Even Villains Go To The Movies by Liana Brooks

Author:Liana Brooks
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Superheroes and Villians
Publisher: Breathless Press
Published: 2013-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Dear Mom,

Delilah found Travys, the boy who shot me. He’s in jail on murder charges. There wasn’t a trial. There couldn’t have been a trial. I’m not dead, so he can’t be guilty of anything. But The Company has something on the judge.

It’s a trap. If I go back to rescue Travys I’ll have to go to court, prove I’m alive, and disprove everything The Company will say about me. I checked my old TalkPlace account. All the teachers from the school have unliked me. I did a little social media stalking on RealTime, and they all think I’m a pedophile. The Company convinced them that Travys shot me because I hurt him.

I want to hurt somebody.

I want to make them feel the way I feel right now.

I want...

I want it all to have never happened. I want to be back at school, planning my final exams and my touristy attack on New York. I was going to go to Broadway. I was going to see my kids graduate and help them finalize their college applications. I was going to do something other than run around in a trashy plastic suit pretending to be a slutty version of you.

I want to do something good; instead I’m stuck in a cheap cosplay so Geoff Swendon can relive his adolescent fantasies.

I miss teaching. I miss being me.

Angela

“Do you know how hot you are?” Jacob asked as he wrapped his arms around Angela from behind as she stepped off the set. “I could just eat you up.”

“Ugh.” Angela tried to shrug him off as Jacob nuzzled her neck. The plastic suit she wore as Pacifica clung to her sweaty body. “I’m melting in this heat. Seriously, I’m disgusting. Let me get a shower.”

He held her tighter. “Who were you texting?”

“It was an email to my mom. Please, let go.” She pushed his hand away.

Jacob stepped back, arms wide. “What?” he sneered. “Holding out for Running Fox? You think he’ll get your name on the A-list?”

Most of the film crew stopped to watch them.

“What are you talking about?” Angela demanded in a whisper. The crew was breaking things down for the night and after the day’s tabloid headlines, the last thing she needed was a fight.

Jacob scowled. “I saw you dancing with him. You like him more than me!”

“News flash, Jake,” Angela said, tossing her hair in frustration. “I’d be the same if I were dancing with Quasimodo! It’s a tango. It’s supposed to look like an erotic argument.”

He frowned. “You liked it.”

“I like dancing. That’s not a crime.”

“It should be the way you do it.” He pouted, then tilted his head to hit her with a dark-eyed smolder. “Don’t be mad. I’m just jealous. Running Fox has it all. The girls, the gigs, the money... I don’t want to lose you to him. That’s not fair.” He held out his hand.

“You can’t lose me,” she said in prelude to explaining that he didn’t own her, but the director walked past. “Give me a sec, Jake.

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