Chapter Thirteen
Part One
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
― Elbert Hubbard
✩ Annie ✩
I stared open-mouthed at the teenager in front of me. Tall, attractive, blond, and green-eyed. And the name. It had to be him. Fingers shaking, I tapped out a quick text to Lila without even glancing down at my phone. The teenager, completely oblivious to my shock, just continued to ramble on about the agar they used to study the bacteria in supers' blood.
Remember Uncle Clyde? And remember how I said he was always helping me out, be it getting my mom to raise my allowance or offering me an internship? Well good old Uncle Clyde owned several very successful businesses, including a mattress shop, a music store, and a metaphysiology lab called Blaze Labs, and he offe
