God Abandoned Us

Chapter 3

Eve tightened her grip on the motorcycle’s handles, her eyes scanning the road ahead. The wind whipped around them as they sped down the empty highway, the roar of the engine drowning out the silence that seemed to have swallowed the world.

Jessica clung to her waist, her face buried against Eve's back, but Eve knew she wasn’t sleeping. Neither of them had slept in days.

The countryside had grown eerily quiet since they left the cabin. The once busy roads were now deserted, and every mile they passed was more barren than the last.

Occasionally, Eve caught glimpses of overturned cars, abandoned houses, and things that made her skin crawl—shadows that shifted just out of view. But they had to keep moving.

“We’re almost there,” Eve shouted over the roar of the wind, though she wasn’t entirely sure who she was trying to convince—Jessica, or herself.

The city was still a few hours away, and every minute that passed felt like borrowed time. Eve's cousin's house had always been an option, but it had seemed too far, too dangerous.

Now, with no other safe place in sight and armed with the knowledge of how to kill the creatures, it was their best hope.

They rode in silence for a while longer until something caught Eve's attention—an unnatural stillness along the side of the road. As they rounded a curve, Eve's stomach lurched.

Bodies. A dozen, maybe more, strewn across the pavement like broken dolls. Some were half-hidden in ditches, others lay crumpled against the road barriers. Blood stained the asphalt in wide, dark smears.

“Oh my god…” Jessica's voice was barely a whisper.

Eve slowed the bike, her heart thudding in her chest as her eyes scanned the carnage. Some of the bodies looked freshly dead, their faces frozen in terror. Others were… different. Twisted. As if the same creatures they had fought had already been here and had done more than just kill.

“Don't look,” Eve muttered, but Jessica was already staring, her eyes wide and unblinking.

“They didn’t even have a chance,” Jessica murmured, her voice cracking. “We’re not going to make it to the city, are we?”

Eve’s jaw tightened. “We will,” she said firmly, though doubt gnawed at her insides. She revved the engine again, forcing herself to look away from the bodies, and drove on.

But the further they went, the worse it got. The occasional corpse turned into clusters of bodies—men, women, even children. Cars were overturned and abandoned, as if the world had simply stopped, leaving everyone to fend for themselves.

Eve’s heart pounded, each gruesome scene cementing the reality that the world was crumbling faster than they could comprehend.

And then came the monsters.

They weren’t as massive as the one they’d killed back at the cabin, but they were just as terrifying.

Twisted figures moved in the distance, their shapes barely human. They stalked between the wreckage of cars, feeding on the remains of the dead.

Eve slowed the bike again, her eyes narrowing. “Get ready,” she muttered, glancing back at Jessica, who clutched the flares tightly in her hands.

“Are we going to fight?” Jessica’s voice trembled.

“If we have to,” Eve said, her knuckles white on the handles. “But I’d rather avoid them if we can.”

They crept forward, the motorcycle engine now a soft hum as Eve tried to stay unnoticed.