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girl and understandably scared out of her mind.
    “OK, but I have to let this door go. I’ll fight them. You just run.”
    “What? I can’t leave you.”
    “You can and you will!” Raven regretted snapping, but now was not the time for babying her sister. They were both going to die if she didn’t act fast. She knew she couldn’t fight off all five zombies, but she could buy her sister time to escape. If one of them was to survive, she planned on it being Sky.
    “Sorry I yelled, Sky, but I need you now. Grab that short sweeper right there, just in case you need it, and then you run. Stay low and you can run right past them. They’re slow so you keep on running.”
    “What about you?”
    “I’ll catch up.”
    “Do you promise?”
    “I promise.” She choked, barely managing to keep the sob from forming. “No matter what, Sky, I will always be with you.”
    Sky hugged her waist quickly and Raven savored the moment before her little sister let go and grabbed the shortest sweeper, gripping the handle in both hands.
    “You just run, Sky. Run as fast as you can out those doors and use that if you have to.”
    “Where do I go once outside?”
    “Just keep running.”
    Sky chewed her bottom lip, then finally nodded. “I’m ready.”
    “I love you, Sky. You can do this. Just run fast.”
    Raven let go of the door and grabbed a mop, figuring it would deal more damage than her cross. Sky ran out just as she’d been instructed and the zombies, intent on Raven, let her pass. She impaled the closest one with the mop, gagging at the wet, crunching sound it made as it sank through the man’s forehead. Blood splattered onto her, but she didn’t have time to retch. She had to buy Sky time to escape.
    A shrill scream cut through the noise of the zombies’ growls and Raven’s heart sank.
    “Sky?”
    No answer. Just screaming.
    Raven kicked and punched, dodged and stabbed, trying to clear a path to her sister, but the zombies had seemed to multiply since they’d attempted to hide in the closet, and everything happened too fast.
     
     
     
    Maura Seton sat outside the house, her car turned off so she didn’t attract the wildlife. That’s what she thought of them. The zombies. They were like wild carnivores on the prowl.
    That’s what she’d find inside the house, if he was still there. Maybe he’d gotten out, or had been somewhere entirely else when the disease took him over and turned him into one of them. Maybe the military had gotten to him and ended him before he had a chance to turn.
    She shouldn’t care about him at all, should have stopped long before she’d heard of the Z1219 outbreak, but how could she stop loving the man she’d envisioned her future with? The man who’d once made her feel like the most beautiful, most perfect woman in the world?
    No one had ever made her feel as special as he had, all the way up until he’d announced he was marrying some whore from Russia. Oh, he’d said she was a good woman, that Russian women had traditional values . That was what made them better than American women. They worked hard at marriage so he knew he wouldn’t divorce. They’d be together forever, him and this stranger from another country. He cared about her, but he couldn’t be with her. He had to marry this stranger because of financial reasons.
    She knew now it was all lies. She’d done her research online and with friends. She’d never been to that godforsaken country but she knew others who had. They’d laughed when she’d told them what Daniel Kaye had done to her, the reasons he’d given. They laughed at him, not at her. He’d have to have paid thousands to get that woman into America, and traditional values? Try no values. None at all.
    But these were the women Daniel found worthy of marriage. It was that kind of woman he’d left her for while claiming he was a real Christian, and that he cared about her.
    It was that woman who’d ultimately killed him.
    So why the hell was she here