Eden TRILOGY by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor
Format: epub

THIRTY-THREE

West and Avian still wanted to go pick everyone up the next day. And I had to agree, it felt like the right, and safest thing to do. Eden would join the residents of Los Angeles.

We informed Royce of our decision and he set up a team that would go with us and take the tanks to pick everyone else up.

I stood at the back door, the one we had been brought through when we first arrived at the hospital. I looked out into the dark night, keeping guard while others behind me prepped for our departure. I could hear Avian talking to Royce, telling him about Morgan and her pregnancy, making plans for her care. West chatted with one of the other soldiers.

I heard something fifteen yards to my right. Tapping. I peered around the corner, searching for the source of the noise through the dark.

There it was again. A small tapping sound. And once again.

I took two steps out of the door toward the sound, my beautiful, new assault rifle leveled before me.

I heard the sound again. Tapping, followed by the shuffle of feet.

Remaining silent, I crept further into the dark.

The tapping started again, coming quicker and steadier sounding.

I was only ten yards from the entrance to the hospital when I saw it. She looked young, no older than me. But her eyes gleamed as she tapped the spoon against the concrete walls of a building.

My finger was pulling the trigger when I was tackled to the ground. We rolled before it came on top of me, its eyes gleaming in the dark. My firearm was knocked clean from my hands.

Before I could call for help it pressed a hard, cold hand over my mouth, pressing in on me with a crushing force. I plowed a fist into its still human-soft side. It caved around my blow, throwing it off balance enough for me to knock it to the side.

“Close the doors!” I screamed as I got to my feet and scrambled for my firearm. It caught my ankle, taking me to the ground just as I wrapped my fingers around the rifle’s barrel. I turned and fired a shot at the mechanical girl who approached behind the one holding on to me. She dropped to the ground in a heap.

Before I could fire again, the machine gripping me squeezed my ankle as it drew me to it. I felt something inside of me crunch and crumple. There was shouting behind me but I couldn’t turn to look and see if they were in fact closing the doors.

The thing had just broken my ankle.

And I could actually feel it.

The pain raced up my leg before exploding into the rest of my body. An enraged scream ripped from my throat as I finally righted the rifle in my hands and fired two shots into his chest. But he reached for the barrel of the rifle. He squeezed, crunching it, and bent it back until it pointed at me. He then gave a good hard yank, and flung it off into the distance.

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