High Seas (The High Stakes Saga Book 2) by Casey L. Bond

Author:Casey L. Bond [Bond, Casey L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

Titus

I returned to the ship empty-handed, soaking wet and pissed off, only to find Enoch and Eve sitting together cozily on Enoch’s bed. Enoch stood abruptly when I entered the room. “You didn’t find him?”

I shook my head. “The storm’s bad, but I checked everywhere I could. I found one of my clones. Let me just say it’s a weird feeling… looking at yourself, but knowing it’s not really you. And he took one look at me and made fast tracks in the opposite direction.”

“Has Asa been to this island?” Eve asked.

“It’s been months as far as I know, but yes.”

“Where is Asa now?” Eve stood up and then quickly sat back down, holding the heel of her palm to her temple.

Something was still wrong. Not that her stubborn ass would admit it. “You okay?”

“Yeah. I just stood up too fast,” she laughed, trying to play it off. Her hand tech glowed, emitting a cool light across her forehead. Enoch shot me a worried glance.

She dropped her hand and slowly stood up. “Enoch, where is Asa?” she asked again.

Enoch shook his head. “He has a home on Nassau. That’s where I’d wager he is, but I can’t say for certain. He, too, has a ship.”

Eve stared at me. “What if Abram is there? If Terah and Enoch are here, and we landed here… maybe our tech somehow senses our targets and pulls us toward them. Kael told us we would land directly in front of them, which was a lie, but what if it wasn’t entirely untrue? Maybe we just land close to them.”

“Like an unperfected upgrade,” I answered. “It makes sense.”

“The whole land, strike, run, and jump thing would’ve been impossible given the way we landed and Kael said he went back in time. If he wasn’t lying he would’ve known it and shifted our mission so that we would land, recover, find our target, strategize a way to get close, and then try to strike.”

“And use our upgrades to hopefully make it home,” I added.

She nodded. “Kael values precision, but learns from his mistakes. He adapts.”

There it was. The haunted look she sometimes wore. Kael put it there. She was his greatest creation, but what had she given up to become it? As soon as he realized that male DNA rejected most of his upgrades, Kael left me and Abram alone. At one point, I envied her. Now, I felt damn bad for what she went through. I should’ve spoken up for her. I’d suspected that something was wrong a few times after she was upgraded. Some were easy for her. Others… clearly weren’t. She’d be absent from training for days.

Enoch’s features darkened as Eve spoke. As protective as Maru was, even he wasn’t as intense as Enoch when it came to Eve. I saw glimpses of it back in thirteen forty-eight, but now that he’d found her again, there was something darker and much more profound in his eyes when he looked at Eve.

Enoch lost his people, but had found Eve again.

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