The House on Infinity Loop by Bonnie K.T. Dillabough

Author:Bonnie K.T. Dillabough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Infinite Publishing Alliance
Published: 2021-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23: A Shot in the Dark

The moment they stepped over the threshold of the gate into her study, Jenny knew something was wrong. She didn't know exactly why. Then she realized the skin surrounding her key was tingling. This had never happened before. She unconsciously picked up Tidbit, cradling him protectively.

Bob and Burt looked at her curiously, frozen in place, obviously concerned. "What's up?" said Bob, his voice sounding oddly in her ears as it always did after spending some time using mindspeech exclusively.

"I'm not sure," Jenny replied softly. "Something isn't right. My key is tingling."

Burt went around her, putting his hand on the door handle. "It's warm, but not hot. Don't follow me until I give the all clear."

Jenny nodded, and Burt turned the handle. The acrid smell of smoke and...was that gunpowder?...filled the room. Burt stepped through quietly and they all stood rock still where he had left them. In a moment he called out, "We're clear, but you aren't going to like it."

As Jenny stepped into the hallway the impact of just how real her danger was, hit her like a thrown brick. The area of the door to the gateways was blackened, as if someone had set off a small bomb. The floor was littered with ceiling tiles and the hall light was shattered. There was evidence of impacts, as if someone had tried to use a hammer to get through the wall.

As she moved into her living room, she vaguely noticed her books strewn across the floor, the stuffing of her reading chair pulled out down to the frame of the chair. Her china from her hutch was in pieces all over the dining room floor. The doors to her kitchen cupboards had been torn from the cabinet and a mixed odor of spices and decaying food wafted up from the floor.

She ran to the office and her computer was gone and all of her paper files were strewn as if someone had been looking for something.

In her bedroom it was the same. Her belongings had been trashed.

"The shed!" she cried and, with Tidbit still in her arms, she ran as quickly as she could through the shards of broken china out through the French doors that barely hung cockeyed on their wrenched hinges.

Like the gateroom door, there were obvious signs of an attempt to force entry, but the door remained locked and undamaged. Jenny heaved a sigh of relief. "I don't know what's in there that they could possibly want, but evidently Aunt Lizzie did a good job of protecting it."

She turned to her team. "I need some agents to come in and clean this up while we're at Sanglarka. We don't have time for it now. I wonder how they did all of this without someone calling the cops. It must have made a lot of noise."

Then she realized why they had taken the computer. They thought her security footage was stored there. She pulled out her phone. When they had altered the tech inside it, they had also installed an app that gave her unlimited cloud storage off world.

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