The Devil's Beat (The Devil's Mark) - Plot & Excerpts
The more he thought about it, the more angry and resolute he got. He couldn't leave Alice here to deal with Lucian on her own. He was going to stay, even if it killed him. The thought scared him to death, and he didn't miss the irony of that. All night Max had been weighing the relative merits of following Mike's earlier advice and just bulldozing the house and then burning the remains. It was now obvious that the house was just one of Lucian's jokes. But, in the wee hours of the morning, a troubling addition to that observation floated in his mind. Max had assumed that Lucian's joke had been at Max's own expense, but what about the other denizens of the house? The ghosts, Old Bone, the seeming sentient nature of the house itself— hell, maybe even Old Josh. If he destroyed the house, would he somehow be hurting these other lost souls? It wasn't a thought he particularly liked, so he decided that must be the case. Besides, didn't Lucian himself say, “You wouldn't want someone else to find your surprise”?
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