VALERIA.
My heart crawls right up my throat. My pulse is going up until I can’t breathe, but somehow I still manage to hide behind the wall like the others. I wait for the person or creature to come towards us, but when I look again, it’s gone.
“Did you… did you see that?” I ask in a shaky voice.
“See what?” Celeste frowns.”That hooded person? Do you think it’s the cleaning staff checking on us? I saw the face but I didn’t really recognize who it is.”
I frown. “No. It had red eyes.”
The three of them fall silent. Then Stefano breaks the silence and splutters, “What?”
“The hooded thing had red eyes,” I insist. When they all look at me like I’m crazy, anger starts to rise in my chest. “Don’t look at me like that. I know what I saw.”
“But Valeria,” Auric begins, “there was nothing like
