Chapter 4Like the Spanish Inquisition, no one expected the zombie apocalypse, but that didn’t mean Laurie was going to take any chances. Even if zombies weren’t actually involved, he’d seen enough movies and TV shows to know it wasn’t the undead who were the most dangerous but the living. As soon as he’d walked down the steps and around the building to the street, he had known things were worse than the man on the radio had let on. Out of his line of sight from Lync’s window were more bodies, some of them looking as if they’d been beaten to death with a tire iron—not a pretty sight. Okay, there were the bodies, but thank God no one alive seemed to be close by. He skulked from doorway to doorway, and then from yard to yard as he got farther from downtown, taking care not to be seen in cas