Outbreak: Long Road Back

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Book: Outbreak: Long Road Back Read Online Free PDF
Author: Robert Van Dusen
wishing for that delicious burn of hard liquor as it went down…
    “Hey, beautiful!” a jovial voice called startling her out of her thoughts. Carl came towards her at a quick walk a big grin plastered all over his face. “Where you off to?” The younger man gave her a big hug and a peck on her scarred cheek when he got within range.
    “Gotta go to the Aid Station real quick.” Rodriguez said and returned the favor. She quickly disentangled herself from his arms and gave Carl a sheepish grin. “Um…wanna walk with me? I mean if you got time.”
    “Yeah, sure!” the blond man exclaimed and moved closer to the woman’s side. “We got the rest of the afternoon off ‘cause of the airdrop.” He added conspiratorially “I heard there’s gonna be a hundred Spec Ops guys dropping in.”
Rodriguez rolled her eyes. “Nah, man.” she said and bumped her hip into the man’s side. “It’s just food and shit. Meds hopefully.” Carl frowned and slipped an arm around Rodriguez’s shoulders, holding her to him as they walked. She shrugged into his armpit for a moment and leaned her head against his shoulder then pushed off. “Look…um…”
    “Heh…” he muttered awkwardly and moved into a more comfortable distance. Frannie was weird about holding his hand and stuff while she was in uniform or on duty or whatever. “How you doing? I mean really.”
    She snorted and turned her face away rolling her eyes. “Scared shitless.” she admitted. The woman shrugged inside her plate carrier and made an odd face. “My head’s a scary place to be right now, man.” Her hand dipped into her ammo pouch and pulled out her cigarettes, lit one and put them back. “I…I almost flipped shit on Lieutenant Haskins. She just asked how I was doing and I…I wanted to shoot her in the face for a second there.”
    “It’ll be okay, Frannie.” He stopped and caught her arm, pulling the woman into a tight embrace. Carl put a hand on the back of Frannie’s neck and put his forehead against hers, the very tips of their noses touching under the rim of her Kevlar. “It’s gonna be alright, right? We got this shit. This ain’t shit.”
    She grinned and pecked the tip of his nose. “Right, man.” Rodriguez let her hands slide down the man’s sides, enjoying the way color crept into the man’s face as his breath ticked her cheek. “I don’t want to fuck this up. I don’t want to fuck this up.”
    “I know…” Carl said as they came up to the building. He paused outside the Aid Station’s perimeter wall and let his hand run down her arm. She smiled at him and, just for a moment, he saw what she must have looked like five or ten years ago. Before she got hurt and whatever else might have happened to her… “Amy’s got duty over in the TOC until like…eleven o’clock or whatever…”
    Frannie laughed and stood on her tiptoes to peck Carl on the lips. “I know. I’m sitting on the radio desk with her.” Carl’s face seemed to fall in on itself and it only made Rodriguez laugh harder. “Bring us some dinner later, please?” She wheedled him, looking up at Carl with her dark brown eyes. The woman grinned and could feel his desire for her like heat.
    “Oh, alright!” Carl exclaimed with mock frustration and patted Frannie on the butt as she hobbled through the front gate. It was no trouble at all. After all, the place where they handed out rations was like way on the other side of the place. It hurt him to watch Frannie limp along even if it was barely noticeable. He suspected that she knew he felt bad for her so she tried really really hard to not limp as much when he was around. And well…his little nephew was getting pretty big. It would not be long now…
    Unsure of what to do with himself Carl started ambling over towards the Resettlement Center. He kicked a stone through the grass ahead of him as he walked with his hands jammed into the pockets of his filthy jeans. He could not help but be a little worried
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