Chapter 70: Back Entry

I had to find Dad and Crew immediately. Like, this very second, before I could let go of the gigantic epiphany that washed away everything, including my weakness and how tired I'd just been. Even burning off the last of the alcohol I'd just ingested. Because holy crap on a cracker. If I was right, my weary neurons actually firing correctly at last? Yeah, this had turned into a ghost hunt of massive proportions.

Crew wasn't in the dining room, the door open, the body gone. So he'd moved James somewhere he could protect, then? And Mason's body, probably to the freezer, if he was thinking straight and done with the remains as an interrogation tool. Nothing grosser than the idea of Mason Patterson slowly composting on the stage under that hideous sheet that had been a tablecloth. The seeping smear of chocolate over the lump of his face and other foods just made my stomach churn.