Chapter Forty-Nine
“Kit, grab Lucretia. I’ll get Ariel,” Felix shrieks in the earpiece as the robot leaps for our roommate.
Kit sprouts extra height and muscles and jumps at Lucretia.
Gaius’s punch causes Vlad to fly back a few feet, but he instantly recovers.
Gaius scowls, then follows Vlad so fast that my eyes have trouble tracking him in the dim, laser-show light.
Vlad reaches into his jacket and pulls out the grenade.
Gaius slaps it out of Vlad’s hands.
The grenade rolls impotently on the floor and stops near the shotgun.
Was Gaius right when he boasted before? Is he more powerful than Vlad when Rose’s boosts are taken out of the picture?
Vlad throws a punch at Gaius’s face.
Gaius ducks the blow, and lands his own in Vlad’s midsection.
I cringe. If Gaius’s fist hits the fire
