"Huh." Melanie drinks, wipes her mouth. "Yeah, that sounds like the kind of weird family curse rich families love to talk about. So someone was using the fake hell hound to spook the family or something?"
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"Huh." Melanie drinks, wipes her mouth. "Yeah, that sounds like the kind of weird family curse rich families love to talk about. So someone was using the fake hell hound to spook the family or something?"