The pain from being hit by so much light at once was what I imagined having a pot of boiling water thrown in your face must have felt like. I screamed and slammed my hands over my face and fell onto the floor, pulling my head down, trying to do my best to create as dark a space as possible. But the lights were so bright that even the darkest place I could make was still too bright. The light overhead burned every inch of my exposed skin, making me feel like I was sitting in an oven.
“There you are,” said an old, deep voice above me. “I thought a vamp might try to get me, but I didn’t think it would happen so soon.”
I slowly raised my head to see who had spoken, though it was hard to see because the light was so bright. I put my hands over my eyes to protect my vision, though even that di
