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"You did what?"

"I know But I was desperate He was going to kill himself If you sahat he can do with that blade Oh, did Iotta say--"

"Charley, wait," she said, interrupting again "You bound him? What exactly does that entail?"

"You’re not usually this slow"

"You’re freaking me out!" she literally screamed at me, and I realized we should have had this conversation face-to-face I could hardly read her emotions over the phone She really should take that into consideration

"I know, sorry" Maybe I needed to explain myself better "Well, in other words, he can’t leave his physical body He’s bound to it And now Reyes Farrow, one of the s in the universe, wants to talk" My stoht about it "And!" I added, al the best part "Dad co and wants ations business"

"Oh, right"

"So what do you think?"

"About Dad?"

"No, I’ll deal with Dad" Though, ely, a man attacked me with a butcher’s knife A sharp one The knife, not the man "About Reyes I’m on my way to see him as we speak"

"Charley, I can barely wrap my head around this, andto leave , I’d say run But that’s just me Callup Geez I was totally counting on her

It was a lot to take in I understood that Heck, Reyes Farroas a lot to take in And right now, I needed to be concentrating on Dr Yost’sfor an audience with the prince of the underworld He was so angry after I bound him that he’d refused to see me Thuswas co Reyes bubbled and si, kept hiht, only to find that he’d been in prison for over ten years for murder I was disappointed, but for purely selfish reasons I’d wanted to be with hiht when Geh school, to take him away from that horrible situation, that horrible man But he’d refused our offer of help When I learned that he’d killed the very ht, I felt like I’d failed And I didn’t even knoho he was at the time, that he was literally the son of Satan I’d only recently found out

"Being raised in hell had to suck," I said aloud

"Are you talking to yourself again?"

I looked over at the thirteen-year-old departed gangbanger who’d popped into the passenger’s seat "Hey, Angel How’re things on the other side?"