Global Outbreak by Chris Thompson

Author:Chris Thompson [Thompson, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Chris Thompson
Published: 2019-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Melissa rolled her neck as she opened her eyes. The side of her head throbbed with intense pain, and a warm, wet feeling from her scalp made her realize she’d been struck with some considerable force by something hard, which had cut her and knocked her out. As she slowly scanned her surroundings, she wondered how long she’d been unconscious and, as her brain slowly began to function and memories returned, where Rochelle was. It seemed she was in a basement, with a large furnace facing her on the right and washing machines and dryers on the left. Melissa felt pressure on her shoulders and a sense of weightlessness, which filtered into her consciousness at the same time that her nose wrinkled when she realized she definitely wasn’t in most pleasantly fragrant place in the world. Looking up, Melissa observed what she thought was a relatively new looking metal plate mounted on the ceiling with eight, shiny nuts. Two heavy chains dropped from it; the free ends attached to a set of shackles around her wrists. She had been hauled up and left hanging a foot or so off the ground - like a piece of meat in a butcher shop. Though the pain was severe, her inability to defend herself when her assailant returned - as he or she surely would - prompted Melissa to jostle the chains in the hope they might magically come loose, but all she achieved was to aggravate the pain in her head and increase the discomfort in her shoulders.

“You’re awake!” Rochelle exclaimed, and Melissa turned her head slightly in the direction of her voice, finding Rochelle with one hand cuffed to the pipes beside the trio of washing machines. Melissa wasn’t sure why she hadn’t noticed her the first time, but assumed she’d been hiding - not to mention her blurred vision, which made it appear she was viewing everything through eyes brimming with tears.

“What happened?” Melissa demanded groggily.

“He knocked you out and forced me to go with him. He made me drag you while he... ”

“Who?”

“Stop talking!” A loud, aggressive, male voice called out from somewhere above them.

Melissa heard a door open. The sound drew her attention to a shaft of light which highlighted a staircase that presumably led up out of the basement. A male figure thudded down the stairs. He was wearing a vest and some kind of heavily padded overalls, the top part of which was bunched up with the arms tied around his waist. He was heavy with muscle, making it obvious his job had involved some kind of manual labor before the end of the world. When he neared the bottom of the stairs, all Melissa was able to see at first was the heavy wrench he was holding in his right hand, and then his face came into view. Even though her vision was still slightly impaired, she saw him clearly enough to deduce that he was younger than his voice had led her to believe.

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