Human Superior by C. S. Won

Author:C. S. Won [Won, C. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superhero Fantasy
Published: 2019-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Answer the damn phone!”

It was at least the eleventh time Jae had called Clay, only for it to end at his voicemail. Messages that were left were not returned. It took everything Jae had to not toss his phone out of his window out of sheer, burning frustration.

A street sign warned Jae to lower his speed to forty-five. He glanced at his speedometer; he was going twice that. But he didn’t care. As long as Pax was in the same room as Clay and doing god knows what to him, Jae’s foot would remain firmly planted on the accelerator. If the police wanted to pull him over, then they were more than welcome to try, but he wasn't going to stop for them, not until he at least knew what had happened to Clay. Driving laws were the last thing he was worried about.

How could I have been so stupid? With his frustration mounting, Jae slapped his steering wheel and nearly broke it in two. Hindsight often had an annoying habit of making people feel pretty stupid, and this was no exception. Clay had the right of it; common sense dictated that if a deal sounded too good to be true, then you decline the offer and walk away, no matter what. But Jae’s desperation had weakened his resolve, and an opportunity to end this city’s crisis was too tempting to pass up. The potential consequences mattered very little. Whatever they were, he figured he could deal with it when the time came. All that mattered was putting an end to the violence, and while he could technically say the violence has indeed ended, it ended in a way that Jae could not have imagined. Not with Daniel’s face obliterated.

And worse yet, it wasn’t even over. Morgan apparently knew where Clay was all this time, and that only brought up the question as to why he didn’t bother to make his move against Clay until tonight. Why wait so long? What were they planning? Did it have something to do with Daniel’s death?

Jae took his phone out and dialed in Clay’s number again. Straight to voicemail. He tried once more; same thing. “Shit!” The engine howled even louder as Jae flattened the accelerator, squeezing more speed from his car, or as much as it could give him. Too much time had passed since Morgan’s neo-humans had left for the hotel, and with each new minute that ticked away, the bad feeling in Jae’s gut grew heavier.

His phone rang. Jae answered it, nearly fumbling it away in his haste. “Clay! Are you okay?”

“Woah, what? Clay? You’ve got the wrong person, mister.”

A woman’s voice. Rena? No, not her. This one was different, a voice that he couldn’t quite place, but before he could ask who this was, she answered it for him.

“It’s me, Andrea.”

It took another moment before recognition flickered. “Andrea?” Jae pulled the phone away and looked at the number listed. It was a number he didn’t recognize. “I . .

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