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    Bright Future: Super Short Super Hero Instalove Romantasy, #8
    Bright Future: Super Short Super Hero Instalove Romantasy, #8
    Bright Future: Super Short Super Hero Instalove Romantasy, #8
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    Bright Future: Super Short Super Hero Instalove Romantasy, #8

    By Jamie K. Schmidt

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    Vera Seer and Erik Prophet are formidable rivals within the Gemini Initiative. Blessed with parallel gifts of foresight, their abilities collide, echoing a magnetic attraction pulsating beneath the surface, a tension so palpable it could set the universe ablaze.

     

    As they grapple with their rivalry, Vera conceals a deeper secret—her true origins. Erik is convinced Vera is the mate that was created specifically for him in the Aethor Institute's labs where they were both imprisoned over a decade ago.  While their chemistry is as intense as the other bonded superheroes, Vera knows it's impossible.  Because she is not a lab created superhero.  She was born with her powers and she knows that "supes" and "norms" don't trust each other.  They certainly wouldn't ever fall in love.

     

    When an evil scientists seize the opportunity to manipulate public opinion in a deadly display of power, tensions escalate between norms and supes. Vera is determined to keep her secret safe from her superhero friends, even if it means keeping Erik at arms length.  But when she and Erik are forced to work together to try and foresee their enemy's next move, the smoldering passion between them can't be denied.

     

    The stakes rise higher than ever when Vera's visions grow darker and more dangerous.  Their boss, concerned about Vera's well-being, tasks Erik with watching over Vera, it pushes their strained relationship to the brink. And in the face of the Gemini Initiative's most perilous mission, Vera and Erik are forced to confront not only their burning rivalry but also the unspoken, magnetic pull that binds them together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJamie K. Schmidt
    Release dateJul 1, 2024
    ISBN9798230344988
    Bright Future: Super Short Super Hero Instalove Romantasy, #8
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    Jamie K. Schmidt

    Jamie K. Schmidt is a three-time USA Today Bestseller for her steamy romances Life's A Beach, Heat, and The Cowboy's Daughter.  Jamie’s books have been called, “hot and sexy, with just the right amount of emotional punch,” and “turbo-paced, gritty, highly sexual thrill rides.” As a #1 Amazon and Barnes and Noble best seller and a 2018 Romance Writers of America Rita® finalist in erotica, Jamie writes daily, drinks lots of tea, and sneaks away to play video games whenever she makes her deadlines. Along with her husband who lets her stick magnetic signs on his car about her books and her fifteen-year-old son who wants to be her cover model, Jamie lives in Connecticut with her two cats who hate each other and a dog who just wants to be cuddled up on a blanket.

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      Bright Future - Jamie K. Schmidt

      Chapter One

      Vera Seer

      Vera Seer stood by the Gemini Initiative’s boardroom window, her gaze fixated on the throng of protestors below. They held signs calling for superheroes to take the cure that Protogenus was hawking.

      Become Normal Again!

      Unnatural and Dangerous!

      Die Freaks Die!

      Protogenus claimed they had a serum that if a superhero drank it, they would revert back to their original DNA. That meant the Mercury variants who were mutated could become normal humans again. The Castor and Pollux variants who had been turned into superheroes against their will could go back to their normal lives. But all the superhero variants that had been created against their will by the now defunct Aethor Institute had spent ten years learning to deal with their mutations and their powers. Could they really go back to being a norm?

      As long as it was their decision, Vera supported it. But Protogenus was lobbying legislation to make it mandatory that all Aethor Institute-created supernaturals be given the cure. Of course, from what the Gemini Initiative discovered in their raids of the illegal Protogenus labs, the cure had a very low success rate. While some superheroes lost their powers, not all of them reverted back to their original DNA. Some died immediately. Some sickened and then died. It didn't work on some. But the few successes they’d had were being trotted out in front of the courts and on social media as being grateful and thankful for Protogenus for giving them their lives back.

      What the populace didn't know was that when Protogenus kidnapped the supernaturals to test the cure on, they also cloned them. They cloned them so they could run more experiments. That was payment for the cure. You had to agree to having ten clones of you made. The only problem with that was the ten clones were not mindless lab animals. They were ten clones of you.

      Protogenus had to be stopped, cure or not.

      The Gemini Initiative was working on reverse engineering the cure from samples they had taken from the labs, but it was going to take longer than they had.

      The murmur of voices from the nearby conference table pulled Vera out of her thoughts. She glanced over her shoulder at her fellow members of the Gemini Initiative as they discussed strategies to combat the looming threat. But something gnawed at Vera—a deep-rooted uncertainty that made her question the effectiveness of their plans. Was it a vision? A prophecy? Or just plain old pessimism?

      Vera, Grayson Spark, her boss and the head of the Gemini Initiative, said, what do your latest visions tell us about Protogenus? Any weaknesses we can exploit?

      A shiver ran down Vera's spine as her mind drifted back to her recent visions—terrifying images of death and devastation caused by a new ray weapon Protogenus was developing to strip all superheroes of their powers. If her visions were true, and if Protogenus had the facility and the knowledge to do it, all they would have to do was open up with that ray weapon inside the Gemini Consulate or anywhere near a superhero, and the superhero would cease to be super.

      She hesitated for a moment, trying to force details out of her vision. Her fingers traced the cool surface of the glass window. Nothing. She had nothing they could work with. I... I've seen fragments, glimpses. I can’t pinpoint anything to give us an edge yet.

      Grayson nodded, his expression somber. Keep trying. We need every advantage we can get against Protogenus.

      Of course, she murmured, her voice barely audible. But as Grayson turned away to continue the meeting, Vera's mind raced with doubt and anxiety.

      Her powers were not like her fellow superheroes’. They weren't lab-created like theirs—a secret she guarded fiercely. If the Gemini Initiative discovered that she was a norm that was born with the power of prophecy, they might not trust her. They could cast her aside or even lock her away in some mental institution like her parents had wanted to do when her predictions were wrong more than they were right.

      Most of the superheroes in the Gemini Initiative hadn't chosen to become enhanced humans. They had been tricked by the Aethor Institute ten years ago. They drank a cocktail of drugs, thinking it would improve their health, give them a miracle cure, or have them lose weight or gain muscle. Instead, these human volunteers were lab rats. Those that didn't die were forever changed.

      The door to the board room opened, and Vera stiffened. She didn't need superpowers to recognize Erik Prophet. Though they shared the same gift of premonition, and even though they both worked to benefit the Gemini Initiative, Vera still saw him as a rival. It didn’t help that he was hotter than hell.

      His tall body was accentuated in a smart suit that drew attention to his strong shoulders and toned physique. His dark locks were disheveled casually, which added to his captivating brown eyes that peered into her soul. Much to her dismay, she felt her heart beat faster around him, an attraction she struggled to ignore.

      Erik was a Pollux variant. The Aethor Institute had created three variants in their short time of operation. The first variant was called the Mercury strain. By all accounts, the Mercury variants were a dismal failure. They mutated, were ugly, half-insane, and nearly uncontrollable. The ones that could be controlled were negotiated with and brought on as super soldiers. But the Mercuries burnt out too fast, because they defaulted to violence and homicidal rages in stressful situations. They died quickly and spectacularly.

      The next strain that the Aethor Institute had come up with was the Castor variant. But the scientists overshot their mark trying to tame the violence that marred their first strain. For the most part, the Castors were pacifists, looking to do more cerebral pursuits than war. There was a very small market of people who wanted a Castor variant in their employ,

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