Pacific Station Vigilante (Book 1): The Negative Man (City of Chaos) by Croston Jeremy

Author:Croston, Jeremy [Croston, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction | Superheroes
Publisher: Two Dudes, Brews, & Books
Published: 2015-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19 –

Sunday Morning; Beach

It’d been a week and a half since the death of Massacre. In that time, the only thing on the tip of everyone’s tongue was The Negative Man. No matter which station you turned to, someone was giving an opinion on the man who once terrorized Pacific Station.

However, the strange part to all of this was some were hailing him as a hero. One TV pundit claimed he was the new face of right and we should welcome him back to Pacific Station with open arms. Whenever someone questioned him, reminding him of the atrocities that occurred not that long ago, he responded with the fact a ‘good guy’ like Massacre just killed innocents too.

To me, The Negative Man was the past, a shadow that had great length to it. Spades called an Aces meeting two days after Massacre’s murder to proclaim that with The Negative Man returning, things would be even greater for us. None of the other three even questioned how I knew to get to the secret base. Maybe Spades planned all along for me to find out the location through the first job. If I had let them down, he could’ve just killed me and no one would’ve been the wiser to it.

I asked him if he had spoken to The Negative Man before starting his streak of crime. Spades laughed off the question and said no, that The Aces were only throwing out his name in the hopes to get The Dark Lion worked up. I wasn’t going to be the one to tell him it worked. He was still healing from his broken arm.

DL didn’t take Massacre’s death very well. He basically locked himself in his office at Wonder-Tech and worked nonstop. Even after returning to work, he wouldn’t even see me. I didn’t think he knew I was there when Massacre was killed, but I knew his revenge towards The Negative Man would be at an all-time high.

The sun was barely over the ocean and the waves were brushing up against my feet. I hadn’t slept much since that day, and I was sure my face showed it. I had my darkest sunglasses on, to keep everything hidden.

My phone buzzed again. Thinking it was Heather checking in to make sure I was doing alright, I popped it open. It wasn’t the beautiful lawyer; it was my boss. The message was simple yet clear – call me ASAP. I stared at it for a few minutes before actually thinking about what to do.

Before I could decide, another text came across. Like mirror images of each other, this one came from Owen Walker. The message, a bit longer and less hostile – we’ve got a job tonight, be ready Diamonds. This would be my second time running with them.

I dialed DL’s number. It rang twice before his gruff voice answered. “I didn’t know if you’d call me or not.”

“Curiosity got the better of me.” That was somewhat true. “Plus just seconds after you texted me, Spades did too.

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