Outlive (The Baggers Trilogy, #1) by Leito Chad

Author:Leito, Chad [Leito, Chad]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Fifteen-year-old Baggs felt his heart rate increase as the doors on the limousine automatically locked and they began to move forward. Bite smiled at him, showing his big canines.

Baggs smiled back. He was sweating.

Why did I get in the car? I should have never gotten into the car.

The model sat to his left. Her legs were crossed one over the other so that the elegant muscles in her thighs were more pronounced. Her skin was utterly without defect. She wasn’t wearing shoes, and the toes on her left foot occasionally grazed Baggs’s pants behind his knee.

The clean-cut black man that Baggs had seen before getting into the limousine still looked non-threatening enough, though he was staring unwaveringly at Baggs, which was strange.

What made him really nervous were the two people sitting on the right side of the limousine. He hadn’t been able to see them until he was completely inside of the car and the door was locked and they were moving through London. Bite sat beside them as though everything was normal.

How can he stand to sit so close to them?

To Baggs, the two people looked like zombies, although he knew that, of course, zombies did not exist. But, my Lord! What is wrong with them?

Sitting next to Bite was a blond female whose age was undeterminable. Her skin was constructed of alternating levels of thickness. In some places, the skin was as thick as a leather strap, while in others it was as thin as tissue paper. In some places the skin was nonexistent; she had exposed red sores dispersed over her body. Like the model, she was wearing a skimpy dress, but unlike with the model’s dress, Baggs was not pleased to see this woman wearing so little clothing. Her skin was wrinkled, calloused, and blistered. Her hair was the same color as Bite’s—dirty blond—but the woman’s hair was even thinner and she had a hairline that was receding on her emaciated skull. She looked like she weighed no more than ninety pounds. Baggs could see the outline of her bones everywhere—her chin, her chest, her bare feet, even on her thighs. Her breaths rattled and wheezed in and out of her skeletal chest, as though the bronchioles in her lungs were coated in plastic.

The man to her right looked as though he was suffering from the same strange and debilitating condition. He had the skin sores, the callouses, the receding hairline, the frail frame, and the awful, wheezing breaths.

If it were just one person, I would think that they had an illness I had never seen before. However, when two people seem to have the same rare condition and are riding in the same limo, it appears as though something happened to them. What could have made them this way?

The two people’s bodies weren’t what disturbed Baggs most, though. What made his throat close in clawing terror and his testicles shrink up in breath-taking fear were their expressions. It looked as though the two people didn’t have souls, strange as that may sound.

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