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brick by brick. ‘Whoever or whatever was in there, well they are gone now.’
    Angel pulled away from Jake to get back to the barn.
    Jake pulled her back. ‘What are you doing?’
    ‘They could still be alive.’
    ‘No.’ He pulled Angel to his side. ‘They are gone.’
    Angel looked at the funeral pyre, Jake was right, no one could survive.
    ‘Look, over there.’ Jake moved away from the house and looked down the field. ‘The animals are burning!’ He couldn’t believe his eyes.
    ‘Oh my God, who would do that?’ Angel was sickened at the sight of the cows lying on the ground their legs stuck upright through the smoke.
    ‘This is no accident.’ Jake turned to Angel. ‘I don’t think the infected would do this either, it’s too organised, too pin pointed.’
    ‘Time to leave?’ Angel had seen and heard enough.
    ‘I think so.’
    They both fought their way back around to the where the truck was parked but what met them when they got there was even worse than what they had just both witnessed.
    ***
    ‘Can you hear something?’ Lou Pepper raced to the window of the village hall.
    ‘Get away from there.’ Roger chased her and pulled her from view. ‘Lou you have to be more careful.’
    ‘But Angel is back.’ She tried to lead Roger back to the window,
    ‘We don’t know that though, do we?’
    ‘I can hear a car.’ Again she tugged Roger’s hand.
    ‘It might be someone else, we can’t be too sure it’s them.’
    ‘Who else would it be?’ Lou could only think about Angel and Jake.
    ‘Well.’ Roger had to be careful what he said, he didn’t want to scare the young girl. ‘There could be some nasty people around, people we don’t want to meet.’
    Lou screwed up her face. ‘Like the naked monsters?’
    Roger smiled, kids. ‘Yes like the naked people, we call them the infected.’
    ‘Here they come, with Rufus.’ Lou jumped up and down as a vehicle trundled down the main road and then appeared from around the bend partially blocking out the old church.
    ‘Get down.’ Roger hit the deck and pulled Lou down with him.
    ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ Lou protested.
    Roger said nothing but placed his finger over his lips to hush the child. He had seen the truck before, it was over a week ago but he definitely remembered it. Hexham racecourse, the two young thugs . That was the old army truck that Angela and Lou had been picked up in too.
    Roger slowly got to his knees and peered out of the window again, it was that truck. What the hell was it doing here?

Chapter Ten
    ‘Fuck, we are dead.’ Angel held Jake’s hand out of fear. The Nissan Navara was swamped with naked savages tearing it apart. There must have been thirty of them, some eating each other but most ripping away the bumpers and windscreen and destroying anything and everything. The whole world was turning mad, she shook her head, Angel wanted to scream but just couldn’t muster up the energy.
    ‘This way.’ Jake yanked Angel’s hand and headed back towards the burning barn.
    ‘It’s no use, look.’ Angel pointed to another six naked people heading their way from side of the burning rubble.
    Jake spotted the orangery, it was filling with smoke but they could get through it. He bumped the door open and the glass shattered, Angel jumped back with fright.
    ‘It’s the heat!’ Jake shouted over the noise, ‘Don’t touch anything.’
    Angel looked behind and could see the ‘infected’ were now trying to rip a burning goat to pieces unaware they were setting fire to themselves at the same time, it was like being in the middle of hell.
    Jake went to open the kitchen door with his hand but could see it smouldering, inside was going to be a ‘no go’.
    Before he could think of what to do next Angel picked up a tomato plant by its stalk and launched it at the window pane opposite.
    The glass exploded and the rush of hot air knocked them both off their feet. Jake got up straight away and stumbled about in the smoke which