Rage (Book 2): The Infected by Murray Richard

Author:Murray, Richard [Murray, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Infected
Published: 2020-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Get inside!” Kyra snapped, waving towards the shattered glass in the centre of the door.

Without hesitation, the others rushed to do as instructed, pushing gingerly through the door and into the shop beyond. Kyra waited until the last of them was through before reaching up and grabbing the bottom of the security shutter and pulling it down as she stepped through the door herself.

It fell with a clatter of steel against steel, rebounding from the polished stone doorstep. Kyra steadied the metal shutter and coaxed it down to rest against the stone. She didn’t have the key to secure it in place and she couldn’t do anything about the large open window display, but at least the entrance was hidden from view.

“What now?” Dec asked, a tremble of fear in his voice.

The last time he’d been out he’d been in the car with Kyra and that had provided some distance between the infected and his own scrawny hide. Being out in the centre of the city with what sounded like hundreds of the things coming from all directions, had induced a level of terror in him that he’d not known existed.

He had the sudden realisation that it wasn’t a lark. A quick dash into the city with friends, marvelling at the destruction all around them while not really thinking it would ever truly affect him.

“Start filling your bags,” Kyra snapped. “Quickly! Then get into the back rooms before any of them see us.”

“Shouldn’t we leave the looting for now?” Jason asked, wincing at the raucous alarm. “We need to get out of here.”

Sarah had already begun moving and was in the backroom by the time they started arguing. Anna, following close behind, watched her carefully as she scanned the rows of shelves with her gaze.

“What do we need?” Anna asked.

“Antibiotics, pain killers, anything strong. Those first and then just about everything else.”

Anna looked around at the shelves full of boxes, her eyes widening as she realised there was no way they could carry it all. One thing she did want before anything else, was her pills and she started looking.

Sarah had half-filled her backpack by the time Dec came in and she quickly directed him to one set of shelving with the simple instruction to grab everything. Jason was next and with a dark glance back at Kyra, he too began filling his bag.

“You got everything?” Kyra asked, standing by the front counter and watching the window carefully. “How much longer you need?”

“Few minutes,” Sarah replied, not stopping moving for a moment as she pulled box after box off the shelves.

“I need more time!” Anna added, a note of hysteria entering her voice.

“We’ll have to come back,” Dec said, glance over at the young woman. “I’ll come with you; I promise.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep,” Kyra snapped. “Now hurry the hell up before we get… Down!”

She didn’t wait to see if the others listened to her as Kyra dropped down below the level of the counter. She pressed her back against it, heart thundering in her chest as her legs trembled.

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