CLOAK GAMES excerpt

An excerpt from the CLOAK GAMES short story I’m presently writing:

Nadia kept her magical ability a secret, but I had known about it for a long time.

It was the little things. I lived with Dr. James Marney and his wife Lucy, former retainers of Lord Morvilind who could not have children of their own, and Nadia visited us often. Sometimes I saw her cry when she returned from one of her jobs from Morvilind. She knew way more about guns and bombs and locks and security systems than most people did.

Also, there was the time I walked into her room and saw her levitating small objects with magic. That was sort of a giveaway.

-JM