by Bella Street
Seffy. He knew she'd left Lani's room to sleep in her own. She shouldn't be alone tonight. Why didn't one of the girls offer to stay with her? She was in a fragile state. Gareth decided to look in on her—make sure she was resting peacefully. Maybe then he could get a measure of peace for himself.
He headed out his door and down the hall, anticipation rising within him. Maybe being back at the compound was a second chance. There was a wall between them, but any wall could be breached with enough time and understanding.
Gareth stopped at her door and knocked lightly. When there was no answer, he slowly turned the knob. Unlocked. Poking his head in, he saw her empty bed. Gareth frowned and went all the way in. Her couch was unoccupied and the light in the bathroom was off. Had Fenn wanted another debrief session with her? Deciding to check back later, he turned to leave.
Light from Seffy's closet caught his eye. He walked over to turn it off, and saw a dim corridor stretching past the door, ending in a softly lit opening. Gareth stared at it for several moments, trying to figure out what it meant. Did her room connect to the girls' by a secret passageway? But the girls' rooms were in the other direction.
Gareth stepped into the closet, brushing past the few garments that hung from a rod and walked down the corridor, hardly knowing what to expect. As he neared the space at the end, he noticed it looked just like any another compound room, except for a vaguely familiar sweatshirt tossed over the back of a chair. He strained his ears. But there was only silence.
Gareth edged into the room and looked around. It took him a moment to process the sight of Seffy sitting up in a bed, with Trent asleep, his head on her lap, his arms wrapped around her waist. One of her hands rested on his naked back, the other in his hair.
She looked up, her dark eyes widening slightly when she saw him. Her face flushed red, but her gaze was steady.
They stared at each other for the space of several heartbeats. Thoughts raced through his brain, but nothing made sense beyond one sentence that coalesced past the noise of his breathing, the constriction of his chest.
Son. Of. A. Bitch.
Look for Bite Me, Book Five of Apocalypse Babes, coming soon.
Other titles by Bella Street
The Z Word—Apocalypse Babes Book One
The Z Word follows Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani.
The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by zombies wearing dated disco duds.
The X Factor—Apocalypse Babes Book Two
The X Factor finds the Apocalypse Babes friends, along with a few other lost L.A. stragglers, ensconced in a compound that may or may not be run by evil Soviet scientists. Whether it's due to Bolshevik beliefs or a manipulating girlfriend, nightmares are on the loose and they want what's left of Seffy after the zombie attack. To make matters worse, one of the stragglers develops an unwanted attraction for Sef, and insists it's more than just U.S.T. à la Mulder and Scully.
iRobotronic—Apocalypse Babes Book Three
Seffy makes it back to 2006 West Hollywood on a retrieval mission only to find herself in a tangent universe where Arnold is still governor. She goes on the run from robotic-like killers who want her dead, and realizes that if she dies, the chance of her and her friends getting back home will forever be terminated.
Kiss Me, I'm Irish—Time For Love Book One
In 1830, Emily Musgrave is heading to a convent for misbehavior. In modern-day Tennessee, Liam Jackson is playing his Dobro in seedy bars. It's doing nothing for his career and even less for the dark places in his soul. Pixie mischief can not only change time-lines, it can change hearts. Because sometimes a girl just needs a little magic in her life.
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