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“She was going to let you live.” Julia says. “I won’t.”
“What did she say?” Jonas leans forward, eyes wide.
“She’s going to kill him.” I glance back at him. “Like I said, you might not want to be here.”
“I mean… I’ve already watched three people get swallowed up by hell tonight. What’s a fourth?”
He leans forward, elbows on his knees and makes an ugly sound as Dylan’s wrist rotates completely around.
His legs give out, but Dylan doesn’t drop to the ground. Suspended by the wood embedded in him, he floats in front of her.
I almost tell her not to torture him. But I remember what he had planned to do to me in hell and I wonder if he hasn’t already done the same in the living world… if he won’t do it to someone else if I ask her to spare him.
Maybe I’ll join Julia when I die and we’ll descend to wrath together.
Bit by bit, Julia breaks him like a doll in the hands of a sadistic child.
He is a crumpled and crying mess by the time she is done.
“Please,” he whimpers.
But Julia shakes her head. “There is no mercy in you. You’ll get none from me. Go back to hell where you belong.”
His scream is bloodcurdling this time, but it cuts off when his head snaps cleanly to the side.
I look out into the night sky.
Sound might not have carried in hell, but these would have. I have to hope no one is out for a midnight stroll to have heard him.
Jonasand I both move out of the way as Dylan’s body floats toward us.
Julia flings him out of the cellar, tearing the splinters from his skin at the same time.
“I won’t share my resting place with him.”
“I understand.”
She looks at me, reaching out and I take her hand. “Will you deal with him for me?”
I nod and she wraps me in her arms. Held against her like this… I can hear the beat of her heart and I look back at it. In the living world, it’s a dark and shriveled lump.
“Will you be safe while I do?”
She nods. “I can close this off for the night.”
And I’ll fix it tomorrow.
Julia doesn’t want to let me go, but she knows she has to.
“I will be right back.” I kiss her cheek, avoiding the teeth that haven’t gone back to the way they were when she was living. “I promise.”
Jonas looks better. Maybe watching a guy you thought was a friend get murdered is restful to the recently departed from hell.
He looks at me and smiles kind of sheepishly when he sees me studying him. “I know this is probably going to make me sound like a sociopath, but… I’m okay with guys who pull this kind of shit not existing anymore.I’mnot going to kill them, but if a pissed of poltergeist decides to, I’m not going to try to stop her.”
It’s probably a good thing. “Will you help me get him to his car?”
“Yeah.” He nods, taking a deep breath. “It’s not like tonight could get any more macabre.
