The Infected (Book 6): Last Shot by Justin Gowland Page B

walked into the library. I looked around and couldn’t see Mike anywhere. A young lad was walking out of one of the bunk areas. I stepped in front of him and he stopped and looked at me.
    “What the hell do you want?” He asked glaring at me.
    I grinned “Have you seen Mike?”
    He shook his head a tried to push past me.
    “Hold up, you haven’t answered my question,” I said placing my hand on his chest.
    The glare returned and he tried to slap my hand away “I haven’t seen the old fuck!”
    Growling I grabbed his hand and twisted it over and he howled in pain. I hate hurting any kid, but I had lost a good friend thanks to an ignorant kid and I wasn’t in the mood.
    Leaning close to his ear I whispered “I don’t have time to deal with shitty little kids. So stop being a little shit and think. Have you seen Mike?”
    The kid was gritting his teeth and had tears in the corner of his eyes. “I think that I might have heard him saying that he was going to check the guard towers.” He grunted out.
    I let go of his hand “See wasn’t so hard.” I walked over to the lifts and pressed the button stood waiting for it and watched the lad scurry away back into the bunk room. He was mumbling all the way to the door and he even managed to flip the middle finger at me before darting through the door. I laughed at the balls he had. The lift doors opened and I had to step out of the way of some Bunker people. The doors slowly closed and I headed up to the ground floor.
    The hatch to the bunker was open and I stepped outside into the bright light. I squinted against the light and looked around I saw a gathering down next to the gate. I headed over and as I got nearer I saw Mike stood with some men looking out through the gates.
    “…so, in short, we need to have the gate secured each night and no one leaves without mine or David’s permission. We’ll both carry a radio and the two guard posts will have a radio each as well. The roaming guards will patrol in two’s and they will have a radio between them.” It looked like Mike was just finishing so I stood off to one side and waited. He saw me out the corner of his eye and I nodded at him. “So if you all head off and we’ll sort out rotas later.”
    The men surrounding him nodded and there were a few ok’s, then they slowly headed off in pairs. Mike smiled and walked over to where I was stood.
    “Hey, Marc did you find out who helped Tom get away?” He said smiling.
    My face fell because I knew that I had to tell him about his father and David’s son Philip. “I’ve got some bad news mate.”
    He stopped smiling “It’s not Tessa is it?!”
    “No Tessa is fine. It’s about Jake.”
    “What has the old git done now?”
    Now was the hard part. “I can’t say this any other way mate, but the same person who let Tom out killed Jake as well.”
    Mike dropped to the ground with shock on his face. I quickly grabbed him before he hurt himself.
    “Who?” He whispered.
    “Don’t lose it, mate. We know who it is, they were on the CCTV.”
    “WHO WAS IT?” He screamed looking at me with wild eyes.
    I cleared my throat “Philip.”
    “Philip? Philip who?” Mike answered with a puzzled face.
    “David’s son, Philip,” I said lowering my head.
    “What the fuck?” He said looking me in the eyes.
    “It looks like Tom had managed to get Philip to work for him somehow and he must have convinced Philip into being his last resort to get away.”
    “What’s that got to do with my dad?”
    “I think they thought that if they killed Jake then we would be blinded radio wise. I think they forgot that it was Mike who helped Jake get to grips with the radio equipment. Now we have David’s son out there with Tom somewhere and we have to assume that they are heading to the oil rig.”
    Mike shook his head and tried to stand. I held out my hand and pulled him to his feet slowly. He swayed slightly and I grabbed a hold so that he didn’t fall again.

 
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