Believe it or not, Jennifer actually nudged me in the middle of the night because she noticed the rhythmic thumping before I did. The noise that started all of this, created this whole demons versus humans circus, the battle for vengeance because of something that happened so many years ago. The horrible incident my mother had been involved with and the determination by both the demon mother and demon son that had placed a target on my head.
It seemed like decades ago the thumping had first introduced itself to me on a restless night all alone in my room. Of course, even my vividly wild imagination could not have dreamt up the disaster fest that came along with that wicked seemingly normal thumping.
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