Hunger: The Complete Trilogy by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson [Robinson, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Breakneck Media
Published: 2023-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

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Ella sat on the first-floor staircase, hands linked behind her head as instructed. She kept the grip light, her head still recovering from the blow that knocked her unconscious. Mason stood at the bottom of the stairs, revolver leveled at Ella, but his eyes on the front door. The hairy woman standing on the far side of the door, visible through the side windows, was swaying back and forth impatiently, waiting to sell Girl Scout cookies, or Mormon Jesus, or Jehovah’s Witness Jesus. She was a Rider. There was no doubt about that. The hooked teeth were impossible to mistake, and that adaptation, combined with the hair-covered body, was an unlikely combination to be repeated.

But why was it knocking on the door?

To call it strange behavior was an understatement. ExoGenetic creatures were driven by instinct. By hunger. They didn’t knock on doors. Then again, they weren’t supposed to talk, either, but Peter had communicated with Kristen before he shot her. Perhaps the other Riders could speak as well?

It didn’t matter.

None of it.

What mattered was that the creature outside wasn’t just her enemy, but the enemy of every living thing that wasn’t also a Rider or a Woolie. It was a predator. They were its prey.

“You need to give me a weapon,” Ella said.

Mason waved her off, keeping his attention on the door, but his weapon trained on her. Dave stood by the door, clutching an assault rifle that he didn’t look very comfortable holding.

Ella guessed he’d never fired the weapon, at least not at anything living. The men outside the compound, the ones who had taken them captive, were the real fighters. Dave and Chad guarded the house, and manned the third-floor lookout, but they weren’t even good at that.

“Mason,” Ella said. “The creatures outside are killers. Savages. And my kids are missing.”

“They’re not all your kids,” he said, turning toward her. “Are they?”

“They are now.”

“How noble of you.”

“Let me save them. Let me help you fight.”

“What good are hair and teeth and claws against bullets?” Mason asked.

Ella laughed. “When was the last time you stepped outside these gates?”

He said nothing, which was answer enough. He hadn’t been in the wild since before the Change. He’d heard stories but filtered through the bravado of his men.

“I should have known,” Ella said. “Rape and subjugation are the tactics of a coward.”

Mason’s left eye twitched, but he said nothing. Just stared.

Then the Rider knocked again, louder this time, hard enough to rattle the thick wood.

“Shit,” Dave said, taking a step back from the door.

Chad entered the foyer, arms clutching an array of weapons. Rifles and assault rifles. All of them presumably loaded, but there wasn’t a spare magazine or even loose ammunition in sight. He stumbled, fell to his knees, and let the weapons clatter on the hard wood floor. “Sorry, sorry.”

The barrel of each and every weapon was pointed in Dave’s direction, and when he saw them hit the floor, he reversed course, back toward the door. His fear of a

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