Chapter 19Cassie had precious little idea where she was headed when unnoticed by her father, she fled from her flat. It continued to rain a steady drizzle. Wearing only sandals her feet were soaked. She hadn’t bothered to don a coat either. Her anger with her father made her forget such trivialities. How dare he? Couldn’t he see how much in love she was with John? And that stupid notion that he was a vampire. As much as she loved her father with all his eccentricities, she reasoned how she and her mother should think about putting him back in the Golden Lawn institution. Except, she began to feel uneasy once more over the way John’s eyes had darkened so considerably when he saw the crucifix in her father’s hand. She imagined also that she had heard him give a sort of hissing sound, almost
