Dead of Night: The Nephalem Files (Book 3) by Wayne Douglas

Author:Wayne, Douglas [Wayne, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-09-26T18:30:00+00:00

- 18 -

Ross positioned himself on the roof of the trunk in front of Cummings. He placed his body in front of the other officer, ensuring Cummings' body didn't roll out onto the street, handing the undead an easy meal. I heard two clicks from the trunk telling me he had chambered a bullet and released the safety. He had already prepared my gun, which pressed against my back as it was wedged in my pants at my belt line.

"You ready?" I asked as quietly as possible.

"Do it."

I pulled the lever to the trunk. It slammed against the ground hard, sending Ross sprawling to the ground. Cummings' body rolled once, but otherwise stayed on the top of the trunk like we had hoped.

I hurried through the upside down car, careful not to cut myself on the shattered glass. The gunshots started by the time I'd reached the trunk. Bodies fell around the rear of the car.

As I stepped out into the sunlight, I noticed the scene. Nearly two dozen of the walking corpses were around the car. Where they had been relatively docile while we were in the car, they were now fully alert to our presence and apparently very hungry.

I dragged Cummings' body out of the trunk, pulled his body to a sitting position, kneeled, and lifted him over my shoulder. Thankfully he was lighter than he looked though it still took a lot more effort to keep him on my shoulders than I had imagined.

Ross continued his fire against the dead, dropping them with well placed shots to the head. On the ground, the bodies that had been shot remained unmoving on the ground. The head shot theory had worked, or at least appeared to look that way.

It took a few steps for me to fully gain my balance and head towards Ross, who was clearing a path through the dead, following a stream or canal just south of the lake.

"Where are we headed?" I asked, forcing my legs to go as fast at they could while holding an extra two hundred pounds over my shoulder.

"Away from them."

We continued south, following a roadway as it passed through a residential section of town. I hoped he wasn't leading us closer to the necromancer, but it wasn't like we had a load of options. Going back to the north was out of question as most of the undead had been focused that way. There were still dozens of them ahead of us, but they were more spread out, making it easier to avoid them as we ran down the street.

Two blocks down the road, I heard the click of Ross' gun, telling me it was out of bullets. He ejected the magazine, grabbed another one off of his belt and inserted it in the gun. He chambered a bullet in time to shoot one between the eyes of a dead woman who was closing in to bite.

"You still good?" he asked as he put a bullet into another as it leapt out from behind a tree.

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