Surviving the Outbreak: A Post Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller (The Infected Chronicles Book 3) by Ryan Casey

Author:Ryan Casey [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2023-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

DWAYNE

Dwayne felt the sharp pain in his ankle, and he knew it was over.

He stumbled through the window. Fell face-first into the living room of this house. Bashed his head against the floor and tasted dust.

But that pain. That sharp pain in his right ankle. Getting sharper and sharper…

He heard the groans behind him. The cries. That kid. That poor kid, wedged against the wall by that car. Only he’d broken away from it. He’d broken away from it, and then he’d thrown himself at Dwayne, and…

Damn. Screw it. He was here now. He wasn’t a quitter. What would Mum think if she saw him here, waiting to be bitten again, accepting his fate?

He took a deep breath of that dusty carpet.

And then he turned around.

When he looked back… he saw something that didn’t make sense. Not at first.

His ankle. It… it was stuck on the broken window. A large piece of glass was wedged right through it, covered in blood. And the infected boy, he was right behind it. Getting closer to it. But… but not biting it.

Shit. He wasn’t—he wasn’t bitten. He wasn’t bitten. He’d—shit, he’d fallen onto a sharp shard of glass, and he was losing a shitload of blood, and if he didn’t get away from the window fast, then he was definitely going to find a set of teeth wedged between his ankle very, very soon.

But… there was the small matter of his ankle, with a sharp shard of glass pressed through it. And that needed addressing.

He tried to yank his ankle away from the window, but splitting, burning pain spread right down his leg. Crap. This—this wasn’t good. It wasn’t gonna be easy. Especially not with that infected lad creeping closer and the rest of those gasps approaching from the distance.

He squeezed his eyes shut. Tried to lift his leg again. But the pain was even worse this time. So bad it sent him dizzy. Knocked him sick. Shit. He wasn’t getting out of this. He wasn’t getting away from this window. He wasn’t…

No. No, he couldn’t think like that. He had to think of Mum. He had to think of Nisha. The kid. And he had to think of how hard he’d fought to make it this far. He wasn’t letting a piece of bloody glass defeat him. Not after everything.

So he drowned out the gasps and the groans.

He drowned out all the noise spiralling around his head.

And he focused on the one thing he had to do.

Lift his foot.

Lift his damned foot.

He squeezed his eyes tighter.

Felt warm tears trickling down his cheeks.

“You’ve got this,” he muttered. “You’ve—you’ve got this. In your own time. In…”

And then it all happened so fast.

The infected lad. Flying at Dwayne. Teeth snapping. Angry eyes shooting daggers right at him.

Dwayne yanked his leg out of the way of the kid.

And he regretted it right away.

A cracking sound split through the living room.

And after that cracking sound… pain.

Sheer, hot pain. Right through his leg. The—the shard of glass. It was stuck inside him.

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