Rotten by Tyler H. Jolley

Author:Tyler H. Jolley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tyler H. Jolley
Published: 2022-09-22T21:17:15+00:00

Chapter 17

When we arrived at the Hudson Cemetery, I began to realize how terrifying an encounter with the necromancer could be. This . . . person who got off on controlling people. Commanding murder. Anyone who could be so cavalier with life and death wasn’t someone to mess with.

We parked along the side of the road by the rear entrance, in almost the exact location where I had parked the Suburban that fateful night back in October. I was scared. Scared about what we would find. Scared I would somehow come under the necromancer’s power here and go off killing again. Maybe even kill Jaylen.

Then Jaylen almost got himself killed when he hopped out from behind a bush and rapped on the window with his knuckles, causing both Belmont and me to scream out. Belmont snarled, reaching for the door latch and nearly charging out of the car to attack. Jaylen just fell over laughing, oblivious to how close he had come to being impaled on one of the exterior fence posts. For having just poured out my guts to Belmont, trying to convince him how much we needed Jaylen’s help, my best friend was doing a poor job in living up to the hype.

“I couldn’t resist,” he apologized, climbing into the back seat of the car.

Belmont whirled around, enraged. “Now, you listen to me. I will not let you put our lives in danger.”

Jaylen held up his hands, shielding himself from Belmont’s verbal tirade. “You got it. Won’t happen again.”

“How did you get here?” I asked, feeling the need to ease the tension. Jaylen didn’t have his license yet, and riding a bike to the cemetery would take all night.

A goofy grin stretched across his face. “I caught my sister making out with her boyfriend last week in my dad’s Corvette. I took pictures and everything. Blackmail is beautiful, isn’t it? She let me take her car if I promised to delete the pictures and not show Dad. I told her you and I were going to catch a movie at the Plex. I parked just down the road a little way.”

“You drove here without a license?” Belmont asked, glancing at me sideways and shaking his head in clear frustration.

“Do you have a driver’s license?” Jaylen retorted.

I grinned. One point for Jaylen. I shouldn’t have told him all about Belmont’s true age. He knew about where Belmont came from and what he did before he turned, but I kept the part about the murders of his family a secret.

“Let’s just get this over with,” Belmont hissed. He reached over and removed an object from the glove compartment. I couldn’t immediately tell what it was, but it was small, round, and fit comfortably in his hand.

“What is that?” I asked.

Belmont paused, glanced at me, and then looked scathingly at Jaylen before opening his fingers.

It was some sort of ball with a handle. I was about to ask a follow-up question when Jaylen broke the silence.

“Is that a grenade?” he asked in astonishment.

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