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stare at
each other or the floor. Dominic figured if anyone was going to get
the meeting started, it would have to be him.
    He cleared his throat. “So…”
    That broke the tension and silence in the
room, as he’d hoped. Cade sat up straighter and adjusted her grip
on the infant in her arms, her blue eyes scanning across every
person in the room.
    “I’m going to start this off by stating the
obvious,” she said. “I’ll keep it short and sweet, because I’m not
in the mood for anything else.” She paused for as long as it took
her to draw in a deep breath and let it out, and she said, “I’m
going after my husband.”
    “We were expecting that,” Dominic said. Cade
ignored him and continued talking like he hadn’t spoken.
    “The only problem we have to figure out is
who’s going with me and who’s staying here, because not everyone
can go.”
    “Why not?” Remy asked.
    “I thought that would have been obvious,
Rem,” Dominic said. “We can’t take the baby in a potential
battlefield with us.”
    “Oh, right,” Remy said. She tossed the knife
and caught it again. “Well, you know I’m going. No way am I letting
you wander around by yourself so something can spring out of the
bushes and eat you.”
    “I think if anybody here should be voted
least likely to be eaten by the infected, it’s Cade,” Isaac spoke
up, a smile on his face.
    Cade ignored him too, so focused was she on
her more immediate goal. “We’ve already decided that Derek will
stay,” she said, “so he can keep an eye on Olivia. But he can’t
stay alone, so I think at least two of you should stay behind with
him.”
    “We’ve already established that Remy is
going,” Derek spoke up. “I don’t think she’d have it any other way.
That said, I’d like to put in my opinion that Jude and Dominic
should stay here with me and the rest of you go with Cade.”
    “No,” Dominic and Sadie said at the same
time. Dominic waved a hand for Sadie to continue.
    “I’m not going anywhere without my brother,”
Sadie stated, “and I’m not staying here. We’ve already talked about
it, and we’re both going with Cade.”
    “And I’m going with Remy,” Dominic said. “So
don’t think I’m staying here.”
    “We can’t all go,” Derek said.
    “I’ll stay,” Isaac said. “Dominic can go in
my place. I’d rather be here helping protect Olivia anyway.”
    Cade sighed. “Keith?”
    “I’m going with you,” Keith said, and Dominic
caught him glancing at Jude before returning his gaze to Cade. “I’m
sorry. I know you’d probably rather me stay here with Olivia, but I
just…I have to go.”
    “I’m sure you have your reasons,” Dominic
said, “but—”
    “In the interest of not prolonging a
potential argument over this,” Derek interrupted, “I think Isaac
and I will be enough. We’re running on potentially borrowed time,
at least on Brandt’s part, because we don’t know what they’re going
to do to him, if anything.”
    “And considering how roughly they treated him
when they came into the rec center, I doubt it’s anything good,”
Dominic said. He sighed and shoved his hands into his pockets.
“Let’s plan for two staying and six going. What do we need to do to
prepare?”
    “We need infant formula,” Cade said. “As much
as we can find. And we need to clean up and stock the downstairs.
I’ve been told it’s not in the greatest condition. We should
fortify the place and make it as safe and secure as possible. At
the same time, we’ve got to plan for the six who are going. We’ll
need supplies for us and for the house.”
    “Be easier if we knew where we were
going,” Remy said. “We need to be able to plan how much we’ll need. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to end up
stuck in the middle of Bumfuck, Tennessee, with no supplies and no
idea where to get them.”
    “She has a point,” Dominic agreed. “Brandt
could be anywhere , especially if that helicopter took