Unhallowed Ground by Kristen Gupton

Author:Kristen Gupton [Gupton, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, occult, Kansas, horror
Publisher: Kristen Gupton
Published: 2019-12-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter

30

A few hours later, Kelly was in the passenger seat of Ryan’s car. Before leaving for Denver, Tim had asked Ryan if he’d check to see if a package would show up at his house that was due. Kelly had agreed to them going to check after leaving the hospital, in no particular hurry to go home.

The plow had cleared the road well enough, the flat terrain no particular challenge to Ryan’s small car. With the snow blanketing the ground, the scenery was fairly desolate. The only things down that road were Tim’s house and the goat dairy across the road Kelly frequented for his deliveries.

They pulled into the long driveway of Tim’s house, coming to a stop before the nicely remodeled farm house. Kelly got out of the car carefully, looking toward the porch.

Ryan emerged as well, slamming his car door. “Looks like something’s sitting in front of the door. He told me to just go put it in the barn.”

Though Kelly’s head throbbed with each beat of his heart, he closed his car door and moved to follow Ryan, though he didn’t go up the stairs.

Once Ryan had the package, they moved around the back of the house toward the old barn.

When they reached the side door, Kelly came to a stop. “Did he mean to leave this open?”

Ryan shrugged, reaching forward to push the door open the rest of the way. “Probably blew open. It’s not like he’s got any livestock or nothing.”

Kelly started to nod, but the pain in his head and neck immediately made him stop. “Fair enou-”

There was a loud crash from within the barn, Ryan jumping back from the door and nearly tripping in the snow. “What the fuck was that?”

Kelly froze in place. He’d had enough of mysteriously open doors. “Let’s get out of here. We can keep his stupid package and give it to him when they get back from Denver.”

Ryan wanted to agree and retreat, but if there was someone in the barn...

Kelly started to protest, but Ryan moved forward and nudged the door open the rest of the way with his foot.

“Hello?” Ryan said, squinting to see into the darkness.

Something shuffled around, before a goat’s bleat broke the silence.

Kelly laughed and put a hand over his heart. “Oh, for fuck’s sake. I bet that’s Beverly out again.”

Hearing her name, Beverly appeared in the doorway. She was a large, mottled-brown Nubian, not unlike most of the goats across the road. Though there were hundreds of goats at the dairy, Beverly was the dairy owner’s pet.

Kelly snickered again and went over, hooking a finger through the collar she wore. “You scared the shit out of us.”

Beverly didn’t seem particularly bothered with it.

“You go get the package set down, I’ll get her home,” Kelly said, starting to walk, Beverly going along at his side.

Ryan laughed and shook his head. “Okay. I’ll fix whatever she knocked over in there then I’ll bring the car over to rescue you from Dracula.”

“Jesus Christ, he’s not Dracula,” Kelly said, stopping.

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