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practically naked, with monsters beating down the door, and your curiosity is getting the best of you.” When she got a question in her head, it was hard for her to let it go. It was as endearing as it was annoying.
    “Can I help it the most interesting thing I’ve ever encountered came with you attached? Small wonder that they’re trying to kill us with the way you’ve been shooting at them.”
    I bit my tongue and took a deep breath. I shouldn’t have egged her on in the first place. “Get dressed so we can get out of here.” I looked at Pete. “We’re up to three. How many were chasing you when you left the lab?”
    Pete hesitated.
    I knew that look. “What is it? Spit it out. These aren’t the only ones, are they? Please don’t tell me that we now have a herd of these things running amok through the town. When we captured the first two, you pretended as though it could all be contained. If there are more out there, shifting into others, how long will it take before the whole town is overrun?”
    “It’s not like all those horror movies you’ve seen. The shifting process isn’t quick. Once—” He stopped and glared at me. “A friend would help me keep my oaths.”
    “A true friend wouldn’t have brought this madness home with him!”
    Madelyn spoke up, tearing her attention away from the goo on the walls. “Pete, it’s okay, nobody’s blaming you.”
    I snorted but stopped short of disagreeing when Madelyn gave me a look that paralyzed me for the briefest of seconds. A small look of triumph—really, it was not more than a glint in her eye—crossed her face. I could almost hear her think that she still had what it took.
    I ground my teeth, it had been awhile since she’d been able to get something she wanted from me with just a look. I grabbed shells from my bandolier and replaced those I’d used in the hallway.  
    “You guys have to understand,” Pete said, “it wasn’t my fault. It was like that when I went in there.”
    I turned my attention to Pete. “Nobody’s accusing you of anything...yet. But keep stonewalling and I’m going to begin to wonder just exactly how involved you are.” 
    Pete opened his mouth but the door burst open, slamming him into the wall. The creature who I’d shot in the kneecap fell into the doorway, snarling. The other two headless ones sprung over the first, knocking it to the floor.
     

Chapter 5
    I intercepted the monster that had been a man as it charged after Madelyn, aiming my shotgun for an elbow while trying to ignore the remnants of its head that were still partially attached to the neck. The wound on the neck had healed in the few minutes that had passed since I’d first shot him, and a red mucus had formed over the scarred tissue. 
    Some of the buckshot hit the monster in the arm but most of it missed. The tile on the floor and wall shattered, throwing dust into the air. I covered my eyes with an elbow as some of the shrapnel blew back on me.
    Growling as I stepped backward, I lowered my arm and brought up my shotgun.
    The monster kept coming, barely pausing to deal with the wound. I was beginning to suspect that these creatures didn’t feel pain. The monster’s elbow still functioned, though some of the skin was now missing. The goo dripped down his arm and onto the floor where it formed into balls and rolled forward.
    It had been a long time since I’d made as poor of a shot as that and I felt my face redden, glad that my father and uncle weren’t around to have witnessed it.  
    Sliding backward while pumping, I brushed up against Madelyn and caught a whiff of her perfume. It was a present I’d given her for Valentine’s Day. She was wearing that while visiting another man?
    I clamped down my teeth as I took aim at the damaged elbow. My shot removed the arm this time and sent the headless monster into the wall. I sprung forward, kicking the legs out from underneath the creature and pushing it to the floor as I pumped another shell