Hidden Hero: His Time to Shine novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Lights Out
Lyle stared at the red light.
For one second his face had nothing in it at all.
"What did you type?" he said.
"What Morris built for you."
"That's not the core."
"The core is closed," I said. "It stays closed. You're holding a dead piece of plastic."
His lips pulled back from his teeth.
He swung the phone at my head.
I got an arm up and the edge caught my wrist, and the stairwell jumped sideways.
Then the lights went out.
Not one bulb.
Every bulb, in the whole house, at once.
Down in the ballroom three hundred people screamed.
In my ear Ellen said, calm and clear, "Power is cut. Every outside door is sealed. Caleb, get down."
I dropped to the concrete.
Lyle's shoes scrambled on the steps.
"Fire door," he panted. "Roof."
The wedge of cardboard scraped, the door boomed on its hinge, and a rectangle of city night opened above us.
He went through it with the dead token in his fist.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Hidden Hero: His Time to Shine are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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