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It'll Come Back...
Book: It'll Come Back... Read Online Free
Author: Lisa Richardson
Tags: Zombies
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both hands, she used it to shove a Dead back as she made her way towards the boy.
    Before she or BG could get to him, dead hands grasped the boy’s legs and pulled him from the grip of the grey-bobbed Dead. The boy fell flat on his face on the tarmac and the Dead dragged him beneath the truck, like a caiman dragging its prey back into the lake, the boy screaming and clawing at the ground as he went.
    ‘It’s too late,’ said BG, putting his free arm out to halt Kate from going under there after them.
    ‘But–’
    ‘We’ll die too if we go after him.’
    Kate spotted a few of the Dead that had been busy feeding on the two women had staggered to their feet and now lumbered towards her and BG. On the ground in their wake, Ponytail’s body twitched. Her head shot up. Her glazed eyes fixed on Kate and she began hauling her ravaged body to its feet.
    ‘Come on,’ said BG, ‘let’s get off the streets.’
    Kate knew he was right but it didn’t help the guilt at not being able to save the other passengers. She was about to move off to follow BG when she glanced up to the bus. The young man in the sharp suit stood at the emergency door, his eyes wide as he stared down at the horrors below.
    ‘Come on, jump,’ said Kate. ‘We have to go!’
    But he didn’t move. At that moment dead hands grabbed him from behind. Kate saw his mouth open to scream, and then he was gone, pulled back inside the bus as the ones inside caught up with him.
    ‘Fuck!’ said Kate.
    The Dead began flopping down out of the emergency exit, while more Dead approached from the front of the bus. ‘Fuck!’ She glanced to the right to see more lumbering through the gridlocked vehicles that way.
    ‘Come on!’ Kate heard BG yell back at her.
    ‘I’m coming!’
    Kate gave the umbrella an almighty swing at the Dead closest to her and then she darted after BG. He stood at an open car door and she allowed him to shove her inside and into the passenger seat. He dived inside next, landing across Kate’s lap, while she reached forwards and grasped the door, pulling it shut just as the bloodied hands of the Dead grabbed at it. They swarmed the side of the vehicle and slammed the palms of their hands against the windows, their torn, ruined bodies blocking out some of the daylight.
    ‘What now?’ came a voice from somewhere in the car.
    Kate glanced around herself to see she was inside the SUV she’d shoved the old lady into earlier. BG hauled his legs off Kate and eased himself over to the driver’s side, while in the back, the old lady, Linen and Screamer huddled together. It had been Linen who spoke, and she looked deep into Kate’s eyes.
    ‘What the fuck are we going to do now?’ she asked again. ‘Out of one doomed vehicle and into the next.’

Chapter Three
    As they sat in the surrounded car, Kate tried to figure out an escape plan. She glanced across BG and out the right of the car – another car, a red Peugeot 205, had smashed into the Vauxhall on that side. BG tried the driver’s door anyway and, unsurprisingly, it wouldn’t budge. Kate turned to look out of the passenger side window as the Dead pounded against the glass.
    ‘They’re going to get in!’ cried Screamer. ‘They’re going to break the windows!’
    ‘The sunroof!’ said Kate.
    BG glanced up at the sunroof. He raised a leg and kicked at it with a tan brogue until he knocked it free. ‘GO!’ he yelled.
    Kate stood and thrust up and out through the hole in the roof. Hoisting up her skirt to give her legs more room for movement, she sat on the edge furthest from the Dead and swung her legs up and over the vehicle and let them dangle down the side. A few of the Dead noticed Kate’s new position on top of the SUV and reached for her across the roof, groaning when their bloodied fingers fell just short. She noticed that, just like the ones earlier that struggled to raise their legs high enough to get up the step into the bus, these Dead couldn’t manage to climb up onto
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