Bound By Blood
My hands refused to let go of the seat, my knuckles pale.
Then the car turned down a winding road flanked with towering cypress trees, and my heart began to hammer. At the end of the road stood a massive wrought-iron gate, black and cold as the grave. It creaked open with agonizing slowness, as if daring me to turn back before it closed again.
But I didn’t. I couldn’t.
Once the gates clanged shut behind us, I knew the truth, there was no way out.