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Authors: Luke Romyn

Tags: #Horror, #Fiction

BOOK: The Dark Path
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“What do you mean?”

Vincent sat motionless for what seemed like an eternity. The man had never appeared brave to Tobias before, but neither had he been the trembling mess now before him. Somebody had obviously terrified Sebastian’s assistant and he was reluctant to name him.

“I don’t know who he was,” said Vincent softly, looking away. “He never gave a name. There was just something about him.”


Something?
What?”

Once again Vincent seemed unwilling to talk, and Tobias crashed his fist into the table between them in frustration. “What was it?” he thundered.

Vincent’s wide gaze shot up and he let out a tiny squeak of terror. “There was something evil about him. Something very....” he paused, searching for a word to describe the man who had aroused such fear in him. “I don’t know. There was something very
dark
about him….”

“He was a Dark Man.”

Terror flooded through Tobias as he looked through the window and out into the night....

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