The Last Family Road Trip (Vampire Innocent Book 4) by Matthew S. Cox

Author:Matthew S. Cox [Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949174205
Publisher: Division Zero Press
Published: 2018-08-05T06:00:00+00:00

15

An Unfortunate Escape

Both brothers blink at me.

“Leave? Just like that?” asks Ben. “I’ve been trying to get out of here for over an hour.”

I jump up and hang off the ceiling bars. After a few seconds’ concentration on wanting to be stronger, I mule-kick the door with both feet and it flies open with a tremendous clang against the cage.

“Guess you’re not doing subtle,” mutters Cody.

“Much easier to break from inside,” I whisper after dropping back to stand.

“Holy shit,” mutters Ben, pulling a stake out of his coat. “She is a vampire!”

He goes to lunge at me, but I swipe the stick out of his hand so fast I’m basically taking it away from a statue.

“I swear, if you do that again…”

“Incoming!” says Cody.

The Scraps spill out from the inner corridor, heading for us. One guy with butt-long dreads dashes way ahead of the group. He springs at me, but I sidestep and hammer the crude stake into his chest. Thick, cold blood that stinks of rot sprays over my hand. He keeps flailing, but I swing him around and hold him up by one hand on his back, one hand on the stake like I’m showing off a science project to the boys. The scrap keeps trying to bite my face, but can’t overpower me.

“And besides, stakes don’t work.”

Three more Scraps sprint up the dais toward the cage. I hurl the staked guy at them, knocking all four to the ground in a moaning heap.

“Run! Now!” I whisper-shout.

The other two Scraps, a skinny chick and a dude with lime green hair, charge out of the entry tunnel, heading at me.

Ugh.

I catch the woman with a right hook that leaves her seeing stars for a second. The guy tries to claw me, but I’m way faster. He swings so hard at empty air, the momentum pulls him over sideways and he lands on his face. Cody and Ben scramble to catch up, running from the group of four. Dreadlock hasn’t even bothered pulling the stake out.

Lime-hair ignores me and pounces on Ben, growling, fangs out.

“Grr!” I spring at him with a flying tackle, sinking my claws into his shoulders.

Pain makes him release Ben, who bounces away in a logroll across the floor. I wind up kneeling on top of Lime-hair, and plunge my claw-tipped fingers into his throat once we stop sliding. Cody stands rigid, staring in shock.

With a grunt of exertion, I rip his head off and throw it across the chamber. It bounces with a hollow coconut-like thok and rolls out of sight. The skinny woman grabs me from behind and drags me off the headless body, which sits up and grabs at the air. At the sight of blood burbling up from the neck stump, Ben lets off a scream worthy of Sophia having a nightmare.

Damn, Scrap blood stinks… like carrion or liquid death or pure distilled evil. It’s even worse than Dad’s socks.

I spin and drive my left knee into the chick’s side with enough force to catapult her across the chamber.

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