I shook my head a little. I refused to believe it.

My first instinct was denial. Like it was all I ever knew. Besides, what good would believing a strange man do me? I was better off pretending I didn’t hear it.

“What are you talking about?” He mocked.

I knew what he was trying to do. This was the sort of question I should have asked, but didn’t.

He bent down and picked the mask up from the floor. Turned it over in his hands like he was thinking about it. Like it was something ...