Volume 2 by Rhiannon Frater

Author:Rhiannon Frater [Rhiannon Frater]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1470081369
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

11.

Hell Sucks

Ken hated this new world. He hated it with a vengeance. It made him sick to his stomach. He just wanted to go home, go back to bed and start the day all over again. Of course, that was not an option. Instead he was driving his dead friend’s truck to the outskirts of town. The plan was to loop around to Lenore’s neighborhood using back roads. Hopefully, they would be in time to save her grandmother.

A soft meow drew his attention to his precious little Cher sitting in her cat carrier. She didn’t look very happy with the situation and he didn’t blame her. Their life together had been relatively calm since the no-good-jerkoff had run away with the boy toy. But that was over and what lay ahead was shrouded in mystery.

Ken hated mysteries.

Lenore was silent beside him, her jaw set, her eyes fastened firmly on the road ahead. His heart went out to her. He couldn’t even imagine how she was feeling. Though he was worried about his family far away in Houston, he wasn’t as close to them as Lenore was to her grandmother.

The town was tearing itself apart all around them. As he drove, he saw flashes of bloodied figures out of the corner of his eye. Suddenly, a figure darted out in front of the truck. They both screamed just before the truck hit the teenage girl and hurtled her off into the ditch.

“She was one of them, right?” Ken felt like his head was going to explode. “Right, Lenore? She was one of them, right?”

“There was blood on her. If she wasn’t one yet, she woulda been,” Lenore assured him.

“Oh, God,” Ken literally felt his heart pounding in his chest. “I didn’t mean to-”

“It’s okay. I saw blood on her. I did,” Lenore swore. “I saw it.”

Ken nodded and swallowed hard. His hands shook as he drove and he tried to get a grip on himself. “Okay.”

“I wouldn’t lie to you,” Lenore said in a firm voice.

“Okay,” he said one more time. He bobbed his head up and down in affirmation of his words. “I believe you.”

“Circle around on Cemetery Road,” Lenore directed.

“Ugh! What if they are coming out of the graves?”

“Then they’re probably all out and eating someone by now,” Lenore answered without a touch of humor in her voice.

Ken flipped on his turn signal and drove the truck onto a very narrow dirt road. The old cemetery was just that: old. No one was buried there anymore due to restriction of space. Most people from the town were now buried around ten miles out of the city limits in a brand new cemetery with flat headstones and boring landscaping. The old cemetery on Cemetery Road was full of tall gravestones, mausoleums, and weeping angels. It was overgrown with weeds nowadays and the city was constantly harassing the holders of the privately owned land to clean it up.

As Ken drove over the road that was rife with deep gouges, they both lapsed into sullen silence.

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