The Lame-Assed Doppelganger (The Half-Assed Wizard Book 4) by Gary Jonas

Author:Gary Jonas [Jonas, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: urban fantasy
Publisher: Denton & White
Published: 2017-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

As I tried to go to sleep, my mind swirled around, examining the various pieces of what I’d endured. This troubled me on a deep level because sleeping is my super power, and now I couldn’t shut off my brain to drift off into sweet and glorious slumber-time. My brain was so rarely engaged, this had never been a problem before.

And what’s worse, most of what I was thinking about was too complex to be reduced to six words or less. Fewer, as Sabrina would say, but who gives a shit about that anyway?

My brain went from person to person.

My father. He was King Asshole. He’d never been happy about who I turned out to be. Was he willing to kill me so his treasured replacement version of me could take over? I wouldn’t put it past him. Could he have the Magic Council working with him? Of course he could. Hell, he could order those bastards to take me out. But if so, he—or they—were giving me a fighting chance because they hadn’t come at me full bore.

A few conversations about the Magic Council had mentioned someone known as the Matriarch. Who was she? Was she simply the head of the council and therefore in charge of the test the other me was gearing up to take? Was there some benefit to her to have me killed or did she think the other Brett was the only Brett and his death would save them the hassle of giving a test years after it was supposed to have been administered? After all, most wizards took the test at eighteen, though I’d read about a few waiting until twenty-one.

Sabrina. She tried to get us to follow her inside, and she wouldn’t have done that if she were in on trying to eliminate me. Unless she knew there were more attempts coming, and I was supposed to take the brunt of any attack aimed at the other Brett. She clearly liked him more than me.

Speaking of the other Brett, that son of a bitch sent me here, so he knew where I’d be. Okay, that was silly. The show had been advertised, so anyone wanting to find Brett Masters could have seen the show time listed along the venue. Brett Masters and the Sound Blasters had my name up front and impossible to miss. But the other Brett had me take his place. He’d been semi-honest about using me this way, but one question kept jumping out at me. What if he was sending assassins after me himself? Would he do that? Was there a benefit to him if people thought he was dead?

Gideon. Yeah, good old Gideon. He’d at least made sure I was protected from the gunfire, but was that to make me trust him? Was it a scheme to make me fall in with him? Give him back the ring so he could always be near? Of course, he’d given me the ring in the first place, but… The ring!

I rolled out of bed and hurried to the bathroom counter.

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