The BIG Horror Pack 2 by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SalGad Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-15T19:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“What do we do,” Grace cried out, frantically pulling at her hair. “What do we do?”

Joe put a hand on her shoulder whilst simultaneously pulling Danny against his hip. “Just calm down,” he said. “I don’t think they can get in at us.”

As if to question his assertion, one of the monkeys smashed a fisted paw against the glass. Joe flinched and studied the area where the animal had hit. It was cracked, a delicate spider web of fractures snaking through the glass where the impact had struck.

Joe swallowed. “Actually, maybe you should go ahead and panic.”

“We need to move upstairs, right now.” Mason rushed across the room, clapping his hands above his head to get everyone’s focus. A door stood at the side of the room and he punched in a code on a square pad beside it. “Everyone, in here, quickly.”

Without argument everyone raced to the door, passing through into the corridor beyond. Joe and Danny went in last, slamming closed the door behind them, hearing it lock automatically.

Mason was waiting for them. “We need to move to the second floor before they get in.”

Joe’s palms were sweaty and he wiped them against his jeans. “Will we be safe up there?”

Mason was already moving again. “Something tells me that we’re not going to be safe anywhere.”

Joe peered down at Danny, who was looking right back at him. Worry was etched across his delicate face and it made Joe’s heart twist in his chest. He tussled his son’s blond hair and picked him up onto his hip.

Mason shouted back and told them to hurry.

“Okay,” Joe said. The sound of breaking glass from the staffroom urging him to get moving. He caught up with the rest of the fleeing group just as they reached a staircase at the end of the corridor. Footfalls echoed as Joe took the steps two at a time. More than once he almost lost his balance. Danny’s limp weight in his arms didn’t help.

At the top of the stairway was another lengthy corridor, carpeted in a cheap navy-blue pile and lined by numerous doors on both sides. Mason was leading everyone into the nearest door on the left. A bronze plaque on the wall beside it read: ZOOLOGICAL LIBRARY AND SEMINAR ROOM.

Joe stepped in beside Mason to find a plush area, full of soft furnishings, chairs, and wooden tables, all facing forward toward a lectern at the back of the room near a large ceiling-to-floor window. The other three walls were interspersed with overfilled bookshelves and recently-used whiteboards. The musty smell of freshly-inked pages filled the air.

“We need to barricade the door downstairs,” said Mason, “make sure that nothing gets through into the corridor.”

Joe swallowed a lump in his throat. “I don’t fancy going back down there. It sounded like they were about to break right through the window when I started up the stairs.”

The tattooed man, Victor, came over to them. “I’ll go,” he said. “Bunch of wee monkeys don’t scare me none.”

“That’s very brave of you,” Joe admitted.

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