THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
It reached out a long, slender hand, its nails hovering just centimeters from her throat.
"You are the key to the vault," the creature continued, its eyes swirling with a hypnotic, intoxicating violet. "The Council has decided that the Silver Thorn will no longer be a weapon of the Church, nor a plaything for Vesper. You will be our witness."
The iron door finally buckled, the metal shrieking as it was peeled back like tin foil.
Dominic stood in the threshold, his black robes billowing, his face twisted in a mask of righteous, terrifying fury. He held a high-frequency sonic emitter, a weapon he clearly intended to use to wipe the archives clean of every living thing”human or otherwise.