CHAPTER 24
“Hey, what’s that for?” Dez asked when Sapphire came in from the back room carrying a long rope.
Sapphire smiled sweetly. “Well, darling, do you remember that talk we had last night? About how some people have those big, mean demons who want to make them do bad things?”
Dez widened her eyes and nodded.
Sapphire handed the rope to Gabriel and continued to talk as if she were a Sunday school teacher telling her students about Jonah and the storm. “Well, sometimes those big, mean demons have to get prayed out of people, and sometimes when that happens they make them do mean things, like try to fight off the ones who want to help them. So the rope’s to make sure your mommy doesn’t hurt herself when we pray the demons out of her.”
Dez crossed her arms and pouted. “What makes you
