Supervillainess (Part One) (20 page)

Her nanny fell silent.

“Reader!” Kimber found his voice.

She faced him, and he saw the flicker of
agony in her gaze as what she’d done sank in, before her gaze
hardened again. He understood the kind of pain that came with
losing everything he’d loved.

“Leave, Doc,” she ordered in an unsteady
voice.

I don’t want it to end
this way.
Confused by his own thoughts and
feelings, as well as the sense that his destiny was somehow
intertwined with the city’s, Kimber was silent.

Keladry turned away.

“Wait,” Kimber said. He approached her with
caution and licked his lips, struggling to sort through the myriad
of emotions and thoughts flashing through his mind. “I’m
sorry.”

“For what?” She lifted her gaze to his.

“I’m standing by the corpse of someone you
executed, and all I can think about is how I want to take away your
pain right now,” he said, baffled by his own indifference to the
body beside his feet.

“Are you sure you’re not a superhero?” she
retorted with no heat.

“A superhero would’ve stopped you.”

“Or tried to save his supervillain
arch-nemesis from crossing the gray.”

“That’s what that means,” he said softly.
“That was your point of no return.”

“It was. I’ll do the same to you and Igor,
if you return.”

“Is that what we are? Arch-nemeses?” he
asked in a hushed tone.

“It’s the only way this
…
we
can ever be,”
she replied. “I can’t be good. You can’t be evil. But we can
co-exist in the same city.”

“I’m not all-good,” he countered. “I’m
deeply flawed.”

“So am I. Those pieces of goodness you’ve
seen – those are my flaws.”

“They seem to occur often around me.”

“Maybe one day you’ll stoop to my level to
try to stop me,” she said.

Kimber started to smile, not caring how
inappropriate it was. “It could’ve been different.”

“No, it couldn’t have,” she persisted. “Now,
get the fuck out of my city, Doc, unless you’re ready to don a
cape.”

Is she serious?

“Take care of Igor,” she added in a hasty
whisper. Reader spun away and walked to the idling car. She got in
and slammed the door.

Kimber watched her drive away, overwhelmed
by the whirlwind evening and the fact he had nowhere to go.

He wasn’t a superhero – he
never would be. But as Reader’s car raced towards the city, he
couldn’t help wishing he
could
be.

“We got a long walk through the forest to
the neighboring city, Doc,” Igor said from behind him.

If she truly crossed the
gray, she wouldn’t care what happened to Igor,
Kimber thought. Reader wasn’t sending them away because she
was a supervillainess. She was sending them away because she
cared.

Hope unfurled within him. He didn’t know
what to do with it anymore than he did where to go.

Turning away from the city and its
supervillainess, Kimber glanced up into Igor’s face. The large
nanny’s eyes were sorrowful.

“We’ll get through this, Igor,” Kimber said,
sensitive to the man’s suffering. “I can sell my phone for enough
money to get us through a few days in a hotel. We’ll brainstorm
where to go from there.”

“We might need a phone. I can kill people
with one punch,” Igor held up his massive fist. “Then you can grab
their wallets.”

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to
it.”

Igor nodded.

Together, they began walking into the
darkness.

I can still save her. Somehow.

Supervillainess

Part One: It’s not easy being evil

Part Two: It’s not easy being good

History Interrupted
–
time travel romance

West

East

North (2016)

South (2017)

Omega Beginnings Series

Alessandra

Mismatch

Phoibe

Lantos

Theodocia

Niko

Cleon

Herakles

Omega Series

Omega

Theta (2016)

Alpha (2017)

Theta Beginnings Miniseries (novelettes)

Silent Queen

Mercenary

Shadow Titan

People’s Champion (2016)

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Black Moon Draw (about a reader sucked into
her book)

Highlander Enchanted (2015)

The Door

Water Spell (2016)

Dragon Tear (TBD)

Lost Vegas Novellas
– young adult post apocalyptic

Aveline (2016)

Tiana (2016)

Arthur (2016)

Black Wolf (2016)

Sons of War –
contemporary military romance

Semper Mine

Soldier Mine

SEAL Mine (2017)

Super Villainess

It’s Not Easy Being Evil

It’s Not Easy Being Good (2016)

Starwalkers Serials (with
Julia Crane) –
new adult science fiction
serial

Severed

Trapped

Exiled

Revealed

Escaped

Heart of Fire –
sexy dragon shifter

Charred Heart

Charred Tears

Charred Hope

Incubatti –
Buffy meets 50 Shades

Zoey Rogue

Zoey Avenger

Rhyn Trilogy –
new adult paranormal with demons

Katie’s Hellion

Katie’s Hope

Rhyn’s Redemption

Rhyn Eternal –
Death finds love

Gabriel’s Hope

Deidre’s Death

Darkyn’s Mate

The Underworld

Twisted Fate

Twisted Karma (2016)

War of Gods –
paranormal with gods, guardians and exceptional
humans

Damian’s Oracle

Damian’s Assassin

Damian’s Immortal

The Grey God

Damian Eternal

Xander’s Chance

The Black God

Hidden Evil –
paranormal with angels and four
horsemen

Hear No

See No (TBD)

Speak No (TBD)

Unnamed Series

Unnatural (TBD)

Unmade (TBD)

Omega

Omega

Theta (2016)

Alpha (2017)

Anshan Saga –
new adult science fiction romance

Kiera’s Moon

Kiera’s Home (novelette)

Kiera’s Sun

Santa’s Ninja Elves (short stories)

Natasha & Hunter

Non-series titles – 2011 - 2013

Star Kissed

A Demon’s Desire

The Warlord’s Secret

Maddy’s Oasis

Rebel Heart

Witchlings –
young adult paranormal

Dark Summer

Autumn Storm

Winter Fire

Spring Rain

Broken Beauty
Novellas –
new adult dramatic
fiction

Broken Beauty

Broken World

Voodoo Nights
-
young adult paranormal

Cursed

Chosen (TBD)

As SE Reign, erotica writer

101 Nights Box Set (Serials 1-7)