Chapter 26

I kicked the dirt with my foot even as I began to make my way back around the building to the car park.

I was only half way around when a strange sensation began to spread across my shoulder blades. It was the cold, knowing sensation that I wasn’t alone. Someone was watching me. I stopped dead in my tracks and whipped around.

“That was fast,” I said into the darkness, half expecting Mathew to step around the side of the building to my right.

He never did. Yet I could still feel the crawling sensation under my skin that told me I wasn’t alone.

Swallowing the sudden lump in my throat, I asked, “Who’s there?”

The answer came in the form of a low growl. The sound drew my attention to the fielded area to the left. Beyond a small wooded area was shrouded in darkness. Yet as I watched as one of the shadows detached itself from the darkness at the base of one of the trees.