All Chapters of Nightshade and Bloodlust : Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

It was only when night hit that we started to feel the cold. I pulled in the solar-powered chargers for the night and put them away making sure all of the electronics were off and put away. Trey occasionally shivered while he sat on the edge of the bed waiting for me to climb under the covers. I knew that if I asked him to move under the sheets with me before I lay down, he would deny it so I climbed under the blankets and waited a minute, he was shivering a bit so I proceeded to put my plan into motion. I pretended to shiver a few times before saying anything. "Trey, I'm cold… can I steal some of your body heat?" He blushed before getting off the bed and climbing under the sheet with me without saying another word. "I don't know how much heat I have to steal but you can definitely try… but be careful I might att

The remainder of my recovery days were normal and as laid back as living in an apocalypse can get. Of course, we had some scares with crashing and banging on houses in the ass crack of dawn as if all those little shits collectively decided to stampede down or up the slope with the zoomies. I don't fully understand what they do… but Treys has been watching them so he probably knows… I'm too afraid to ask and the fact that he hasn't told me yet means he either doesn't know either or I'm right and he doesn't want to worry me. Either way, it was a monotonous schedule of eating, watching some shows with Tray while charging the solar chargers, bringing the solar chargers in, shower, sleep, eat, repeat over and over until I recovered properly.   But the night before the plan was to be carried out, was tense. We were both on edge and couldn't sleep but we needed

The sheer number of zombies surrounding the massive shopping center was alarming. The cacophony of moans and raspy wheezes twisted my stomach into knots, but the overwhelming stench of blood and decay made bile rise in my throat.Trey shook his head and pressed a finger under his nose, grimacing.“Fuck me, who shit themselves?”I let out a soft scoff.“All of them.”No entrance faced the woods where we hid, which meant getting inside required abandoning our cover and crossing open ground.I took a shaky breath and stepped out first, glancing back at Trey. He still lingered in the foliage, trying to play it cool, but I could see his rapid puffs of breath clouding the frigid air between us.“Trey, we can’t stay here... we need to move.”“There has to be more mutations. What if...”“I know you’re scared... But facing mutations alone beats facing them with every dead fuck in a ten-mile radius breathing down our necks. Come with me... we’re so close.” I extended my hand and smiled gently.