Killing Floor by Mark Gillespie

Author:Mark Gillespie [Gillespie, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Maybe we should get off the road,” Kylie said.

“No,” Celia said, coming back to life again. Her eyes darted back and forth between Ollie and Kylie. “We need to flag it down. We’ll ask them to take us to the nearest police station. That’s what we’ll do. Okay?”

The old Celia definitely wasn’t back. Ollie knew Celia as well as anyone and in her right mind she would never have suggested going to the police in ninety-nine percent of scenarios and certainly not this one. For reasons stretching back to her childhood, Celia wasn’t exactly a fan of law enforcement. Growing up on a council estate in East London did that to some people. And besides, Celia was smart enough to know that the police weren’t going to help anyone, not when the problem was government sanctioned mass murder.

Everything that had happened so far was legal. What were the police going to do?

It sounded like there was a freight train coming towards them.

“I say we get off the road too,” Ollie said. “Listen to that. They’re not slowing down for anyone Celia.”

“I second that,” Kylie said.

A stone wall ran along the side of the road, separating the traffic from everything else. Ollie and Kylie began to move the direction of an empty field on the other side of the wall.

“Let’s go Celia!” Kylie called out.

But Celia didn’t move. She watched the winding road that was as black as midnight one moment and then the next, was soaked in a flash of blinding white light. Two headlights were visible up ahead, then they disappeared around another corner.

Darkness.

“Celia! Get off the road.”

The headlights were back again. Bigger and brighter.

“Celia!” Ollie yelled. His hands were cupped over his mouth. “You can’t stand in the middle of the road for God’s sake. Move!”

But Celia began to walk towards the car.

“You’re wrong,” she said. “Whoever it is they’ll stop. I know they will. They’re good people…good people.”

She waved her arms in the air. “HELP! HELP US!”

Kylie was running back towards the road. Ollie felt a jolt of fear stabbing at his heart but he ran after his girlfriend, racing down the middle of the road towards Celia who was shambling along like a drugged person paddling through an ocean of mud.

Ollie reached Celia first and grabbed her by the arm. Celia yelped in protest as Kylie showed up and seized her other arm.

They dragged her towards the side of the road.

“No!” she screamed. “What are you doing? We can’t lose them. We can’t let them go!”

“That car’s not stopping for anyone,” Kylie shouted, wrestling furiously with her friend. “We’re on our own.”

“NO!”

Celia found the strength of a lioness. She yanked her arm free of Ollie’s grip and then sensing freedom, pushed Kylie off balance. Kylie toppled onto her backside at the side of the road. Her eyes were hazy with shock.

Celia raced back onto the middle of the road. Her arms sliced the air as she tried to catch the driver’s attention.

“Help us! Please!”

An avalanche of ear-splitting noise hurled itself at the grief-stricken woman.

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