Edge of Instinct: Rabids Book 1 by Cook Amy

Author:Cook, Amy [Cook, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Amy Cook
Published: 2014-08-21T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Harley

Harley sat on the cement rubble, cleaning blood off his throwing daggers. Dust coated his hair, showering down on him every time he moved. Blood dripped off his face, though he wasn’t sure if it was Rabid blood or his own. He’d been led on quite the chase, hunting down the group of Rabids that the girl had spotted while wearing his glasses.

He looked up at the bonfire before him, eyes distant. Killing Rabids is what he did, it’s what he was made for and it came easily to him. Rabids were just empty, soulless husks with brains of mush that wanted intestines for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was even easier on the conscience to take out Raiders, because they were rampaging psychopathic murderers that took sadistic pleasure in torturing their victims before eating their insides. There was nothing human left in either of them. But it was the nights when Harley got to thinking about the lives they lived before all of this that his profession started to get to him. Nights like tonight. His eyes shifted to the charred remains of his prey as they crackled in the depths of the flames, images of brown eyes rising to haunt his vision. He was tempted to shake that image away, rid himself of the pain it would invoke, but he didn’t. He closed his eyes, breathed in the scent of the fires fuel, and let the images wash over him.

He’d been doing this for too long to think that there could be anything left of the lives that the infected once lived. To think that there was any hope of saving them, beyond putting them out of their misery and keeping them from spreading the infection that would ruin so many other lives. There was no going back once you got the infection. Your brain changed in a way that was impossible to ‘heal’. The humanity was gone, and in its place was an insatiable monster. He’d seen enough to know the truth of their existence. He’d watched friends turn on one another, boss and employee, nurse and patient. He’d even seen a mother turn on her own child, ripping him apart as though he were nothing more than a thanksgiving turkey. He closed his eyes, letting the thousands of memories scroll through his mind like a bad horror flick come to life. He let each terrified face of the victims sift through his mind, each scream of horror register in his ears. It was a trick Charleen had taught them, when they first joined her in this new existence. You watched the images and you took strength from them. It kept your mind on what was important, on why they did what they did, and the lives they hoped to save in the process. If they didn’t focus on those aspects, this life would drive them over the edge. It reminded him why he spent every night alone, stalking around in the dark. Reminded him why

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