Dark Creations: Hell on Earth (Part 5) by Martucci Jennifer & Martucci Christopher

Author:Martucci, Jennifer & Martucci, Christopher [Martucci, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

“Gabriel, calm down, please,” she pleaded. It seemed absurd, her trying to calm him when she felt as though the entire world had effectively screeched to a halt, panic replacing every other emotion she was capable of experiencing. Yet, she was; she was actually trying to calm him. “It’s not your fault,” she continued. “We thought he was dead. How were we supposed to know he’d cloned himself?” she said.

“I’m talking about three years ago, before I left Harbingers Falls the first time. I had a chance to kill him then. I could have ended it all back then. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t do it.” Gabriel gripped his head in his hands. “And now so many are dead, because of me,” he continued. “If I had done it then, three years ago, all those people would be alive. Instead, thousands are dead – women, children, whole families – gone because I was too weak to do what I knew had to be done.”

Melissa struggled to wrap her mind around the massive mound of guilt Gabriel had placed on himself. He faulted himself for every death. Pain twisted in her core, his pain. His remorse was more profound than she had imagined, and undue.

“Gabriel, you couldn’t have anticipated this. No one could have,” she tried. “What he’s doing now, it’s worse than his twisted original plan. It’s worse than anything we could have envisioned.”

Gabriel’s hands dropped from his head and fell slack at his sides. He lowered his chin to his chest, his head bowed by shame so taxing he could not lift it when he asked, “Where is everyone? I have to break the bad news to them.”

“I’ll go get them,” she said but not before wrapping her arms around Gabriel’s waist. She did not know what to say to him, how to help him. She loved him. His pain was her pain, his guilt, her guilt. He barely returned her hug and merely shifted his hands to her hips and left them there limply. With her cheek against his chest, she whispered, “It’s not your fault.” He did not respond and suddenly the need to pull him to her tighter, to comfort him, intensified. But she knew she had to leave him, and that she needed to gather the rest of their group.

Unwillingly, she released him from her hold and started toward Ed’s house to get the others. She heard Alexandra’s voice and turned to see that she and Yoshi had just left the main house. They sauntered slowly, as if they didn’t have a care in the world. Their laid-back pace irritated Melissa for reasons she could not quite explain. She began jogging in their direction.

When finally Alexandra and Yoshi were in earshot, she waved her arm for them to hurry. Alexandra gestured to her with her middle finger, only Melissa found no humor in it. “Cut the crap and get over here!” she called out.

“All right, all right, jeez! I don’t know what you’re getting your panties in a wad about!” Alexandra grumped snippily.

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