THE SAGA OF THE DEAD SILENCER Book 1: Bleeding Kansas: A Novel Of The Zombie Apocalypse by AIKEN L.ROY

Author:AIKEN, L.ROY [AIKEN, L.ROY]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2014-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Everyone else is in an obvious hurry but Rebecca doesn’t waste a move. Rebecca unlocks the SUV with the remote and opens the rear door for me to climb in. She waits for me to straighten my legs and settle in with the growler jug before closing the door and walking around to the driver’s side.

She’s climbing in when a deep, nearly subsonic THOOOM! nearly blows the door back. Rebecca puts the take-out box on the passenger seat and closes the door. Our ears are spared the brunt of the now-pulsing bass, but we can still feel it in the soundproofed interior of Kerch’s Luxury Tank. Rebecca turns the ignition, pulls the shifter into gear. We swing around the vast fountain and up the long trail to the main road. I turn to look behind us. One other car is following us out. Indeed, all the cars parked around the fountain and in front of the house are now gone.

“Where did everyone else park?” I ask.

“There’s an underground lot on the south side of the estate,” Rebecca says. “You can’t see it from here.”

“Sounds like the party’s just getting started for them.” I turn around in time to see Rebecca’s eyes flash steel-gray at me from the rear-view mirror.

“Mr. Kerch had them move the DJ booth and bar table further down the lawn. That way they could turn it up.”

“I could swear I saw the DJ leaving in front of us. He was in an awful hurry.”

“He’s grateful Mr. Kerch finds him useful,” Rebecca says. “The kids are running their own party now.”

Kids? Rebecca isn’t much older than the youngest back-lawn reveler I saw. I look to the rear-view, but her eyes—no laugh lines or crow’s feet about them, and steely as a Navy destroyer—remain straight ahead.

“He seemed more frightened than grateful.”

Rebecca says nothing. We race up the slope to the main road. Rebecca takes the turn without stopping. Despite the state-of-the-art suspension we bounce hard coming up on the narrow macadam. She all but floors it once we’re straightened out.

“Holy shit! What’s going on?” I ask.

“If you don’t know then I’m not at liberty to say.”

“Balls!”

“Evans will brief you when he comes to pick you up.”

“Great.”

Rebecca requires no direction to find my house. She brings us all the way to the front porch before parking. That she kills the engine seems strange. I almost wish Tanner was here to explain the etiquette to me. Maybe we’re not supposed to smell exhaust fumes. I sit and wait for Rebecca to open my door. I know to do that much.

I hadn’t realized she’d already grabbed the take-out box from the front seat. Smooth. She opens the door and I ease out of the bossman’s Tank. I expect her to run ahead of me and hold the iron-grated outer door while I unlock the main. Instead I glance down to see her taking a suit-bag and an overnight bag from the back.

I don’t have long to wonder about this when the distant thoom! is cut by a scream.

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