I reached down to grip the back of her head and help her down onto my cock. As I pulled her down a little further, Lily opened her lips a little wider so I could thrust my full length into her mouth. Her dark-brown curls bounced everywhere as she bobbed up and down on my dick, and when she looked up at me with her dark-brown eyes all flecked with gold, I knew that I didn’t want to last much longer.
I just wanted to fill up her mouth with my cum.
She looked up at me again as she slid her lips all the way down my cock, and this time, I tightened my grip on her hair to hold her in place. Then I pumped my hips to plunge my dick even deeper into the back of her throat, and when Lily started to run her tongue along every part of my shaft at the same time, I finally let myself go.
“Oh, fuckk,” I groaned, and then I plunged my cock into her throat one final time.
Lily made a slight gagging noise as my cum filled the back of her throat, but when I released my grip on her hair, she just held herself exactly where she was. Another wave of my seed poured into her mouth, but she just swallowed it while my cock spasmed and pulsed over and over again.
When I sank back against the back seat of the SUV, Lily slowly slid her lips off my dick, rocked back onto her heels, and licked her lips with a smile.
“Thank you, Sam,” Lily sighed and then swallowed again. “I’ve been wanting to do that for a really long time.”
“Well, we can do that any time you want to,” I said with a grin, “or whenever there aren’t any vamps around, anyway.”
“Those other bloodsuckers really know how to ruin a good time, don’t they?” the beautiful Latina laughed. “Oh, shit, I guess we better get back before everybody starts to wonder what we’re doing.”
“What did you tell them?” I asked as I helped her back up into the seat beside me.
“I said that I wanted to give you a little blood to help you, like, recover and shit,” Lily replied.
“Oh, then they definitely know what we were doing,” I snickered, “so don’t worry about that. Do you want to go back and sleep inside the office, or do you want to stay here in the lobby with me?”
“I’ll stay here, if that’s okay,” the olive-skinned girl said.
“Of course, it is,” I said, “but we should probably put our clothes back on first.”
“If we have to,” Lily sighed and reached over to run her fingers down my chest one more time.
“For now,” I said with a wink.
After we had put all our clothes back on, I opened the doors of the SUV so I could hear any possible noises around the car dealership, and then I laid the back seat flat so we could both lay down inside it.
I didn’t need much of a nap, but I needed a little rest since I wanted to drive all night and try to make it to West Virginia by sunrise. It was a long drive, but we had food and fuel, so if we didn’t run into any major problems or obstacles, it was possible that we’d cross the border into West Virginia before or at least around the time that the sun came up.
When I woke up, I sat up and looked at the clock on the lobby wall to see what time it was. It was a few minutes before eleven, so we had slept for about two hours, and that would have to be enough for now. Between the short nap and Lily’s blood in my system, I felt completely refreshed and alert, and the girls would just have to keep sleeping inside the truck if they were still tired.
After I shook Lily awake, we climbed out of the SUV and stretched, but on our way back to the girls’ office, we stopped by the dealership’s snack station. There was no reason to break into our own supplies if we could make them last a little longer, so we grabbed both baskets full of pop-tarts, granola bars, fruit gummies, and protein bars and headed back to the rest of the girls.
Erika was on watch in the office, so the three of us quickly woke everyone else up.
“We’ve gotta go,” I said. “It’s been a couple of hours, and we need to get back on the road, so any last minute bathroom trips you want to take, do them now.”
“We’ve got food for the road,” Lily said as she raised her basket.
After the girls all went to the bathroom again and stretched their legs one final time, I led the way back out of the dealership. There was no one in the parking lot, so everyone loaded up into the back of the armored truck, and as Lily distributed food to the girls, I cranked Rhino up and started to pull back out onto the road.
“I know those are just snacks,” I called over the hum of Rhino’s engine as she got warmed up, “but we can have a bigger meal when we get to West Virginia. Maybe we’ll even have something hot.”
“Oh, don’t tease me like that, Sam,” Catherine groaned.
“I think we can make it a few hours just on snacks,” Natalie said with a smile.
“If we have to,” the auburn-haired girl sighed, “but I won’t be happy about it.”
“You can break out the beef jerky if you really need to,” I teased.
After the girls all ate something to tide themselves over, I made sure that Lily had a little extra to help make up for all the blood that she’d given me, and then one by one, the six girls drifted off to sleep in the back of the armored truck.
I missed Natalie’s company in the front seat, but I was glad that she’d let herself fall asleep with everyone else. I knew she had to be tired, and I wanted them all to be as rested as possible for whatever we encountered. Since I was a vamp, I didn’t need as much sleep as they did, but since they were still human, they needed the extra rest.
Another hour went by on the highway without any real problems, other than an occasional abandoned car wreck that I had to carefully maneuver around to avoid. But when signs started to appear that we were close to Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, I saw something up ahead that made my stomach tense.
It was still a few miles away, so even though Lily’s blood made my vision even better than it normally was just as a vamp, I couldn’t quite tell what it was. It looked like some kind of barricade across the highway, so I slowed down, and as I got closer, I started to eye a few exits that I could turn around and take if I needed to. Finally, when I was a little over a mile away from what I’d spotted on the highway, I felt my mouth go dry as my stomach did a little flip.
There was a barricade like I had thought, but it was unlike any other barricade that I’d ever seen before. It was at least ten feet high and spanned the whole interstate, but instead of brick or even barbed wire, the wall was made out of fucking human corpses.
Chapter 4
I had plenty of time to brake, so I didn’t have to immediately screech to a halt, but I still pressed down a little harder on the brake in order to turn around as quickly as possible. If I could head back to one of the exits before any of the girls woke up, that might be for the best.
After all, they knew the realities of what we were up against, but there was no reason for them to actually see it so plainly right in front of them. But even though I slowed down gradually, the hum of Rhino’s engine changed enough to wake up Natalie.
My girlfriend pulled herself up into the front of the armored truck with me and rubbed the sleep out from her eyes.
“Sam, what’s--” She stopped as soon as she looked ahead. “Oh, what the fuck!”
Her voice woke up the rest of the girls, so in just a matter of seconds, they all pushed forward to look out the front at the wall of bodies up ahead. And unfortunately, I was now close enough to it that they could see the details of the human barricade, so even though I started to swing Rhino into a slow spin, it was already too late.
The wall looked like it was at least ten bodies high, but I couldn’t count the number of corpses that stretched from one side of the highway to the other. They could have been pasted together with cement like a literal wall, or there might be so many of them that their own weight was the only thing that made them stick together.
Most of the bodies looked drained of all their blood, but there were a few… juicier… bodies that I guessed must smell like rotten meat. I’d
never been so glad to be inside Rhino, where we were at least protected from the smell of the human barricade, if not from the actual sight of it.
“Fuck me,” Erika whispered.
“What is that?” Brianna demanded.
“I think it’s pretty clear what it is,” Neko said.
“Yeah, so the real question is why it’s there?” Catherine said. “Like… what the fuck?”
“I don’t know why somebody felt the need to block off the whole highway with this shit,” I said, “but I sure as shit don’t want to stick around and meet whoever did it.”
“Um, I’m with Sam,” Lily said. “So can we avoid it?”
I finished swinging Rhino into a turn and then slowly accelerated back down the highway in the opposite direction. There was an exit not too far from the human barricade, so I would just have to take it and then try to find a detour on some back roads.
“We can think about who and why later,” I said, even though I was already trying to figure out how the fuck many bodies made up the wall. “For now, can somebody find the map and try to find a detour around this shit?”
“On it,” Erika said. “Nat, maybe you could help a little?”
As my girlfriend and Erika pulled out the map to try to see what back roads we might be able to take, I spotted the exit up ahead on my left. I slowed down again so I could do another U-turn onto it, but I immediately wondered how long we would have to take back roads before we could jump onto the highway again.
By the time I took a U-turn onto the closest exit, the wall of bodies was far enough behind us that only I could see it in the side mirror, so at least the girls hadn’t seen it quite as long as I had. Still, I doubted that it took more than just a second for that sight to be seared into their memories.
“So are we just not gonna talk about that shit, or what?” Catherine demanded. “Because I’d like to know who the fuck, and how the fuck, and when the fuck--”
“I think we found something, Sam,” Erika said. “Sorry, Catherine.”
“Ugh, it’s fine,” Catherine replied. “I’ll just try to find some kerosene so I can burn what I just saw right out of my eyes.”
“We can talk about it in a minute,” I told Catherine as I coasted down the exit. “Right now I need to know what direction I should take.”
“Okay, so if we take a right at the end of this exit,” Natalie said, “then we should be able to take this state highway 645 all the way up to 443, and then 443 will lead us onto I-81.”
“Unless you want to get back on 78 before it turns into 81,” Erika said.
“Does that mean we’d have to go through Fredericksburg instead of just around it?” I asked.
“Uh, as far as I can tell, yeah,” Erika said. “I really wish we could get some kind of signal out here to use Google Maps, but I think we’re shit out of luck on that one.”
“That’s okay,” I said. “I think it’s better if we completely avoid Fredericksburg and just jump onto 81 later.”
“Why?” Brianna asked. “What’s wrong with Fredericksburg?”
“I think it’s the city on the other side of the human wall, Bree,” Neko murmured.
“Yeah, it is,” I said. “So whoever made that barricade clearly wants to control who comes in and out of the city.”
“And clearly wants to send a fucked-up message,” Catherine said. “Who the fuck does something like that?”
“Uh, vamps?” Lily bit her lip.
“Well, obviously it’s vamps,” Catherine snickered. “I just meant why would they do that? What’s the point?”
“Well, if I had to guess,” I said and took a deep breath, “I’d say that it’s to tell any other vamps around that this area is taken. Like when settlers plant a flag somewhere and declare some floating hunk of rock to be their property, you know?”
“So they used a wall of corpses to declare that Fredericksburg is theirs?” Catherine asked. “That’s one hell of a fucked up flag.”
“Yeah, but try to think about it from a vamp’s point of view,” I said as I glanced in the side mirror before I took a right turn off the end of the exit.
“Is somebody following us?” Natalie asked as she climbed up into the passenger seat to look for herself.
“No, but I want to make sure it stays that way,” I said. “It’s possible that the vamps who built that wall set up scouts to watch for anyone who comes close to the city.”
“And then what?” Brianna whispered. “Are they gonna chase us down or something?”
“I think they already would have,” I replied, “but I’ll keep checking to make sure.”
“You were talking about a vamp’s perspective on things,” Catherine said. “What did you mean?”
“Okay, this is gonna sound messed up,” I said, “but if another vamp comes by and sees that there are that many corpses just tossed out like trash, then they’d probably assume that the bloodsuckers who built that wall have plenty of living humans to spare.”
“Which means what exactly?” Lily asked.
“That they’re really fucking strong,” Neko said. “If you can afford to kill that many humans because you still have plenty to feed from, then you must be doing pretty well for yourself, right?”
“Yeah, I think that’s the idea,” I agreed. “It means that they own Fredericksburg, like feudal lords or something, so any humans or vamps who come across their town will be at their mercy.”
“And are we, uh, sure that nobody’s following us?” Brianna asked.
“We’re still clear so far,” I replied. “But I’m probably gonna need you all to stay awake until we’re back on the interstate.”
“Are you kidding?” Catherine asked. “Look at the road! There’s no fucking way that I’m going back to sleep now.”
“It does look pretty creepy,” Natalie said.
I couldn’t argue with them. It was one thing to drive along an empty highway in the middle of the night, but this two-lane state road looked like something straight out of a horror movie. The trees were planted all the way to the edge of the road, and there was only a narrow shoulder between us and the tree line.
It even looked like there had been a recent storm, so there were some broken limbs that hung down and scratched at Rhino’s roof, and there were other branches that had fallen clean off into the middle of the road. And everything was so fucking dark that even though my vision was perfectly clear, I couldn’t help but feel like there was movement in the shadows every time I glanced away.
“Actually, should we get back on the interstate at all?” Erika asked. “We’ve done okay on the highway so far, but that stack of bodies… I don’t know, don’t you think it might be some kind of sign or something?”
I was about to answer her question when I noticed that all the trees disappeared on our right, only to be replaced with an endless field of tall corn that swayed in the wind. There wasn’t anything about the corn that should have been any creepier than the trees, but something about it made me look a little more closely at the road up ahead, and that was when I saw something metal glint in the middle of the pavement.
There were police barricade-style spikes laid down in a neat row across the two-lane road, and the only way around them was to either throw Rhino into reverse and try a different back road or to go up into the cornfield around them. The spikes were low enough to the ground that someone might not see them unless they were really paying attention, and I was more glad than ever that Lily had given me some of her blood so my vision was even better than it usually was.
“Oh, you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me,” I groaned as I gauged the distance between Rhino and the spikes. “Everybody hold on to something!”
“Sam, what do you see?” Natalie asked.
“Did vamps follow us after all?” Brianna whispered.
“Now!” I shouted.
I didn’t have time to answer their questions. I didn’t want to slow down at all and risk the possibility that there were vamps in the co
rnfield who were just waiting for Rhino to go slowly enough that they could attack us, and I sure as hell didn’t want to go back the way we came from. For one thing, the bloodsuckers might have planned for that, too, but I also just didn’t want to have to pick a different route through the backwoods of Pennsylvania when I knew fuck-all about the area.
So that really only left me with one option, and that was to go the fuck around the spikes, even if it meant that I had to take out a couple rows of corn on my way.
I spun the wheel of the armored truck sharply to the right to go up on the narrow shoulder of the road. As soon as my front tires crossed over the white line, Rhino’s bumper barreled into the first row of corn and then into the second before I was able to twist the wheel back to the left and keep her going straight forward.
The girls all grabbed onto each other as they dropped down to stabilize themselves against the floor of the armored truck. Several pieces of luggage shifted inside the back as the corn stalks whipped against the right side of Rhino, but other than the fact that they sounded like someone was trying to claw their way into the truck, I knew that the corn couldn’t actually do any damage to my baby.
Just as long as no vamps sprung out of the field in the meantime.
I was almost past the spikes now, so I guided Rhino a little further off the road to make sure that I completely avoided the trap that the Fredericksburg bloodsuckers had set. Everything in the truck rattled as we bounced over the low hills at the edge of the cornfield, but even though the corn stalks lashed themselves against the right side of the truck, the left side of the windshield was completely clear, so I could see exactly where I needed to go.
I couldn’t look behind me to see if the girls were alright, but as I plowed Rhino forward, I glanced over at Natalie in the passenger seat to at least check on her. Her lips were pressed together in grim determination, and she had one hand on the door and the other hand on the arm of her seat to help keep her in place.
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