Chapter 6
I barely recognized Patricia when I yanked the door open. Her hair was soaked and her eyes were wild, nothing like the self-possessed beauty I was used to seeing in my class. “There’s something out there,” she squeaked, brushing past me without waiting for permission to enter.
Sometime in the last fifteen minutes, it had started pouring. But the night was less dark than I would have expected, even though the closest streetlight was halfway down the block.
Danger, the monster warned. And I could have sworn something large and four-legged slunk past the edge of my vision, disappearing behind a parked car.
I blinked against the voice in my head and focused on my student. “Are you okay? What happened?” Twisting both the lock and the deadbolt for the sake of our shared sanity, I s
