Chapter 146

Ben Crater paced restlessly in front of his fireplace, facts and feelings churning together in his gut like marbles tumbling in a cage. Today was unsettling to say the least. If he closed his eyes, he could still see the creature in the barn, fiery red eyes glowing from its horrific body. He was sure he stopped breathing until the beast turned and ran off. And somehow vanished into thin air.

After Rebecca Black and Logan Tanner had left, assuring him he wasn't hallucinating, he'd booted up his computer and googled the Chupacabra on the internet. What he found terrified him as much as seeing the creature itself. He separated the really far-out stuff and the articles that were obviously fiction. What he was left with made him sweat.