Last Days (Last Days Trilogy #1)

by Jacqueline Druga

  The farm chores were a real treasure now, as they took his mind off of the emotional roller coaster of the television news. A short time before he heard that it was believed but not confirmed, his daughter and Marcus were safe. A minute later, rescue workers were trying to dig them out. It wasn’t going well. The bungling angered Kyle. But what pissed him off more was the media downplaying the potential loss of two people.

  The big story was Devante, of course.

  It was ridiculous, the hoopla surrounding the clone. The people screamed Devante’s name, and bought his amniotic fluid. The last Kyle heard, folks were already lined up for miles to listen to him give his first “sermon.”

  A clone. A product of some genius boy from Ohio named Marcus Leon. It could have been so simple, a ‘nothing more, nothing less’ situation. But the masses saw it differently. They glorified the situation and overreacted. They insisted on seeing the clone as a sign from God, ignoring the basic tenants of science and religion.

  But, as much as the news disturbed him, it was Kyle’s only way to learn about his daughter’s situation.

  Looking up at the sun, he saw it was time to go back in the house.

  Emerging from the blue and white metal tool shed – a large one he constructed himself with old car parts – Kyle closed the door behind him and secured the padlock. He walked from the shed and stopped at the water pump, checking the chain and padlock on that, as well.

  Kyle was never one to be paranoid, although locking up his vital means of survival in a small town could be construed as just that. But his gut instinct screamed at him to do it. He wasn’t psychic, but his instincts were good. He followed them and they never let him down. He always seemed to know if something significant was in the air. To Kyle, the air was thick and telling. A foreboding feeling swirled in his gut. Nothing good was about to come. Of that he was certain. And there was one other thing Kyle was certain of - all that was going on, the clone, the insanity, was the just the beginning to the end.

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