Chapter 5The bathroom was dim and old-fashioned with copper-colored taps as big across as her hand and the distinct sound of scuttling behind the water-stained plaster walls, but the shower was scalding hot, and Dec left her alone with every amenity she could’ve wanted. She bent her head beneath the pounding droplets. How was she supposed to turn her back on somebody needing her help?
But these are monsters, a small voice said inside her. Save them, and you condemn others.
Dec didn’t believe so.
Dec’s one of them.
Dec was different.
So, he didn’t bite you?
The little voice inside Maya’s head was notorious for throwing logic and fact back in her face.
As the water spilled over her shoulders, Maya’s fingers went to the exposed bite on her neck, touching the small raised holes where hi
