Chapter 50
Loretta pushed the door to Gemma's house open, glad to be out of the sour-smelling tunnel. She'd helped her grandmother install the charcoal air cleaner, but she wasn't quite sure why it worked. She didn't care. Anything that removed the foul stink of the monsters was worth it.
"Gemma?"
The main room was empty, and the doors to the smaller rooms were open. Loretta tried to keep calm, but she'd never gotten comfortable enough with this place to be here alone. Not even with her grandmother's belongings and gadgets set up and running. Even Karl and George were uneasy out here.
She went to the front window, puzzled by the addition of a narrow row of horizontal bars in front of it. George and Karl constantly reassured her the fence out there was enough.
The bars shifted, and she
