Dead Set by Martin Shannon

Author:Martin Shannon [Shannon, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weird Florida LLC
Published: 2019-10-30T22:00:00+00:00

I opened my eyes to find my daughter, still in her pajamas, holding my hands. “Dad?”

“Cathy?” I said, my voice rough around the edges. “How did you—”

“How did I what?”

“How did you pull me back?” I said, blinking the sweat out of my eyes—my body was soaked in it. If I’d taken a dip in the Gulf with my clothes on I’d have likely been less wet than I was right now.

“Um, I don’t know.”

I let go of her hand and stood, my knees popping like packing bubbles. “You had to have done something.”

“I got up to get some water and saw you on the floor. You were breathing really strange, and I tried to get you to wake up. I grabbed your hand and—”

“And what?”

“And that’s it.”

Wild Magick.

“That was dangerous.”

“What were you doing, Dad?”

How do I tell her? How do I tell my daughter that the House has developed a taste for her?

“I’ll explain it later—you need to get some sleep. Your training starts tomorrow.”

Cathy turned back toward her room, her tired feet shuffling on the bare wood.

“Wait, honey—”

“Yeah?”

“Thank you.”

My daughter smiled before disappearing in the darkness of her bedroom.

What have I gotten myself into?

I located my phone and fired off a quick text to Adam.

Are you awake?

I waited patiently for the three dots to appear that told me my apprentice was burning the midnight oil.

Yeah wots up?

Would it kill you to use whole words?

U txt lyk my mom

My knuckles whitened against the phone, but I resisted the urge to hurl it across the room.

The theater is one massive Thinning. If Claudia Wilson is a dead end, find out what you can on any employees.

Wow wot hapnd?

That one I didn’t need mental gymnastics to translate, and I hoped he’d understand my response.

Evil. A whole lot of it.

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