Page 58 (1/2)

"Soet you?"

"It all looks fantastic, Ms Mason I’d like so, if that isn’t too much trouble"

"Nonsense Why would I have cooked if I didn’t want you to eat?" Mo one of the e pronounce in you"

"Yes, dear," he said, and sat He winked atto look conspiratorial, like ere the sa a slice of "ha to co I said would have ended withThe roo at my nerves even more than I’d been afraid it would

I may be a haunted house, but that doesn’t mean I was e breakfast and pretending everything was normal

It took about ten ned, broken only by the clank of silverware against cera a bit too loud I kept catching gli in one of the otherwise e mournfully as the rest of us ate She disappeared if I looked at her directly, and I was glad If I’d been forced to sit in this house, with these people, looking at her ghost, I think I would have finally gone all the way insane

At last, Dad pushed his plate away, patting his lips with his napkin, and turned a calnored; she’d had her opportunity to be a part of this little drama, to either side with the Masons or establish herself as a third party, and she’d chosen to stick with me That meant she was basically a nonentity as far as he was concerned

"Well, Shaun?" he asked "To what do e the pleasure?"

"We need your help," I said again, not sure where else to start

"With what, dear?" asked Molinted off her dias That was aus

That wasn’t unexpected "Becks and I need to get to Florida without being stopped by the border patrols," I said, not bothering to sugarcoat the words "I know you know people who can get you past the hazard lines I need to know the for your own contacts?" asked Dad "You’ve never asked us to do your research for you before"