CHAPTER TWELVE
THE MAN AND GIRL WERE really starting to annoy him. The nearly constant whining was almost worse than the voices in his head. Please mister, I need to pee. Please mister, I need to eat. Please mister, these ropes are too tight.
Hey, asswipe...it stinks in here. That had been the girl. Apparently the young no longer knew how to respect their elders.
What are you doing about the girl?
He jerked around, staring into a shadowed niche of the cavern. He hated when the spirit of his dead father spoke to him. “I’m working on it, father.”
You have a strange way of getting it done. These two won’t help us.
He took a step backward, watching the shadows roil with menace. “I have a plan.” He did have a plan. The girl had a soft heart. She’d come to him if she thought the man and th
