Hostile Takeover by Dan Willis

Author:Dan Willis [Willis, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-21T23:00:00+00:00

17

CONNECTIONS

Alex started up into a sitting position. Adrenalin burned in his veins and he was breathing like he’d run a mile. Immediately his fists came up into a guard position and he scanned the room for an opponent he was certain would be there.

When he finally realized what he was seeing, however, he forced himself to take a long, shuddering breath and relaxed.

“Just a nightmare,” he muttered, reaching for his alarm clock on the bedside table.

Normally, Alex would have to turn on the lamp sitting beside the clock in order to read the time, but the light shining through his bedroom windows was already bright enough. That meant that it wasn’t the middle of the night.

“Five fifty-six,” he read aloud. The alarm was set to wake him at six fifteen, so there was no sense in going back to bed. Alex turned the clock over and wound it. Once the spring was tight, he pulled on the post that set the alarm time. It pulled outward about a quarter of an inch, which disengaged it from the alarm mechanism.

Returning the clock to the side table, Alex threw back his covers and swung his feet out, onto the cold floor. The shock of his warm, bare feet on the cold boards of the wood floor prodded Alex’s drifting mind into focus. He’d been dreaming about something, something that left him with a warm, positive feeling as his mind skipped over the actual details.

Then something went wrong, he thought, trying to force his mind to recall the information. No details emerged but he did recall a scent, something floral with a hint of spice.

“Stardust,” he said. It was the name of the perfume Alex had given Sorsha almost a year ago.

The sorceress’ face flashed into his mind’s eye and triggered a long sequence of images. Alex saw her at the slaughterhouse when they refilled her life energy, then the image of her watch with the red hand pointing at seven. Finally he saw her back at the slaughterhouse, only this time Iggy wasn’t there. Alex used a life transference construct but something went wrong and the energy was too much. Sorsha wrapped her arms around her middle and dropped to her knees, then looked up at Alex and exploded.

The memory of the image startled Alex even though he was now awake. He understood completely why he’d almost leapt out of bed.

“It was only a dream,” he told himself.

He wasn’t prone to having nightmares, but he didn’t often remember his dreams, so the few bad ones tended to stick out. With a sigh, he got out of bed, pulled the covers up neatly, then headed for his tiny bathroom to take a shower. The urgency to work on Sorsha’s curse was still there in the back of his mind, prodding him, but he didn’t really know what to do about it. Hopefully a shower would shake things loose in his brain.

He did some of his best thinking in the shower.

“You also do good

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