"You really wanna know why I shove every guy away," I shouted in anger at the one man I thought I'd never fall for. I watched as he just stared at me, unsure if he really wanted to know. "This is why," I said turning my back to him and lifted up my shirt, revealing the stab wound I had received from the last man I thought I loved, "this could've happened to my daughter! To my Maddie! This is why I don't trust men anymore!" [Important]: I've entered this story in the Wattys 2015. please help me out by voting for this story and sharing it with your friends!

Janey is a young woman with a bold heart, tough mindset and a certain motherly instinct. She's known Rick and Carl since Carl was just a baby, she attended his mother, Lori's funeral. After Lori died when Carl was a baby, Janey took lots of care of Carl when Rick was at work. Although Rick never got over the feeling that something about Janey was odd, Carl and Lori loved her. Carl is now 12 and Janey is 26. She was picking Carl up from school when she was told his father had been shot. Just a week later she found herself on a packed highway with Rick's friend Shane and Carl. When the outbreak hit, they fled to the city. Things have changed, Shane and Janey are the ring leaders of their new group. What happens when Rick finds the group? Find out by reading.