Chapter Twenty-Eight

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

I have to admit I was taken aback.

“Help me, huh? That’s a new one. And why would you want to do that, demon? Picking up some brownie points for the afterlife?”

He snorted. “That’s a good one. It would be nice if I could do that, but no. Truth is, I was a friend of your father’s.”

Now it was my turn to laugh, but it sounded ugly to me. “A friend, huh? I’m sure you were. You were all lovely friends, weren’t you? Hanging around Dad until he couldn’t stand it anymore. Taunting him and luring him until it was easier to take his own life than to listen to you any longer. Some friend. No thanks.”

I dropped the picture on the ground and turned away. Although I was loathe to head back into the room with the burning girl and the two doors, at least it was better than being here with this nutcase who claimed to pal around with my father. Ho ho, that’s rich.

“Luna!” he shouted from the floor. In his desperation and fury, all former trace of my father’s voice had disappe