Rage Against the Dying (The Secret Apocalypse Book 8) by James Harden & J. L. Harden

Author:James Harden & J. L. Harden [Harden, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-10-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“Which way?” Kenji asks. “Where do we go from here?”

“Away,” I answer. “We need to get as far away from these people as possible.”

“And away from Marko,” Jack says.

“Yeah, and Marko.”

And Ivan.

Dammit. Once again we are surrounded by killers and cannibals and marauders. And I’m not even sure what’s worse anymore.

The dead.

The living.

The Oz virus.

The survivors.

“I know a place,” Sarah says softly from the back. “Keep going. Past the walls. On the other side of town.”

“Do you think they’ll follow us?” Maria asks.

I check the large side mirrors of the fire truck, looking back. Can’t see much. They seem to have all taken cover. Wait. I see him. The man with the shotgun and the sword strapped to his back. He is standing in the middle of the road.

Just standing there. Watching.

He points towards us.

I get chills.

“They won’t follow us,” Kim says. “Not if they want to live.” She says this with menace in her voice. Hatred. Blood lust.

I check the side mirrors again and now I see them all running and scrambling. It looks like they are re-grouping. Getting organized. Getting ready to chase.

No, they wouldn’t.

Yes, they would.

And Kim is wrong because they will follow us and they are following us. Almost immediately, the bullets start flying, pinging into the back of the truck.

“Damn. They’re more armed than we thought they were,” Kenji says as he begins zig-zagging down the road, trying his best to make us a harder target to hit.

He drives into a whole row of parked cars, smashing into them, pushing them into the shop windows. The cars buckle and smash, glass shatters.

“My bad,” he says, apologizing.

“Don’t apologize!” Kim says. “Just keep driving!”

“Yeah,” Maria chimes in. “Faster!”

Kenji floors it again. There’s a small hatchback up ahead that’s been abandoned in the middle of the road. There’s no time to swerve, no time to get out and push it out of the way. Kenji drives straight for it. And taking Maria’s advice, he drives faster and faster. We collide with the small car, smashing straight into it, sending it spinning and flying away into the front of a building.

“That was pretty cool,” Kim says.

And I have to admit that yeah, that was pretty cool. It was almost as if the car was weightless, like a piece of cardboard. It looked unreal.

More gunshots from behind bring my attention back to the fact that we are being chased by a gang of blood thirsty marauders. No time to admire Kenji’s demolition derby handiwork. It’s time to focus. These people are determined to capture us and make us pay for killing their friends. And there’s a part of me that can totally understand their motivation.

“They’re coming,” Kim says, looking at the side mirror. “They’re coming fast.”

“Where?” Kenji asks. “How many.”

“There’s two vehicles. Two motorbikes. No wait. One’s an ATV.”

“A what?” I ask.

“All Terrain Vehicles,” Kim answers. “Although I think one of them is a kind of dune buggy.”

“Where are they?” Kenji asks.

“Lost one. It must be directly behind you.”

A volley of gunfire into the back of the truck confirms this.

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