Super by Ernie Lindsey

Author:Ernie Lindsey [Lindsey, Ernie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781500230760
Amazon: 1500230766
Barnesnoble: 1500230766
Goodreads: 22596135
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2013-12-31T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Two Weeks Earlier, Con’t.

Kimmie listens to what I have to say, then sits back against her couch, speechless, as she props her head up against a hand. Cotton candy pink fingernails cap off a set of long, luxurious fingers; the very same fingers that used to give me the best damn massages a guy could ask for.

The good news is, she’s got a smile on her face. The bad news is, it’s a devious sort of grin that’s full of “I told you so” and smug satisfaction.

She pulls her legs underneath her on the couch, and I can’t help but look at how muscular, but feminine, her legs are. She’s held onto her White Cloud shape when she could’ve easily stopped the genetically modified injections that made her a superhero to begin with. She says, “I’ve actually dreamed about this moment for a while now. And you’re seriously going to go through with it?”

I break eye contact and stare out the window at the hummingbird flitting near the feeder. There’s too much glee in her gaze to keep looking at her. I offer an accepting nod. “It’s time, I think.”

“After what you did to me, Leo, it’s beyond time.”

Okay, so long story short, Polly Pettigrew and I were married and for all intents and purposes, it was fantastic—for a while. We both led very different lives, as can be imagined, but it worked, and it worked well for us. I loved her with every molecule of my being when she was the Blue Baroness (Get it? Oil baron’s daughter?), and I thought that nothing could ever come between us. We’d bought a house outside of Houston and were even considering an attempt at a little Leo or Polly.

Then, one day, I walk into her dad’s office, unannounced, and find her cutting oil shipment deals with some members of the Chinese government. She was already worth billions, at least on paper, but more never hurt…until it did. I knew that if some of the upper level suits running this fine country ever found out what she was up to they’d take my dear heart away. There were arguments and long nights of discussions, and she promised she’d stop, so we paid off some no-name supervillain, a guy that went by Starbreaker, to participate in this epic battle in the middle of Times Square.

He won as planned, the Blue Baroness “died” from her wounds en route to the hospital, and everything was hunky dory with Polly and me for a while. At least until I left for a conference in Vegas one weekend, and by the time I got back, she’d resurrected herself as White Cloud.

At the time, I huffed, sighed, and let it go because happy wife, happy life, right? A month later, she was back to cutting deals with foreign governments to ship her father’s oil for marked-up wholesale prices that were still cheaper than what they could get through international trade.

Anyway, all that boring crap out of the

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