CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Scarlet didn’t know how long she’d been ascending the stone staircase. Shadows ebbed and swelled around her as she took one careful step after the other, her hand running along the rough stone wall to help keep her balance. After having followed the tendril of light inside the tower, she’d found herself in an empty, chamber-like room, with nothing but a zig-zagging staircase before her. With no other options, she’d begun to climb.
As she went, it occurred to her that the tower shape and strange, winding staircase design made it impossible for her to fly. She wondered whether it had been designed that way specifically; a vampire-proof structure, built to ensure that whatever—or whomever—was residing at the top would have plenty of time to prepare for the approaching intrud
