The Curse_A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller by Mark Gillespie

Author:Mark Gillespie [Gillespie, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-18T22:00:00+00:00

9

Eda felt numb.

She was sitting on the couch, watching two warriors carry the bloody sheets with Mitford’s body wrapped up inside. They took it through the hallway and then out of the apartment but it would never be gone. Eda would be seeing that body bag in her dreams for a long time. And in the same dreams, she’d hear the fast slicing of the knives as they hacked at the dying man, over and over again.

Eda took a sip from the glass of water in her hand. She couldn’t remember anyone giving her the drink but there it was. Linda was tucked up beside her on the couch, one arm wrapped around the young woman’s shoulder. Linda had stayed close to Eda after Mitford’s murder, helping her to get cleaned up, then dressed and finally escorting her back into the living room.

“What do they do with it?” Eda asked, pointing to the body bag as it left the apartment. “With him.”

“They’ll take it downstairs,” Linda said, not looking at anything except Eda. “It’ll get dropped into one of Lucia’s laundry carts and after that, wheeled over to the East River.”

“The East River?” Eda said.

“Yeah,” Linda said. “That’s the cemetery.”

“Is the grinning man in there too?” Eda asked.

Linda nodded like it was no big deal. “They’re all in there honey,” she said. “Every last one of them.”

Shay came back into the living room as Linda and Eda were talking. She looked at Eda with a warm smile, as if reassuring a frightened child that all the monsters in her bedroom were gone and it was safe to go back to bed now.

“Ready to go?” Shay said.

“Go where?” Eda said, putting her glass down on the table.

“The Roosevelt Hotel,” Shay said. “It’s not far from here.”

“I know where it is,” Eda said. Her voice was hoarse and scratchy, like she had the beginnings of a cold coming on. “But why are we going there? You told me once that the Roosevelt was a dump, that it got wrecked during the war and the wild years. That it wasn’t safe.”

“Yes I did,” Shay said. “Everything will make sense soon Eda. C’mon, let’s go for a walk.”

Linda guided Eda gently back to her feet. Shay stepped forward and took over, locking an arm around Eda’s shoulder and leading the way towards the double doors that were still lying open.

Shay glanced over her shoulder at Linda on the way out.

“You’ll make sure everything’s cleaned up?” she said. “Won’t you?”

“Of course,” Linda said. “It’ll be like nothing happened.”

Eda almost laughed. Almost.

In the hallway, Shay had a brief conversation with Lex while Eda stood off to the side, still in a daze. At the end of the conversation, Shay leaned over and whispered something in Lex’s ear, most of which Eda couldn’t make out.

Four words she did overhear:

Make sure they’re ready for us.

Lex nodded and strode confidently towards the staircase. She opened the doors that led to the stairs and then she was gone.

“Are you ready?” Shay said.

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