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huge stones blurring past, Alex leaned out, standing on the doorsill. With the wall close at her back, she peered up, eyes widening as she looked along the roof to the sound of a terrifying screech calling above.

“Rifle,” she shouted in competition to the rush of air and, leaning back in, she held out a hand, grasping into the cabin while I kept both my hands pulling the steering wheel as hard as I was able.

Beth lurched into my view, over the seats from the back, to grab the long gun at my side.

Taking the rifle one-handed, the other hand gripping the edge of the roof, Alex would have one shot, with no hope to contain the recoil from ripping the gun from her grip.

To Shadow’s barks, Logan’s desperate calls and Mandy’s angry screams to do something cutting through the rush of air, I stared to Alex as she pushed the gun high, her features contorting with the strain of raising the metal against the pressure of the rushing wind.

With the gun nearly high enough, Alex lurched forward, tensing as her back kissed the wall.

From somewhere, I found more strength, wrenching the wheel a little more to jerk us to the left just as the round exploded above our heads.

Twisting around to the sound of the rifle clattering to the road behind and desperate to see Alex still holding on, she climbed back in through the side door, grabbing Beth’s offered grip as a body flashed past the back windows.

The pressure at the steering wheel relented, and I corrected us to the right for fear I’d lurch us too far the other way.

Our speed slowed as Logan took stock, rubbing his head and I turned to Alex, watching her grimace as she slid the side door, shutting out the raging wind.

She looked up, but instead of catching my eye, her eyes shot wide at the windscreen. I turned just in time to see the darkness at the same time Logan slammed on the brakes.

A haze draped over my thoughts as a soft voice called from the distance.

We’d come to an abrupt stop, not soon enough to miss whatever blocked the way, but enough that the impact was so much less than it could have been.

An ache ran across my back. I’d held the wheel as we collided and I dared not think about how it could have been if Logan hadn’t spotted the darkening view through the wrecked windscreen.

We had no time for the dazed expression on each face to melt away; the creatures were still running to catch up.

Mandy pulled the seatbelt from her chest, her eyes wide as she stared, scowling as if it had been my fault.

Cassie sat up, blinking, her face bright red as if she’d been holding her breath.

Shadow whimpered from somewhere I couldn’t see as Alex turned to look out of the back windows, Beth reaching down to comfort Shadow.

I followed Alex’s look and saw the rifle laying on the road in the distance with the body beside it. My gaze couldn’t linger, instead looking to the crowd heading towards us at speed.

“Close the window,” I called, keeping my voice low. “Close the window,” I repeated when no response came.

Gasps called from inside the minibus as I opened the passenger door, dropped to the tarmac and ran off with my sights set on the gun.

32

LOGAN

Jess spoke before she’d left through the door. She’d repeated words, but the constant high pitch in my ears wouldn’t let me hear. Pain seared on the top of my head as I reached up to touch my scalp. Chilly wind blew across my face and she vanished to the sound gathering in the back of the minibus.

Close the window, were the words relayed as my brain caught up. Close the window.

I listened to the whispered sounds, but it was the low, unnatural moans which piqued my interest.

Turning to my right, my fingers found the winder and leaning forward to do as Jess had insisted, after one revolution I stopped to stare at the vision in the wing mirror.

Jess ran with an impressive speed from the minibus. My instinct feared she’d lost her mind and was leaving us to our own devices. Cutting us loose. Freeing herself for her own ends.

But she was running the wrong way. The dark figures were heading towards her at a speed that seemed to match, but in opposite directions.

Twisting in my seat, I turned to look back in the cabin, my gaze flitting to each of the faces as they peered back, unsure what was going on; Mandy wide-eyed and in a daze. Shadow looking up expectantly as if waiting for a command. And Cassie. Confusion covered her reddened features.

Tearing my gaze away, I glanced through the back windows to a dark shadow of a creature passing by Jess as she crouched to scoop something from the ground.

Someone asked if everyone was okay and all I could think of was what could have been if I hadn’t slammed on the brakes.

A gunshot exploded in the air and I peered back through the windows, but I couldn’t see Jess anywhere. My look fell on the creature who was so close I could make out its dishevelled clothes and the side of its face shaven of skin.

A second shot boomed out, and the figure lurched forward, bowing down, but it still ran, tangling itself in its legs before regaining balance and continuing its race.

“Down,” I shouted, as a round shattered the back window; an errant shot missing its target, I hoped. “Down,” I screamed, as I pushed myself into the footwell, but I couldn’t stay there; we had to get moving.

Not waiting for the next shot, I jumped up, wincing at the pain as I leapt over the seat to Cassie,

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