Super Villain Grandpa (Cape High Series Book 15) Read Online Free PDF Page A

in the cells, and the girl stayed behind.”
    “The girl?”
    “The new one—I never met her face to face before the escape, but you’d be surprised how robots gossip,” he says. “I think all those years with Technico in the building had something to do with it. Enough talking,” he says, turning and looking around. “Let’s get started with your training.” He never answered my question. Instead he holds out one hand, offering it to me. I stare at the hand—the same hand that blew up a tree. He watches me, and I realize that this is a test. If I don’t take the hand offered, what will he do?
    I look at the tree chunks scattering the ground. He could easily kill me, and we both know it. I might have broken Jennifer’s nose, but I’m nowhere near this man’s league—he survived a fight with SUPERIOR. That’s got to place him in the A-class range, at least! And he kidnapped me!
    “Afraid?” he asks.
    “Absolutely not!” I say, grabbing the hand. For a second it feels too warm to hold onto, but I wave it off as my imagination. “What are we going to do?” I ask him.
    “We’re going to get you closer to the sky,” he says with a grin. With a flick of his wrist he tosses me into the air, catching one foot in his hand. “You ready?” he asks as I wobble and try to catch my balance.
    “Ready for what?” I ask, slightly terrified.
    “To fly,” he says, sending me flying straight up. I scream, waving my arms and closing my eyes tightly. I didn’t see that coming! I plummet to the ground, only to blink as strong arms catch me. “Eyes open, fledgling,” he says as I dare to look up.
    “What am I supposed to do?” I ask.
    “You’re supposed to keep your eyes open,” he says dryly. He tosses me again, high above the trees. I look around in wonder before I start to fall. “Try staying upright!” he calls as I fall. I twist, landing on a foot in his hand. “Good,” he says. “This time shove off when I throw you, you want to get higher with each toss, got it?”
    “Yeah!” I say, grinning from ear to ear. “This is AWESOME! Let’s do it again!”
    “That’s what I thought you’d say,” he says. “You were born to fly, sweetheart, just like your Grandma.” He throws me again and I spread my arms as I reach the sky, imagining having wings like Mom. I can’t wait to fly on my own! “Now spread your wings!” he yells with a laugh.
    I spread my arms out, just picturing the wings I’ll have one day. For a second I can pretend I almost feel them. I was born to fly.
     
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    She feels a little like a voyeur, Angela thinks as she sits in a tree a quarter mile away from the pair. She should break it up, she should send Austin back to the Cape Cells—but she can’t. The very idea of stopping this family moment makes her sick to her stomach. They’ve never met, never even knew the other existed, and yet—and yet here they are, clearly infatuated with one another. She’d lied to Nicolas. If Mastermental came, she’d probably lie to him. That’s one thing—lying to her daughter is another. She knows that Melissa has only fear for her father, since she’s never met him. All she knows is the information the Hall has.
    All these years and Angela has never told her everything. How they were married on a tiny island like this one, and drank cheap beer as they tattooed one another’s ring fingers that night. How he’d built her a tree house just because she couldn’t handle living on the ground. How often she’d dreamed of him helping her raise their child. It’s so easy to picture a younger Melissa jumping into the air like Keliah is now. Keliah looks almost exactly like her mother had at that age.
    “You moron,” she whispers, glaring angrily at him, now. All these years—and as soon as he was caught, it would be longer. The buildings he’d blown up? Not just ordinary buildings, oh no. He had to go in and destroy government buildings! She had TRIED to stop him—
    She takes a