Chapter Nine

Apprehension did not begin to describe Isaac’s mindset as he stepped back out into the parking lot. Even if his ward wasn’t currently “present” in the normal sense of the word, he was now fully aware of the weight on his back. All logic said that he should not have let the creature crawl back onto him, that he should have been far more concerned with the fact that his freedom had cost a few lives, that he had been told outright that he was carrying a parasite. . .