Love and Decay, Volume Seven (Episodes 5-8, Season Three) by Higginson Rachel

Author:Higginson, Rachel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, serial, zombies, apocalyptic, action and adventure, undead, novella series, young adult dystopian, new adult suspense
Publisher: Rachel Higginson

Chapter Two

I had just decided it was worth the risk to turn around and run when they jumped.

They didn’t bother running down their slope, they simply took the distance with a bounding leap and landed on their feet. I heard bones snap and shatter from the ones with more advanced infections, but that didn’t seem to slow them down. They didn’t feel pain.

They only felt hunger.

There were so many more of them this time. The second wave was an obviously instructed attack. Whoever had decided to go after us tonight was not an idiot.

Which was kind of annoying.

I’d much rather deal with a stupid villain than a smart one.

I looked around frantically, desperate for some cover or a way to regain the advantage. There was nothing. We had managed to find ourselves in a shallow valley with nothing but sloping rock all around us. The Feeders didn’t surround us, but they might as well have. We were trapped and not one of us was fast enough to outrun them without a significant head start.

Son of a bitch.

They prowled toward us, their movements jerky but slow. A stillness settled over all of us, as if we were momentarily frozen.

I felt my breaths thicken in my chest; they filled my ears and seemed to echo through the night. My gun was steady in my hand, even though my bones felt like jelly and my knees threatened to start knocking together.

One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.

Nothing happened. We eyed each other, both recognizing the enemy in the other. I felt resolve and survival curl around my bones and reinforce my instinct to kill. My instinct to survive.

I breathed in their rancid odor and let it fuel my murderous intentions. I surveyed their pasty, peeling skin, their exposed bone and dried blood caked over their bodies from head to toe and let the sight of them burn with the angry fire I continually kept alive in the pit of my soul.

Yes, I had a lot of enemies. Yes, a lot of men wanted to kill me or at least see me dead.

But these were the catalysts for it all.

These were the creatures that set this entire series of life-threatening events into motion. And I wanted each and every one of them to pay for what they did to me.

If I couldn’t punish the disease itself, then I would make the ones that carried and spread it pay. I would make them the sacrifices on the pyre of the retribution I deserved.

To the restitution that was rightfully mine.

Just as I had decided to rain down my wrath, everything moved into motion. They sprung forward as one war-wielding machine. Their groaning reeked with the cry for battle. They wanted death.

And we would give it to them.

I started shooting, taking out as many Feeders as I could. My vision was painted with red, marking the fury I felt pumping through my body and the blood I spilt on the ground around me. Hendrix and Vaughan flanked me

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