Generation One: An Alien Invasion SciFi Romance (Population Series Book Three) by Elizabeth Stephens

Author:Elizabeth Stephens [Stephens, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Published: 2020-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

They’re tired.

They’re weak. That’s what Jack would say anyway. Fuck it — that’s what I think. They want to stop for food and water before night even hits. Not happening.

I push them harder for a few more hours down the mountain until the grey blackens around us, becoming a black so thick, we can’t even see our hands in front of our faces without light. We shouldn’t use light either but it seems there’s no arguing that.

Two sorry sacks brought flashlights with them. Somebody else brought a solar lamp. Clever. Especially now that we have no trees for cover. We’re sitting fucking torchlights.

Finally, the sound of the baby crying is what drives me to make that final, damning call. It blazes like a goddamn siren and I recognize quickly why there are no babies out in Population.

With a baby, it doesn’t really matter how much light we use. Might as well grab flares and set them off. Might as well build a screen in neon and announce our presence.

Free women and human flesh for the taking!

I push them a little ways more, the crying baby lighting our route, until we come upon a house. It’s one of a few farmhouses we’ve crossed now that we’ve descended the mountain.

I could hear groans and complains as we passed other houses — one woman even started crying, something about a blister or a cut on her foot. I laughed at that. Fuck her and fuck her foot. She can cut it off for all I care. I’ve been itching for a new bone spear anyways.

Those houses were too open, too exposed. This one’s big with a lot of rooms and a lot of exits and a lot of smaller sheds and coops and other barns surrounding it. If we’re invaded, there’s at least places to run to. To hide in. Most of us’ll die, that’s a given, but some might make it. At least somebody’s gotta tell Abel I tried.

We barricade the major entrances, then hunker down in the living room. Some scavenging produces a few cans of beans and corn that somebody manages to whip up into something that actually tastes…passable. I choke down what I can, then head upstairs to claim the closest bedroom to the road.

Not too worried about trespassers that attack on foot, but if they’re coming by car, I wanna know.

“Hey, you uh…in the mood for company?”

I twitch, startled by the sound of her voice even though I heard floorboards creaking and knew that somebody was walking towards me. Don’t know why I didn’t think it’d be her. Don’t know why I thought it’d be anybody else.

I glance away from the window towards the doorway. She’s holding a candle in one hand, a pile of material in the other. She lifts them when she catches me watching.

“A towel and a change of clothes. I found them in one of the other bedrooms. This place is massive. Must be seven bedrooms at least.”

She tries a smile. I find it disarming.

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