Beach Bodies_Part Three_A Shocking, Twisty Summer Read, Perfect for Fans of Love Island by Ross Armstrong

Author:Ross Armstrong [Armstrong, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 47196186
Publisher: HQ Digital
Published: 2019-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

02.10 a.m.

What happens next is a series of minor events, each echoing from one to the next in the smallest division of time we have, as if time itself had finally slowed so that fate could reorder itself into something like reality…

Zack falls to his knees as he did when he first saw Tommy’s head, this time observing the whole of Tommy, intact, which is the cause of his brain thickening, his hands softening and the shotgun falling from it. The Wagner music from the other house playing like an earworm inside his head.

And as the gun falls, Simon dives to catch it before it hits the ground, lest the ancient thing fire and do more damage to the residents of the villa than has already been done.

And as it falls, Roberto pulls Justine towards the wall, lurching for the small, rectangular mirror that slides out to release the door, behind which are the stairs that lead down to Simon’s quarters.

And as it falls, Summer pulls Liv onto the ground anticipating the gun going off, their bodies turning together in mid-air, like a slow dance, as they free fall towards the hard tiles.

And as it falls, Tabs trips on a tangle of legs as Liv and Summer desert her, slipping to the ground in the direction of Lance’s limp and sinuous body.

And when she falls, Tabs gracelessly thumps into Lance’s recently vacated body, rolling over him and instinctively using his bulk to shield her from whatever comes next.

And Liv’s spine lands hard on the ground, Summer falling on top of her, cushioning Liv’s head from a hard crack of a landing with her hand, then pulling her into her chest, narrowing the potential target. Summer binds herself around Liv, her lips to her neck, until they become one beautiful flesh with two backs.

And as the mirror slides out, Justine pulls at the wall to reveal the door to their escape, Roberto turning to see the shotgun land.

And it’s in Simon’s two hands it lands, as his elbows hit the ground, holding the weapon a few inches off it like it’s a newborn.

And Zack falls too, the music dipping and rising in his tired mind, the whites of his eyes depicting a man quite faint, as he topples towards the ground, chin leading the way, catching himself at the last second, hands slapping onto the tiles to break his fall and preserve the architecture of his excellent face.

As he looks up through the gauze of smoke, the thickness of which has crept up on them incrementally, and the music reaches crescendo, he sees Tommy is nowhere to be seen.

‘Where is he?’ screams Zack, getting up like a man possessed and heading into the corridor.

The side door slams and Simon bangs on it hard, Roberto and Justine having managed to put a partition wall between themselves and everyone else for now.

‘Where is he?’ Zack repeats from hallway, accusing everyone in the living room by insinuation of some grand scheme.

‘Who?’ says Tabs, one hand on the stomach of the dead man below her.

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