Wraith: Origins of Supers: Book Three by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jace smiled when he came out of his vision, which was a bit of a surprise, and a good one.

He said, “They’re in the city, and Cerise is alive. The ones arguing to let her live won the argument. They took her to another supervillain, a telepath, that removes memories for a price. That will happen in twenty minutes from now, so we have time. The only question is what do we do now?”

Lia replied, “Take their asses down.”

I giggled, “Ditto, except if we do nothing, Cerise will be home in what, an hour or two? With a week of missing memories? If we attack now then she could be killed, but if we wait it’s likely they’ll get away with it. Without her memories as a witness, there’ll be no case if we don’t catch them in the act.”

Lia blushed.

Jace nodded, “Exactly. Do we risk her life by trying to take them down, or do we let them get away to remove any risk from the client’s daughter?”

Ella asked, “Can we use the money trail? We have them identified now, so can’t we connect them to the five-million-dollar payoff they demanded? If they don’t all have a brand-new account with a million each I’d be surprised.”

Jace tilted his head, “It might be enough for a judge to sign off on a warrant, along with the fight at the cabin. Once we put them in front of a government telepath they’ll confess. It might not be enough though.”

Yeah, that was the sticky part. I was doing this to take down supervillains, make the world a safer place. I felt the same calling my mother and grandmother did, I was just going at it in a different way. In the end though, we were a private investigation and protection firm who worked for our clients. Besides that, I wasn’t all that sure putting her at risk was the right decision… except the kidnapping supervillains’ next victims might disagree with me.

Either way, it felt a little wrong, but our main drive was to defend life and take down supervillains second, at the same time all of life entailed some risk. Chances were that they wouldn’t kill her as their first knee-jerk response, and by then I’d have her out of there.

“We have to let the client decide. Chances are I can bounce teleport her out of there in the first second of the takedown, but I couldn’t guarantee it.”

Jace nodded reluctantly, and said, “Aura, connect me to our client,” as he walked outside the cabin.

We all kind of already knew what their answer would be, as we exchanged glances. They wouldn’t risk their kid to take down the supervillains, or they wouldn’t have dealt with them on their own in the first place. I couldn’t really blame them either.

If there was a doubt that they’d get their daughter back, they might, but it was a sure thing. Their daughter would be home in an hour or two, save a week of memories.

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