Dinosaur Lake III:Infestation by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Author:Kathryn Meyer Griffith [Griffith, Kathryn Meyer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Published: 2014-12-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Stanton and Kiley

Ellie Stanton whispered, “Is it gone yet, Matthew?”

“I don’t know. I don’t hear any dinosaurs skulking around out there but that doesn’t mean anything. Those freaks are clever. They know when to be quiet. Stealthy. I swear they’re out there in a huddle, scaly heads down, arms intertwined like a football team before kick-off, scheming how best to ambush us again. How to get in here and gobble us up.”

Kiley’s body relaxed and he lowered his rifle, laying it across his lap. He was breathing heavily, his body and clothes sodden from the raging storm outside as he slumped to the floor under the window. His back was against the wood, feet splayed out before him. When the lightning flashed and momentarily lit up the room, there was a steely expression on his face she’d seen many times before. No way lousy scurrying dinosaurs were going to get the best of him. He’d show them.

Well, that was until the big one showed up. It’d been doggedly tracking them now for over an hour. The thing never gave up.

Ellie sighed, put her rifle on the floor beside her, and also leaned her backside against the inner wall of the cabin they’d taken refuge in. A rental now empty because the park visitors were gone. She’d known the cabin well and how to get into it, and it hadn’t been far from where they’d left her car. They just hadn’t made it to headquarters. The creatures had been too close behind. Running and hiding from the big guy and the rest of his pack, they’d been lucky to come across the cabin and scramble into it before the dinosaurs had caught up to them. But it was a small cabin meant for one or two people. So the building was an eight by ten square with two modest windows. Not a whole lot of protection, but better than nothing.

Now they were trapped inside, unable to get where they’d been going. And she knew they were near. Headquarters couldn’t be but a few miles away. So close.

“I lost my cell phone somewhere out there in the mud…I think when we slogged through that creek in the dark,” he said. “It must have fallen off my belt. Damn.”

“I never had a chance to grab mine out of the glove compartment before we began the wild flight for our lives.” Strange how something as simple as the loss of a cell phone could doom their rescue, when they were so near to safety. In this modern age, they took way too much for granted. Life was too easy. Too cushy. She was tired, wet and hungry. A little more than frightened. And there was nothing she could do about any of that. At least they were out of the rain, the night, safe and in one piece. Together. For the moment.

At first, inside the park, they’d been following Chief Shore and his wife as they’d fled from the dinosaurs, finally losing them. Matthew thought the Chief’s car had gone over a precipice somewhere and crashed.

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