THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
The light revealed the double’s face, now beginning to dissolve, the skin sloughing off to reveal something beneath”not bone or muscle, but a complex weave of synthetic silver filaments.
Cattleya turned toward the back of the vault. She couldn't stay here. She couldn't go back to the archives, and she certainly couldn't go back to the cathedral.
She walked deeper into the labyrinth, following the rows of canisters. The numbers were climbing: 600, 700, 800.
At the very end of the row, she found a door”a heavy, circular bulkhead that looked like it belonged on a submarine. There was no keyhole, only a handprint scanner.