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Story: I'll Be Waiting
Hey, if we’re lucky, the entity will kill Nicola, and I’ll get to write a tragic romance of a woman who dies at the hands of an evil entity accidentally summoned while she’s desperately trying to contact her husband.
Aww.
I tried to convince her to end the séances when they got dangerous, but she refused. I think she hid the worst of it from me. It was almost as if she wanted to join her husband. How sad… and yet heartwarming at the same time. A satisfying story of lovers reaching across the divide to reunite.
Could that have been Cirillo I heard last night? Telling me to end my life?
By this point, I have no fucking idea. I only know that this asshole has set me up. I kept telling myself that he’d stop if things got too dangerous. Hell, he insisted he would. But here I have the proof of his lie. Whatever we’ve summonedisdangerous, and he wants to push harder.
Time to pull the plug on this. My brother-in-law has staged at least half this damn summoning, and my medium is ready to shove me into traffic to get a story from it.
If there’s any consolation, it’s that Cirillo is going to be livid when he realizes how much was faked.
I shut the book and stalk from the room. When my phone buzzes, I barely glance at it.
Keith. Figures.
I send it to voicemail. He texts.
Keith: When did Jin leave?
Really, Keith? This is not the time. I almost ignore the text. Then I remember what Jin has done, and my stomach plummets.
I’d forgotten what might be the most important part of that equation: my brother. I just discovered that his husband…
I’m not sure what Jin’s motive is, but he’s betrayed both of us, and goddamn it, my brother loves him.
Fuck.
Me: Just after nine.
Keith: Have you heard from him?
Me: No.
Keith: We were supposed to grab coffee before his meeting. I’ve been waiting for thirty minutes
Me: Toronto traffic?
Keith: He’s not answering his phone or texts
Shit.
I don’t tell Keith that Jin didn’t answer my calls and texts either. I don’t want to worry him, and the one who’s really worried is me. Is Jin avoiding us? Is there some kind of setup here that I don’t see?
Me: Maybe he finally listened to you and shut off his phone while he’s driving
Me: Or he didn’t plug it in properly last night and it’s dead
Keith: Yeah, I’m mother-henning again, aren’t I?
Me: Cluck-cluck
Me: I’m sure he’s fine
Keith: I’ll chill. Talk later?
I send a thumbs-up, and I’m just glad this conversation is by text; if he could hear my voice he’d know something was wrong.
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