Wizard Dawning (The Battle Wizard Saga, No. 1) by Lance C. M

Author:Lance, C. M. [Lance, C. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: C. M. Lance
Published: 2013-11-25T23:00:00+00:00

Rapping on the bedroom door woke Thor.

"Who is it?"

"Meredith"

"What time is it?" He muttered into the pitch black in his room.

"Almost midnight."

"Just a minute." He flicked on the light on the table next to his bed and grabbed a robe.

She stood with her hands clasped at her chest when he opened the door.

"Yes dear?"

"Sig hasn't come home and he hasn't called. I called his cellphone and it goes straight to voicemail."

"That's good—isn't it —going to voicemail? Then he'll know you called."

She gave him an exasperated look. "If it goes straight to voicemail, it means it's turned off, broken, or he's out of range."

"Oh." He paused and thought. None of those options seemed good. The expression on Meredith's face surely confirmed that diagnosis.

After almost 200 years maybe he could finally read women. . . Nah.

"I've made some coffee," she said.

"Good, thinking goes better with coffee." Better for waking up, too. He rubbed his face. "Let's go downstairs and talk about this."

In the kitchen, she poured two stout black coffees. Rarely did their neighbors and friends ever stop by for her coffee. Minnesotans liked brown water. Probably due to Grampa's influence, their family liked hefty black coffee. Spoons were only used to see if they would stand up in the coffee.

Thor cradled the coffee mug, warming the ache in his hands. "Where did Sig say he would be going tonight?"

"To work on his geology lab project."

Thor raised his eyebrows. "His lab partner's a girl if I remember correctly. An attractive one?" He looked quizzically at Meredith.

"I think so."

"You haven't met her?"

"No, she's new in town, from California."

Thor nodded wisely. "California girl. They're sometimes a little more sophisticated than Minnesota girls. Have you called her?"

Meredith shook her head. "She's new in town. I haven't met her and don't have her number. They were supposed to meet at the library."

"What's her last name? We can call information."

"Her last name is Wican, but she's living with her uncle. I don't know his name."

Thor's eyes widened. "Wicca? W-I-C-C-A?"

"W-I-C-A-N."

He paused. "Close enough. Let me get dressed. Get the address of the library." He hurried back to his bedroom.

After pulling on his clothes he uncovered and lifted the revolver out of his dresser drawer. He hesitated over the mixture of bullets in his cartridge case. Neither silver, expanding, nor fragmentation felt right. He loaded the gun with standard cartridges.

The ten-inch hunting knife went into the sheath between his shoulder blades. He picked up his cellphone between thumb and forefinger and grimaced before he dropped it into his shirt pocket.

He bent and opened the lower drawer and peeled back the false bottom. Selecting several charms, he laid the false bottom back, before he closed the drawer.

In the kitchen, he asked Meredith, "Is there any way you can get her uncle's name, address, business number….?"

"I could call Chief Dahman."

"Do it."

"But it's after 2 a.m."

"He's a cop; they're used to late night calls."

"It's early morning."

"Used to those too. Call him." He grimaced. "I have my phone." He patted his shirt pocket. "Call me when you get the info.

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