The Dead Saga (Novella Part 1): Odium Origins by Riley Claire C

Author:Riley, Claire C. [Riley, Claire C.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Breakwater Harbour Books'
Published: 2014-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

Four.

The business park, luckily, is near enough empty as we pull into it. Thank goodness for the apocalypse happening on a Sunday—no white-collar workers to contend with. I hate those business-suited freaks more than I hate the city council—and that’s saying something. The boys in suits are always looking down their noses at the blue-collar workers of this town, like their shit don’t stink. Truth is, without hardworking boys like us, these fancy suit types wouldn’t be driving around in their fancy cars and they wouldn’t have their fancy houses—certainly not with the giant swimming pools installed in their back yards. It’s us boys who build all that stuff for them.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. Apart from the odd stray car, no one else is around, and for that I’m grateful. Jane is, too, if the long breath she releases is anything to go by. I head straight for the far side of the parking lot, where the service road is, feeling a little disheartened when I see the blockade back in place. I should have guessed, but I was really hoping to get out of here without any more trouble.

I pull up to the chain-link fence, thinking about how to break the large padlock on the gate. I scratch my beard and check all sides of the car before stepping out. Jane walks around to the back of the car and opens up the trunk while I test how strong the lock is. I pull on it, but this thing isn’t going anywhere. When Jane sidles up beside me with a pair of bolt cutters, I stumble back, confused. She nudges in front of me and uses them to clip the padlock open, snatches it up, and throws it into the bushes.

“How? Why did . . . where?” I stumble over my words.

“Be a doll and pull this fence out of the way, will you?” she says with a smirk, and goes back to the trunk of the car.

I watch, dumbfounded and in awe of her, finally grabbing hold of the fence and dragging it off to one side. It’s noisy and it resists, but I get it out of the way eventually and start on the second half of the fence. These are heavier than the ones they normally put up, and the fact that it was padlocked means that the city council is serious, I guess, but nothing is stopping me from getting out of this town.

“We’ve got company,” Jane says, taking aim at a zombie coming across the car park.

How it found us, I don’t know. Maybe they can smell us out. Maybe it was close by and heard the noise. It isn’t really important; what is important is getting the rest of this fence out of the way so the car can get through. I grab it and pull as hard as I can, listening to it screech along the concrete ground. When I think it’s far enough clear, I run back to the car.

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