15
THE INVITATION
In the car I thought about what I had encountered. The name Pet-tricia kept popping into my mind. What could it mean? It was looking for someone, but who?
“So, are you going to tell me what the f**k happened upstairs, or do I have to continue guessing?” Joseph’s voice from the driver’s seat interrupted my thoughts.
I spun my head over at him as he drove us to the rental that would be our home for the next year, depending on Dr. Nicholson’s position.
“I saw it, Joseph.”
“Saw it? Saw what, kid? Be specific. What did you see?”
“Project X, the ET product. It attacked me in the hallway just before you got up there.”
“Impossible,” he said, “the detectors didn’t go off…”
“But they did. The watch, it was going off just as I got up there. I only went up there when they de
