Free Hush (The Infected: Ripped to Shreds Book 1) by P.S. Power Page B

honestly tried for about a tenth of what he'd
just done. The man was just that powerful.
    Then, without pausing to ask the
collected people to politely lie down in the cold slush again, Proxy and Hobbs
moved. People just started falling then, hitting the ground with cries of pain.
Cindy looked around, and noticed her friend with the bad back was hobbling
towards Hobbs. Before he got there, she ran up behind him and stomped the back
of his right knee. That caused a scream, too. A delicious one. There was a
rewarding crunching feeling under her nice shoe at the same time. It was
slippery out, so when she was tackled by a large bearded man they both went
down. That hurt.
    Enough that she lost it for a
moment, and just fought, getting hit a few times. The asshat was huge ,
being over three times her weight, she bet. Still, she ripped at his eyes well
enough, and that got him to roll over, trying to stand up and get away from
her. Slipping a choke hold on him, she tossed her meager weight to the side,
which caused him to end up on top of her. That was kind of crushing, but he was
still being choked out, and his friends had a harder time getting to her. So as
long as she could hold her breath longer than he could go without blood to his
brain, she was fine.
    A few men tried to kick her,
thinking that she was trapped, which wasn't wrong, but most of them hit their
buddy, the big man. That helped him go out a bit faster, though she was going
to be stuck there, surrounded like she was. That wasn't fair, but that was
fighting. She started by using all her strength to roll the man off of her to
the left, and kicking at some knees, hitting only one of them before the world
went almost silent.
    Her elbow had a bloody scuff on
it, and her entire outfit was soaked. Dirty, too. Looking over she realized
that Bridget was still tidy. Then, she had declared her goal of not
getting her new clothing ruined. Proxy and Hobbs had the people on the ground
though, and it looked like their backup was finally there. It seemed like too
little, too late, but the men in black brought them a large container of
plastic handcuffs, and helped them use it on the twenty-seven people on the
ground.
    Looking at the scene, she headed
over to Proxy. He wasn't untouched, but other than scuffed knuckles, and a damp
knee he didn't look too bad. Hobbs was in about the same condition she was, but he'd managed some cool looking rolling moves that had cut people down as
he did it. The man wasn't even shaking yet, which she was. From the cold. It
was snowing after all, and she wasn't huge.
    "This is so a cocoa
moment." That got Bridget to nod and jog over to her. Steady the entire
time, even as she left tracks in the slush.
    "Great idea. We'll be
inside. We should treat those wounds anyway. I wonder if they have a first aid
kit?"
    It turned out that there was one,
and they were allowed to use the back room, so that they wouldn't be treating
cuts in the food areas.
    There was a chair, which Bridget
gestured to, her face going harder than it had been before.
    "Morons. I can't even have a
meal out anymore. This isn't the first time this has happened. This is
supposed to be a vacation for me. Believe it or not, I was looking forward to a
relaxing holiday. My mom and dad are coming in tomorrow, to meet Great Grandma
and Grandpa. They aren't married, or even that old. Like, in their forties?
Brian went back in time and knocked up my grandma in the early eighties. That
really isn't common knowledge." There was a slightly pouty look then.
    The young lady knew better than
to go giving out all the secrets, but her first mode made that too hard to
resist sometimes. Part of it at the moment was nerves. Like anyone else
fighting tended to leave her feeling jazzed up. That meant her control got
shaky. So she opened her mouth to near strangers. The other part was that she
liked Cindy already.
    That was surprising, since other
than stealing some fries from her, they hadn't had much to bond