Mic Drop (Cape High Series Book 16) by R.J. Ross

Author:R.J. Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Candy Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-11-21T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Morning comes. Sometime around eleven the night before, Wendy had packed up her family and gently prodded them back into the apartment. It had been a restless night, though, because she could hear the supers working outside all night long. She finally fell asleep out of pure exhaustion. Now, still a bit sleep-deprived, she crawls out of her bed and heads into the kitchen to make some coffee. She stops as she passes a window, and looks down. They're still there. There's a pile of sleeping kids to the side, but the older ones are still working on massive floats.

Why? The question that had lingered in her mind all night rears back up. Her son is only eighteen years old. He still hasn't graduated high school yet! So why are these much older, much more experienced supers following him so blindly? Is it because of his father? But Mastermental hadn't even been there last night, she would have noticed. They had been there because of Max, and Max alone. They even seemed excited.

Of course, her son is terrifyingly powerful. Chet had bragged about him lifting his bed with a wave of a hand. She's seen videos of him lifting an entire street length of cars with his abilities, not to mention all of the buses. She's spent years watching him, knowing that she had brought a terrifying monster into the world, a super villain that could crush buildings and bridges with a thought.

But, a tiny voice whispers, he never has. Oh, sure, he's threatened to. She's always thought it was because the heroes got to him just in time. It's not like he hides what he's doing. But just last night she'd seen those very same heroes willingly do what he told them to, and grinning as if they're involved in the biggest prank ever.

A rap on the door makes her look up and tighten the belt of her robe. She opens the door a second later. Max stands there with a box in his hands. "Sorry, did I wake you? Our new delivery guy got donuts. I thought I'd offer you some," he says, holding it out to her.

"New delivery guy?" she asks, not knowing what else to say.

"Yeah, Nico poached the pizza guy," he says with a little grin. "The apartment has to be careful about fast food delivery, since they don't want them to get fried."

"Then why don't they just go out and get it?" she asks as she takes the donuts. She hesitates for a moment before saying, "You can come in."

"That's too logical," he says, hesitating for a second before following her. "Besides, whenever one of them gets food, everybody else decides they want it, as well, including the dorm kids--well, everyone except Vinny, that is. By the time that's over, they would need a van to carry all of the food. I think Nico built the new guy one last night."

"Why doesn't Vinny want it?" she asks.

"Vinny doesn't eat fast food, he's a gourmet," Max says.

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