Juggernaut by Amelia C. Gormley

Author:Amelia C. Gormley [Gormley, Amelia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2015-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

Much to Nico’s frustration, it took them hours to find their way around the Indianapolis metropolitan area. They were trying to stay outside the city limits, but the truck’s navigational system—no doubt detecting a complete absence of traffic from the satellites and thus no reason to avoid the main thoroughfares—kept trying to reroute them onto the shortest-distance course through the city. Finally, they stopped so that Zach could find the computer’s auto-routing program and disable it, hopefully without turning the truck into a lawn ornament.

“Next time we come across a reasonably small town, someplace with a really low population, I want to stop at a pharmacy,” Nico announced once they’d managed to skirt Indianapolis.

Zach nodded, accepting it without question. First aid supplies were the one thing they weren’t very well equipped with, after all, even if it wasn’t Nico’s primary concern just now. They stopped along a deserted stretch of road to eat lunch and swap drivers, and Nico watched Zach assess each passing town to find the smallest one that would still boast a pharmacy.

“Thanks,” Nico muttered when Zach pulled into the parking lot. So far, so good. The place looked completely deserted. Nonetheless, he grabbed the assault rifle and reached in back for the shotgun. “Mind getting up on the roof again to play lookout while I run inside?”

Nico took a moment to admire the length of belly that was exposed when Zach scrambled up to stand on the roof of the truck, then walked away.

The store had already been looted, so he didn’t have to break down the door. No doubt the drugs behind the counter were long gone, but Nico wasn’t after pharmaceuticals. Even if it would be nice to have some antibiotics on hand, just in case.

Holding a flashlight between his shoulder and jaw, Nico snatched up a bag and began filling it with whatever he could find among the jumbled mess on the floor and shelves. The looters had been sloppy, as looters tended to be. He grabbed bandages and gauze, ointments, antihistamines—anything of use that had been left behind. Even the condoms had been scavenged, though, thank God, not completely. He was stuffing a couple of large boxes into his bag when he heard the thunderous report of the shotgun, followed by Zach’s bellow.

The glass door shattered, along with the window, when Nico burst through it, his bag left behind on the littered floor of the pharmacy. A second shotgun blast nearly deafened him. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Zach still atop the truck, apparently unscathed. One body lay in the road some thirty yards away, but another human form was pelting toward them with inhuman speed.

Nico charged before it could get any closer. The matted hair and ragged, half-absent clothing, and the bestial snarl on the revenant’s face only registered as an afterthought. He just knew he had to intercept her. If the woman was moving that fast, she wasn’t anyone he wanted within breathing distance of Zach.

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