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“Mama, no,” I say. “Hades is not a good guy! He’s a bad boyfriend and a worse god!”
She backs away to the edge of the hellmouth. “So should I tell Hades you agree to serve him?” she asks. “You’ve always let me make the decisions when it came to my boyfriends. Remember when Timothy insisted we observe the lord’s day? You were such a trooper coming to church with us every week.”
“But it turned out he just wanted to steal from the collection plate, Mama. Remember that?” I shake my head. “This time, I can’t just look the other way and pretend I don’t see him taking money out instead of putting it in. And I’m not gonna believe him when he says he’s just helping them keep count. This is about more than just the fate of the Beaver Lick Christian Chapel and Drive-Thru. This affects the whole
