Cannibal Reign

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“Ed, wake up!” the woman whispered. “There’s someone in the house!”

Colonel Ed Lucket sat up in the dark listening. “I don’t hear anything,” he said quietly.

“I heard a clunk in your study!”

Lucket listened a moment longer and reached for his cell phone, only to find that it was gone from the nightstand where he put it every night before bed. “Shit. Stay here.”

“But what are you—”

“Stay here!” he hissed, pulling his arm free of her grasp before hurriedly stepping into a pair of pants.

“Be careful!”

He waved at her to shut up and poked his head into the hall, where he saw a light on in the study at the far end, a thin layer of smoke hanging stagnant in the dim glow. What the hell was going on? He made his way cautiously along the wall, a cold sweat breaking out across his chest. His heart skipped a beat when he heard someone shift in his chair, the leather creaking. The only firearm in the house was in the wall safe behind his desk.

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