James tensed his jaw, not wanting to reveal anything about the stranger he had met in church or the deal he made with what he rightly supposed was me, the devil. And I’d upheld my end of the bargain. I’d helped them. The demons hadn’t heard them coming, hadn’t tasted human emotions. They were obtuse to their impending deaths. Deaths not possible by mortal hands, so I’d infused a little extra within them. Or rather, I’d only woken up what was already there. You see, the Halloween Boys were extraordinary even before my intervention. Their potential was that of interest to me even before the mad
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