Be Careful When You Bite Me novel Chapter 12

The more I walked the more I discovered, more closets, more rooms, more of everything, but still no dungeon. I walked through the kitchen where Damon and Isabelle had been and wondered who Isabelle even is. It was clear that she had a certain romance with Seth but there was something with Damon too. Besides the Queen, she was the only other vampire girl I've met.

And been bitten by.

I had been walking for what must have been half an hour before opening up a pair of double doors that led outdoors. Not completely outdoors, just a few meters of grass before large metal gates lined the perimeters making it impossible to escape. I decided to take what I can get and walked on the grass, breathing in the fresh air that felt like the only normal thing left in my life right now.

I squinted my eyes and looked up at the sun. I realized I hadn't actually seen or felt the sunlight on my skin for days now and also realized that everything I had done outside the castle walls had been during the night.

I wondered if it was true that vampires couldn't be out in the sunlight and if that's why the castle was so quiet.

Are they.... sleeping?

I searched the trees in hopes of finding a bird or a squirrel, something to remind me of life before The Underworld but I didn't see a living creature anywhere. I let out a soft sigh and was about to head inside when I felt my shoes touch something that wasn't grass. I looked down at my feet to see a large square piece of metal that almost resembled the doors of an underground tunnel. The word dungeon echoed in my head as I reached down and slid my fingers underneath in an attempt to lift it up. I felt dirt slide up in my nails but continued to pull at the piece of metal. I was almost convinced that it was merely a piece of scrap stationed in the ground until the door lifted up abruptly, sending me flying backward. I stepped forward and opened it all the way, revealing a dark wooden stairway leading down into the ground.

My breathing quickened and I stood restlessly in confusion.

What do I do? Do I go down there?

Part of me was afraid of the journey down the creepy stairs but a majority of me was more afraid of what I would find.

My head was racing with a thousand thoughts of images that should have sent me running in the opposite direction. The sudden image of the lady in the village came to my mind. I saw her fall to her knees and cry out for the guards to spare her son. The pain in her voice had been so desolated, almost as if she had lost hope and they had already killed him.

I spun on my heels and looked around in panic.

If the vampires could somehow be sleeping right now...if the sunlight is the reason they aren't out right now to shout at me for being out....if that man is down there right now...how would I sneak him out of the castle if I couldn't even sneak myself out?

If I could somehow hide him until I figured it out or maybe-

It would be both our funerals.