Five Days Dead by Davis James

Author:Davis, James [Davis, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Grayland Books
Published: 2014-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

Edward Toll moaned and wiped blood from his brow. Sara cried out in pain and he quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and flipped over to face her. Her wrist was twisted at a bad angle, but her eyes were alert and scared and he nodded at her and unbuckled her own belt.

“Let’s go.” They climbed out the driver’s side window and he had a moment to look around him. Quinlan was drawing the zombies away with random and mostly useless blasts from the pulse rifle, but there were more racing down the shoulder of the highway toward them.

A truck screeched to a halt on the road above and Harley Nearwater climbed out. He looked down at the old man and the zombies racing toward them and he aimed his blaster at Edward’s car. He was aiming at the natural gas tank and Edward grabbed his wounded wife by the elbow and tried to move faster, looking back as he ran.

Harley Nearwater winked and pulled the trigger.

The explosion pushed Edward and Sara in the back, lifting them off the ground and tossing them toward Quinlan. They landed hard 30 feet from the young man and Edward cried out in pain and rolled over and onto his knees. The blast had thrown the zombies around his car back up the hill and several of them were burning and screaming as the fire spread.

Sara lay on her back and Edward knelt over her. Her eyes were wide and frightened and very far away and the old man took his wife by her right arm and tried to lift her but found that he could not. She groaned once and the breath escaped her in a gasp. Edward eased her on her side and a jagged piece of metal, hard and sharp and deadly, pierced her back. The weed-choked ground around her was pooling with her blood. Edward rolled her to her back and her eyes stared at him softly with the same love and humor and mischief that had made him fall in love with her so many years before. Then the light within them began to fade away and Edward Toll found himself alone for the first time in such a very long time.

He sat there, oblivious to the zombies around him or the dozen more that rushed across the road and down the shoulder of the highway. His hands were covered in blood, in his wife’s blood and he could not get over that. He heard someone shouting his name and he didn’t care because it didn’t really matter that someone was shouting his name because Sara was gone. How was it possible that she was gone?

“Ed! Ed!” The voice sounded like Sara but when he turned his head it was the young man named Quinlan and he was surrounded by Wrynd and firing madly. There were so many of them now that he was actually hitting some.

Edward stood on shaking knees and looked at the carnage around him and the lifeless

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