CHAPTER 11
As a scientist, Chaco didn’t put stock in astrology, but if any truth attached itself to the notion that “Mercury in Retrograde” caused problems, then Mercury certainly had gone retrograde now, wreaking extreme havoc. Everything that could go awry, did.
Rufus had scratched and whined at the cellar door with such urgency Abigail opened it, and Jude let him through the front. Mistake. The dog bolted into the forest on the chase, baying, and howling.
Chaco shook his head.
The little girls wailed. “Rufus! Come back! Daddy, get Rufus. Those bad men will hurt him like they did the other doggie.”
Chaco looked at the girls. How do the kids know about the other dog?
Jude laid the AR-15 on a coffee table and started for the front door. “Girls, get back down with your mom. I’ll get R
