'The birth of my daughter had been difficult for both mother and child.

Forty-eight hours of pain and distress had resulted in a choice that no man should have to make. The life force of both my wife and child was not strong enough to sustain them both, and so one of them had to make room for the other. As a pastor of over ten years my faith was surly tested when my beloved Emily gave up her life for her child.

My love, my soul-mate and my friend – gone forever'

From salvation to damnation.

When an act of desperation leads to a loss of faith in a God that he has served his whole life, the parson makes a deal that would save his daughter's life, As the years go by, however this one man, this man of God, instead of patting himself on the back for his own inginouity must now pay the price of his arrogance. With the fate of his soul and his sanity in question can the parson endure the wrath of both sides of the celestial plain, or must he strike one last deal?

This is the third story in the Seductive Reasoning series.