Spider Web by J.R. Rain

Author:J.R. Rain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Vampires
Published: 2013-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

You could say one thing about Tony’s lady: she sure knew how to clear a room.

In life, she probably appealed to wiseguys like Tony, sporting surgically enhanced boobs, a four-hundred-dollar hairstyle, and eyebrows that came from a little round canister. Now that she was dead, though, her tanning booth complexion had gone a shade of green. She opened her mouth to whine or scream or laugh, but only a few dried flecks of blood flew out.

There were screams, though, as most of the women and half of the men in the hallway realized they were looking at something unnatural and monstrous.

She stared at me with eyes like black marbles. Maybe she believed I’d done something to her Tony. I backed away and held up my palms, trying unsuccessfully to look innocent.

The hallway was nearly abandoned now, with only Parker sticking around to see how this turned out. I wasn’t sure whether it was due to loyalty or a macabre scientific interest in whether a vampire could be killed by a zombie.

Neither, you fool, she projected my way.

Whatever emotion she felt for me was far too complex to decode. A definite mix of annoyance, attraction, repugnance, and…love?

I didn’t have time to worry about that at the moment, because Tony’s sweetheart was bearing down on me, her arms lifting as if to hug me. I couldn’t tell whether she was grinning or snarling. The gash in her neck leaked a little, but I had no desire to drink from it. There was something tainted and unwholesome about her fluids, a corruption deeper than the grave.

“Look,” I said to it. “We can work this out.”

She didn’t appear to be listening, or maybe her hunger was greater than her hearing. To make matters worse, Mr. Dingles was dragging himself toward me, his jaws clacking hungrily.

Parker took two running steps toward the dog and launched her foot into it like a soccer player. The dog gave a yip and tumbled head over tail about fifteen feet down the corridor.

“That qualifies as ‘cruelty to animals,’” I said. “You know the rules of horror movies. Kill as many humans as you want, but never hurt the dog.”

“I’m not the one that slammed it into the wall,” she pointed out. “Plus it’s a zombie now.”

I didn’t have time to craft a snappy comeback because Mrs. Tony reached out her long fingernails as if she wanted to pluck my eyeballs like grapes and make a fruit salad out of my face.

I ducked and sent a karate chop into her breastbone. At one time in my life, I wouldn’t have hit a woman—even a staggering, brain-munching zombie female—but those days were long gone. In my decades of undeath, I’d encountered witches, harpies, shrews, and demonesses of every stripe, and nothing was as vicious as a woman who thought you were depriving her of something she wanted.

In this case, I was depriving her of my tasty flesh, and she was pissed. I brought another chop down on the back of her neck and that’s when I discovered Mr.

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