After: Red Scare (After Post-Apocalyptic Series, book 5)
“the baby said.Jorge stared at the mutant infant in Rosa’s arms. The baby expressed neither alarm nor sorrow at the announcement, but Rosa looked horrified. The candles they’d found in the stockroom cast an illusion of warmth but also stretched flickering shadows along the walls that did little to calm the group’s nerves.“How do you know?” Rosa asked.“I felt it. They want to kill us all.”Yes. Because we’ve figured out what you are and what you plan to do.“I won’t let them hurt you, Bryan,” Rosa ...said.“That’s not Bryan,” Marina said. “That woman at the stadium took Bryan.”Rosa addressed the baby rather than her own daughter. “You’ll be Bryan for me, won’t you, muchachito?”“He’s not a little boy,” Jorge said. “He’s a little monster.”Bryan giggled and patted his chubby hands together. “A little monster! Can I be a vampire?”“Don’t joke about such a thing, Bryan,” Rosa said. “We have to set a good example for others.”Many men in Jorge’s culture saw putting hands on their women as a duty, hiding behind machismo because they lacked the passion and patience required to communicate.MoreLess
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