As her heart rate began to slow once more and the tension seemed to bleed from her shoulders, she heard a slight shuffle from a garden across the street. Quickly, Rebecca hurtled over the wall behind her and shuffled backward into the short bushes that sprawled along the fence. She stopped moving, hearing a growl roll through the air around her. Her eyes flicked up, just in time to see two figures lurch on unsteady feet toward the car, their ghastly faces pale and hollow in the milky moonlight. The bush around her seemed to shift and she strangled the scream that leapt to her throat as a large hand clamped itself over her mouth. Rebecca swung her elbow sharply backward, hearing the huff of air behind her as she connected with a solid mass before a low rumble whispered in her ear.
‘I’m not
