Dead Days: The Complete Season One Collection (Books 1-6) by Casey Ryan

Author:Casey, Ryan [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2013-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ONE

“Mate, what the fuck are you doing?”

Riley gripped his shoulder. A shooting sensation rushed down it as he winced and stood to his feet. Ted’s head was sticking out of the window above. Anna was beside him, frowning into the darkness as shouts and screams sounded behind her.

“Is he—what did he—”

“I’m okay,” Riley called. He kept his tone hushed and gripped hold of his ribs. The impact had hurt, but he’d been sure not to tense any muscles as he tumbled to the ground. A school friend of his used to sleepwalk as a child. Jumped out of a third story window several times and didn’t break a single bone. Decided to show off to his mates at a party and ended up breaking his legs and shattering his pelvis. Doctor told him it’s because he was tensing his muscles when he was awake. The key was to be as floppy as a rag doll.

But that wasn’t easy.

A gunshot sounded in the window above. And another. The creatures were getting closer to the group. They had to get out of there. They couldn’t all jump — it was too risky. Not everybody would be able to quit tensing like he could. It was a relaxation trick he’d learned. Focus on the breathing. Steady the mind. And… release.

“Riley!” Anna shouted. “I… We can hold them off for now but…” Another gunshot fired. “Shit. We’re gonna have to jump too.”

Riley’s heart raced. He looked around the area in front of him, lit up by the bright light of the full moon. An abandoned white minivan. On top of it, a ladder.

Another gunshot. Trevor shouted out. “Back up! I can kick them down but… you have to back up.”

Adrenaline raced through Riley’s body as he stared at the ladder atop the van. If he could get to it, he could bring it over to the window and they could all climb down.

But the groans. The throaty, raspy cries of the creatures. He could hear them to his right, around the corner of the wall. He had to be careful.

He slowly crept towards the corner of the wall as the struggling and firing continued above. He held his breath and poked his head around the corner.

A crowd of creatures all made their way through the smashed glass of the front door. They were all coming from down the road, all stumbling in the direction of the Chinese restaurant entrance. Why the fuck were they coming this way? What had attracted them? Could it be the horde from the dairy farm? Had they followed him back?

“Get the kids in the bathroom,” Trevor shouted. “Quick!”

Riley looked down at his hands and gulped. The dried blood of too many people. People he’d abandoned. Let down.

He could come back from this. He couldn’t just run away.

He moved from the cover of the side wall. He remained crouched, keeping his focus on the white van up ahead. He didn’t turn to his right to look at them. If there was one on his left and it ambushed him then so be it.

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