Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse-Chapter 32: One Of His Brothers

"Oh, for fucks sake," sighed Alicia. "Get out of my way so I can get rid of the bodies. Clearly, you aren’t going to listen to reason until it smacks you in your face. There is nothing here worth dying for. Guns aren’t going to be much good to you once the mutated freaks become the dominant predator."

Curious about what Alicia was going to do next, I continued to watch through Max’s eyes as she pulled a flame thrower out from thin air and started to set the tower of bodies on fire.

Resting my head against Max’s shoulder, I wrinkled my nose at the stench of rotting meat being barbequed. Well, there went what little appetite I didn’t have.

"Can we go in now? At this rate, we’ll be spending the night here as well, and I wanted to be long gone before that happened," sneered Alicia, the flamethrower disappearing from her hands. Marching toward the now open door, she brushed past Dimitri and went into the station.

"Shit before shovel, I be guessin’," muttered Ronan under his breath and I couldn’t help the bark of laughter coming out of me. René turned to glare at him but otherwise didn’t say anything.

I wondered for a moment if this was a long-standing argument with the seven of them. René seemed to be the only one who actually liked Alicia, while the others simply tolerated her.

He quickly followed her before everyone else scurried in after them. Dimitri and the guys stayed behind, sharing a look with each other.

"Huh," grunted one of the guys I had yet to meet.

"Yup," nodded Max, tilting his head toward the station.

"Do we’s ’ave to?" sighed Ronan, rubbing his forehead in frustration.

"Salvatore ’as a point," pointed out Luca. "Somethin’ isn’ addin’ up here."

I could only assume that Salvatore was the one guy that I hadn’t met yet, but I don’t really remember him saying anything other than ’huh’. How did Luca get a complete sentence out of that single sound?

"Whadda we’s do?" asked Max as he looked down at me. I could see my pale face as his eyes traced the staples in my cheek.

Each one of the guys looked like a walking God. They all seemed to share the same love of tattoos and the gym with the amount of ink on them. Even their black hair seemed to be styled the same, except for Luca.

I looked like a freak beside them, and yet, they didn’t seem to care.

"What can we do?" sighed Luca. Max didn’t bother to turn his attention away from me, so I couldn’t see what Luca was doing. But since he had lost his accent, I was going to assume he wasn’t happy at the moment. "We’ll follow Alicia. She seems to know what will happen in the future, so it makes the most sense to go with her."

"An’ if ours bottom line be crossed?" asked Ronan as he came to stand beside my head. Max looked up at him for a moment, and I saw Luca grabbing a strand of my hair and bringing it to his lips.

"Whatever needs to be done?" Luca’s voice rose at the end of his sentence as if he was asking a question, but his words seemed like something they had promised each other again and again.

"Whatever needs to be done," agreed Ronan, his voice turning as cold as the look on his face as he dropped my hair and plucked me out of Max’s arms. "Yous ’ad ’er for long enough. My turn nows."

Max chuckled as I shrugged my shoulders. I didn’t know why we weren’t bothering to go into the station with the rest. Was it not their idea to come here?

"Are we gonna in?" asked Dimitri, leaning against the door jam. "We wanted the weapons, non?"

"René is dere," grunted Ronan, pulling me even closer to his chest. "He mighta well make ’imself useful."

"As useful as tits on a bull," grunted Luca, his accent back in place. "Ever since he started sniffin’ around ’Licia, she’s all he’s been thinkin’ ’bout."

Salvatore scoffed at that statement, and I felt Ronan nod his head. Now that he was the one carrying me, everything I saw was from his point of view.

"Sal ’as a poin’. Alicia be the one sniffin’ first," agreed Ronan.

There was a pregnant silence before Désiré opened his mouth. "An’ if she be seein’ the future..."

"Then just what future does our fearless captain be facin’?"

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René stared at the cell full of zombies, their moaning cries causing his head to pound as they reached out to try and grab him.

"Now, do you understand?" asked Alicia softly as she wrapped her arm around his waist and rested her head on his chest. "We are doomed unless we can set up a safe haven for anyone left alive."

There was no point in killing the zombies. They were locked up tight, and it wasn’t like they were going anywhere. They needed to save their bullets for real emergencies.

"From now on, we’ll follow what you say," he sighed, kissing the top of her head. Clearly, he had done something right if he managed to get such a wonderful woman like Alicia in his life. She has saved him over and over again, never holding his friends against him, and always looked out for his best interest.

She really was his entire world.

"Let’s get the guns and bullets and then head toward the base. We should still have a few hours of daylight left before we need to set up camp."

"Thank you," sighed Alicia. "I don’t want to argue with everyone, but I’m not going to go out of my way to save people who will just turn around and stab me in the back."

René looked down at his fiancé, studying her face. "You think my brothers would do that?" he asked, dreading to hear her answer. He agreed that keeping someone around who would betray them was pointless. It was better to get rid of that person before they had a chance to show their true face.

But it would kill him if it was one of his brothers.