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Cherny led us down the hall beneath the upstairs balcony and through the depth of the house to the rear. I couldn’t help but notice the many doors on either side, and how all of them were shut, but not locked. I stopped in front of one and the hairs on my arms stood on end.
“What is it?”
I yelped and whipped my head around to find Caius behind me. “I don’t know,” I told him as I looked back to the door. “There’s just something not right about this door.”
“Is that your ‘spider senses’ tingling again?” he teased.
I shot him a half-hearted glare. “Remember the last time we opened a door that we didn’t know where it led?”
He took my hand and pulled me down the hall. “Yeah, and I don’t think either of us want a dog right now.”
We caught up to the others and reached the rear of t
