HELLBOUND
he said with a beaming smile.
All of us froze at his words. Luci still had one hand on the back of Abby’s chair and I could see his knuckles gripping onto it until his knuckles turned white and the back of the chair broke, startling Abby up to her feet. “What are you talking about, Hermes?” He said through clenched teeth, unphased by Abby’s sudden movement. He got tense any time that his brother was mentioned.
“Oh, the word from Heaven, it was that an angel was in the underworld and I have been sent to retrieve her13.”