Project Pandora by Aden Polydoros

Author:Aden Polydoros
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: first love;first kiss;best friends;spies;brainwashing;science fiction;Greek mythology;death;guns;violence;high school;mystery;drinking
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Case Notes 17:

Apollo

The flip phone rang from its place in the cupholder.

Keeping an eye on the road, Tyler reached into the center console and groped around until his fingers touched smooth plastic.

He answered on the tenth ring. “Hello?”

“Apollo?” a deep voice said, and he knew at once the name of the man the voice belonged to. He just didn’t know how he knew.

He had half a mind to respond with every foul word in his vocabulary. His teeth ground together, trapping the profanities in the back of his throat.

“Olympus is rising,” Zeus said.

“Rot in hell, Zeus,” he spat, though a part of him wanted, desperately, to respond with the appropriate phrase.

A stunned silence filled his ear.

“Olympus is rising,” Zeus stammered, as if he thought repetition would make Tyler bare his belly and pant like a dog, eager for orders.

“I know what you made me do,” Tyler snarled into the speaker.

“How—”

“I can’t remember it all, but I’m going to remember, and when I do, I swear, you’ll fry for it.” Then he hung up, rolled down the window, and tossed the phone into the street. He didn’t see it break, but he thought he heard a satisfying crack as it struck the pavement.

Even if the phone was traceable, either by the manufacturer’s GPS or a rogue microchip installed after purchase, it didn’t matter. If the initial fall hadn’t killed the device and another car didn’t run over it, he would be miles away by the time Zeus retrieved it.

With no destination, Tyler found himself driving aimlessly though suburban labyrinths. Once he realized what he was doing, he pulled into the deserted parking lot of a strip mall and parked facing the street. He didn’t like the thought of sitting still, but by driving around like this, he wasn’t just wasting gas, he was wasting precious time, too.

“Think, Tyler,” he murmured. “Think. What are you going to do?”

He thought about the gun.

It would be easy, the voice in his head urged. Just cock the hammer and stick the gun inside your mouth. Aim it upward. Pull the trigger. It will be quick. Painless. Fearless. A much kinder death than what you gave them.

“No! I didn’t kill them! I didn’t kill anyone!” He slammed his fists into the steering wheel, drawing the horn out in a long, lonesome wail.

“I didn’t do it…”

His breathless words seemed to linger for several moments after he had spoken. He rested his forehead on the top of the steering wheel and pressed his hands to his face, shuddering violently. Even with the heat on and warm air blasting from the vents, he felt frozen to the bone.

There were four things he knew.

First of all, he had killed people. He just wasn’t sure how many.

Secondly, with his latest act of mercy, going to the police was no longer an option. He had left DNA evidence at the crime scene, and the girl knew what he looked like.

Three, Zeus had made him kill. Tyler didn’t know who the man was or how he did it, but that was an indisputable truth.

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