The boy nodded, barely.
Mitch asked, “Are you Austin Cooper, from Denver?”
Austin tried to smile. His teeth were caked with blood and the remains from the last time he’d thrown up.
“Can you talk?”
Just then, the man arrived with a plastic bottle, half full of water.
Austin croaked unintelligibly. Mitch took the bottle and poured some into the boy’s mouth. Austin closed his eyes and red-tinted tears flowed. He tried to speak again, but the words wouldn’t come. Mitch poured a little more water into his mouth.
Dr. Mills came running up and dropped down at Austin’s other side. “Oh, my God,” she said. To one of the men, she instructed, “Go get Dr. Simmons.” She put a gloved hand on Austin’s face, and turned to Mitch. “He’s got a fever.”
“Ebola?” There was fear in Mitch’s voice.
She looked down at Austin. She looked at the girl. She looked a back up at Mitch and nodded.
“Can you tell me what happened here?” Mitch asked Austin.
“Yes,” Austin answered in a raspy voice.
Author’s Note
Book 2 in the Ebola K Trilogy will be out in late autumn of 2014.
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Other Books by Bobby Adair
Slow Burn: Zero Day, book 1
Slow Burn: Infected, book 2
Slow Burn: Destroyer, book 3
Slow Burn: Dead Fire, book 4
Slow Burn: Torrent, book 5
Slow Burn Box Set: Destroyer and Dead Fire
And coming soon… a joint collaboration with T.W. Piperbrook
Flying Soup
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Text copyright © 2014, Bobby L. Adair
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