#Chapter 119: Help

My heart was hammering. I was injured. If this was Candido, then he was too weak to do anything. We were going to die. And if this wasn’t Candido, I’d never see him again. I couldn’t help but cry more. I knew in my heart that this wasn’t Candido. This wasn’t my Candido. I didn’t know and I didn’t care who this was, but I didn’t want to die with a stranger. “When I give the signal and let you go,” he said. “Run. Do you understand me?” I sniffled. “Candido… I want Candido…” One of the vampires in the front lifted their hand. The imposter tightened his grip on me a little. A little flicker of light swirled in the air and the ceiling of the cave pulled apart, letting the moonlight spill over us. The humid, cold air of the cave lifted and I could breathe deeply. I held still as every movement seemed to just make the pain worse. A staircase grew out of the wall between us and the group of vampires. The group didn’t move any closer. Several of them began to disappear into the darknes