When we had all finished, we just collapsed against each other and panted to regain our breath. I waited until I felt steady again and then pulled my cock out of Neko’s dripping tunnel.
“Ohh…” both of the women whined in unison, and I watched as a bit of my sperm dribbled out of Neko’s well-fucked pussy and landed on Bree’s clit. Then the blonde’s pussy began to leak my sperm down to form a puddle on the table, and I couldn’t help but growl.
“I filled both of you up. Did you like it?”
“God, yes.” Neko was the next to untangle herself from our threesome, but she only moved enough that she could lick up my seed from Brianna’s clit and pussy, and then she stood up and leaned against me.
“Soooo gooodddd.” Brianna finally opened her eyes again and gave us both a little grin.
“I loved it, too,” I purred as I ran my fingers over Brianna’s wide hips and lean stomach.
“I guess I should kill vamps more often, if that’s what happens afterward,” the curvy blonde said and then bit her lip. “That was unreal. Thank you, Sam. I’ve never… I’ve just never felt anything like that.”
“I know what you mean,” Neko said with a smile. “That’s what I thought the first time we had sex, but somehow, it just gets better every single time. I love it when you cum inside of me. Just… it feels really damn good.”
“I’m glad you both enjoyed yourselves,” I said, “because so the fuck did I.”
“You don’t think anybody heard us, do you?” Brianna asked.
“Nah, you two kept each other pretty quiet,” I laughed. “The three of us make a good team.”
“Hell, yeah, we do,” Brianna sighed. “I’m happy to run errands with you two whenever you want.”
“Speaking of errands,” Neko said with a little blush, “we should probably go get that medical equipment right about now.”
“You’re right,” I said. “As much as I’d like to stay here and fuck both of you all night, we need to get a move on if we’re going to make it back to Red House anytime soon.”
I helped Brianna back down from the counter, and after the girls cleaned themselves up, we all slipped back into our clothes and tactical vests as quickly as we could. I heard the wind start to pick up outside, followed by a little bit of thunder, and when I glanced outside, it looked like a storm had blown up from out of nowhere.
Storms that formed quickly like that didn’t usually last long, so I figured that the best thing to do was just stay focused and see how it looked when we were finished looking for supplies.
Once we had all of our weapons in tow again, we started to search the check-in desk again for a hospital map, but as Brianna held up her flashlight to help us look for one, I glanced up and noticed that it was now completely dark outside, and the rain had started along with the wind.
When we found a map, I scanned the rooms until I found out where the pharmacy was and where the medical supply room was located. The supply room was farther away, so I figured that we’d start there and then backtrack to the pharmacy on our way out.
I held my Louisville slugger up as I led the way down the first hallway, and Brianna followed right behind me with her flashlight aimed at the floor. She held her hand partway over it, so it only gave off just enough light for her and Neko to see their way forward into the pitch-black hospital. Neko brought up the rear of our party so she could scan behind us as well as to our sides, but so far, I didn’t see or hear any signs of other bloodsuckers close by.
The medical supply room was locked when we reached it, but I just jerked hard enough on the handle to make the lock snap. I pushed the door open to let both girls inside, and then I gently shut it behind us. One quick glance around the room told me that there were no windows inside the huge supply room, and since there were also no vamps, I let Brianna take her hand off the flashlight and shine it around the storage area so we could all look for what we needed at the same time.
Crutches were an easy find, so Brianna grabbed a couple pairs, just in case anyone else had an accident, and tucked them under her arms. There were plenty of bandages and splints for both legs and arms, so I found a bag and started to fill it up with supplies. The blood transfusion equipment was a little harder to find, mostly because I wasn’t sure exactly what we were looking for, but we found it after a few minutes and threw all of that into the bag, too.
I could hear thunder and wind outside the hospital, but the power was already out, so it didn’t affect us much inside. I just hoped that the worst of it would be over by the time we left so we didn’t have the extra complications of driving through a storm and possible vamp territory on the way back.
When we had gathered as many supplies as I could think of, I decided that it was time to head to the pharmacy. I doubted that there would be any blood bags left inside the refrigerator, so when we checked to make sure, I wasn’t surprised to see that it was empty.
Clearly, Hippie Hank hadn’t been the only vamp to think about using blood bags as food. Maybe that was what had happened to the half-dead feral vamp in the ER. Maybe he ate himself totally full of blood bags, and then when they ran out, he didn’t have enough energy to keep going and find a live victim, so he just curled up inside the ER and waited to die. Then again, maybe he had already been desperate when he came to the hospital in search of blood bags, and when he hadn’t found any, he had just laid down and waited for death to claim him.
Either way, he was dead now.
On our way back to the front of the hospital, we stopped by the pharmacy and, after I checked every nook and cranny for vamps, we split up to cover as much ground as possible. We grabbed as many painkillers and antibiotics as we could find, plus any other medicines that we thought might be helpful, and when we met back up, we dumped them all into the big bag with the other medical supplies.
“Is that everything?” I asked.
“I can’t think of anything else,” Brianna replied. “This should at least get them set up for a while, and hopefully it’ll be enough to help James, too.”
“I sure as hell hope so,” I sighed. “Then if there’s nothing else that we need, let’s head back to Red House.”
The wind seemed to have died down outside, so I slung the huge bag of medical supplies over my shoulder, Brianna grabbed the crutches, and Neko carried my Louisville slugger for me as we made our way back out of the hospital. After I flipped the lock on the automatic doors, I slid them open and stepped through, but this time, I left the doors open.
From what I’d seen of this town, there probably weren’t any humans left alive, but just in case there were, maybe the open hospital doors would allow them to get inside and get supplies, if they needed them. But even if not, it wouldn’t do any harm to leave them open, anyway.
As soon as we were outside, Brianna turned the flashlight off, and she and Neko just stayed close to follow me back to the pick-up truck. The heavy rain had turned into a light drizzle by now, and even though there was a little bit of wind, the worst of that seemed to be over, too.
Still, the wind had done more damage than I thought it would, as I quickly spotted several downed wires in the hospital parking lot. I could even see a telephone pole off in the distance that looked like it had been halfway toppled by the storm.
At least the electricity was out, so there was no danger of a live wire.
Since most of the wind and rain seemed to be over, we went ahead and set all our supplies down inside the back as quietly as possible, hopped back up into the cab of the truck, and then cranked it on again in the darkness.
When the truck came on, its automatic lights did, too, so I immediately shut them off. I didn’t need them to see in the dark, and I sure as hell didn’t want to attract any attention in an area that I knew so little about. No one jumped toward us from behind any of the cars out in the parking lot, so I shifted the truck into drive and started back the way we came.
I didn’t have any problems as I pulled out of the hospital, but only a few minutes
after I pulled onto 34 and started to follow it all the way back up to the river, I stopped the truck and gave a little whistle.
Up ahead on the road, at least half a mile away if not further, there was a huge tree down across the road. It blocked all lanes of traffic, and it was big enough that it there was no way around it unless I tried to move it, and that wasn’t about to be something I was going to waste my time on, when I had no idea how long that might take or how many more trees might be down further along 34.
“Okay, that way is no longer an option,” I said. “Bree, can you find me another route on the map?”
“Yep, just give me a second,” Brianna said as she spread the map out on the floor of the truck, so when she flipped the flashlight on, it shone as little light outside as possible.
“What is it?” Neko asked.
“There’s a big-ass tree across the road,” I said, since I knew neither of the girls could see that far away in the darkness, “so I want to see if we can find a different road back to Red House.”
“Working on it,” Brianna called from where she was bent over the map.
I let the truck idle while the beautiful blonde looked for another road back, and after just a minute or two, she sat back up in her seat and flipped the flashlight off.
“So there is another route back,” Brianna said, “but it’s definitely a little longer, and I don’t know if you’re gonna like it.”
“That’s okay,” I said. “Just try me.”
“Well, we’d get on 64 and basically go straight east until we hit 817,” the curvy blonde said. “Then we’d take that north until it runs into the same bridge that we used to cross the river on our way down here, and then we’d turn there and go back to Red House like normal.”
“That doesn’t sound so bad,” I said. “What’s the issue?”
“So the thing is,” Brianna said and then took a deep breath, “817 runs right along the river, and that means… well, it means that we would go right past Black Betsy.”
Chapter 16
“You’re right,” I said. “I don’t like that.”
“Is that our only option?” Neko asked.
“Based on what I can see of the map, yeah,” Brianna said. “We might be able to go down 64, hop on 35, and then get back on 34, but that’s only if the tree isn’t still in the way.”
“Let’s get a little closer and check,” I said, “because I’d like to avoid being that close to Black Betsy if we can help it.”
“But it’s not like we would go through Black Betsy,” Neko said. “We would still have the river between us, and I doubt even vamps could swim fast enough to cross the whole river and get to us in time.”
“Yeah, but I don’t want them to have any idea about our movements or what we’re up to,” I said. “And I definitely don’t want to run the risk that they might have people stationed on the other side of the water at night or anything.”
I started the truck forward again toward the downed tree, and I hoped that it would be at a good location, so we could just take a different highway and bypass it to get back on 34. But when we got closer to where the two highways crossed each other, I realized that wasn’t the case, and instead, we were going to have to take the long way back up by the river and across the water from Black Betsy.
As soon as I slowed the truck down enough, I maneuvered her into a U-turn so we could go back down toward the hospital. I turned onto 64, but at least this highway seemed pretty clear of any cars or storm debris, so I drove it straight down until we turned onto 817.
It would take us a few minutes to get far enough north that I needed to be worried about the vamps across the river, but it was also so dark that there was no way to tell exactly where we were in terms of what was on the other side of the water. So when I estimated that we were about to be in the danger area, I decided to take a different approach.
“Can one of you take the wheel?” I asked as I slowly brought the truck to a stop.
“I don’t actually think my feet will reach the pedals,” Neko laughed.
“I can do it,” Brianna volunteered. “But why? What are you gonna do?”
“I want to keep an eye on the river,” I said, “and I’ll be able to do that more easily if I don’t have to watch the road at the same time.”
“Okay, but I’m gonna have to drive really, really slow,” Brianna said. “Unless I can turn the headlights on?”
“No, but I want you to go really slowly anyway,” I said. “That way, just in case the Black Betsy vamps have anyone who is watching the river or can see across to the other side, they won’t see our truck moving. Not if it goes slowly enough.”
“Then, yeah, I can do it,” the blonde said.
I switched positions with Brianna, so I was on the passenger side, but Neko was still wedged in between us. I kept the window of the truck rolled down as Brianna slowly moved the truck forward, and even though we crawled forward at a snail’s pace, it allowed me to see more clearly across the river and, of course, helped keep the vamps across the river from seeing us.
After a few minutes passed, I guessed based on the map and the distance that we had traveled that we were probably just about directly across the water from Black Betsy. Of course, since the vamps there didn’t need any lights at night to see by, it was only a guess, but it was the best I could do.
But even though I didn’t expect to see anything all the way on the other side of the river, I suddenly realized that this might be a perfect opportunity for me to get some more information on our enemies. If I could get a little closer to the water, I might be able to spy on the Black Betsy bloodsuckers a little bit more. And even if I didn’t see anything, then at least I would know that I had taken advantage of our position across the river and not just driven right by it.
“Stop the truck,” I said.
As soon as Brianna pressed on the brakes and shifted into park, I rolled up the truck window and grabbed the door handle. This would only take a second, but I still wanted to make sure the girls were safe inside the truck until I got back.
“Stay here, keep the engine on and the doors locked, and yell if you see anything,” I said.
“Where are you going?” Brianna whispered.
“Just a little recon mission,” I said with a grin. “I want to see if I can spot anything across the river. I might be able to tell what the vamps over there are up to.”
“Good luck,” Neko said, “but try not to take too long.”
“Yeah, it’s hella dark,” Brianna murmured.
“I’ll be back in a few minutes,” I said, “and I won’t go far.”
I hopped out of the truck, gently closed the door, waited to hear the girls lock the door behind me, and then started through the tall grass on the side of the road. I headed straight for the edge of the river, and when I pushed my way through the thickest cluster of trees, the water stretched out before me like a wide dark road.
I moved right up to the water’s edge and then dropped down into a crouch, just in case anyone on the opposite side of the river decided to spy in my direction at the same time. I couldn’t see any signs of movement at first, but it let me find some of the landmarks that I had seen in person earlier, only now I could study them from across the river.
I saw the abandoned railcar at the edge of the river, and I knew that meant the old schoolhouse with all the human captives was just on the other side of that. I saw a few of the houses that I had noted when I was there, and then just when I had almost given up on my mission, I saw a flicker of movement by the water.
The movement disappeared for a few seconds, and I thought that this all might be for nothing, but when it reappeared, I could finally tell what it was. There were two people moving toward the water, and since they dragged something forward between them, I guessed that they were both vamps.
I leaned forward a little more and squinted to get a better look at the object they dragged between them, but when I saw what it was, I felt my stomach clench
into a tight knot.
They were dragging human bodies down toward the river.
It looked like the corpses were tied together, and from what I could tell, there were at least four of them, but they were all so pressed together that it was difficult to say for sure. But the moment the vamps reached the river, they picked up the bodies and then launched them out into the water, where they gave a single quiet plop and then slowly settled toward the bottom of the riverbed.
I felt my stomach turn again as the vamps’ laughter carried toward me from across the water, but they turned and walked away like they had just thrown away nothing but garbage. After they were gone, I waited a few minutes to make sure that I couldn’t get any more information from across the river, but even then, I felt myself almost glued into place.
It was hard to watch someone throw away humans so carelessly, and it would be even harder to tell the girls what I had seen. I wished that I knew more about what had happened to those humans, but at the end of the day, I knew the specifics didn’t really matter.
Maybe the Black Betsy bloodsuckers had killed them on purpose because they were tired of them, or maybe they just drank too much and accidentally killed them. It was also possible that they hadn’t given them enough time to recover between feedings, or they hadn’t given them enough food and water, so they just slowly drained them dry.
Whatever the reason was, it resulted in the deaths of those humans, and the thought of what they must have been feeling right before the end was enough to make me sick.
At the same time, there was a little part of me that was almost relieved. It felt strange to even think that way at all, but my vampire brain couldn’t help but think about the fact that the more humans these bloodsuckers killed, the less powerful their blood pool would be, and the easier they might be to defeat.
Of course, they could probably replace the dead humans with new prisoners just as quickly, so it might not matter at all. But it did at least tell me that the Black Betsy vamps could be on the hunt for fresh blood sooner rather than later.
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