The Secrets of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga Book 3) by C. T. Phipps

Author:C. T. Phipps [Phipps, C. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amber Cove Publishing
Published: 2016-07-03T19:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

My Last Conversation with Dad (Nothing Funny Here)

As I bled out on the street, I dreamt of the night my father had his heart attack. It was strange the places your mind went when you were dying, but since it happened so often, I’d learned to just go with it. Besides, this was a memory appropriate to the situation. It was a memory about coming to terms with death.

I was really bad at that.

My parents and I had never really repaired our relationship after my brother’s death. Both of them agreed, at least on some level, that Keith’s supervillain lifestyle had led him to his death, while I lionized him as a martyr who could do no wrong.

By the time I was eighteen, I didn’t want anything to do with them, and they went back to New Angeles. I paid my way through college with student loans and two jobs, later working as Doctor Thule’s teacher’s assistant. Mandy eventually convinced me to make a token effort at reconciliation, though we’d never really breached the rift over Keith.

Then they’d recognized me on television as Merciless.

Oiye.

This would be the third conversation I’d had with them since.

I was presently standing in the hallway of the Falconcrest City Hospital Cardiac Wing, getting berated by my short, blonde, sixty-three-year-old mother who was wearing a pink sweatshirt and long plaid dress.

My bald, sixty-four-year-old father, was sitting in the hospital bed in his room twelve feet to my left, looking horribly embarrassed.

“You’re a disgrace, Gary,” Linda Karkofsky said, staring at me through her red glasses. “I didn’t raise you to be a criminal and here you are, making a mockery of our family name. Is it not enough that we had to endure your brother’s ways? You had to do it to us too?”

I looked at her, trying to keep my temper. “Yes, because your family name is so much more damned important than my brother, your son.”

“Why?” Linda shook her hands as if wanting to strangle me. “You had a good life. You had a wife, even if she was THAT way, and a job. You could have been somebody and now you’re...THIS!”

I narrowed my eyes. “That way?”

“No wonder she left you. I would have too!” Linda said, practically spitting in my face.

I took a moment to mentally count to ten. “Can I see my father?”

“We don’t—”

“Come on in, Gary,” Joel Karkofsky said, sighing. “Linda, go get some ice.”

“I don’t need any...” Linda trailed off before shooting my father a look then shaking her head. “I don’t believe this.”

She then stomped off.

I walked into my father’s room. A nurse was checking his vitals. She looked like she would rather be anywhere in the world than here. I just let her finish her business and watched her rush out the door. Joel watched her too, seemingly amused by her reaction to his son, the terrifying supervillain in a black hoodie.

I suspected the hospital had called security, who had probably called the police who were probably calling on someone higher up.

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