Chapter 15“Cover your faces,” Kenna ordered. “The mutations are affecting normal humans. We don’t know how this is transmitted, so we have to assume it could be airborne.”
Everybody obliged. Cameron looked at his loves and saw worry in their eyes. He climbed up onto the wagon and sat especially close to them. “It’s gonna be okay,” he said quietly. Taking up their hands in his own, he tried to convey all the confidence he had and then some.
“I don’t wanna become one of those things,” Nicky replied with a shaky voice.
“You won’t.”
They locked gazes. “You don’t know that.”
“I won’t let it happen,” he insisted. “We’ll turn back before I ever let you close to one of those things.”
“What about you? Cam, if something happened to you, I don’t know what I’d do.”
“Yeah, seriously,” came from
