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"Scarlett?"Adrian's voice pulled me back to the present."Are you listening?""Yes."I leaned against the edge of my desk.My fingers tightened around the phone."What do you need?"He laughed."I knew I could count on you."That sentence almost made me laugh.In my previous life, those words had been enough to make me feel important.Now they only made me sick."I need you to transfer some money to my mother's account," Adrian said. "She wants to pay for some renovations at the house."I closed my eyes.There it was.vThe same request. The same amount.I remembered what happened next in my first life.I had transferred the money without asking questions.Then another request came.Then another.Before long, I was paying for almost everything.Adrian's mother's medical bills.His brother's car.Their vacations.Their groceries.Even the expensive furniture they bought for their house.I had never complained.I thought we were family.I had been an idiot."How much?" I asked."About twenty thousand

I didn't move.My hand tightened around the kitchen knife."Open the door, Scarlett."The man's voice came again.Calm.Almost polite.That frightened me more than shouting would have.I glanced toward the window.The two men were still standing near the black SUV.One had his hands in his pockets.The other was looking around the property.They weren't acting like ordinary security guards.They looked like they had come prepared.I took one silent step backward.Then another.How did they know my name?I had only been awake for a few hours.I hadn't told anyone about my plans.I hadn't even told Adrian.The only people who knew about my inheritance were the lawyer and me.Unless...My phone.I looked at the screen.The last message was still there.They aren't here for the property.My heart was hammered.Someone had been watching me long before I realized it.I moved toward the back door.Maybe I could escape through the trees.I had just reached for the handle when the front door opened.I froze.I

The infected charged.For one terrible second, I couldn't move.There were too many.They poured onto the road from between abandoned cars, spilling out of the darkness like a wave. Some stumbled. Others moved with frightening speed. Their screams collided into one deafening roar.Daniel grabbed my shoulder.“Scarlett, run!”I didn't need to be told twice.He slammed the truck into reverse.The tires screamed against the asphalt, but there was nowhere to go. Abandoned vehicles blocked the road behind us, and the infected were already closing in from the front.Daniel swore under his breath.“We're trapped.”I looked through the windshield.The nearest infected was less than twenty meters away.Then I noticed something.They weren't moving randomly.My stomach tightened.“They're surrounding us.”Daniel glanced at me.“What?”I pointed toward the trees.Several infected had stopped on either side of the road. They weren't rushing forward. They were spreading out.Creating a circle.Dan

The pounding started again.Boom.Boom.Boom.The entire building shook.I backed away from the stairs, my knife still clenched in my hand.Marcus stared at the ceiling.“They're inside.”Daniel raised his weapon.“How many?”Marcus shook his head.“Enough.”Another impact.The door upstairs groaned.I looked at the keycard in my hand.“The laboratory. Where is it?”Marcus turned toward me.“Three kilometers from here.”“Then we go.”Daniel looked at me like I'd lost my mind.“We don't even know what's waiting there.”“We already know what's waiting here.”Another crash.Wood splintered upstairs.That settled the argument.Daniel grabbed his bag.“Move.”Marcus hurried toward a narrow passage at the back of the room.I followed.We reached a metal door.Marcus pulled a key from his pocket and unlocked it.Beyond it was a narrow service tunnel.Cold air rushed through.“Where does this lead?” I asked.“An old storm drain. It connects to the eastern road.”Daniel looked at Marcus.“You'

The infected stood motionless.That was the worst part.If they had charged, if they had screamed and clawed and torn through the darkness like the mindless creatures I remembered from my first life—I could have understood that. I could have prepared for that.But they didn't move.They simply stood there, hundreds of them, scattered between the abandoned cars like statues in a nightmare. Their heads were tilted at the same angle. Their eyes were fixed on the van. On me.And every single one of them was pointing.Dozens of gray, rotting fingers extended toward the windshield. Toward my face.My breath caught in my throat.Daniel's hands tightened around the steering wheel."Marcus.""I see them.""Drive.""There's no path."I stared through the windshield. The infected had formed a wall of flesh between the abandoned vehicles. There was no gap. No opening. No way through without hitting them.I looked at the nearest infected. It was a woman. Young. Her clothes were torn and stained wi