Night Terrors: An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy (Hexed Detective Book 3) by Matthew Stott & David Bussell

Author:Matthew Stott & David Bussell [Stott, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Uncanny Kingdom
Published: 2018-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

12

Ben Turner sat on his bed in Big Pin’s basement and tried not to think about what he’d seen in the toilets.

Tried not to think about Magda, the woman who’d bitten him, turned him monstrous, appearing there and speaking to him.

He clenched his hands together to try and stop them shaking.

He knew she hadn’t really been there. Of course he knew that, she was dead. Very, very dead. Thanks to meeting Dan Waterson, he’d been made aware that ghosts were a thing, but that hadn’t been Magda’s ghost. For one thing, her soul had been claimed by a demon (and it was vaguely worrying how readily he accepted that. Souls, demons, no big deal. His entire world had expanded in an instant).

So Magda was gone. Properly gone, soul and all. He knew it hadn’t really been her, back to turn him once again. Back to make him her hungry, faithful hound. No, this was nothing but a waking nightmare. Part of Rita’s investigation, something to do with those masked dream monsters. A nasty trick meant to terrify him.

Well, it had bloody well worked. A-Plus results to the mask-wearing bastards.

Okay, it was nothing but a trick. Cool. He understood that. The thing was, Ben really needed to go to the toilet, and was now afraid to go by himself. Which was crazy. He’d been alternatively sat on his bed and pacing his room for the last hour, trying to work up the courage to just walk upstairs, cross the bar, and head into the toilets.

He eyed the empty plastic bottle on the floor again.

No, he wasn’t going to pee in a bottle, that was daft.

Before he could talk himself out of it, he stood and left the basement, feet heavy and unwilling. Upstairs, Linton was giving a man with horns a pair of bowling shoes.

Ben’s heart was beating way too fast.

‘Get it together, you tit,’ he mumbled to himself.

He placed his hand against the door to the Gents, took a breath or two, then pushed his way inside.

The toilets were empty: a urinal, a couple of sit-down stalls, the sinks. He didn’t like the way he looked in the mirror, wide-eyed and pale-faced. Ben hustled over to the urinal, unzipped, pulled out, and sighed in relief as he had one of the longest pees of his life.

Satisfaction washed over him, the fear that the nightmare might repeat itself fading now as the pain in his bladder abated.

So of course, after washing his hands, he passed the stalls on his way to the exit to see Magda standing inside one, waving.

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