The 40th Day (After the Cure book 5)
“It had finally gone silent a few seconds ago, snapped off by someone arguing with the woman screaming into it. Melissa looked up to find a large group of people had surrounded her, abandoning the stone wall to listen. They were all silent now. Rickey was leaning on a shovel beside her. He reached for a cigarette, forgetting there were none in his pocket.
“I knew he was bad,” he said, low enough so only she could hear, “but nothing like this.”
Some of the people around them were muttering now. “We have to do something, before there’s a riot,” whispered Melissa.
Rickey shrugged. “Why? If what she says is true, if they were going to use them as slaves, why should we stop them?”
“Because he’s lived with them for weeks after his plan backfired. He’s obviously not scared of them—”
“Or us,” offered Rickey.
“Or us. He’ll fight back, someone else will get hurt.”
There was a scraping noise as someone picked up the heavy dead blow hammer from the rock wall.
“Wait,”
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