Chapter 69

The next arrivals were Wesley and Wendy, here ostensibly to pick up Ben and to relay the news that the Gordons had left with no further incidents. Of course they ended up staying for lunch and observing the ongoing efforts to monitor the online auction. It was late afternoon when they finally left. Not ten minutes later there was another knock on the front door.

"Who is it this time?" There'd been enough coming and going this afternoon that he'd let his guard down. Instead of checking, he just pulled open the front door.

Big mistake. The man who stood there looked more like a banker than a wizard, with a deep gray suit and neat red tie, covered by a black wool topcoat. But the sheer fury blazing in his electric green eyes left very little doubt in David's mind as to whom he was facing. The wooden staff carved with glowing runes that the man brandished was a bit of a giveaway too.