Postmortem by SA Magnusson

Author:SA Magnusson [Magnusson, SA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2018-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

11

As I approached my door, I felt the cool tingle from magic working along my spine.

Was it on the other side of my door?

Could that be what I had detected?

I stared at the numbers on my door, the paint that looked fresh but didn’t smell as if it was, and the doorframe that had been broken into a few days ago. All of it had been magically repaired, almost as if there had never been an attack. The entire hallway was like that. There was no damage, which meant that whatever I detected hadn’t forced its way in. That should reassure me but for some reason, it didn’t.

I couldn’t blast my way into my home, even if I could draw on the necessary magic.

There were protections on my home. Aron had placed them, so I didn’t think there should be a mage on the other side of my door, but there was the sense of magic. Why was that?

It might only be Gran and Gramps. They had proven themselves able to get into my condo, even when I didn’t want them to. And I doubted any protection Aron placed would be too much for them to overcome.

Refusing to cave into fear, I unlocked my door and smelled food cooking on the other side.

Gran and Gramps didn’t cook. They were happy to pick up fast food. Even when I’d been a kid, they hadn’t cooked. We were more the microwave meal kind of family. Because of that, I hadn’t grown up with the most well-developed palate, but I could heat up anything in the microwave.

“Hello?” I stood in my doorway, ready to run if there was anything dangerous here. The sense of magic persisted, though I didn’t know why or where it came from. If it was from Gran and Gramps, why were they using a spell?

“I hope you’re hungry,” Aron’s deep voice called from the kitchen.

I blinked, shutting the door behind me.

“Aron? What are you doing here?” He stepped into the door leading to the kitchen wearing one of my aprons. I had only two, and neither fit a man like him. This one had been something of a gag gift from Jen and had the saying, “All this and brains too,” scrawled across the front. “You cook?”

He flashed a smile. Dressed as he was in the apron, a fleck of flour on his cheeks, I found him more attractive than I ever had before. “Before joining the knights, I had been something of a chef. I never lost my love of good food, and I thought you could use something better than those frozen meals stacked in your freezer.”

When he turned away, leaving me staring after him, I didn’t know what to say.

“Come on. We can talk while we eat,” he said.

I followed him into the kitchen and took a seat at the table. He’d even set it, which had happened before a total time of never, making it look as if we were in a restaurant. Where had

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