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Brett was shouting something, battering his fists against the magical barrier around him, but Nick couldn’t make out the words. Brett couldn’t save him now. Cara was searching for Quinn and Julia. The witches were locked into the spell circle. Henry was gone.
Nick was alone.
Samuel sank his teeth into Nick’s neck.
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Chapter 64 - Cara
Cara slipped through the building without running into much trouble, although she spent a few frustrating minutes doubling back to find the stairs leading down into the basement. Why was it always a basement?
Cara stopped at the top of the steps leading down, and she had to brace herself. Everything in her body told her not to go down there, but she had no choice. Quinn and Julia needed her.
She took one step, and then another.
It was pitch black, and the vampires would hear her footsteps anyway, so she lit up a flame and gave herself some light. She kept going down, and the air felt damp and musty against her skin, and she kept going, heart pounding in her throat.
Cara got to the bottom, cast another tracking spell, and then followed it.
The darkness was empty, and she was alone. She didn’t want to meet any vampires down here, but the silence was almost worse, in a way. Light pushed through the shadows ahead of her, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
She found more stairs, and she climbed them, and then she found herself in a hallway with heavy metal doors. Each had a small window with bars blocking it, and she hurried forward, passing empty cells until she reached the corner.
Vampire guards stopped and stared at her, and she froze.
There were two of them, and she threw fire before they could react. They yelled out, and she grabbed two stakes from her bag. The flames were already dying when she sent both stakes shooting forward.
The first caught a stake in the side of his chest, and the second took it right through his neck. Cara winced at the sight of it, but they both died quickly, and she stepped over their ashes.
“Hello? Who’s there?”
Cara followed the voice. Several heavy wooden doors with heavy metal locks lined the stone corridor. “Julia? It’s me. It’s Cara.”
“Oh god, Cara, it’s so good to hear your voice. We’re in here.”
Cara found the door, and she pressed her hand against the lock, muttering a spell. The mechanism unlocked with a scrape of rusty metal, and she pushed the door open. It was heavy, and she had to put her body weight against it, but it finally opened with a loud scrape of wood against stone.
Julia pulled her into a hug. “Thank god! Those men, those things, they wouldn’t tell us anything. Where are they? You need to hide if they come back. Are you alone?”
“Slow down,” Cara said. She saw Quinn standing against the wall with her arms wrapped around herself. “You okay?”
“Yeah,” Quinn said, but she didn’t move away from the wall. “I’m fine. What are those things? They weren’t human.”
Cara sighed. “There’s something I need to tell you. Something I should have told you both a long time ago.”
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Chapter 65 - Nick
Samuel sank his teeth into Nick’s neck.
Nick fought the urge to panic, but it didn’t work. Fear consumed him. Fear and pain and shock. He wasn’t strong enough to fight it.
The void roared inside him. Black lines flashed and faded over his skin.
Pain pushed it back, and then the vampire venom entered his system. The void retreated. He could feel it leaving his skin, retreating back into his chest. He tried to focus through the pain. He couldn’t. The pain and the venom were stronger than his anger.
The void coiled up inside him, gathering its strength.
