Turned: A Spine-Chilling Young Adult Apocalyptic Fiction (The Undead Series, Book 1) Read Online Free Page A

of his tan arms. His lips looked as if they had a deep cherry lip stain on them, and they were smooth, moist and perfect. His sandy brown hair had fallen down over his light dark brown eyes, and I smoothed it back behind his ears as I pulled his neck in closer for a kiss.
    “You’re so handsome,” I said to him, amazed at his enduring perfection. Regardless of what conditions the man was thrown into, he always looked as if he jumped out of the pages of an old GQ magazine.
    Jasper’s eyes were set on me from the moment he came to the sanctuary two months ago. From the day he was welcomed in, he made it a point to befriend me and find out everything about me – and I loved it. He quickly became my friend, and admitted to falling in love with me shortly after. Of course, Trent wasn’t aware of how deep our relationship was.
    However, despite his stunning looks and unflawed personality, it took me some time to admit to myself that I’d fallen in love with him too, but he knew I had. It felt forbidden to fall in love with another man so quickly, but I was so, so lonely in this cruel world, and yearned for a deeper, intimate connection. Of course, I loved Ethan more than I loved being alive and after he disappeared, I vowed I’d never love a man again. But this world…this damned world didn’t make it easy to be alone.
    Though I tried my damndest to move on from him, he seemed to unfailingly exist in the deep recesses of my subconscious. And more often than I liked, his memory would climb into my conscious thoughts and flood my heart. I would remember how we used to take afternoon walks and talk about our wedding and buying a house in Everest and having five children. I’d remember how we’d go out for ice cream nearly every week, and how Ethan would only ever eat waffle cones – he hated cake cones. I’d remember how he’d hold me tight every night, and I never could bring myself to tell him that I didn’t like being cuddled while I slept.
    I didn’t understand how left his fiancé, his soulmate, and his life partner but he did, and the thought of it ripped out my heart every time I thought about it. So I didn’t. Instead, I lost myself in Jasper because doing so made me happier and if I wanted to survive in this cruel apocalyptic world, I couldn’t be depressed.
    It had been a few days since Jasper and I touched, so when we kissed, electricity shot through my body, my heart began to race, and the heat throughout certain parts of my body increased. I pulled his body closer to mine with all the strength I had left and felt his body throb with desire.
    “I love you, my frail yet beautiful little human,” Jasper said with his cute smile. “You have no idea what I wanted to do to that man before I left. I wanted to cut off his extremities with a dull blade and feed them to zombies while he watched. Then I would have….”
    “Jasper,” I interrupted. “If you would have touched him, his idiotic posse would have been on you in a split second. They would have killed you. And then what was I supposed to do with you as the main course for dinner while I trudged through the woods with my ankles bound? I would have lasted two hours out here maximum before a zombie had me for dinner.”
    “I know, that’s why I didn’t do anything to him. I couldn’t risk me being killed, and you being left out here for dead. Hell, we only have a little bit of time before someone finds both of us…whether it’s Trent or a zombie. Let’s go,” he said, as he pulled a small key out of his pocket and opened the lock on the cuff from my ankle.
    I let out a sigh of relief as the painful metal was removed. Jasper bent over further to rub it for me. He then stood up and scooped me up in his gorgeous arms. Our gazes met and we stood for a moment to drink each other in again. We simply couldn’t get enough of each other.
    “Okay babe, we need to start moving. I’ll carry you as far as I can,” he said. “We need to get to the next