Chapter 16

When we were back on the street, Lulu squatted on the ground and reared her head back. The laugh that went through her lips started quietly at first, progressing into a crescendo. "What's so funny?" I said. "I remembered someone else from Spain calling you that," she guffawed. "Sometimes I think it's true." Wow. Did she just refer to me as the devil incarnate? What a best friend. But then again, it had been days since she laughed like that. The kind of laugh that came from deep in the belly,...