Reception by Kenzie Jennings

Author:Kenzie Jennings
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

TEN

It didn’t take long for everyone else to explode from their seats in a chain reaction of noise, carnage, and motion, and I just stood there in the midst of it all, in a daze, unable to budge from my station at my table. I didn’t bother attempting to will my legs to get me the fuck out of the place. I didn’t even consider hunting for a place to hide it out somewhere, quite possibly the only feasible action I could consider due to the fact it seemed as if every other goddamned person there was a lunatic.

Yeah, I’ll chalk it up to shock rather than withdrawals. I think that’s reasonable, right? All things considered.

After all, how many people can say they’ve been stuck there in the middle of Utter Batshit Central, a place where quite a number of people have revealed themselves to be ravenous for human flesh?

Time broke apart.

At the far end of the table, Shay braced Mom behind her as she backed the two towards the French doors behind them, the two of them already spattered in crimson and screaming as Delia had Dad pinned to the table, tearing out his throat. Nathan was at Shay’s side as well, moving in, taking his sweet time, his smile showing off those teeth, so many teeth. How did we not see that clearly before? How did we miss that? He kept teasing them, circling, laughing, making as if to lunge any moment for her and Mom. Shay held out a hand at him, imploring him to stop, her body stiff and braced with terror.

Amidst the chaos, I didn’t see Rex anywhere there with the rest of his awful family. Emma and Bryceson weren’t among those at that end of the table either, but a quick glance around the area revealed Charlie and Nabhitha, the two of them already at the fire exit doors. If it hadn’t been for a flash of bright canary yellow there, those shoes Emma wore that were completely mismatched for an evening wedding, I wouldn’t have easily spotted her and Bryceson. I’d no idea how they managed to make a break for it in such a short amount of time. Then again, I’d no sense of time at all. Everything around me felt as if it was attempting to push through treacle. While Charlie and another groomsman, one of the burly bearded guys, hurled themselves at the doors, the red-haired hotel clerk from earlier and a couple of other guests had half-circled the little group.

Nabhitha had a hand out at the group readying to pounce, and she kept shouting something at them. I couldn’t make out the words, but her tone was firm, so it was probably a warning. It didn’t matter though. The crazies, cannibals, rabid freaks of nature—whatever they were—were too far gone to care it seemed. One of the guests among them leapt upon the bearded groomsman, jaws snapping in the guy’s face, just as Charlie forced the doors open, stumbling into the night.

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