Emma's Heart (Brides of Theron 3) Read Free Page B

the alleyway knocking garbage can lids off to find their dinner inside.  She rolled over onto her side, pulling the covers back up around her neck. Closing her eyes, she attempt to go back to sleep, but a second later she heard the noise again.  It couldn’t be, could it? This time the noise was closer to where she was and seemed to be coming from inside her apartment.
                  She held her breath and laid completely still, slowly cracking open her eyes to get a glimpse of the intruder. She tried to focus on listening to the noises in the room.  However, her heart was pounding so loudly that she was sure whoever was in the room with her could hear it. As her eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room, out of the corner of her eye she caught some kind of movement over by the door. The dark mass split into two and moved closer to where she was. Without thinking, Emma sat up on her bed and shouted to the masses, “Get out of my home!” She scooted back into the corner of the small bed, but one of the dark figures continued to approach.
                  “I said get out! Leave me alone!” She was starting to panic. “Look, I have nothing valuable.  My purse is over on the chair.  It has a little over twenty bucks in it.  Take it and leave!” It was raining hard and outside, the thunder continued to crash loudly. No one would be able to hear her screams with a storm like this raging outside. A flash of lightening lit up the room and what she saw left her speechless.
    Two of the three huge sci-fi psychos from the diner were now towering over her. She noticed that they weren’t wearing the sunglasses that they had had on earlier. With the lightening continuing to flash repeatedly, she got a clear look at their eyes. The man standing the closest to the bed had eyes that were a copper color and the other man had purple eyes.  She had never seen anyone with eyes like these before. The purple eyed man was looking in the direction of his partner, and he said something in a language she had never heard before.
    “Please, don’t hurt me.” She begged. Her back was now pushed tightly against the rod iron frame of the bed.  She couldn’t scoot any further back and her only escape route was blocked by the third man. Her eyes bounced around like a ping pong ball off the three figures in her home. She was caged in like an animal.
    “What do you want?” She was becoming desperate, but when the reply came she still had no idea what was being said. She screamed loudly as the man with the copper eyes reached for her. She kicked out her legs with the hopes of breaking his fingers, or anything that might delay him, but it didn’t do her any good. His fingers gripped her ankle tightly then pulled her towards him in one swift yank. With nothing but the rails of the bed to hold on to, she slid easily across the bed and into the arms of the overly large man. Releasing her ankle from his grasp, he then pried her fingers from the railing of the bed to pull her to her feet.  Now, she stood in front of him and his partner. She didn’t have any hopes of getting away at this moment, but that didn’t mean that she wasn’t going to at least try one more time to escape them. Without giving them warning, she swung her left fist up and around aiming for the face of the closest of her captors. Her fist met solidly with his chin, but it obviously didn’t have much effect on him because all he did was stand and stare at her. Then he had the nerve to let out a deep chuckle.  “Damn, that hurt!” she said as she shook out her fist knowing that her knuckles would likely bruise.  She was really pissed off that the bastard was amused by her attempt to escape!
    “Let me go, you over grown freak!” Emma struggled in vain to release her arm from his grip. She kicked her leg out again, this time making contact with his shin. He gave a small grunt, and then let go of her arm. She thought for a fraction of a second