Chapter 44: Like Father, Like Son
Chapter 44
Like Father, Like Son
Mars gritted teeth as he watched his mother fall apart. When his father cried, he turned his head, struggling to control the anger building inside him. He had a lot of his mother’s genes, and they worked to keep him focused. Mars said all the right things to his dad, made a few jokes about what Jada was probably thinking, and then insisted that when they caught the bad guys, he’d take care of them.
“You’re getting too old, Old Man,” he said. “You need to let the young blood handle the tough jobs.”
Inside though, anger kept building, and Mars was running out of places to stash it. Sooner or later, he’d have to let it go; he also had a lot of his father’s genes in him.
Besides what was happening to his parents, Mars had
