Lights Out by Crawford David

Author:Crawford, David [Crawford, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Halffast Publishing
Published: 2010-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 44

Mark turned the ignition off and jumped out of the Jeep. He didn’t even think to grab his rifle or pull his pistol. He ran to the door and looked at the bodies. They had swollen up to almost twice their normal size. The stench was unbearable, and he pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket and covered his nose with it. The three faces, though badly misshapened by bullet holes and the swelling, belonged to no one he knew. The two men and a woman had tattoos all over their arms and some on their necks and legs. They all appeared to have been in their late teens or early twenties. He looked up and saw Ed, standing fifteen or twenty feet from the door, staring at the bodies like he couldn’t figure out what they were.

Past the staring young man, the three trucks had stopped behind the Jeep. Mark could see the Trans Am coming up the street at a rapid pace. Ted steered the muscle car around the trucks and brought it to a halt beside the Jeep. Gunny exited the Pontiac with surprising agility and started barking orders to the four drivers. He told them to space out around the vehicles to guard them. He had the riders follow him up to the house with their longarms. When he got to the door and saw Mark without his rifle, he promptly reprimanded him. Rob looked at the bodies and told the group that they’d been gang members and, from the looks of them, had been dead for about three days. Gunny had Rob, Joe, and Dwight circle the house and make sure there were no surprises in the backyard. When they came back with nothing out of the ordinary to report, he had Joe and Dwight return to the backyard and guard the back door. With all the entrances to the house covered, he told the others to follow him into the house.

“You don’t expect me to go in there?” Ed shuddered as he asked, never taking his eyes off of the dead bodies.

Gunny looked at the young man with disdain. “What’s the matter? You never seen maggot chow before?”

The young man’s eyes grew to the size of silver dollars. He then bent over and hurled his lunch onto the small front lawn. Mark thought he saw the faintest hint of a smile in the old man’s eyes.

“Why don’t you help guard the trucks when you’re finished pukin’,” Gunny said.

The old man assigned Rob to help Mark clear the house while he watched their backs. Rob nodded his head at Gunny then looked at Mark for an indication of where to start. Mark tilted his head toward the kitchen. The three men cleared the downstairs room by room. The rooms were full of empty liquor bottles, beer cans, and drug paraphernalia. They found another dead body in the garage. It was as lifeless as the almost brand new SUV next to it. The young man

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