“We have to get in there,” Connor said, nodding towards the door.
I took a deep breath. It didn’t matter how in touch I was with myself. These guys were still the master vampires that had killed Zelda and Ruben. Carl swallowed hard enough for me to hear next to me, and I knew he thought the same thing.
“Together,” I said to him, and he understood. A part of this would be for Ruben after all.
Connor felt the door but it was locked. Somehow I hadn’t thought it would be open. There was no way to get in, I could feel the metal all round. So Connor knocked on the door like we had an appointment. Sometimes the only way to go was forward.
For a moment nothing happened. Then the door clicked like a lock was being turned, and it opened.
The leader opened the door.
“Well,” he said, looki
