The moment I twisted open the knob, I had a sinking feeling that something was terribly wrong. It was a sort of psychic awareness that there was danger and an unexplainable negative energy coming from the inside. Two possibilities came to my mind; it was either one; Grace had successfully cast the masking barrier spell and this was one of its enforcements, or two; an uninvited and unwelcomed guest was inside. I turned to Seth; trying to see if he felt the same thing; if it was only a witch thing and not a vampire thing or if I was just being pessimistic and overthinking it as usual. He seemed confused by my hesitation. I shrugged off the thought of something bad happening and went in. Maybe my expectation for bad things to happ

