Dawn_Final Awakening_Book One by J. Thorn & Zach Bohannon

Author:J. Thorn & Zach Bohannon [Thorn, J. & Bohannon, Zach]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Molten Universe Media
Published: 2017-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Dax woke to the sound of a scream. He sat up, reaching for his Glock in the process. The sudden jolt reminded him of the injury to his leg. He grimaced. When the immediacy of the pain subsided, he noticed the makeshift bandage hadn’t darkened any further, which meant the wound had finally stopped bleeding.

Another scream.

He used a chair to pull himself to his feet.

Dax hobbled to the window. The candles had all gone out, and it seemed darker inside the restaurant than out on the streets. He scanned left to right but saw nobody out there, no one on the street or at the door.

He opened the front door and slid through, standing at the top of the steps. The water had risen, now covering one more of the steps leading up to the restaurant.

Someone screamed for the third time, and Dax knew it had come from the adjacent building. He bent down and tried to keep his body in the corner of the exterior wall as he looked at the windows in the building next door. No light came from within, and Dax was about to turn away when a fleeting shadow caught his eye.

Leave it be. You got a big fucking hole in your leg.

What he heard next made the hairs on his arms stand up. At first, Dax thought someone was killing a cat. The high-pitched shriek could have been an animal, too, but it sounded deeper and louder. A scream, like a human.

Dax looked at the water and then to his thigh. He could hobble through it and be back to the restaurant before the water rose high enough to contaminate his wound. The last thing he wanted to do was clean it out. Again. He hobbled down the steps, into the water and toward the building next door—the whole time keeping his eyes on the windows. He came to a door on the side of the building that stood open, left slightly ajar. Dax grabbed it, pulled it open and stepped into the darkness.

The aroma of tomato sauce and fried dough mixed with spoiled milk and wet garbage. Dax gagged as he took another step inside the Italian eatery. Like the restaurant he’d been in before, the eatery had been ransacked. Tables lay on their sides, and someone had built a mound of chairs in one corner of the room. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he saw more destruction. Signs had been thrown on the ground, and dozens of round, aluminum pizza trays covered the floor toward the back wall. A weak, soft glow came from a back dining room, and it caught his attention. Dax limped toward it, his gun firmly in his grasp. The subtle illumination flashed on and off and as he moved closer to the source. Then he heard a gentle whimper.

The flashing light came through a square window set inside of a swinging door. Dax looked through it and could see the faint outlines of people standing in the corner.

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