The iron gates slammed shut behind the SUV.
The sound echoed through the night like a prison door closing.
Alice looked out the tinted window.
The estate rose out of the forest like something from an old Gothic novel.
Gray stone walls.
Towering spires.
Iron balconies wrapped in dead ivy.
No lights glowed in the upper windows.
It looked abandoned.
But Alice knew better.
She could feel it.
People were watching.
The SUV rolled to a stop beneath a covered entrance.
Before Alice could react, her door opened.
Damien stepped out and offered her his hand.
She looked at it.
Then looked at him.
"I'm good."
Damien sighed.
"I was trying to be polite."
"You kidnapped me."
"...Fair."
He stepped aside as two Hunters approached.
One untied the silver rope from her wrists while the o
