“Do something!” Linda yells and backs away. “Do something!”
Dan gets to his feet, unsure what to do or where to go.
Then, Thomas seems to lose his strength. He drags himself a few feet farther, but then he slows down. His groans and moans grow fainter, and with a final sigh, Thomas lies his head down on the asphalt and dies for the second time, the naked flesh still seething all over his body. He has left a broad trail of sticky blood all the way from the car. Dan can smell the burning flesh. He forces himself to look away, and instead he sees Linda.
She’s standing with her hand over her mouth, staring from Thomas’s burning corpse to Dan, her eyes wet from fear and tears. “It’s over now, right? Tell me it’s over.”
“It is,” Dan mutters. “It’s finally over.”
But just as he utters the words, a realization hits him like a lightning bolt.
Jennie! Oh, shit! How could I forget about her?
Linda says something, but Dan doesn’t even register it. He can only think of one thing.
The hatch. The hatch to the basement. I locked it. I know I did … didn’t I?
To be continued …
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