decent.

"Open fire!" I snarled, raising my gun. But the horde moved too fast. In an instant, our formation was torn apart.

In the chaos, the man slid down a pipeline. Taking advantage of us being surrounded, he charged straight at our armored vehicle like a rabid dog.

"Die, bitch!" He cried out, lunging at me with a rusted dagger, stabbing straight for my chest.
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  • When Kindness Kills   Chapter 10 Judgment Day

    I watched her performance in silence—and instead of panicking, I laughed."What's so funny?" Eliza screeched sharply. "Did I hit a nerve and make you guilty?""Your stupidity amused me," I said and lifted my wrist, glancing at the time. "Three. Two. One."'Rooooar…'A thunderous roar rolled in from the horizon. Violent air currents tore through the area, whipping everyone's hair into chaos.People looked up in terror.Several heavy helicopters bearing military insignia tore through the clouds, descending fast and loud."The rescue team! It's the main force from the base!" Bowen shouted excitedly."How… How could they be here so fast?" Eliza froze. "Wasn't the communicator broken? Didn't you say it couldn't be fixed?""Who told you it was broken?" I raised the communicator and looked at Eliza's ashen face, my voice calm. "The day you tried to splash water on it, I'd already fixed it and contacted the main force. Everything earlier was just bait—waiting for you to walk straight

  • When Kindness Kills   Chapter 9 The Trap Is Set

    Alec recoiled as if he'd been electrocuted, taking a sharp step back and flinging her hand away. His voice dripped with undisguised disgust. "If you're worried about infection, go find the team's female medic. Why come to me? I'm the captain, not a doctor—and definitely not someone you can cling to whenever you feel like it."Eliza staggered from the force of it, her arm slamming into the doorframe. She stared at Alec in disbelief. "Captain Kessler, I only trust you—how could you treat me like this? You only ever have eyes for Iris—even back on campus. What's so great about her? She's cold as stone! What does she have that I don't?""You don't come close. Not even the slightest." Alec's face was livid as he cut her off. "Go back to your room. Let it happen again, and you'll regret it."With that, Alec slammed the door shut with a loud bang, nearly hitting Eliza's nose. Outside, muffled sobbing mixed with curses drifted through the hallway, lingering for a long while before finally f

  • When Kindness Kills   Chapter 8 Behind Closed Doors

    Eliza shrieked as she lunged at me like a madwoman."Enough!" Alec shoved her aside without hesitation, his disgust unmistakable. "You insisted on throwing it out. How is it anybody else's fault now? Sit down. We haven't completely shaken the zombies yet—keep this up and I'll throw you out myself."She slammed into the vehicle wall, and the wound on her chest split open again, fresh blood seeping through. She glared at me with venomous hatred, her nails digging deep into her own flesh.I sneered inwardly. 'No rush. This is just the beginning. Her demise will come once we reach the base.'…At last, we managed to lose the horde and escape into an abandoned temporary military base. It was run-down, but the perimeter walls were still intact—safe enough for now. Everyone was completely exhausted and scattered to find rooms to rest.Late that night, icy wind howled outside the windows. Alec sat across from me, methodically wiping down his gun, his brow tightly furrowed. "Iris, keeping

  • When Kindness Kills   Chapter 7 The Backpack Thrown

    Bowen, who was driving, shouted with sweat pouring down his face. "We have to dump some weight, or we're all dead!"Crouched in the corner, Eliza suddenly brightened, her eyes lighting up.In my previous life, it had happened at this exact moment. Back then, I'd been busy sniping the zombies crawling over the roof and hadn't been watching her. Eliza had pointed at my pack, said it was the heaviest, and personally tossed my communicator, spare batteries, and anti-radiation meds out of the vehicle.When it was discovered later, she'd done nothing but cry and apologize, saying she'd only done it so everyone could survive. Because of that, we'd completely lost contact and had been forced to risk our lives searching for a signal tower—only to die because of her in the end.This time around, she repeated the same old trick right on cue."That bag is the heaviest! It's full of metal junk!" Eliza shouted, pointing straight at my pack. "Throw that one out now, or we're all going to die!"

  • When Kindness Kills   Chapter 6 The Bait

    Eliza suddenly screamed.Beside the dead man's body, a small boy burst out from the shadows and clung tightly to the armored vehicle's door. "Take me with you, miss. Please—take me with you!"His eyes were dark and feral, completely devoid of grief over his father's death, more like a wolf cub than a child. Only kids who had survived in the radiation zone by feeding on corpses ever looked like that. Their humanity had long since been worn away.But as if trying to wash away the suspicion brought on by Jack's death, Eliza's eyes flicked sharply. She immediately put on her savior's mask, scooping the filthy child into her arms. "Hurry, get in! Children are innocent—don't be afraid, I'll save you!""Eliza, this kid came out of nowhere. Do you know a thing about his background?" I watched her coldly. "Dragging anyone into the team like this will only get you killed.""Iris! How can you be so heartless?" She stared at me in disbelief."He's so young! If we leave him, the zombies will

  • When Kindness Kills   Chapter 5 Blood on Kind Hands

    "Watch out!"Alec reacted instantly. He grabbed my wrist and yanked me behind him, then snapped out a vicious roundhouse kick that sent the man flying.The man screamed as he staggered backward several steps. But like a completely unhinged madman, he used the momentum of the kick to lunge toward Eliza instead. "If I can't kill her, I'll kill you! It was you phony Samaritans who got my brothers killed!""Help!" Eliza shrieked, terror written all over her face.At that moment, our team's youngest, Jack, was standing right beside her. He instinctively raised his gun to aim. And in the split second the man lunged forward, I saw it with my own eyes—Eliza grabbed him by the shoulder, and shoved him hard in front of her.'Squelch!'The sound of a blade piercing flesh rang out.The dagger that had been aimed at Eliza plunged straight into Jack's chest, sinking in to the hilt. Jack's eyes flew wide open. He stared down at the knife buried in his chest, then slowly turned his head to look

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