Soulless by Christopher Golden

Author:Christopher Golden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Family, Parenting, Juvenile Fiction, Spritualism, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Fathers and Daughters, Family & Relationships, Horror & Ghost Stories, Parents, Supernatural, Fatherhood, Horror Stories, Horror
ISBN: 9781416551355
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

TANIA SPOTTED THE JEEP and started waving her free hand, hanging on to Derek with the other. He still clutched the small gun he’d pulled from the strap on his ankle but hadn’t fired it again. Desperate, she led him out into the road.

“Watch it, girl, he’s gonna run you down,” Derek rasped.

“No he won’t.”

But the Jeep didn’t even slow down. If anything, the guy sped up as he swerved around them and kept going. Tania slowed but Derek plowed into her from behind and started her running again.

“That guy just left us here to die,” she said.

“Every man for himself now, darlin’. You got to remember that from here on.”

Derek could barely speak with the effort of running. Tania knew it was no use now. Only six or seven of the dead were fast enough to keep up with them, but the zombies didn’t tire. Any second might be the last. Running away seemed pointless now.

“D, how many bullets—” she started to ask.

Then she heard the squeal of tires and glanced over her shoulder to see the Jeep Cherokee turning around.

“They’re coming back!”

Derek let out a grunt of pain as his right leg buckled. He let go of her hand and went down hard, sprawling on the road. In a heartbeat, Tania saw what had happened. When he’d turned to look for the Jeep, he’d stepped into a pothole and twisted his ankle. She screamed his name and stopped, taking a step back toward him.

“That’s right, girly. Wait for us. We’re empty. Sooo empty,” a dead man in a John Deere cap called, a wet laugh bubbling in his throat.

They were more verbal now. Like they were waking up.

They surged toward her, fifteen feet away. Twelve. Eight.

“Derek, get up!” she screamed.

He tried, struggling to rise, pain in his eyes. But the first of the dead, the fastest, leaped through the air and slammed into him from behind.

Tania screamed. The Jeep’s horn blared.

Derek shot the zombie in the face and it went still, but the others were only feet from him now. He put his little pistol under his chin, muzzle snug against his throat. “Run, darlin’. Don’t look back.”

“D!”

“Run!” he shouted, the word drowned out by the triumphant moan of the dead as they reached him, one woman moving past him to get to Tania.

A thunderclap filled the air and the dead woman spun around, her right shoulder turning to pulp. A young black guy hung out the passenger window of the Jeep as it came alongside and held a shotgun steady across the roof. He fired again and one of the zombies lunging for Derek flew backward, tumbling across the road.

“Come on!” the driver of the Jeep shouted.

Tania took one last look at Derek. She couldn’t do as he said and just run, leaving him there. The zombies were all over him, teeth ripping at him. He pulled his right arm free and snugged the gun under his chin again. His eyes met hers as he pulled the trigger.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.