Intruders: The Invasion: A Post-Apocalyptic, Alien Invasion Thriller (Book 1) Read Free Page A

two each grabbed a
leg, and I screamed my lungs out, kicking and flailing to no avail. I’m a small
girl. I weigh a hundred and five pounds after a big meal, which is rare. I have
a wicked fast metabolism so I burn fat before it has a chance to settle.
    I couldn’t believe this was actually happening to me. Campus
rapes happen all the time. Usually, though, the girl is drunk and never reports
it. They’re too ashamed and know the blame will be shifted to them. They can’t
remember if they were too flirtatious or not, like it
mattered.
    I screamed my throat raw. But nobody was around to hear it.
The last classes of the night haven’t let out yet.
    I screamed again and got a punch in the face for my trouble.
They dropped me in a thick copse of trees and I could see the sky between their
heads. Slow, fat snowflakes were falling on my face. In my eyes and mouth. I
felt hot and cold at the same time. The trees loomed above me, branches frosted
in snow. The scene would be gorgeous if I wasn’t about to be raped and beaten.
This was the wooded area around a long bike path which snaked through the
college grounds. Great also for jogging.
    Nobody was jogging now.
    The leader smiled down at me, his face already flushed with
arousal. “Look, Raggedy Ann. This is happening to you whether you like it or
not. So shut the fuck up.”
    “Don’t fight and it’ll be over quicker,” one of the other guys
said.
    The third stayed quiet, he stood back a little, like the
reality of what they were about to do to me was sinking in, and it scared him.
    I locked eyes with him. “Please.”
    He took a step toward me, but stopped. He shook his head,
his own eyes panicked. Like the actions unfolding before him had already been
set in motion and there was nothing he could do about it.
    He’d been involved up to now. He’d helped carry me there. He
was into it up to his eyeballs.
    Still, I tried again, but it came out as a croak. “Please.”
    And amazingly, it seemed to work. The guy stammered,
“Jordan. Maybe we shouldn’t—”
    But Jordan already had his jeans shoved down, and was
kneeling between my legs when he said, “Shut up and don’t be a pussy. Hold her
legs.”
    The other friend giggled as he knelt on my wrists, keeping
me from fighting back.
    But then, like some kind of gift from the gods, I looked up
and saw a ball of fire in the sky, blasting down toward us, sizzling and
sparking, crackling as it lit up the heavens.
    Everything stopped.
    “Holy shit!” The giggler shouted, and pushed himself back,
standing up.
    That left my hands free. While Jordan looked up, I brought
my knee back and booted him in the throat. I heard a crunch. He clawed at his
throat and choked, making gasping, gurgling sounds.
    I tugged my jeans back up while the other two continued to
gawk at the thing in the sky.
    Taking the opportunity fate had gifted to me, I slid my boot
knife from my combat and stepped forward, slicing the giggler’s face. He turned
to me, eyes wide with shock. I grinned, waving the knife around in front of me,
murder in my eyes.
    “Crazy bitch,” he sputtered, blood spilling between the
fingers pressed to the gash in his cheek.
    “Yeah, that’s right.” I smiled widely. “Go call a cop.”
    He did a comical little skipping move before he tapped his
friend on the arm. “Let’s go.”
    The friend, who had made the feeble attempt to stop my
attack, looked at me, shame crossing his face, and followed his buddy toward
the main parking lot.
    I kept hold of the boot knife in case there were any other
creeps lurking with the same idea these guys had, looking up at the fire
streaking down from the sky as it rocketed toward us.
    It landed with a huge crash, sounding like a bomb in slow
motion.
    Heat radiated toward me, and my hair blew backward as a
burning wind swept over me.
    I said a silent prayer of thanks as I made my way toward the
landing site, which amazingly, happened to be through the top of the Physical
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