I just hoped that Teays Valley wasn’t as overrun with bloodsuckers as Black Betsy.
But since there was only one way to find out, I hopped up into the driver’s seat of the black Dodge Ram and cranked the engine up right away. Its engine was anything but subtle as it roared to life, but I figured that a truck like this would be our best option to take on a supply run.
A smaller car might be able to handle the curves of the mountain roads better, but it would also be a lot easier for vamps to bust inside if we got attacked. I wanted Nat and the girls to be able to use James’ Jeep while I was gone, so the Dodge Ram was a good compromise. We could throw a ridiculous amount of shit into the back, and we should also be able to fight off any vamp attacks from inside it.
Plus, it would be hella fun to drive.
Neko climbed up into the middle seat of the truck, and Brianna hopped in on her other side before she shut the door. They each had their rifles and their handguns, and they wore their tactical vests with extra magazines and ammunition all stuffed inside them.
Neko had gotten the fire axe at some point while I’d been gone earlier, so she held it in a loose grip down between her knees. And since I had a shotgun, handgun, and my Louisville slugger, I figured that we were pretty well-prepared for anything that we came up against.
As well prepared as we could be, anyway.
The sun was still up, but it had started to set, so it wouldn’t be too much longer before it was dark. I knew that it would be even darker around here than other places, so we would have to be extra alert for any signs of trouble.
After all, the town of Red House might have plenty of generators to keep the electricity going, but that sure as hell wasn’t the case for everyone in this area of West Virginia, and without any kind of street lights, this rural area would be darker than fuck.
As I pulled out onto the main road through town, I glanced into the rear view mirror and took a deep breath.
“They’ll be okay,” Brianna said. “You’re worried about everyone, right?”
“I’d be lying if I said no,” I sighed.
“You shouldn’t worry so much,” Neko said. “So much stress is not good for you.”
“I don’t know if I can help it,” I laughed. “There’s a lot to worry about, after all.”
“Yeah, but it always turns out okay,” the pink-haired girl said. “You’re a super powerful, super sexy, super badass vampire, Sam. What could go wrong?”
“Uh, how about other super powerful and badass vampires?” Brianna whispered.
“We can take them,” Neko said with a shrug.
“I always appreciate your confidence,” I said with a smile.
“I just call them like I see them,” the petite Japanese girl replied.
“Bree, could you pull that map out for me from inside the glovebox?” I asked as we approached the edge of town. “I need to know exactly where I’m going.”
After the blonde grabbed the map, she and Neko unfolded it and searched for our location. On one side, there was a close-up of the county we were in, so the girls both scanned the map until they found the route we needed.
“Okay,” Brianna said, “you’re gonna stay on this road until we come up on a big bridge on the left, then we’ll cross that to get to the other side of the river.”
“You’ll take a right on the other side of the bridge,” Neko continued, “and then it looks like you’ll hang a left onto 34 and stay on that until… well, basically until we reach the hospital in Teays Valley.”
“What road is it on?” I asked.
“It doesn’t say on the map,” Brianna replied, “but there will probably be plenty of signs for a hospital, right?”
“Yeah, especially since it’s apparently one of the only ones in the area,” Neko muttered.
“Hey, at least it means that Red House wasn’t overrun with vamps, since nobody there had gotten the vaccine,” I said with a shrug.
“Fair enough,” the petite Japanese girl said. “I just can’t imagine what it would be like to live somewhere so remote.”
“You know that besides the Denver metro area, Colorado isn’t exactly known for its bustling cities, right?” Brianna asked. “In fact, it’s kind of known for its, uh, remote landscapes.”
“Oh, that’s different,” Neko said.
“Um, how?” the blonde demanded.
“Because we’re going to Colorado with Sam,” Neko snickered, “so that means everything is different.”
“Oh, well, when you put it like that,” Brianna said with a little blush.
The bridge on our left was hard to miss, so I turned onto it and started across the river. There were hardly any abandoned cars on the road, and there certainly weren’t any cars with people still inside them. Like most of the rest of West Virginia, the roads seemed pretty damn deserted, but that made it easier to drive. Hopefully, it would also mean that we’d be able to get back with the medical supplies before midnight.
The town on the other side of the river was much bigger than Red House, but apparently, it wasn’t big enough to have a hospital. There were pharmacies, so we could have gotten some of what we needed there, but I also didn’t see any point in stopping when we would need to get to the hospital for blood transfusion supplies, anyway. We might as well do all our shopping in one place, if we could.
But even though this town was bigger, it was also more empty than Red House, and I wondered if the town was made of vamps or just victims. I didn’t intend to stick around long enough to find out, so I just kept to the main road and drove forward until we turned onto 34.
Once we got onto 34, all traces of civilization disappeared behind us.
There were thick woods on either side of the two-lane road, and a guard rail along one side was the only warning about the steep drop-off into a ditch that I couldn’t see the bottom of. There was still enough light to make things just look shadowy, not pitch black, but I noticed that there were no street lights and no house lights along this road.
In fact, there were hardly any houses at all, and the ones that did exist were so far off the road that they were hidden by the trees. I would be able to see just fine in the darkness after the sunset, but that didn’t mean that it wouldn’t be nerve-wracking as hell to drive back along this deserted road in complete darkness.
When we finally reached the next town, about twenty minutes had gone by. The road widened into multiple lanes, so I was glad for the break from just two narrow lanes with a sharp drop-off on one side. The multiple lanes also made it easier to navigate around the increased number of cars that had been left all along the shoulders of the road.
“So when we get there,” I said as I scanned the road signs for directions to the hospital, “I think we should try to get crutches and blood transfusion equipment first.”
“Are you worried that we’re gonna run into vamps?” Brianna asked.
“I doubt it, not unless a bunch of them have decided to set up shop there,” I replied. “I’m sure that any patients who were in the hospital have already been killed or turned, and if they were turned, they probably already left to look for food.”
“Or they just gorged themselves on the hospital’s blood bags and then left after that,” Neko pointed out.
“That could also be true,” I said. “But I think we should get the more difficult stuff to find first, and then if we have to make tracks out of there, we can always hit up a pharmacy somewhere on the way back to Red House for the small-scale supplies.”
“Like antibiotics and bandages and stuff?” Brianna asked.
“Absolutely,” I agreed. “But we may be able to grab some stuff from the hospital pharmacy. We’ll just have to see what we find.”
“Or who we find,” Neko muttered.
I spotted the hospital sign and took the next right to follow it. When I pulled into the parking lot, the hospital was much smaller than I expected it to be, but it should still have all the necessary supplies we wanted. Plus, the smaller s
ize meant that it would be easier to keep an eye out for any bloodsuckers who might still be around.
“Where do you think we should start?” Brianna whispered.
“I’m not sure,” I said. “Let’s just start with the ER and go from there.”
Once we hopped out of the truck, Brianna grabbed a small flashlight from the glove compartment but didn’t turn it on yet. We carefully closed the truck doors so they wouldn’t make any unnecessary noise, and then we started toward the emergency room. The sun had just set, so the sky was already darker than when we had left Red House, and none of the lights around the hospital seemed to work.
Actually, none of the lights in this town seemed to work, and again, I wondered if that meant that everybody was dead, so nobody had any use for backup generators, or if everybody was a vamp, so they could all see in the darkness, anyway.
“Don’t worry,” Brianna whispered. “I won’t use the flashlight unless it’s really, really dark inside.”
“It’s okay,” I said. “I don’t want you to point it out any windows or anything like a spotlight, but it’s fine if you need to use it to point down hallways and see where you’re going and what we’re looking for.”
“But I thought we were afraid there might be vamps,” the curvy blonde said.
“Vamps can see in the dark, sweetie,” Neko chuckled.
“Oh!” Brianna blushed in the dim light. “I forgot.”
When we reached the automated doors of the emergency room, they were stuck together, and since the building didn’t have any power, the only way to make them open was to pry them apart manually. But between Natalie, James, and a handful of other townspeople, I had so much blood in my system today that one pair of automatic doors didn’t seem like all that much of an obstacle.
Of course, it would have been even easier to break the glass on the door, but that would also kind of kill our whole stealth mission, so instead, I handed my Louisville slugger over to Brianna, grasped the doors at the seam, and slowly forced them apart from each other.
“They won’t stay open until we flip the lock inside,” I grunted once I had pried the doors apart about two feet from each other, “so you better get on in there.”
Neko and Brianna both slipped inside right away, and Brianna quickly scanned the top of the doors until she flipped the lock. Then the doors slid open the rest of the way, so I could step through and not worry that they would slam shut on me.
Once I was inside, I took my slugger back from Brianna, but just in case there were any other bloodsuckers around, I decided to slide the doors shut again. After they were closed, I flipped the lock, just so someone else would have to work a little bit harder to get inside the hospital.
The emergency room wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated. There were little smears of blood here and there, but for the most part, the waiting area was pretty empty, so anybody who came here with flu-like vamp symptoms must have figured out that a little bit of blood would cure them right up, and then they’d taken off to find their cure elsewhere inside the building.
“Let me see if I can find a map of the hospital back here,” Brianna said as she started around the check-in counter.
“Good idea,” I said, so Neko and I followed her around the counter to help her look.
As soon as the beautiful blonde girl stepped around the back of the counter, I sensed that something was off. It didn’t smell like fresh human blood or even like moldy vamp guts, but before I could tell the blonde to move, I heard a groan from underneath the check-in counter.
The groan was immediately followed by a half-decayed hand that shot out and grabbed Brianna by the ankle.
Chapter 15
I fully expected Brianna to shriek or panic, but to my surprise, the curvy blonde pulled her foot back, so the vamp’s whole arm appeared as he tried to crawl out from under the counter and pull her back toward himself.
But the moment the half-dead vamp’s head appeared, Brianna kicked her foot free of his grasp and then just stamped her heel down onto his skull. It cracked underneath her weight, and a second stomp split his skull wide open, but Brianna still slammed her foot down on top of him one more time just to make sure that he would stay dead.
The vamp had clearly been feral, or he wouldn’t have moved so slowly or had quite such a fragile skull, but I wasn’t about to tell Brianna any of that. As soon as the blonde was certain that the vamp was one hundred percent DOA, she whirled toward me with a grin.
“I killed my first vamp!” Brianna said as she clapped her hands together. “Did you see that, Sam? Neko, did you hear his skull crunch?”
“We’re all very proud,” Neko said with a smile.
“Oh, I feel like I could do anything!” Brianna sighed. “I feel like I could…”
The blonde stopped herself, looked at me, and then stepped toward me. She didn’t say anything, and instead, she just went up onto her tiptoes, grasped my face into her hands, and pulled me down to kiss her firmly on the lips.
I kissed her back, and our tongues swirled together for half a minute of passion before she pulled her lips away from mine.
“Oh!” Brianna rocked back down onto her feet and covered her mouth with her hands. “Oh, I’ve been wanting to do that for a long time now.”
“Nobody said that you have to stop,” I said as I reached out to cup her slender waist.
“Are you sure?” Brianna whispered.
“Girl, you’re fucking gorgeous,” Neko said as she stepped forward to brush the blonde’s hair back over her shoulders. “Of course, he’s sure.”
“But you’re--” Brianna stopped herself.
“Happy to do whatever Sam wants,” Neko said with a smile. “What do you say, Sam? Do you think you can handle both of us at once?”
“Uhh…” I cleared my throat and glanced down at the dead vampire. “Maybe we should wait until after we get the medical—”
“My pussy can’t wait,” Neko growled as she bit her lip.
“Fuck us now,” Brianna panted. “We can do it quickly. Just hurry.”
“Fine...” I growled, and then I pulled Brianna toward myself until her big tits were pressed up against my chest.
“What else have you been wanting to do for a long time?” I asked and then leaned down to kiss her again.
As soon as my lips met hers, the curvy blonde just melted against me, as if she really had been waiting to do that since the first time she saw me. Her lips were as soft as the rest of her, but almost immediately, I felt her tongue press forward to explore my mouth, and at the same time, I felt Neko’s hands slip down toward the zipper of my pants.
While Brianna started to deepen our kiss, I unbuckled her tactical vest and let it fall to the floor, and then I slid my hands down from her narrow waist to grasp the bottom of her shirt. I pulled away from our kiss just long enough to pull her shirt off over her head, followed quickly by my own shirt, but then I immediately let her lips find mine again.
“Hey,” Neko said. “I need these pants off of you before you go back to your kiss.”
“I actually think we should all get naked,” Brianna giggled. “That would only be fair.”
“I’m surprised that you don’t want to move away from that dead vamp first,” Neko said as she arched her eyebrows.
“Hey, I feel super badass right now,” Brianna said, “and that dead guy gave me the courage to do something that I’ve wanted to do for a while, so I don’t have any hard feelings toward him.”
“Then let’s just go with it,” I said with a grin, “but I like Neko’s suggestion, and I’m game if you two are.”
The moment I took a step back from the two girls, they instantly started to strip off the rest of their clothes. Neko’s tactical vest hit the ground almost as quickly as her pants did, and as soon as she shrugged off her shirt, she ripped her bra and underwear off, too, so she stood completely naked in the dim light.
“God, you’re pretty,” I said as I gazed at her.
Everythi
ng about Neko was petite, from her small tight ass to her firm boobs, and in the low light, her skin looked almost the same faded-pink shade as her hair dye. The pretty Japanese girl bit her lip as she looked up at me, and then she moved toward the curvy blonde to help Brianna get out of the last of her clothes.
Brianna had already taken off her pants, so Neko quickly reached around to unhook the other girl’s black bra. She tossed it over beside the computer on the counter, just before Brianna wriggled out of her black underwear, so when both girls straightened up, they were completely naked in front of me.
If I thought that Brianna looked like a swimsuit model in her clothes, then that was even more the case now that she didn’t have anything on at all. Her tits were huge and heavy where they rested on her narrow and lean stomach, her round hips curved perfectly down into her muscular legs, and she was completely smooth all the way down to her narrow slit.
“Fuck,” I said.
“Right?” Neko smirked. “Bree is fucking beautiful.”
“Aw, you think so?” the hourglass-shaped blonde asked.
“Obviously,” Neko said with a roll of her eyes.
“Why don’t you show me how sexy you think she is?” I told Neko. “You like it when I tell you what to do, don’t you?”
The petite Japanese girl nodded as she looked up at me with her dark eyes.
“Then kiss Brianna,” I said. “And Bree, the same thing goes for you.”
The tanned blonde bit her lip but turned toward her friend with a shy smile. She hesitated before she placed her hands on Neko’s slender hips, but when the pink-haired Japanese girl slid her arms around her friend’s waist, Brianna relaxed and leaned forward to kiss her.
I couldn’t believe that the three of us were about to fuck in a hospital emergency room in the middle of rural West Virginia, but then again, I couldn’t even believe that we were about to fuck at all. Neko and I had been together before, and in fact, we had fucked right after I’d saved her and Brianna from Isaac, but I hadn’t been with Brianna before, and the sight of her as she kissed Neko was enough to make me instantly hard.
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