Break of the Six (The Preston Six Book 4) by Matt Ryan Read Free Book Online Page A

want to believe it; Samantha couldn’t be fooled so easily. He hadn’t seen or heard a thing from Samantha in a long time and now she lands in a helicopter and delivers something the whole world would go to war over. It seemed insane and he waited for the cameras to turn on him and for someone to come running out to tell him he was part of the biggest prank ever. He felt his heart in his throat. Marcus had Samantha. Was she being coerced into working for him? Was he torturing her?
    “There’s no way in hell I’m taking a cure from him,” Lucas said.
    “Some scumbag stole ours,” Joey said.
    “He didn’t actually steal anything.” Poly pulled her hand out of her pocket, holding a handful of the thin glass vials. She reached into her jacket and showed them the vial gun.
    “You gathered all that up while they were trampling you?” He shook his head with admiration.
    “Oh no, their servers...” Julie turned, showing her screen to them. Just a bunch of lines on a graph. “I’m not going to be able to hack into their servers anytime soon.” Julie lowered her Panavice to her leg and blew air into her bangs.
    Joey didn’t care about the servers, he wanted to get Samantha out of there. She had never seen the videos of Marcus, he could be pulling her strings and she wouldn’t even know. “We need to get her out of there, who knows what he’s doing to her? Where’s their headquarters? Where’s she being held?”
    “Just outside of San Francisco.”
    Joey turned and walked toward Poly’s car.
    “Wait!” Poly grabbed his arm and yanked him around. “We can’t just go storming off to Marcus’s house. He isn’t like the others. We have to be a step ahead of him right now. You don’t think he sent her here by coincidence? You don’t think he knows we know now?”
    “She’s right,” Julie said. “This is part of a plan.” She shook her head and gazed at the remaining helicopters on the field. “This was the equivalent of leaving a business card with Marcus Malliden on it at our front door. Brazen, really.”
    “I say we go to this San Fran headquarters place and kick in the front door.” Lucas kicked the air in demonstration of the kick he’d use.
    “I’m with Lucas on this one.” Joey finally agreed with him on something.
    “Yeah, let’s go all gangster on them. Maybe we can take him by the tie and pull him through the offices, show everyone up in there whose boss.” Julie used her sarcastic gangster voice. “Bring our gats up in there.”
    “Now you’re talking,” Lucas said.
    Julie took a deep breath and placed her hand on her forehead. “You’re talking about the most dangerous person ever. A rank ten. A guy who could probably kill anyone on this planet. Have any of you seen his fight videos? And don’t even get me started on the code written by that guy.”
    “Fine, what do you think we should do?” Lucas crossed his arms.
    “We can’t just leave her with that monster, I mean, look at what he’s done already.” Joey pointed to the coughing line of people.
    Julie stared Joey in the eyes. “This is the harder part. We are nothing but a fun side note to him; a child’s favorite play toy he brought to the park. We’re nothing. He will have a much bigger game even than this.” She pointed to the orderly lines forming.
    “I like to think I’m something,” Lucas said. “I did get a medal for archery.”
    “Regional medal in recurve bow,” Julie corrected.
    “Don’t down play it, I’m huge in some circles.”
    Julie ignored Lucas and focused her attention on Joey and Poly. “If I had to guess, this Cough is about to get much worse before it gets better and when the world is begging for mercy, guess who has the cure?”
    Joey’s gaze went wide and he looked at the coughing people. It wasn’t about making them suffer, it was about setting himself up to be the hero, to be the person the world was going to turn to . . . and he used Samantha to deliver the message. It