A Crooked Mark by Linda Kao EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Linda Kao
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- Genre: Paranormal & Urban Fantasy
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I don’t know how it feels when the Devil scratches a soul. My father says
He must have the lightest touch, because no one ever notices His
crooked claw leave a stain on something that should belong only to them.
They smile their old smiles, crack the same jokes, eat and play and work
and laugh just as they used to, but the Mark festers inside, growing and
feeding like a parasite. By the time anyone notices something is wrong, it’s
too late. Lucifer has already won.
Not tonight, though.
I brace myself in the passenger seat as the car bounces down the moonlit
road. Dad killed the headlights a mile back, and if we hadn’t driven this
way hundreds of times before, we would have run straight into a tree by
now. Yet nine months of careful work have given us plenty of hours to
prepare. By the time we finished documenting sweet Mrs. Polly’s chilling
descent from lucky survivor of a restaurant explosion to heartless killer
Marked by Lucifer, Dad had it all planned out.
The matches sit in the console between us.
My mouth turns sour as my stomach gives another heave, and I clamp
my teeth together, waiting for it to pass. Nine months of getting to know
someone has a way of bleeding into an accidental friendship, making an
already impossible job even harder. In the dim light, the determined line of
Dad’s jaw holds only cold certainty, but doubt shrieks at me like a knife on
glass.
It’s not easy to judge a soul.
I have to give Lucifer credit. There might not be any serpent in the tree
or horned man with a pitchfork, but He’s still banging on our door. He’s just
gotten a lot more creative. Clever bastard found a brand-new way to wreak
havoc in the human world.
Accidents.
The semitruck bearing down on your car. The train you think you can
beat across the tracks. The safety harness that snaps halfway up the
mountain. One moment you’re in this world, and then—
Bam!
Hello, afterlife.
There’s a split second, however, when you aren’t quite in either. You’re
right in the middle of the jump, eyes squeezed shut and both feet in the air,
so you never see Lucifer extend a slender finger. It’s a delicate scrape, the
smallest Mark on your soul, and then He sends you back. You’re alive, and
everyone calls it a miracle, but God had nothing to do with it.
It’s something much, much worse.
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