Devouring The Dead (Book 1) by Watts Russ

Author:Watts, Russ [Watts, Russ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2013-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Philip was rooted to the spot. Outside in the city plaza, on the streets where he and Kate had walked to work for the past six months, were the dead. He couldn’t imagine, much less count their number. From where he was to the Akuma building, to the stock exchange on the other side and the tube station across the square, they rocked and swayed in their thousands.

He contemplated going back upstairs, but knew it was futile. They were up there. Where could he run to now? He pictured Kate coming down the stairs to kill him and tried to rub the image from his mind. He had treated her like shit lately. Now she was dead, and he couldn’t take that back.

There was a clicking sound coming from the foyer doors that lasted a few seconds and then a grinding noise as the hidden motors sprang into action. Philip watched in disbelief as the huge glass doors began to part. They slid back, releasing the zombies who flooded into the foyer, running and sprinting toward him. A smell of rotting meat and decay wafted over him and Philip pissed his pants where he stood.

He ran to the nearest door to him, behind the reception desk, and pulled it open. The first zombie jumped on his back as he fell through the doorway to the floor. A man dug his nails into Philip as they struggled.

“Get off, get off!” Philip threw the man off, wiping his face where the dead man had scratched him. He tried to get up to run but another zombie pulled him down. Philip felt fingers clawing at his legs and back and in the confines of the corridor, he could not get away. He felt teeth sink into his calves and sharp fingernails gouge at his back and neck. He tried to stand, but the weight was too much for him as more and more zombies piled through the door. Philip was buried beneath the dead and before long, he was dead too, carved open by a thousand teeth. Although he became infected, there was nothing left of him to reanimate. The zombies tore him from limb to limb, pulling his insides out and devouring them, eating his alcohol soaked liver, wrenching his guts out as he drifted into painful death.

With Philip dead, the zombies continued their thirst for flesh and began scouring the building. They poured in through the foyer and soon found the stairwell. Karl, Troy, and Jenny met them on the stairs and inadvertently joined the mob. They were pushed along onto the second floor, swept out onto the terrace where they remained until their diseased bodies were burnt along with the rest of Fiscal Industries.

More zombies continued climbing upward in their ultimately pointless quest. There was to be no feeding up there today.

Michelle had taken a beating on the sixteenth floor and her body lay in the burning office where she had conceived one late drunken Friday night. Karl had sliced her throat before he too had been killed, and the living had escaped.

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