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

be true Marc but I wanted to live after killing you, but it doesn’t look like I am going to get that choice. If I kill you, Chris and the others are going to come in here and fuck me right up before killing me.”
    “True.”
    “I’m sorry, but my life means more to me than killing you does.”
    “Ok, I’m coming in,” I said and pushed open the door and stepped inside before Chris and Mike could grab me. I could hear them going nuts as the door closed and I walked into the gym. Tom had moved some mats and created a small area in between the weightlifting gear at the rear of the gym. If he had wanted he could have shot me as I walked in through the door. The space between me and the little-barricaded area was about twenty feet. I saw Tom’s head peek over the mats, it ducked back down.
    “Glad you didn’t let Chris in. He scares the shit out of me.”
    I sat down on the floor, holding the pistol in my lap. I had the safety off and kept my hand on the grip. “I think he might have the right to be slightly pissed off at you Tom.”
    “Ha Ha, I mean before now, he’s always scared me. When he looked at me it was always as though he never trusted me.”
    “Really?”
    “Yeah I could never get rid of the feeling that he knew what was going on.”
    “What do you mean by that?”
    “You mean this hasn’t given you any clues? Good I must have covered my tracks well then!”
    “Come on Tom just tell me why?”
    “Why?...Why? Let’s just say I wanted more than to live in a hole in the ground. We had been planning the release of that cat for next year and then you go and let it out earlier than we wanted.”
    “So you’ve been in on this since the beginning?”
    “Of course it was Dr Jackson and I that thought up the whole thing. Of course, I had planned on being on the oil rig with them, but Rosa and I got caught out didn’t we.”
    “So Rosa has been in on it as well?”
    “Don’t be stupid. She couldn’t find her way out of a wet paper bag without her father and then they would have needed someone like me or Dr Jackson to help them. No Dr Jackson and I were going to set ourselves up as the new leaders of the world.”
    “But you’ve never been out of here since you got here. How the hell have you been in contact with them? I can’t even remember you being in the Communications room?”
    “That’s where you helped. After all, it was you who asked me to help run the armoury.”
    “The armoury?”
    “All those nice boxes that were full of equipment they happened to include three sat phones. Since you put me in charge of the armoury I have been in constant contact with the oil rig. I told them of your mission to save Jane and her pet dyke. So we set up a small trap and it nearly worked. Then you headed off on your own, which wouldn’t have helped so I helped the others get you back. I thought I might have been able to slip away, but then you went and made a plan to blow the oil rig and I couldn’t have that, so I decided to blow the Bunker and head off to the oil rig. Yet again your luck seemed to hold and you caught me and now I am fucked.”
    “What the fuck did we ever do to you Tom to deserve this?” I asked.
    There was a pause as he thought of what he wanted to say “You are the fucking thorn in my side that’s why!”
    “So you decided to kill everyone here who has been good to you just because I ruined your plans for world domination? What about Rosa do you not love her in the slightest?”
    He laughed out loud and his laughter echoed round the room “I hate the stupid bitch. She was just a way for me and Dr Jackson to get the funds and materials we needed. I couldn’t care less about the scum that are here in the Bunker.”
    I heard a low creak and turned my head slightly and saw Chris worm his way through the door and across the floor on his stomach.
    “So how do you think you are going to get out of this?” I asked turning back to the barricade.
    “Well, I thought you could let me