Chapter Eighteen
I blinked several times, wondering if my eyes were playing tricks on me, but no matter how many times I blinked, Maria's face didn't change.
“No way,” I said, still keeping my grip on Blizzard, even though she seemed to be unconscious. “Impossible.”
“Impossible?” said Maria. She laughed. “If that were true, I wouldn't even be here right now. But I am pleased to see that you are shocked. It means that you never even suspected that I might be behind any of this.”
I couldn't understand it. The last time I saw Maria, she had been lying unconscious in the warehouse where Dad and I had confronted Master Chaos. I later learned that she had escaped during the chaos of our fight with her husband, but I hadn't thought I'd ever see her again. At the very least, I thought that the
