Chapter 27

Narrative P.O.V.

Daniel and Jai walked in a drowsy daze down the stairs to the basement. Earlier, at around three in the morning, each of their phones lit up on their nightstands, summoning then down to the

basement.

They walked into the cold autopsy room where Cain stood between two metal examination tables. The two men on the examination tables had been cut into, their chests open and ventral sections of their rib cages removed to reveal dead organs.

Daniel and Jai both recognized the men as the one Jai had killed at Otto Müller's funeral and the other as the man who had broken into the castle, nearly killing Ella.

"What do you want, Cain?" Daniel sighed, rubbing his eyes.

"What do you see when you look at these men?" Cain asked them.

Cain speaking in a normal speaking voice in the small, metal room made an echo that rung in Jai and Daniel's tired ears.

"I see corpses who are getting more sleep than I am," Jai muttered.

"You're looking at Vampires who had once been human," Cain said