Unmasked: A Superhero Harem Adventure by April O'Malley

Author:April O'Malley [O'Malley, April]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

As soon as I left the front entrance, I threw my hoody up and sprinted. I didn’t stop until around the block where I waved a taxi down. The yellow cab took an eternity to slow to a stop. I opened a back door before it had. Threw myself inside. Ripped the hood off. Wiped sweat from my brow.

“Where to?” asked the cabbie, a thickly sliver-mustached man. He was doing the James Bond questioning brow at me. He probably had a gun under the seat expressly for nut job cases like I probably looked like. “You’re not a villain, are you?”

“What?” I asked, stricken.

The driver eyed me with a serious expression. “You’d be surprised,” he replied. “I’m usually pretty good at detecting them. It’s like a power of my own. You in some kind of trouble?”

“I er, no.”

“They free to take what they want from the Lesser public, you know,” the driver continued, and his suspecting, almost humorous eyes studied me in the reflection. “All necessary is to mention the fact. A person like me would jump out of the car and hand it freely in such a case. But none would be so stupid as to try anything so close to the station. You’re not a villain, are you?”

“I already said—”

“The punishment’s overly severe in cases of fraud,” the driver continued as though I hadn’t spoken. “It’s an effort to ward off even the most desperate non-super criminals from impersonating villains. Normal punishments are multiplied quintuple, if not more. Other times, the non-super criminal ends up with their skull caved in or every bone fractured.”

I gulped. Wondered where I was. “I know,” I said. “But I’m not a villain.”

The driver hummed. “I have an eye for these things,” he said. “When you’ve been on the job as long as me. You have that look about you. Seen a few horrible situations that almost make you feel sorry for villains… Superheroes go in hard and ruthlessly the moment they think a villain’s at work. Part of the reason for the blood loathing between the factions. Many have died on both sides. And they die often in grisly ways.”

“Right,” I said to the walking encyclopedia of super conspiracies.

“Good versus evil,” said the driver good-naturedly in the tone that suggested it was just one of life’s many quirks. “Once you go villain, you never go back.”

The idea that my father could have walked the tight-rope between both was unforgivable. Dishonorable was nothing but an understatement. And now I knew two similar cases working in the very same department.

“Have you ever heard of corrupt super-police?” I asked.

The driver’s eyebrows shot up. He chuckled. Turned away from the mirror to ready himself back into traffic. “You must be a nut-job,” the driver said. “No villain would work within fifty square miles of Climax. While he’s still alive, the city and that department’s safe. Greatest detective alive—even better than Sherlock.”

I swallowed in suspense, as I seemed to be doing often these days. Every step lately was like walking through yellow custard.

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