Alien Savior: A Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Paranormal Romance Read Online Free

family of her own.
    Why would she? Just to watch it end?
    She didn’t think she could bear to go through that process all over again.
    That wasn’t to say she didn’t have needs. The blonde was by no means a blushing virgin. She’d had her fair share of sexual encounters – usually with immune men who believed themselves on top of the world just because they got to watch it crash and burn. They, of course, barely sufficed to give her what she needed – and even if one could give her a child, there was no guarantee that it would be immune like its parents. Thanks to a cute little mutation in the virus, it wasn’t uncommon for immune parents to watch their children linger in pain before dying quite suddenly.
    Sex, for Danielle, had become something methodical – like scratching an itch.
    Men could start it, but she very often ended up finishing it herself, alone in her room, panting with the fever her desire had brought about.
    She’d had quite enough of that, thank you very much. She didn’t think she could bring herself to pretend to be interested in a man who thought he was better than everyone else around him – who couldn’t come to terms with the fact that their world, as they knew it, was coming to an end.
    Within a hundred years, there wouldn’t be a single human left – not unless some sort of miracle occurred – and she’d stopped believing in those when her brother had been taken from her. It hurt to think of him – to remember his easy smiles and laughter – and so she simply hadn’t. She’d shut that part of herself off until she was ready to deal with it, and now, she struggled to live in the present.
    At least, to the best of her ability.
    Now, she buried her nose in fragrant tulips to help clear her mind. She just needed peace – a few minutes, a few hours without thinking of what might occur in her future – what might happen to humanity. Neither subject involved many pleasant prospects, so all she could pray for was the fortitude to ignore it all and smile through her pain.
    After she’d finished pruning a row of tulips, she moved onto the hybrid roses – her favorites. If her mourning for her brother had brought about one good thing; it was the inspiration to create the most unique plant she’d ever spliced – a beautiful deep purple rose with gold-edged petals that would bloom for a full three months, even in the harshest of conditions.
    Of course, she’d been admonished for putting her strength into a plant that had nothing to do with medical research, but the lovely buds were the highlight of her day. She spent ten hours every day working on plants that were biologically fascinating. Leaves and roots that could cure cancer, banish HIV and even reduce the effects of Alzheimer’s disease – she could take a few moments to enjoy her pet project.
    Just as she was lovingly untangling the stems of some of the faster-growing buds, a deafening roar rolled over her with enough force to make her stumble back in alarm. Immediately, the young woman turned her head to the brilliant blue sky to look for the source of the din – which wasn’t immediately apparent. She searched for a good minute or so before a tiny pinprick of silver caught her attention.
    She squinted, straining her eyes against the sunlight to keep the tiny object in view. It seemed to be getting bigger, but there was no way it could be an airplane. She’d never heard an airplane make such a disturbance in her life. Besides, the closer this thing got, the more she realized it was shaped completely differently from an airplane. It appeared to be one long, flat, sleek capsule, curved into a boomerang like shape. Within seconds, it was as large as a Mac truck and still growing as it hurtled neared and nearer. All at once, it was streaking over her head – almost faster than the eye could see.
    Danielle gaped after it.
    What the hell was that thing?
    It was eerily silent after the veritable sonic boom that had sounded when it