Chloe Zombie Apocalypse series (Book 3): Chloe (A New World) by Casey Ryan

Author:Casey, Ryan [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2016-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FOUR

Chloë didn’t stand and wait to watch the Orion tear another of the group apart.

She clambered back up the tree. Clambered towards the top of it. She didn’t have her right shoe on anymore. Didn’t want it getting in the way. All the time she climbed, she heard shouting. She heard gunfire. She heard screams.

But more than anything, she heard those growls.

She heard the growls that accompanied the splitting apart of insides.

The choking on blood.

The snapping of skulls.

She wasn’t sure how she got to the top of the tree so promptly. She wasn’t sure how she’d got to the top of it at all. She was on autopilot. Gripped by the fear, by the confusion.

An Orion.

She thought back to the last time she’d seen an Orion. A long time ago when she was with her old group, back when a bad man called Mr Fletch—who did something weird to people to make them into become monster-hunters, launched his Orions on her old home. Only those Orions were trained to attack people, not monsters.

From the sound of the chaos below, so too was this Orion.

She held on to Kesha. Closed her eyes. She could hear people still screaming down below. Could smell blood in the air. Kesha started to cry, so Chloë just held on to her even closer. “It’s okay,” she whispered, her voice shaking as the Orion sunk its teeth into one of the men’s torsos, ravaged his guts while he was still alive.

“It’ll—it’ll be okay,” she whispered again.

She stroked Kesha’s head and sensed her calming down. So she kept on doing that, kept on stroking her head. She was going to be okay. Both of them were going to be okay.

Chloë didn’t believe that. Not really.

But she had to keep on telling herself that or she’d lose her mind.

She couldn’t think of much, but one thing she did think about was her old group. Riley, Jordanna, the people she’d been with at the Manchester Living Zone; the people she’d spent the first months of the end of the world surviving with before she went her own way. If a human-hunting Orion was here, then what did it mean for them? She didn’t think about Riley or Jordanna much. Thinking about them brought back too many painful memories.

But it was hard to imagine a world where they were gone.

She heard shuffling. Heard shuffling, right down below. She looked at the bottom of the tree. A man was dragging himself along. He was covered in guts, seemingly the guts of someone else. His right leg had been snapped in two and was flooding blood. A bone stuck through his flesh.

The Orion had its back to him.

Chloë watched him shuffle along. Watched him struggle. And as much as she didn’t like Laura or her group for trying to take Kesha away, for trying to kill her, and for killing those other children, she couldn’t help feeling sorry for this man. She wanted him to get away. Because nobody deserved to die the way the Orions killed you.

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