She started to cry, even though she thought the hours that she'd already spent doing it had sapped every tear she had left.
"Please don't go," she said. "I'm begging you."
Matt gave her long, warm kiss. As she wrapped her arms around him, her kiss taking on an urgent longing, he gently broke away from her grasp.
"It isn't just Mr. Dark that I'm looking for," he said. "I should be dead. Maybe I am dead. Whatever the explanation is, I won't find it here."
She sniffled and swallowed hard. "Where will you go?"
He shrugged. "All I know is that I have to get there before he does, before the evil spreads and more people die."
Matt hefted the backpack onto his shoulders and picked up his grandfather's ax.
"I'll be back," he said.
And with that, Matthew Cahill walked out the door and down the road, chasing the receding echo of Mr. Dark's twisted laughter wherever it might lead him.
THE END…
But Matt Cahill will return in
THE DEAD MAN #2: RING OF KNIVES
by James Daniels
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lee Goldberg is the bestselling author of the thriller THE WALK and the MONK series of novels. William Rabkin writes the wildly successful PSYCH books and is the author of "Writing the Pilot." And together, they are the authors of DEAD MAN #1: FACE OF EVIL and have written and/or produced such hit TV series as "Diagnosis Murder," "SeaQuest," "Nero Wolfe," "Martial Law," "Monk" and "The Glades."
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