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I ran to the front door and sith effort I was going to have to walk around the head to get out ofit wouldn’t be there any how stupid that would be - since it wouldsevered heads around like chess pieces

It was still there Looking atme for its current situation

I slowly inched out the door, shutting it behindthe bushes to hide my form as much as I could I looked out and tried to see if there was anythe safety off as my eyes scanned back and forth I alh to show his face toto hesitate - my new rule was to shoot first and ask questions later Or just not ask any questions at all

After confir as best I could that I was alone, I snuck two doors down to the cop’s house The front door ide open and had a big brown X on its inside surface, which had ain But even the canners had to have eneured if they were here, the door would be shut I didn’t even want to guess what that X h the kitchen that was in front of the house to the door leading into the garage

The bike was hanging fro chair on h up for un back in et the bike down, and panicked the entire ti to coht in un

As soon as the bike was on the ground, I tookto balance the weapon on top I practiced a few tier fro if I could do it fast enough to shoot if I were surprised by someone Once I felt confident that I would be able to, I started wheeling the bike out of the garage and through the house

I got halfway through the kitchen when I s Within a split second,because it s bodies It was like so froe of the kitchen counter and tiptoed over to the sliding glass doors that led out to the pool area of the house I could see that the cop had one of those big, stainless steel gas bar-b-cue grills set up in his yard, with a big table and bench seats nearby It was next to the pool that had several cushioned lounge chairs around it

The first thing I noticed were the bodies - sleeping ones on the lounge chairs There were five that I could count, all guys

The next thing I noticed was the food on the table It was charred and broken into several pieces, much of it just bones … but even so, I could see what it was Or rather, who it had been I was noilling to bet that the kid with a 357 bullet in his chest was no longer on the side ofto keep the bile fro Soravelly voice I recognized it instantly as the one that had been outsidearound, but not in tiun out ofup the gun and ai it at my chest

His teeth were dark yelloith flecks of black things in between, and his hair hadn’t been washed in ht have been handsoht, his skin red and scaley-looking with patches of acne breaking out all over it And the dried blood all over the front of his clothes told ht

"You stay the hell away fro to be possible You’re being cordially invited to join us for … breakfast" His s his hand sideways like soestured towards the sliding back door with his chin

My brain did a quick calculation There were six of theuy, I knew it, but not all of the a lot of protein and I hadn’t had much at all in ht was at an all-tiet too lax

I was on the balls ofof their own accord,over My father’s voice was inme as my eyes took in the subtle clues that toldto do the split second he’d made his decision to do it

He stepped towardshi my foot out sharply to catch him in the knee It twisted sideways, just as I had intended, throwing hi hih to wake his friends, so I knew I only had a few seconds to end this gaun out of his hand, sending it across the roo out at me with a sloppy punch, but his knee put hihting skills, ave hi him to reach up to try and help himself breathe I took the opportunity to kick him square in the balls as hard as I could Practitioners of krav : you do what you need to do to win Nothing is tabu and there is no ht where he stood, completely immobilized and unable to breathe I kicked him hard in the temple to send him into temporary oblivion so he wouldn’t be able to call out to his friends anyhim because I wasn’t comfortable with it when he hadn’t actually tried to kill ht now, it didn’t feel right to go that far I looked up quickly on un to check on the status of the other canners and saw that they were all still sleeping For the first time I also noticed that there were empty liquor bottles and beer cans all over the place The idiots were sleeping off a drunken night of partying and friend-eating

Good Gives uy I’d knocked out, deciding that he h with a ball shot and a kick to the terabbed the cord that was plugged into the wall and two other cords that hooked the DVR to the TV and so hit er, less a victim

I used one set of cords to tie his hands, one for his feet and one for hisone of his dirty socks in first I nearly gagged at the s the right thing This guy would have raped me and possibly eaten me if he could have The fact that he’d eaten one of his own friends told in zo

After I tested the knots and decided they were tight enough, I left, grabbing the bike and running it out of there as fast as I could without tripping I didn’t bother checking for onlookers or people spying, only worried about getting the hell out of this neighborhood now overrun with cannibals

I kicked the disgusting head out of the way and burst through the front door, sending Buster into fits of barking I dropping to , "Shhhhhh, you idiot! It’s just ot the bike to the edge, but I can’t lift it!"

"Co his elbow as I jumped up to run to the back of the house

"What happened?" he asked, already out of breath fro him out on his bike retrieval mission