Lucien POV ---The graveyard should have been silent.Instead, the fog moved like it had opinions.Samantha trudged beside me with her crowbar, glaring at every shadow.“If something undead jumps at me, I’m committing a felony.”“You are not capable of defeating a vampire with that,” I said.“You haven’t seen me angry enough.”Fair.The air felt tight, trembling—because the House was humming through her bones,panicking.And if the House was panicking, we should have been running.But instead, here we were, walking toward the one place she desperately didn’t want us to go.Samantha muttered, “Brenda is having a meltdown, and we’re doing a field trip. Excellent life choices.”She had named the manor Brenda.I had stopped trying to understand.---We reached the mausoleum.Samantha lifted her phone.Then the light burst on—bright, unnatural.I recoiled like she’d slapped me with the sun.“Put that sorcery away,” I hissed.“It’s a flashlight.”“It burns without fire.”“That’s kind of t
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