The Zombie Chronicles - Book 5 - Undead Nightmare (Apocalypse Infection Unleashed Series) Read Online Free PDF Page A

a log cabin.
    Nick motioned for us to be quiet while he thought of a plan; I knew he’d want a team to secure the perimeter. A layer of dirt was built up by the door, and I didn’t see one single footprint anywhere, so I figured the place was abandoned. Of course, that didn’t mean a thing.
    Nick assigned Jackie, Claire, and Asia to act as lookouts in the front, and he sent Val, Kate, and I around back. I paced back and forth on the deck, scanning the whole place for any sign of zombie activity. I could hear Nick knocking, but no one seemed to be home. I walked to the back door to see if it was open, but we had no such luck. When I heard a loud thud echo in the air, I smiled. “How much you wanna bet Lucas and Nick just busted down the door?” I asked.
    Val chuckled. “He is our brother. Craziness runs in the family.”
    Kate flicked her long, blonde hair out of her face. “This is a great find. We’re in desperate need of supplies. If nobody lives here, I say we raid the place. It’s all about survival now.”
    We hurried back around the front, stepped on the porch, and walked into the cabin. The first room was a large kitchen, a dark wooden table with six chairs and a bench, a long, tan-colored sofa, a stone fireplace, and vaulted wooden ceiling and beams.
    “Looks all clear,” Lucas said. “I’m gonna go check out the upstairs.”
    I started to follow him, but my brother grabbed my arm. “Shut the curtains and start looking for supplies,” he said, then darted up the stairs behind Lucas.
    I rushed to the windows and pulled down the shades and closed the curtains. It darkened the room significantly, but we didn’t want anything to see us from out in those dark woods. Once the windows were all blocked, Jackie and I went to the cabinets and started rummaging through them.
    Claire found a box and brought it over. “Here. We can fill this with supplies.”
    “Great,” Jackie said as she pilfered several cans of lemonade inside.
    “Look at this! A shotgun!” Asia shouted, slinging it over her shoulder. “Now I just need ammunition.”
    “You should see this girl with a gun,” Kate said. “She’s really something.”
    “Yeah?” Jackie said. “Well, it’s great to have two sharpshooters on our team. Dean’s the best one around.”
    Asia met my gaze and smiled. “Really?” she said, looking me up and down. “Maybe we oughtta have a face-off sometime.”
    “You’re on!” I opened a can of lemonade and guzzled half of it down; I’d been dying of thirst for hours.
    She shot me a flirty grin and walked into the next room. For a second, I couldn’t stop staring at her. Asia was African American and one of the smartest, toughest, and most gorgeous women I ever laid eyes on. I loved her dark skin; black, shoulder-length hair; dark, exotic, beautiful eyes; and an athletic body bulging with muscles. If I didn’t have a girlfriend, she was exactly who I’d want to date. Nick belonged with somebody like her, not Claire. Not that I didn’t like Claire, I did. But she was definitely not my brother’s type. She didn’t have that tough edge to her that Nick always looked for in a girl. Asia did.
    Lucas came in with his shirt off and a bandage on his shoulder, rather than my sister’s shirt.
    “I guess Val found the medical supplies,” I said.
    “That sister of yours is something else. She’s tough like a cop, but she’s also a dang good nurse.”
    “That’s Val for ya.”
    Lucas arched an eyebrow. “Find any guns or bullets?”
    I folded my arms and shook my head. “I didn’t, but Asia found a shotgun. No ammo though.”
    “We’d better keep looking. We rocked out there today, but we can’t expect zombies to be stoned forever,” he said, then laughed at himself. “Ha! I’m so punny!”
    “Yeah,” I said, rolling my eyes. “Very, very punny. I’m gonna go check upstairs again.”
    “Yeah, go ahead. I didn’t see anything, but a second set of eyes never hurts. There are four bedrooms