Chapter 137

Ric Garza sat at his high-tech computer terminal downloading the photos Rebecca and Logan had sent and uploading them to the big screen on the wall. Swiping one of the surface computing keyboards, Ric put the photos in place one at a time, tapping the interactive keyboard again to enlarge them. What he saw made him want to vomit and he considered himself a pretty hardened lawman. He thought by this time he'd be used to the gruesome shots of a corpse after the devil beast had finished with it. But magnified more than a hundred times and up on the wall in living color, it was every nightmare come to life.

Sophia Black Beltaire, standing behind him, was talking on her cell. When she disconnected the call she pulled a chair over and sat down beside him.

"That was Craig. He got the final reports on the killings in Maine from the state police. Bobby Lacroix sent him copies of everything."

"I'm sure there wasn't anything new," Ric commented as his fingers tapped keys.