Born Again by Adam Dark & Matthew Thrush

Author:Adam Dark & Matthew Thrush [Dark, Adam & Thrush, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: King of Kings Publishing
Published: 2019-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

14

It was definitely a bad idea to try to focus on writing the half-truth of his dissertation with late-night TV playing in the background. Ben had turned it up as loud as he thought he could get away with before his neighbors pounded on the walls. He’d known this when he started, but he did it anyway. If he couldn’t focus under ideal conditions—right, like those even existed anymore—it didn’t matter that he couldn’t focus with all the other noise around him. The TV was the least of it.

He couldn’t believe they’d just basically signed Chase on, for lack of a better term, to what amounted to a trial run of his demon-sighting skills. Or maybe just his ability to find information they couldn’t. The dark web? Seriously? If that was just a load of bull, it made Chase a really crappy liar who thought a lot more highly of himself than he deserved. If it was true, it meant Ben, Peter, and April might be setting themselves up for some even weirder stuff in the future that might not have anything to do with demons, thanks to a guy who thought a lot more highly of himself than he deserved. But he couldn’t ignore the fact that the first thing on that otherwise useless list had been a total homerun for them. Case in point—the rose-stained crystal making its home in the wooden cabinet at Peter’s apartment.

Ben stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop screen, having changed the last sentence he’d written for his dissertation three times in the last half hour before deleting it completely. Then his phone vibrated, and that was enough to completely shatter whatever concentration he’d been pretending to put into his work.

It was a text from Peter.

—Did we really tell him he could help us? Or did I dream it? Just woke up.—

Ben looked at the time—10:14 p.m. If he was the one who stayed up late and still managed to encourage his sleeping habits from high school—mostly sleeping until ten or eleven in the morning unless he actually had to be somewhere—Peter was the one who slept like a baby. And that saying was totally full of crap, because babies didn’t sleep all calm and peaceful through the night. They slept like they had no idea what sleep was and couldn’t comprehend the fact that other people needed it at certain times. Weird that he knew this as a twenty-two-year-old senior in college with no kids, but he’d never forget the night he spent at his Aunt Tammy and Uncle Jonathan’s house when he was seven. His youngest cousin Brittney was maybe six months old, and while everyone else in the house seemed perfectly fine with being woken up every three hours and passing right back out again, it was Ben’s waking nightmare. Well, at least until that night at the house in Oakwood Valley eleven years ago. Maybe it had scarred him for life and he was still making up for the sleep he lost that night.

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