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I unlock the door with my key, and step inside. Nothing has changed. I look through the flowers for answers, feeling stupid that I thought something so specifically important to me was the answer to the riddle from an unknown source.
On my way out though, I catch sight of a silver sheen from out of the corner of my eye. On the desk near the entrance is a metal object similar to my amulet, but this appears to have been repurposed into a locket. As I pick the locket up, I feel a message enter my mind, just as the first amulet imparted.
Follow the trail.
Set underneath it is another sheet of paper with equally disturbing magazine cutouts, forming a riddle.
I spend two hours walking and following riddles. Each takes me to a different location that is important to me and Caspian, and at each location is another gift. There are flowers and trinkets galore, but at one of the locations, I even find a set of car keys.
This has got to be Caspian, I reassure myself. If it isn’t him, this is going to be very bad.
Finally, I arrive at what seems to be the final location… my own apartment. I open the door, expecting to find something, anything, but I am empty-handed. Has this entire expedition really led to a dead end?
I open the door one last time, making sure I wasn’t followed, but to my utter bewilderment, Caspian is standing there with a cake in his hand.
He looks down and sees the locket on my neck, and the flowers on the table.
“You got all my gifts,” he says. “Good.”
I am very confused.
“What was all that?” I ask him.
“I know you’ve had a long night,” he says. “But would you mind following me outside one last time?”
He leads me down the stairs of my apartment and to the adjacent parking spaces. Eventually, we reach nowhere in particular, and I’m even more confused.
“It’s yours if you want it,” he says, gesturing toward a bright red sports car.
I looked at him, entirely confused.
“What are you talking about?” I ask him.
He shrugs.
“You needed a car, and I figured it was about time,” he says. “Don’t want you feeling unsafe at night.”
“You mean you don’t want some other vampire to claim me for himself?”
I chuckle. He looks at me seriously, and nods.
“Fancy a drive?” He asks me.
I’m not one to tell him ‘no’. I’m very much questioning where this is leading. Surely, this entire scheme wasn’t just leading to a sports car.
I step into the driver’s seat, and he sits down beside me. The car is so much faster than I was anticipating, and I almost hit the car parked in front of us. But Caspian doesn’t seem bothered by any of it.
“I’ve been meaning to converse with you,” he says, as we take off. “I am not sure if you know how much you mean to me, but in my hundreds of years on this planet, I have never felt the way I do with you.”
I nod and smile.
“It was a nice trip down memory lane.”
The voyage took me to some wonderful places, like the greenhouse and the botanical garden, but also to some truly disturbing places, like the hideout where I was abducted.
He reaches into the glove compartment, pulling out a box, and I immediately know what this is.
“I was hoping that you would spend eternity with me,” he says, opening the box to reveal the biggest red diamond I’ve ever seen in my life. “I can’t imagine a better person to share this life with.”
