I fell to my knees. Stunned at Eddie's terrible betrayal. I didn't want to believe that my best friend had done this to me.
"Alex, please listen to me. After Annek, I was not quite myself. And I needed to feel good...so I went out one night and got drunk. And it was then that I met this man. He got me to talking and I let it slip about the suit. I thought I had convinced him it was merely a tale I'd made up, but I didn't fool him Alex. He followed me here today and forced me to bring out the suit. I'm sorry Alex...He's wearing it now."
And with that, the bold one, the thief...stepped out of the smoke and smiled at me. "Well, well, well. It looks like I'm going to test out the suit on a very good candidate. Eh? I've been looking forward to making my mark fool. And you're as good a hero to make it against. Just good enough that the other villains won't laugh at me for beating you, but not good enough to actually stop me."
Fine. It wasn't betrayal, but it still left an awful taste in my mouth.
October
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