A Hero in Hiding (Vexing Villains Book 2) by Alice Winters

Author:Alice Winters [Winters, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

AUGUST

As I watch the car sweep Landon away, I sigh.

“God, you’re so lovesick, it’s disgusting,” Deus says.

“Having a heart is not disgusting,” Ellison says. “The way he refuses to hide his affection and is openly eating Landon’s face in public is what is disgusting.”

I gape at both of them while wondering who the hell even invited them. “We nearly died. I think it’s wholly appropriate to be able to kiss him when we nearly died. And it was a simple kiss on the lips! There wasn’t even any…” I shake my head.

“But we didn’t die, so…” Deus scribbles something on a paper before handing it to me. It’s a new invoice for the guy he nearly killed inside the building, but at the very bottom (beneath the friend discount) is an “Eye-bleaching” fee. Clearly, me kissing Landon was so dreadful that I now have to pay for it… literally.

I sigh and pass the paper off to Valerie who crumples it up and throws it at Deus’s face.

Deus snatches it before it hits, flattens it out, and adds a “Don’t be a bitch” fee before passing it back. I make sure to give it back to Valerie who glowers even harder but smacks it against Wyatt’s chest, who folds it neatly and tucks it in his pocket.

“There is nothing else that I want you guys to do here, so let’s head back to headquarters and get a full report—” Valerie starts, but the tsk out of Deus makes her hesitate.

“You’re telling me you’re just going to walk away? There might be clues—”

“Yes, that the detectives will handle. This group is not made up of detectives. You guys have done your part.”

Ellison stares at the destruction intently, maybe wondering if “our part” was a bit too destructive. “The way the bomb was set to go off in the area that the body was found in tells me that someone either set it up to explode when we went in or could possibly have placed it there to hide the body but our arrival upset the flow of things.”

“We need to see if we can find the reporter’s body,” I say.

“We will… I just don’t like you guys out here where you’re vulnerable,” Valerie says as she keeps trying to usher us back toward the armored vehicle.

“Was anyone killed?” I ask in concern. “We did everything we could to try to move people out of harm’s way.”

That’s when Valerie’s phone starts ringing. I see that it’s the facility Nolan is in, and since she’s clearly busy, I hold my hand out and she lets me take it.

I accept the call with a “Hello?”

“A-August? Oh, thank god. Landon’s with you?” Nolan asks.

“He is not… he’s headed to see you,” I say.

“Fuck. It’s a setup. I read the mind of a guard who works for Superheroes United. He was here talking to a man, and I could only read bits of his mind from this distance, but he said something about separating Landon… They

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