Chapter Sixteen
With thoughts of Kacey running steadily through her mind, Jessica parked in front of Grandma Ethel’s house. It was dark out now, but light shone through the curtains. She wondered momentarily whether her grandmother was asleep yet, but then she noticed Chad’s and Pastor Norman’s cars still parked on the street.
It’s almost like they live here too now, she mused.
She cut the radio and car engine, grabbing her backpack and the Chinese takeout her mother had sent with her, and pushed the door to her truck open and hopped out.
Immediately, the hair on the back of her neck stood on end, and it had nothing to do with the cold air outside.
A low growl drifted toward her ears. It sounded harsher than any dog she had ever heard in her life.
She didn’t need to think twice to kn
