Wake the Dead 2 (Wake The Dead Series) by Gary F. Vanucci Read Free Book Online

intently as she did. Only when she was satisfied with her efforts did she speak again.
    “I guess we’ll just have to see, wont we?” She leaned back on her palms and began to work him carefully and slowly, teasingly gliding back so that he almost came out and then driving him back inside her.
    The two of them began their playful session, becoming intertwined like one mass of steamy flesh for a long, long while.
    ***
    Alex was awakened by the sound of knocking on the door. He rubbed his head and saw that Selina lay next to him, still sleeping after their intense lovemaking session last evening. He looked to the window and noted that light shone through, so it had to be the next morning already. Even Shadow, still lying in the corner, had not stirred from his slumber as of yet. Several candles remained around them where they slept, but they were no longer lit as Selina must have extinguished them last night before she went to sleep.
    She is always thinking practically, that one.
    Alex strode over to the door, wrapping a sheet around him, flung it open and squinted against the intrusion of light. In the threshold of the doorway stood Nick, Shadow suddenly barreling past the both of them to get outside.
    “Come in?” he said, backing away to allow Nick entry.
    “No thanks. Get yourself together. We got problems,” Nick said.
    Alex moved forward, the blanket that covered him flapping in the breeze, and headed outside. He stared at the gate and saw a combination of both charred and un-charred flesh reaching through the steel bars to get at them. Shadow, poised and snarling at the gate, began snapping his jaws at the fleshy limbs.
    “What the fuck?! How bad?” Alex asked, completely stunned that more zombies now waited for them outside the castle walls.
    “Worse than before,” Nick said, sighing deeply and folding his arms over his head. “I got up on the wall and there are zombies choked throughout the parking lot and inside the grounds like I’ve never seen before. We’ll never be able to get your van out of there, let alone a single car out of that lot.”
    “Shit! What happened then?”
    “Well, the fire did its job. It killed the ones that were here,” Nick said, pausing to allow Alex to connect the dots on his own.
    “But in killing them—it drew in more of ‘em. Son of a bitch.”
    Nick nodded his agreement of Alex’s summary. “Yes, indeed.”
    “How the hell did we not think that far ahead?!”
    “Dunno. I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming.”
    “So now what?”
    “We gotta formulate a plan B. Over breakfast,” he said, taking in a deep breath and then sighing deeply in what Alex perceived as a clear sign of frustration. It was something that he’d never really seen from this stoic and charismatic leader until now.
    Selina suddenly appeared in the doorway, partially dressed with a towel around her bare chest, an inquisitive look on her face. “Did I just hear that right?!”
    He nodded toward the gate and as Selina turned to regard the scene, Alex chuckled against the absurdity of it all. The wolf had torn off a scorched arm from one of the zombies and was shaking it violently. Alex wondered for a split second just how awful that limb might taste, but it seemed Shadow was going to eat it anyway.
    “I guess he’s all set. Are you guys gonna join us?” Nick asked, tapping his foot in expectation of the pair getting dressed and coming with him. They did just that, Alex quickly throwing on a pair of jeans and a tee shirt while Selina finished dressing her upper half.
    She headed out first, looking back to Alex who tied his boots. He cracked his neck and then followed the two of them who had already started to walk off without him. Alex ran after them and as he watched them cross the bridge, he slowed down as an idea sprang to mind.

 
    Chapter 4
     
    Everyone gathered at the table waited in anticipation for what was to come. He told Nick his idea in private and they waited for the