‘Right, so I’ve been gone almost three hours from this madhouse,’ Aunt Lily huffed as she dumped an armload of shopping bags on the kitchen table. ‘What’s happened?’
Tim followed her in carrying even more bags, having just said a prolonged goodbye to Nicole. ‘I haven’t told her anything,’ he assured me. ‘Yet.’
‘Anything about what?’ my aunt asked. ‘And why has Noah been crying? He wouldn’t say a word as I came in. He gave me a stupid-looking grin and then practically ran away when I tried to ask him about it. What have I missed?’
As I began to unpack the groceries, I tried to get my head around the events of the last few hours. ‘Well, let’s see. Right before you left, Tim found out that Bane’s been cheating in army training because of his super-quick healing abilities. Nicole came aroun
