The Infected (Book 3): Nightfall Read Online Free PDF

Mom short when she noticed the
red streaks along the back wall of the living room. From the kitchen she heard
the sounds of someone kicking pots and pans across the tile floor. Something
was coming her way, fast. Her knees buckled when she saw her parents. Her Mom’s
right arm had been eaten to the bone. Her Dad’s belly bulged from the excessive
meat he had chewed off of his wife. Sara caught herself from falling to the
porch. She didn’t know what to make of this. Were her parents playing a trick
on her? It was not like them to mess up the house and cover themselves in fake
blood just for a chuckle. What the hell was going on? As they approached her,
she could smell an iron tang in the air.
    That’s real blood!
    The two monsters crossed
the living room in a hurry. Their black eyes zeroed in on their daughter. Their
mouths cracked from the impact of enamel on enamel as their jaws snapped shut.
She had to move fast. Sara’s first reaction to something coming to attack her
was to throw her half empty plastic coffee cup. The mocha exploded all over her
Dad’s face, but it didn’t slow the infected man down. She pulled the front door
shut and slammed it closed right in their dead faces.
    Sara ran. She didn’t know
where she was going, but she knew she had to get as far away from them as she
could. She got a block away when she heard the front window of her house smash
to pieces. She stopped in the middle of the street and turned to look back at
her childhood home. Her infected parents were on the loose and coming her way.
A neighbor teen called her name from down the street and she ran to him and his
friends. She hid inside the teen’s house as Sara’s parents found a new victim.
She listened in horror as they ferociously tore the man apart in the middle of
the street. His cries for help were unlike anything Sara had ever heard. Her
Mom and Dad were like wild animals.
    What the hell happened
to them?
    Why are they killing
that man?
    The teens didn’t have any
answers for her. They were clueless as to what was happening, but for the
moment she was safe. The guys suggested that they should go to another friend’s
house and that they should take a shortcut through the graveyard. Sara was in
such shock she agreed to go and followed them in a cloudy haze. It wasn’t long
after that when Jim showed up and saved her.
    Jim’s PT Cruiser raced
passed the remains of the Black Rock and Sara thought, I need another coffee .
 
     
    As they raced across the parking
lot, nasty thoughts stabbed violently into Jim’s mind.
    What if his family
didn’t make it to Penny’s?
    What if they died on
the road?
    Maybe they were torn to
shreds?
    Calling my name and
wondering why I wasn’t there to save them.
    He did his best to squash
the blood soaked visions in his head. Dwelling on negative, hypothetical
possibilities wouldn’t help him get his family back. He stayed focused on the
task at hand. He had to get to RS Medical, get the supplies and race back to save
Devon. That was what Jim needed to focus on. What the next job that had to be
accomplished. Then the job after that. That was the mindset he had to develop
to keep himself alive. If he spent too much time thinking about what might have
happened or dwelling on outcomes he could not control it would get him killed.
    Jim couldn’t believe the
destruction that had taken place in his neck of the woods. The structure fires,
the dead bodies on the ground, the total mayhem that had ravaged the city of
Vancouver. It was straight out of a big budget disaster movie. As he moved the
car through the lot he drove carefully, watching out for oncoming vehicles,
looking out for monster hordes or any gun toting humans. So far the route to
the store was clear. Jim had shopped there a year ago when he needed a specialty
knee brace after a bad kick injured his leg in his Krav Maga class. He quickly
remembered the back way to get there so he wouldn’t have to take any roads that
might be choked