Magic and Decay by Rachel Higginson

Author:Rachel Higginson [Higginson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reckless Siren Publishing
Published: 2014-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Ivy

I froze.

Froze.

I couldn’t think. I couldn’t act. I couldn’t do anything.

I just stood there trying to wipe the blood from my neck onto my clothes. The dirty, contaminated, infected blood.

My blood.

Fear snaked through my stomach and wrapped around my heart. It squeezed and squeezed and choked the life out of me.

I felt the change immediately. I felt my blood die in my veins. There was life and then there wasn’t. I was a living, breathing, thinking person and then… I wasn’t.

My skin turned chalky with sweat. Saliva pooled in the back of my throat and I nearly choked on it. I struggled to make my throat move, to force the slimy spit down my deadening muscles.

Oh, god.

I was a Zombie!

What now? Was this it? Is this where I died?

Not at Nix’s brutal hands or in the middle of some ancient Greek war? But like this?

This is what I got for hating my beauty all my freaking life. Was this the Universe’s way of proving a point?

Fine. I’m vain. There. I said it. I’m incredibly vain. I hate my beauty, but I like it too!

I didn’t want to lose my looks this way. I didn’t want to start rotting like a corpse before I ever died. I didn’t want to smell bad and not be able to think.

And I really, really, really didn’t want to change my diet from whatever it was before to brains.

My limbs locked tight and my heart slowed to nearly stopped. I shot Ryder a pleading look and felt the tears slip from the corners of my eyes.

He looked horrified. He reached for me, but Reagan grabbed him before he could get too close.

“You can’t,” she told him in a broken voice. “She’s already changing.”

A sob hiccupped in my throat and more tears slipped from my eyes. No. No! This couldn’t be happening!

The bite on my neck burned like hot coals. The Zombie had gone right for my neck. He’d pinned me to the ground and savagely attacked my body. He’d cut gashes into my skin all over and I hadn’t known he’d actually bitten me until I stood up and realized the wound on my neck hurt more than any of the others.

But now I couldn’t feel anything else. I wanted to scream in agony, but my lungs wouldn’t cooperate. I felt the life drain out of me. Whatever made me human, whatever pieced together my soul seemed to seep out of me through my feet. My thoughts started to rush around and crash into each other.

And then the worst of it.

The first hunger pain for flesh.

My new friends stood around me and they looked… delicious.

I locked eyes with Ryder and pleaded with him to anchor me, to keep me grounded. My mind was on the verge of floating away and my body already betrayed me.

I felt a trickle of drool fall from the corner of my mouth, but I couldn’t do anything about it! I couldn’t even wipe it away.

More tears leaked out of my eyes, the only sign that I could still feel.

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