Eat Local by King Danny

Author:King, Danny
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Wolf Publishing
Published: 2017-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Colonel Bingham had ordered his men to open fire immediately at the first signs of movement and the front door swinging open had reignited the hostilities.

The six surviving Coven members had dashed out to take cover in the front garden. The idea was to break as one, in one direction, and overwhelm their attackers until they breeched a section of line. If just one of them could get beyond the enemy and disappear, they could then double back and pick them off at will. They might not get them all but they would certainly get enough to allow the others to join the fray.

And then what?

And then it would be a free-for-all in the darkness and Henry and his friends would back themselves all night long with that kind of advantage.

Colonel Bingham was acutely aware of the dangers and ordered his men to converge on three sides and push them back into the house. The result was a firestorm of lead that whizzed and cracked all around the Coven’s heads.

Henry crouched behind a roller that had been left to rust in the middle of the lawn and called to Angel who was sheltering behind a dead tree.

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends? Once more.”

Angel smiled and looked to Vanessa to her left who was hugging the slate wall. “Or close up the wall with our English dead.”

Vanessa nodded back. “In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man.” She now looked to Boniface who was steeling himself behind a tin pigsty and urged him to pick up the baton.

Boniface looked back at her.

“What?”

Vanessa merely repeated her line. “In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man.”

Boniface snorted and pulled a face. “I’m not doing it,” he said, jumping out from behind the sty and charging up the hill. “Come on you bastards!”

“I told you,” Angel said, shaking her head in sadness. “No fun and no sense of occasion.”

They broke in twos, with Henry and Angel running for the stables while Vanessa and Chen made for the chicken sheds. They all knew to make for the big old skeletal oak tree silhouetted on the crest of the ridge and there they would fight their way through the soldiers, soaking up every bullet in their arsenal if need be but driving on. It would sting and it would slow them down but it wouldn’t stop them.

Henry covered Angel with short bursts then ran ahead, only for Angel to return the compliment, and in no time at all they’d crossed much of the open ground between their attackers and the farm.

Vanessa and Chen were also making headway, with Chen leading the charge while Vanessa covered the rear. Two soldiers ran out of the darkness to intercept them and shot them through with both clips. Ordinarily this would’ve been enough to neutralise any enemy but Vanessa and Chen were only stung. They rolled in the mud screaming and cursing mortal man, then returned fire, knocking the heads off both as they sprinted in for the kill.

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