Chapter 187：What's Your Play?

Kreiss was at the farthest part of the grocery, looking for a lot of bottled water. Shannara saw him and luckily, there weren't zombies around so she tapped Kreiss' shoulder, making him startled a bit.

"You almost gave me a heart attack, feisty-pants," he said and Shannara rolled her eyes at him.

"I came to help," she said then Kreiss smiled.

"Finally. How can I handle pushing three carts," he said then Shannara laughed slightly then helped him refill the cart with a lot of bottled water.

The zombie was staring into space and noticed that some zombies tend to act "human" in their own little ways. This zombie with them looked at a certain thing and attempted to touch it.

Kreiss looked at the cart again then whispered to Shannara. "This cart is going to be heavy for us to push. We'll just do this slowly but surely," he said then Shannara nodded.

"Hey," Shannara trailed off and Kreiss looked at her. "I saw you give a gem to Sheloah a while ago. What's your play," she added and asked and Kreiss didn't expect her to be observant.

"You were hallucinating," Kreiss said and he both looked at their backs to check if there were zombies around. Instead, they saw Tyler and Geof. They were already done getting the things that they needed.

"They already got our resources. Veon and the others are done, too. We're here to help," Tyler said and Kreiss nodded. Geof got one push cart and pushed it, while Tyler pushed the other. The third cart was left with the two.

When Shannara noticed that the two were no longer around, she spoke again.

"Don't play dumb. You think I don't know what the gem is? Dannie simply said that the male descendant of your family would give that to the girl they want to marry," she said and this made Kreiss look at her, taken aback that she knew much about the gem.

'My cousin just couldn't keep her mouth shut!'

Kreiss sighed. "If you knew, then you shouldn't have asked," he said coldly, feeling that Shannara pried into his privacy.

"Please, that's not what I meant. I thought you planned on giving up on her," she said and Kreiss scoffed.

"Oh, look who's talking. It's as if you don't know how I feel," Kreiss said and Shannara rolled her eyes at him and scoffed as well.

"Well, it's as if you know me too well. I already gave up on him. He made a move on kissing Sheloah on the forehead, for your information," she said and this made Kreiss look at her, surprised.

"What?"

Shannara smirked. "You know too well how Veon is with his feelings. Since he's not expressive, that gesture already gave his feelings away towards Sheloah," she said as she shook her head. "It was enough signal for me to give up on him. But Sheloah's just dense, too. So nothing's going to happen between them as of the moment," Shannara added.

Kreiss didn't expect this. That was why he found it suspicious when Veon suddenly held Sheloah's hand a while back.

"The dream," Kreiss mumbled to himself but Shannara heard him.

"What's that?"

"The dream must've been the trigger. The dream he was talking about a while ago," he said and this made Shannara look at him seriously.

"So you know about Veon's dream?"

Kreiss looked at her. "Sheloah was asking about it from him a while ago and I happened to be there with them. He was so bothered about it," he said and Shannara nodded slowly.

"So I ask again… what's your play?"

When Shannara asked this, Kreiss went quiet for a while. He thought about something, scoffed, then looked at her coldly.

"Like you said, nothing's happening between them yet, so I'll just keep playing on."