Dead Life (Book 4) by D. Harrison Schleicher Read Free Book Online Page A

grenades.”
                  “Al that's not nice. You need to learn to play well with others. Didn't your parents teach you about sharing?”
                  “Fine, she can do one. That's all,” Al said. “Radio silence. Over.”
                  Gina and I got our binoculars and started watching. She took Rick and I watched Cindy and Al. They made it to a spot close to the highway and got out and made their way to the road. Al tore a rag  up and started putting the strips into gas tanks while Cindy watched his back. I looked at Gina and she had her binoculars trained on the motel.
                  “You're supposed to be watching Rick,” I said.
                  “He's fine. I'm trying to see if I can spot any activity in the motel. It looks like the stairway to the second floor is blocked off. They must be up there.”
                  I trained my binoculars on Rick to see how he was doing. His car was parked next to the car dealership. He had turned it around, like he'd been told to, and had it facing back towards us for a fast get away. Rick was crouched down behind the building holding his rifle in front of him waiting for the fun to start. I started to scan back to the motel when I spotted movement on the side of the car dealership. Four zombies were stumbling down the side of the building. In a minute they were going to be right on top of Rick.
                  “Honey get your rifle. Rick's got trouble.”
                  We each had one of Al's sniper rifles. Not that it would do us any good. Rick was at least a mile away and neither one of us had ever made a shot that far before. Gina and I should have been down on the highway. Al should have been up here. He would have been able to take all four of them out without a problem.
                  “I just looked away. I swear,” Gina said.
                  “No time for that now. Hand me the radio.”
                  “Rick, put your rifle down and get your pistol out,” I said as quietly as I could into the radio. “You have four coming up behind you. After we shoot come around the side of the building and finish them off.”
                  “I can't shoot that far,” Gina said.
                  “Neither can I. Take the one in front. I'll try to hit the second one. You shoot first.”
                  I watched Rick through my scope as he placed his rifle on the ground and got his pistol out. He stood with his back against the wall and looked up at us and nodded his head.
                  “As soon as you're ready.”
                  I placed my cross hairs on the head of the second zombie and waited for Gina to shoot. When I heard the report from her rifle I took a deep breath and fired. As soon as I got my shot off I could hear Rick open fire. I watched through my scope as Rick finished them off. I missed his first shot but watched him take down the next three. The man actually looked like he knew what he was doing. He walked calmly at them and fired only four times, all head shots.
                  “Did we even hit anything?”
                  “Yeah, the side of the building,” Gina said.
                  “Is he okay?” Al's voice came over the radio.
                  “Yeah dad, I'm fine,” Rick answered. “Did you see that Steve?”
                  “That was some good shooting buddy.”
                  “Yeah, I said to myself Rick it's time to man up, and I did. I said Rick, what would Al do? And that's what I did. Blew those fuckers away!”
                  “Alright kids, calm down. Time to get back to work. We're going to light these up now. Rick get ready.”
                  “You got it boss,” Rick said.
                  Cindy stood