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people, and I suspect you aren’t either.”
    Mackenzie wondered what he suspected. Did Drew know she was a witch? She thought back to everything that happened over the past few hours, and her heart started pounding faster. Shit! She wanted to scream for being so stupid. He said his father was a God and she accepted it like he was talking about the weather. She should have had some kind of reaction. And hell, she didn’t even bat an eye when he said he lived there. This was definitely not good. Now she wondered what Drew knew about her.
    Mackenzie turned and pointed to the door. “Are those the bedrooms?”
    “Bedroom, yes. You and Sophie can take it; I’ll sleep on the couch. The other door is the bathroom.”
    “This place needs a good scrub.”
    “There’s cleaning supplies under the sink. Some of it may still be good. Write me a list of the things you need and I’ll go and get them.”
    Mackenzie bent down, and opened the cabinet under the sink. She screamed and fell to the ground, then scrambled to get away.
    Drew rushed to her side. “What’s wrong?”
    She pointed to the open cabinets. “Spiders!” she cried out.
    “Are you kidding me?” Drew reached into the cabinet and knocked down the web. A large, hairy, brown spider raced across the floor.
    “Kill it!” Mackenzie jumped to her feet, grabbed Sophie and ran to the couch.
    Drew laughed, shaking his head.
    “He bent down and picked up the spider, walked it over to her, and held it up. “This is what you’re afraid of?”
    Mackenzie moved as far back to the couch as she could, holding Sophie firmly in front of her. “Get that thing away from me!”
    “Alright, alright.” Drew went to the door and set the spider down. It scurried away before Drew turned around.
    Mackenzie searched the ceiling and floors. “Are there any more of those man-eating spiders in here?”
    “Maybe.” Drew shrugged.
    Mackenzie glanced down at the floor before lifting Sophie and heading to the door, looking left then right. When she was sure the monster was nowhere in sight, she ran off the porch. “I’m not coming back inside until they’re gone.”
    Drew laughed.
    Mackenzie watched from a safe distance as Drew raised his arms, and mumbled a few words
    “Come on in, chicken.”
    “Not until they’re gone!”
    “They’re gone.”
    Mackenzie approached the door one step at a time, glancing around. The house could pass any white glove test. “How did you do that? And more importantly, why didn’t you do it before we came in?”
    “Demi-god. I’m going to start the generator and then I need to find my father.” He glanced down at his watch. “We’re running out of time.”
    “Spiders all gone, momma,” Sophie said.
    “It looks that way.” Mackenzie grabbed Sophie’s bag. “Let’s go see your room.”
    Mackenzie opened the door. A platform bed, surrounded by netting, took up most of the floor. A dresser filled one wall, and the other had double wooden doors. She opened them and stepped out onto the deck. A large wooden tub took up most of it. She peered into it, but it was empty. She turned and headed back into the room. She opened the bags and pulled out Sophie’s things, placing them in the drawers. She put the toys and books on top of the dresser.
    “Can you reach these?”
    Sophie walked over and placed her hand on top of each item. “Yup.”
    “Good. We’ll keep them here then.” Mackenzie opened the netting on the bed. “Do you want to come up here?”
    Sophie ran to her mom and jumped on the bed. She giggled as she fell back, and then yawned.
    “Are you sleepy?”
    Sophie shook her head.
    “Of course you’re not.” Mackenzie pulled the blankets down, removed Sophie’s shoes and covered her. “No matter what you do, don’t go to sleep then.”
    Sophie giggled.
    “I’m not sw’eepy,” she yawned.
    “I know. That’s why I don’t want you to go to sleep.” Mackenzie lay down next to Sophie, brushing her hair with her