The Last to See Me

"... There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”

He cracked the door open, and together they listened until they heard Trevor reach the public room and bellow: “I am the Monster of Mayfair! To behold my face is to know despair!” Ash closed his eyes and muttered something unkind. “It’s not bad,” Emma protested. “It even rhymes.” He pulled the fencing mask over his face. “Let’s just go.”

But the sight of his name written in pebbles in the Twenty-Fourth Vestibule had caused him to stir uneasily and the revelation of what the Other had done had only made matters worse. I worried in case he woke up completely and his anguish began all over again. I placed my hand on my chest. Hush now! I said, Do not be afraid. You are safe. Go back t