Chapter Fourteen Jia sighed, her arms folded over her chest, and tapped her foot on the ground. It was nighttime, but with so many lights in the metroplex, it was never truly dark. The sheer dome of light above the city washed away almost all the stars. Where were the patrol officers? She glanced at the two drunk young men, both in their early twenties, sitting at the edge of the parking lot. They snickered to each other. It was supposed to be a fun night at a club with her girlfriends, but the i***t drunks had ruined that by going after a security guard. She looked at two women standing to her side. Both wore amused smiles, and both were around her age. One was an athletic blonde in a tight blue knee-length dress, the other a tall, dark-skinned woman in an orange dress, her hair done