“If it had been the sermon, he wouldn’t have been worried. Everybody’s mind wandered then, especially when Parson Piltdown got onto one of his tedious theological kicks. But it had begun during the second hymn, when sixteen-year-old Michaela Braithewaite, standing one pew in front of him and slightly to the right, took in a deep breath for the last verse. And now, nothing could get the profile of her tight sweater out of Billy’s mind. It had to be an evil spirit. What else would make a fourt...een-year-old boy think about sex all the time? Nigel warned that they were all around, waiting to snatch at the souls of the innocent and lead them into sin. Billy resolved to ask Nigel to drive out the demon when the group met for lunch after the morning service. He knew Nigel could do it. Surely he’d agree, now that they’d shared secrets? No demon was any match for Nigel’s profound and infallible faith. Billy had witnessed that faith in action a few weeks earlier—Nigel grappling with the spirit of blasphemy that possessed Troy, his thin fingers gripping Troy’s forehead like twin spiders, the two men shaking convulsively in unison.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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