Dark Creations: Dark Ending (Part 6) by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci Read Free Book Online

in a voice far stronger than she felt.
    “Amber!” the voice on the other end said and sounded relieved.  “It’s Gabriel!”
    “Gabriel!” she exclaimed and waved her arms at Jack , urging him toward her.
    Relief flooded her.  Impossibly, Gabriel was alive.  The sound of his voice , the fact that he lived, meant that hope existed for all of them, for all of humankind.
    “Amber,” he crackled from the void.  “I need to talk to you and Jack.”
    “Okay, sure, just give me a second,” she said and fumbled with the phone.  “I’ll put you on speakerphone.” With trembling hands, she depressed an image and Gabriel's voice echoed through the field. 
    Jack jogged toward her and stopped inches from her. “Gabriel, is that you?” he asked breathlessly.
    “I’m here, Jack.  I’m alive, but I have not found Melissa.”
    “Oh man, I’m sorry,” Jack started, but Gabriel interrupted.
    “Listen, there isn’t time.  The y’re coming for you.  Hundreds of members are on their way now.  They’re coming to the farm to kill everyone there and thousands more are headed to Eldon,” Gabriel spoke quickly, his voice pressured and panicked. 
    “Wait, wh-wh at?” Jack stammered; his shock evident.  “Coming here to kill us?”
    “I heard them, Jack, I heard them myself.  Yoshi and I drove right into a huge gathering of members in Taft.  We heard them deploy hundreds to the farm and thousands to Eldon,” Gabriel said gravely.
    “Holy shit,” Jack breathed and his brow creased deeply.
    “You need to get eve ryone out of there, you hear me?  Get Alexandra, Daniella, Ryan and all your men and get the hell out of there as fast as you can!” Gabriel warned Jack.
    Amber watched as Jack’s face drained of color.  His eyes glazed for a fraction of a moment before returning to their usual sharpness. 
    “I will, Gabriel,” Jack promised and added as he stared hard at Amber, “You go find Melissa.  She’s alive.  I can feel it in my bones.  Don’t worry about us.  Go get your girl.”
    Jack nodded to Amber and tore off at a sprint toward the main house with Kyle following behind him.  Jack shouted orders all the way.  He would mobilize his people and lead them to safety, of that Amber was confident. 
    “Amber, are you there?” Gabriel asked.
    “I’m here, Gabriel,” Amber said and took a deep breath. 
    Dread tiptoed down the length of her spine.  She did not want to deliver more bad news to him, but felt obligated to share what she knew about the virus.  “There’s something I need to tell you,” she began and knew there was no turning back.
    “What?” Gabriel asked and the fear is his voice was palpable.
    “After you left to look for Melissa, Jack and I and a few of his men went to a house in the woods where Terzini had been keeping a weapon.”
    “ A weapon, what are you talking about?  What weapon?”
    “It’s a virus, a deadly virus that will wipe out hundreds of thousands of people at a time until everyone is gone.”
    Silence echoed through the void.  She knew that time was running out and spoke.
    “ The incubation time for the virus is the length of the common cold, three to five days.”
    “ Oh my God,” Gabriel finally breathed.  “And you’re telling me because you were unable to destroy it,” he guessed.
    “The virus is stored in a stainless-steel vat in the back of a cargo van.  When Jack and I got to the house and looked in the garage, the van was gone.  Gabriel, the virus is probably on its way to Manhattan as we speak and will be released.”
    “ Oh my God,” Gabriel muttered again and she could practically feel the dizzying spin of his mind.
    More silence crackled on the line.
    “I’m going to handle this, Gabriel,” she promised him, though she had no idea how she would ever fulfill the promise she’d just made.  “You focus on finding Melissa.  I’ll find Arnold.”
    “Arnold?”
    “Arnold Gathers, the member Lord Terzini charged with