Dimitri
I recognized the hole where I was before I opened my eyes.
I could feel it in the way the air compressed around me. How the world sounded distant, even with my super hearing. My senses snapped awake on alert as I came to from the blow of the stake driven into my back that had shut my body down. I moved forward automatically. A scream trapped in my throat. Her name.
"Evelyn."
My fist met solid wood, surrounding me on all sides in that narrow prison.
I was trapped, buried six feet under the ground in a damned coffin. I could feel the weight of the earth above me pressing me down. A tasteless provocation from Valerian, carried out by his rats of the night.
Almost two centuries ago, I had awakened and shattered the coffin where I had been buried, consumed by thirst for blood. I c
