Rated R by Mike Leon

Author:Mike Leon [Leon, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SciFi, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781502794734
Google: E_zFrQEACAAJ
Amazon: B00LDY9D0A
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2014-12-11T19:44:40+00:00

INT. GRAVEYARD BUILDING – TENTH FLOOR - DAY

Helen watches Victor down the barrel of a gun. She’s lying on the floor surrounded by cadavers, again. Victor cut down both fire teams with a machine gun while all of them shot back hundreds of times—only to miss hundreds of times, like something out of a bad nightmare.

There’s so much blood on the floor Helen smears a trail through it as she tries to scoot up behind him. She doesn’t know how she survived the onslaught of bullets killing everyone around her, but she did, and now she has his back.

Victor holds Walter Stedman up against a wall at the end of the hallway. The Graveyard commander is already riddled with bullets, and he spits blood all over Victor’s face.

“Too easy, Walter,” Victor says. “I told you I’d kill you all.”

“I’m not dead yet, you fucking abortion,” Walter says.

Victor cackles madly in Walter’s face.

Helen inches ever closer. She’s trying not to breathe. During all the shooting, Walter dropped the case on the floor. It rests now only a few feet from Victor’s heels, in a lake of blood a quarter inch deep. Helen makes her way for the case, not for the kill. She already learned that shooting at him is futile and fighting him hand-to-hand results in a closed casket funeral for anyone who tries. She’s certainly not going to try. Walter had to waive her close quarters combat requirements to hire her on at the company.

She can’t kill him, but she can grab that case and run.

“I’m not even going to kill you, Walter,” Victor says. “I’m going to leave you here so you can watch me turn all of this into a predator’s paradise. No more sympathy. No more charity. No more weakness. A world where none but the strong survive, and the strong thrive. The killers will thrive.”

Helen leans forward. She can almost reach the case. Just a little farther.

“It’s suicide,” Walter says. “You’ll murder the world.”

Victor shrugs. “Nobody lives forever.”

She wraps her fingers around the briefcase handle and lifts. As she pulls it up off the floor, it emits a slimy pop from the suction of the blood pool enveloping it. Uh oh.

Victor turns.

“I knew you were there,” he says. He lurches forward so fast she doesn’t see him coming. She feels the boot in her chest before anything else and she’s face up on the floor. Her chest is on fire. It’s a struggle to draw breath.

“I was saving you for later,” Victor says. “I want to eat your pretty skin while you watch.”

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