Darkness Rising: Angels of the Veil Book Two by Nita Round

Author:Nita Round [Round, Nita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pink Tea Books
Published: 2023-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FIVE

Woman with a gun

Catherine stood next to the sink in the kitchen and stared out the window. There was something wrong. She could almost hear Cassie call out to her, but that wasn’t possible. She was here, in the house and Cassie was somewhere out there doing whatever Cassie needed to do.

“Good grief!” she exclaimed as she saw rows of torches lined across the hills of the cemetery. That didn’t look good at all. That sense of something wrong crawled over her spine, and she shivered just as Cassie lurched across the lawn followed by countless numbers of undead pouring onto her land. “No!” she cried out. Her hand wavered over the red alarm button at the side of the oven, but she knew there was no point in triggering the alarm when she was the only one in the house.

By the time Cassie managed to honk the car horn, Catherine was on the move. She grabbed all the weapons she could find in the kitchen and raced out the door.

“No!” she screamed as an unsteady Cassie fell beneath the hands and teeth of a small horde of undead.

Fear constricted her chest, and for a fraction of a moment, the dark colors of the landscape leached out and became shades of gray.

“Get off,” she roared. A few of the lumbering zombies moved in her direction. “How dare you!” She stepped closer, shotgun in her hand, a rifle slung across her shoulder, and pockets heavy with the handguns she had gathered. Catherine was ready for a small war.

She fired once, and a rotting head exploded. With lethal economy, she pumped and fired the shotgun like a Valkyrie possessed. Her shots came so fast and accurately that even Cassie would have been proud. If she had seen her.

At her side, the three dogs waited with hackles up and teeth bared. “Dogs go get them,” she yelled, although she had no idea what they would do. They weren’t hers, nor had they been trained to her commands. She was gratified when they raced for the closest moving figures and, with growls and snarls, laid into the animated dead.

Catherine moved toward Cassie’s last stand and shot anything that got in the way. She kept firing until she was out of shots and had no more cartridges in her pockets. She threw the shotgun to the ground, unslung the rifle from her shoulder, and fired shot after shot into the zombies. With every bullet, a zombie’s head exploded, and the carcasses crumpled to the ground.

Glowing red eyes caught her attention as she ejected the spent magazine and grabbed another from her pocket. She reloaded, pointed her weapon toward a cloaked figure, and aimed. The figure ran off. “Come back here,” Catherine yelled. “I want a word with you.” She fired off a couple of shots anyway. “Coward!” The figure disappeared into the shadows, and she emptied the rest of the magazine into the shuffling zombies.

“Pah.” The magazine clicked empty, and she dropped the weapon to the ground.

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