Except he wasn’t too cool to step forward and put his arms around her waist and kiss her. As soon as their lips made contact, he forgot about Mum and Dad being in the room, about Lolly’s father being one of the most powerful and dangerous men on the planet, and he just lost himself. His arms tightened around her and the one rational brain cell that he still possessed, which wasn’t fizzing with excitement, just managed to stop his hands moving down to her bottom.
When he finally managed to pull himself away, he was breathless. Lolly’s eyes were shining and teary.
“Wow,” he said, and Lolly laughed.
Sir Michael coughed loudly.
“Yes, well, l think we’ll be going before I see something I really don’t want to,” he remarked, drily.
And then they left. Sir Michael opened the front door, and James was surprised to see a black Mercedes pull up on the kerb outside the house.
“Our ride,” explained Sir Michael, “courtesy of the Security Service.”
James marvelled at Sir Michael’s audacity. He was going to use MI5 to help him escape, or whatever it was that he was intending to do.
Sir Michael opened the nearside rear door for Lolly. She slipped gracefully into the seat. Sir Michael rounded the car and got in from the other side.
James ran up to the window.
“Don’t forget me, or Sam,” he said, knowing how uncool that sounded.
“I won’t,” said Lolly, lowering the window. She cast a furtive glance at her father, then leaned through the gap and kissed James full on the mouth. It was a snatched moment. The rush of blood to his head made James unsteady on his feet.
When he opened his eyes, Lolly was looking longingly at him as her head withdrew back into the car. Her lips were parted, her eyes wet but determined. A strand of hair fell across her nose. James had never seen anyone so beautiful. She gave meaning to his existence.
She looked him squarely in the eyes.
“I’m coming back,” she said.
Message From The Author
Thank you very much for reading London Belongs to the Alchemist. I really hope you enjoyed the book, and if this is the first Class Heroes story that you have read, then I hope you’ll want to find out what else the series has to offer. You can find out more about the other books on the following pages.
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Stephen Henning
What Happened… Before?
Class Heroes book 1: A Class Apart
Teenage twins James and Samantha Blake are caught up in a seemingly random terrorist bombing while on a school trip. Many of their friends are killed. When the twins wake up in hospital, their lives have changed forever.
The doctors are amazed at the speed with which James and Sam recover from their injuries and, when the twins begin to exhibit extraordinary powers, it is obvious that something incredible has happened.
As James and Sam attempt to overcome their fears and embrace their new abilities, a series of murders and disappearances start plaguing the hospital. The twins aren’t the only ones with special abilities and it becomes apparent that someone is coming for them.
Will James and Sam be able to survive the nightmare into which they have been plunged? Who, or what, is behind the murders at the hospital? And was that terrorist incident quite so random after all?
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Class Heroes book 2: What Happened in Witches Wood
In 1987, 16-year-old Katie Blake died in mysterious circumstances in a stream in Witches Wood.
In 2009, a teenage couple enter the wood one hot, summer night and encounter her ghost.
In 2011, James and Samantha Blake are staying at their grandparents’ farmhouse, close to Witches Wood, while they come to terms with their new superpowers.
Those powers are soon put to the test. James comes face-to-face with the ghost of Katie Blake – his long-dead aunt – and discovers that she may be responsible for a number of grisly deaths that have occurred in the wood. Meanwhile, Sam foils an armed robbery in a nearby village and sets in motion a chain of terrible events that threatens the whole family.
Sir Michael Rosewood, owner of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firm, knows the secret of their superpowers and has taken a keen interest in the Blake family. But is he friend or foe?
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Class Heroes Book 3: Where’s Lolly?
Class Heroes book 3 is a novella, a short story about Lolly Rosewood.
Lolly Rosewood is 16 years old and she is on the run. She has arrived in London, penniless, alone and - worse still - she has lost her fearsome superpowers.
She is being hunted by the police and the Security Service, MI5. She has no friends and very few people who would want to help her.
Lolly needs money and a place to lie low, while she formulates a plan to rescue Sir Michael Rosewood, her father, who is being held prisoner by the British Government at a secret location.
There is one person who may just agree to help Lolly. An old friend of her father. However, time is running out because the Security Service are hot on her trail…
Note For Parents: This book is suitable for readers age 14 +. It contains adult themes. There is some non-gratuitous sexual content.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter
58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Message From The Author
What Happened… Before?
Class Heroes Book 3: Where’s Lolly?