#Chapter30 RESURFACE

Sam hadn't been able to get the image out of her mind: the flaming, wailing form, kicking and burning and dying right before her eyes.

She lay in her bed, replaying the encounter over and over as the sun broke through the edges of her curtains.

It had been Sam's intention to spare the woman; in spite of it all she wanted to believe that some of these "Hell hounds" could be saved. But when she had given the woman a chance…

The vagrant had said "I promised my soul." So… once a soul was pledged to the "Dark One," it seemed there was no turning back. And...