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"Charley"

"Okay, here goes Reyes Farrow is the son of Satan" Whew I’d said it I’d laid it out there Bared uts And then I waited And waited I checked my phone Still connected "Gemma?"

"As in, the Satan?"

"Yes"

"Because I had a client who’d changed his name to Satan once Are you sure that’s not Reyes’s dad?"

I tried not to laugh "No, Reyes Farrow is the gorgeous and stubborn and unpredictable son of Satan, and o, he escaped from hell to be with me He waited for me to be born, then chose a family and was born on Earth himself Only to later be kidnapped and traded off to theto be withthat when he was born, he wouldn’t remember who he was or who I was And theback to his are revealed tocows, their big sad eyes looking on as I drove by Poor little guys "Did you hang up onto pencil in a two-hour session, just in case"

"I’h, she agreed "I know you’re not, but I’ve never even believed in Satan and you’re telling me he’s not only real, but he has a son? And that son has been stalking you since you were born?"

"Yes Well, basically And he’s been in prison for the last ten years for killing the ht"

"Holy cow, he killed him? That doesn’t happen often"

"I know It’s rare for an abused child to turn against his abuser, but it happens"

"So, Reyes was the being who used to follow you?"

"Yes From what I’ve found out, he used to have seizures as a kid, and it was during those seizures he would leave his body and beco Bad, as I used to call hier-than-life entity that would save er"

"That was him? When you were, what, four or five?"

"I can’t believe you remember that He was there over and over When that convicted sex offender tried to play house withBad was there When a classh school, the Big Bad was there"

"Oh, I reht, and the Big Bad stopped hiure that out?"

"No He hates me to this day"

"Bu ht while he held a knife toBad was there"