Infection Z (Book 4) by Casey Ryan

Author:Casey, Ryan [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

“You come away from my boy and you step right over here. Step right over here like—like a man.”

Hayden stared into the wide eyes of the bald man. He saw they were bloodshot. Feral. Like a rabid dog. An animal left neglected. Alone for way too long.

He pressed the unfurled Stanley knife into the young boy’s neck. The one with the blood down his face that Hayden had seen earlier. So he was real. He was real, and he was in here.

He looked at Hayden with tearful eyes.

Hayden saw the desperation on his face clearly.

A bang at the door. Fists thumping against it.

“Hayden!” a muffled voice called. Miriam. But even though she was just through the door, she sounded so far away. So distant. Like this room was locked away from everywhere else.

Probably because it was.

“Your friends aren’t gettin’ in here,” the man said. “Not—not until you bring ’um in here anyway. Soundproof. Did soundproofin’ before the world went shitty. Did a good job, right? Did a good job, didn’t I?”

Hayden saw the guy’s eyes lighten up. Like he’d forgotten where he was, what the situation was, for a moment. Hayden noticed just how much the guy reeked of piss. Combined with that rabid look in his eyes, he knew he was dealing with someone not quite sane. Someone with a distorted sense of reality.

The most dangerous kind of person.

“Just… just lower the knife from the boy’s neck—”

“Don’t fuckin’ tell me what to do with my boy. Ain’t that right, boy? He don’t tell Daddy what to do. Say it!”

The boy whimpered. Cried. “He… he doesn’t tell Daddy what to do.”

The man smiled. Nodded. A smidgen of colour invaded his pale cheeks. “Right. Ain’t that right. No one tells Daddy what to do. Not anymore.”

Hayden stared at the man. His heart raced. There had to be something in here. Some way of getting around the man. Some way of fighting him.

The metal pipe in his hand.

Could he swing it at the guy? Swing it at him before the man slit the boy’s throat?

The image of that unfolding filled Hayden’s mind.

The little boy he’d let down.

The way blood spurted out of his neck; painted the glass.

The nightmares Hayden had been cursed with ever since.

He couldn’t let this boy face the same fate. Not now.

Hayden lowered his metal pipe. The man watched him intently, narrowing those wayward eyes.

“I’m putting my weapon down. I’m going to walk away from your boy back here.” Hayden pointed back at the boy hiding behind the clear plastic. “I’m going to walk out of here.”

Hayden started to walk away from his weapon. Towards the left of the man, the boy. Could he grab the boy? Grab him and make a run for it? And what about the other kid?

He heard the banging at the door. Heard Miriam, Seb, the other group members all shouting out for him. He could do with them in here right now. He could do with their help.

He didn’t have that luxury.

He kept on walking towards the door.

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