Heroine Addiction by Matarese Jennifer

Author:Matarese, Jennifer [Matarese, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction | Superhero
Published: 2015-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

15.

A few hours of stewing in my own juices later, I'm mad enough to spit nails and piss acid, as Nate would so eloquently put it.

I thought that distracting myself with my notes on this whole confusing affair would help me simmer down after the swell of grating annoyance I felt upon leaving the lair. Somewhere between Morris and Troy both lying to me, I reappeared in my apartment horribly tempted to head straight for the kitchen and throw every piece of dishware I owned at the nearest wall.

Instead, I popped directly into the middle of the living room in front of my scattershot notes like some sort of sign.

First thing that comes to mind, I thought to myself. Write it down, worry about the details later.

I stared at the wall for what felt like forever, the words blurring together. Finally, my jaw set in a stubborn line, I snatched a black Sharpie from the side table and crossed out the 'WHO IS DAD?' list with a large deliberate X. Then I scribbled one word underneath it all and tossed the pen aside before I could even think about blacking it out.

BODYSWAPPING glared out at me in silent accusation.

Now that I've had some time to let the possibility sink in, it makes a painfully obvious sort of sense. So obvious, in fact, that my rage boiled right back up again as though I'd never even attempted to stifle it.

I can't decide if the low sound I can't seem to stop myself from making is the result of the stresses of the last couple of days or the aggravations I can already see unfurling before me in my near future.

The fact is I have absolutely no evidence that somebody swapped bodies with my father. I can't take my spontaneous guess to the officials at the Superhero Licensing Bureau and get them to investigate instead. They prefer hard evidence for obvious reasons, and even if whoever is currently occupying my dad's body has even a minimal grasp of his powers, it's still more than enough to keep anyone who might go rifling through his brain in a search for an unwanted squatter from finding them all that easily. The SLB has dozens of powerful mentalists on their payroll, but none of them come close to approaching Dad's level of power. I've seen them in the same room with my dad. Most of them can't stop fawning over him or asking for his autograph long enough to take peeks behind his mental curtain.

That leaves me with only a hunch. It won't exactly hold up in a court of law.

Well, unless you're precognitive, which I most certainly am not.

And you know what? I can't very well keep my family at arm's length the way I have and figure out what in heaven's name is going on. I feel like I've been waiting for the answer to who killed Morris and what's wrong with my father to tumble into my lap. At the rate I'm

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