Alex Rains, Vampire Hunter (Book 2): Hell Night by Kincade Matt

Author:Kincade, Matt [Kincade, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror | Vampires | Zombies
Published: 2017-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Without a sound, Alex scaled the rain spout on the outer wall of the high school. He had the duffel slung over his shoulder and the gas tank held in one hand. He reached the top and crept across the roof in the dark.

A lighter flared, illuminating Rachael's face as she lowered her head to light a cigarette. “Hey, cowboy,” she said. She sat cross-legged on the roof of the school, leaning against one of the big air conditioning units. She had one of the school's stadium blankets draped over her shoulders, and she was sitting on another.

Alex froze, then relaxed and laughed quietly. “Hey, yourself.”

She looked him up and down once and smiled back. “Nice sword. What's with the John Wayne getup?”

He laughed again. “What, this old thing? Just tools of the trade.”

She raised one eyebrow. “For . . . vampire hunting.”

He nodded. “Come to find out, it works pretty good for zombies, too. Speaking of which, you lost your pistol out there today, right?” He pulled the Glock out of his waistband and held it out to her, grip first. “I got my weapons situation squared away. Why don't y'all take this.”

“Thanks.” Rachael accepted the pistol and set it down on the roof next to her leg. She took a slow drag off her cigarette. The cherry was a red dot in the dark, and she was little more than a silhouette against the starry sky. “So, you mind if I ask what were you doing out there?”

“Just takin' care of a little business. I always did work best alone.” He widened his stance and hooked his thumbs into his gun belt. “How about you? What brings you up here?”

“I just needed some alone time. Things are a little tense down below. It's sort of turning into a witch hunt. Which I guess I can understand, except they wanted me to be the witch.”

“Guess I can see why you wouldn't want to hang around for that.”

Rachael observed her cigarette for a moment. “So, when you were out there skulking around in the dark, did you figure anything out about this whole zombie situation?”

“Maybe,” said Alex. He pulled the sheathed sword from his belt and sat down next to her, leaning against the air conditioner. “I reckon I found a few interesting things.”

Rachael said, “I mean, these aren't normal, dumb-ass movie zombies. We're on the same page there, right? They were smart. They were coordinating. The way they caught us out when we were leaving Annie's, that wasn't luck. That was a flat-out ambush. They hid until we were in the middle of the street, and then they rushed us. They blocked off both doors and then tried to get us separated, to pick us off one by one.”

“I noticed that myself,” said Alex. “Not to mention the one that crawled in the window of the library and unlocked the door from the inside.”

“Exactly,” said Rachael. “So, either the walking dead are smarter than the movies would have us believe, or someone, or something, is controlling them.

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