Invasion by Eli Constant

Author:Eli Constant [Constant, Eli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-09T22:00:00+00:00

I left her there, looking angelic. She’d be hungry when she woke up, but I just couldn’t find it in my heart to wake her.

Jason Chambers

Elise was pissed at me and I didn’t know why.

I’d shown interest in the research. I could see the logic of it. She was being stubborn and idealistic.

Why couldn’t she see that domestication or integration might be the key to our survival? The world couldn’t be the way it was before. Humans were no longer top of the food chain. Jesus! Sometimes… sometimes. Sometimes, she got on my last nerve.

Being on the road had been easier. Elise and I had always been allied against the undergrounders with no reason for dissension. Now, she thought I was favoring the beasties and meeting her ‘sense of right’ with my ‘obvious wrong.’

It was like my brief showing of interest had canceled out everything we’d faced together. Canceled out the struggles, the conversations, the touches…

I’d never felt this way about my ex-wife. Of course, Shana had been a t-total bitchoid. I’d written her off easily and with the same finality I’d felt signing my name to the divorce papers. But Elise…

Elise was a whole other brand of female. She thought the doctor’s pet beastie, Sheila, was unnatural. How about a woman who could look beautiful without makeup, beat bad guys to a pulp, and was smart to boot? I doubted there was one Elise in every billion Barbie dolls.

With that uniqueness came really, really frustrating qualities: like her inability to listen rationally if the conversation steered away from her desired destination.

‘Oh, he has a different viewpoint; I need to interrupt him and set him straight. Oh, he has a small smudge on his face; I’m going to rub it until its red and raw.’

Elise was a dead-horse beating, rotten-carcass kicking, and stubborn, infuriating woman.

And on top of everything else, Elise had the nerve to act surprised when her shiny, black boots of indignation sunk into stinky, rotten horse flesh. Yep, she was a woman who got on her soap box and talked an issue to death… and then some.

How could I make her see?

If scientists could humanize the undergrounders or control them, then it wouldn’t be species against species anymore. We’d have a world with two species, cut from the same cloth, with slight variations- just like one person can have blue eyes and another brown.

Elise had hazel eyes… beautiful moss green orbs with golden flakes that caught the light when she smiled. But last night… last night I could have choked her pretty neck and watched those eyes go silent.

And then this morning at breakfast! How dare she give me the cold shoulder.

Maybe she was regretting our intimate moment. I hadn’t asked her to dress my wound. She did that herself. She was just like every other woman in that way: flighty, emotional, and so confusing!

No one could hear the screaming in my head, the irritation. Which was good. Wouldn’t want my new coworkers thinking I’d lost my marbles.

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