Dark Days Series Box Set | Books 1-4 by Lukens Mark

Author:Lukens, Mark [Lukens, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Infected
Published: 2021-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

Luke crept through the living room towards the sliding glass doors. The vertical plastic blinds were drawn to one side, and he could see outside because the moonlight made it lighter out there than it was inside the house.

A moment later he was beside the sliding glass door, his gun up and ready, his finger on the trigger. He waited, listening for another sound from out there.

Could it be Jacob?

No, Jacob wouldn’t be so noisy, so careless—unless Jacob was trying to trick him into looking out the door, or possibly creating some kind of distraction so he could enter the house from somewhere else.

Luke waited a moment longer, listening for more sounds. Even from inside the house he could hear the sounds of people partying a few blocks away. Cheers rose and fell. A siren blared somewhere in the distance. A speeding car raced down another road. There was what sounded like an explosion from far away.

But he didn’t hear anything else in the backyard right now.

He was about to move away from the sliding glass doors, but then he froze.

There were more noises from the backyard. People talking. A man and a woman.

Luke peeked out the sliding glass door and saw a middle-aged man and woman crashing through the bushes on one side of his backyard, colliding with some rusty patio furniture that he never used. The man and woman didn’t let the patio furniture slow them down—even though the man had fallen down after running into the table and chairs, he was back up on his feet in an instant. The couple was an explosion of panicky movements, their eyes wild, and they kept looking back the way they’d come, like they were being chased.

They looked terrified.

What were they running from?

But Luke had a good idea what it might be. The crazies. The infected. The rippers.

A moment later, the couple was gone, crashing through the shrubs on the other side of the backyard.

He breathed out a sigh of relief. Rippers were bad, but better than Jacob right now. He darted across the living room to the hallway. He needed to take a piss that he’d been holding for a while now. He entered his bathroom. It was almost pitch-black inside the small room. There was one small window near the toilet and he pushed the curtain back to get a little more moonlight into the room. He set his gun on the bathroom counter and relieved himself, his bladder finally unclenching.

As he stood there in front of the toilet, the images from what he’d seen earlier today crept back into his mind.

He had gone to Howard’s house that morning to protect Howard, his wife, and his daughters—a personal favor for Vincent. With everything that had been happening in the last week, Vincent wanted to make sure his brother was protected. Vincent’s parents had died years ago and his sister was already with him at his mansion. His only family left that he wanted personally protected was his

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