Chapter 38 - Spiral

Chapter 38

Ezekiel didn’t have time to think about the blood on his body, or the anger boiling in his veins. He turned from the carcass of the dead Ghoul and rushed over to the two still and silent bodies in the field.

The child was there beside him. Ezekiel didn’t have to see the blood on the child’s mouth, or the black branches of poison beneath the skin of his small body to know that the boy really was gone now.

With hair almond brown and eyes tinted green and frozen open the small boys chest didn’t move. The sight of his small body stole over Ezekiel chilling him and numbing him at the same time. The parents would be devastated. Ezekiel knew that a lot of people would be filled with sorrow once all of the chaos had settled down and the dead were fully counted out.

A part of Ezekiel urged him to reach for the child and cradle him closer, but as Ezekiel stood leaning over the two bodies in the earth, all Ezekiel wanted to do was grab Brandon and rush him to his mother...because unli