Empty Bodies (Book 5): Damnation by Bohannon Zach

Author:Bohannon, Zach [Bohannon, Zach]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Zellwood Press
Published: 2016-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

It was, Gabriel guessed, midway through the next day before the guards came to retrieve him. He’d only seen another human once that day, when a guard had brought him food. With no natural light coming into the room, it had been hard for Gabriel to determine what time of day it was. He’d used his normal sleeping patterns as best he could, knowing what time of the morning his biological clock usually woke him, and using that to guess the time.

The door opened, and both Lance and Derek appeared in the doorway. Derek had the same neutral look on his face that he’d carried with him each other time Gabriel had seen him. Conversely, Lance looked like a rabid dog, ready to rip Gabriel’s throat out. Though he looked angry, a bandage now covering his nose, part of him also looked exhilarated; there was a slight glow in his eyes, perhaps.

“Up,” Derek said.

Gabriel sighed and stood up from the desk. Knowing what would come next, he extended his arms, offering to let the men cuff him. Lance stepped forward with the handcuffs while Derek remained ready with the rifle. Gabriel wondered if Lance would try and provoke him to make a move, giving Derek a reason to use the weapon in his hands. But it didn’t happen.

As Lance cuffed Gabriel, he said, “Boy, you’re in for a treat today.”

They led Gabriel down the hall, following the same path they’d taken him along when he’d been forced to watch the atrocities on the football field. He assumed he was heading back out there now. Was Ambrose trying to intimidate him? Threatening him with the possibility that he might send him out into the sick and twisted game?

They exited the building through the exit in the stairwell.

Outside, the sun worked to peek through clouds in the sky. The asphalt had darkened, signaling that it had recently rained. Though the sun had soaked up any standing water, except that gathered in cracks and dips in the concrete. The air carried with it a humid breath, though an Autumn breeze still attempted to blow through.

Unlike before, Gabriel didn’t hear a commotion coming from the football field. There was no woman standing at the gate, accepting canned currency to get inside the stadium. Even so, death was in the air. Gabriel could not only smell it, but he could feel it.

Derek and Lance pulled Gabriel through the front gate. As they walked down the tunnel, the field became visible. As Gabriel had expected from the silence, the seats were empty. Four armed guards stood down by the fence, just below where Gabriel had entered the stadium.

“Go,” Lance said, nudging Gabriel forward.

Gabriel walked down the stairs and he swallowed the dryness in his throat as he looked down to the end zone at his left.

Parked on the five yard line was the armored box truck that had unloaded the Empty competitors onto the field during the game. Two guards stood at the back of the truck.

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