Chapter Twenty-Two: What is Your Motive?:

Water dripped in the background.

Lauren’s eyes glanced left and right. The endless darkness made her heart pound against her chest.

What is this?

The drops echoed in her head. Drip. Drip. Drip. Lauren covered her ears.

“Gah!” she complained. The vampire tried to look for an escape.

“Hello?” she asked. Her echo filled the darkness. Lauren grabbed onto her arms, shivering.

“Do you know why you are here?” a voice asked. The vampire turned around. Deep red eyes stared back at her. Lauren moved into a fighting stance.

“You!” she shouted. The eyes narrowed her.

“Come now,” they said. “Do you really think that it wise? I don’t have a body in this realm and you can’t find me.”

“Then where are you?” Lauren asked, looking around.

“I’m the one asking questions here,” the voice said. “Now, do you know why you are here?” The vampire rolled her eyes.

“Because you trapped me here?” she asked.

“No.”

“No?”

“Why are you here in life?”

“What do you mean?” Lauren blinked. “I exist, because I do.”

“I mean after you became a sun creature.”

“Sun… Creature? What are you talking about?”

“You are a vampire who can walk in the sun. That is not normal.”

Lauren glared at the darkness. “Well, that’s not my fault.”

“But does it matter?”

“What?”

“You are the end results of what humans did. So why do you still exist?”

The target froze. “I… I…”

“You don’t know?”

Lauren shook her head. The eyes appeared closer in front of her.

“And that’s what makes you the most dangerous.”

“Lauren? Lauren? Lauren!” Fred yelled on the outside. The female vampire turned to see Fred still behind the wheel driving his car. Lauren tried to reach out to him, but a thin pale hand grabbed her by the wrist. The vampire gritted her teeth and tried to fight her off.

“Let go!” she snapped.

“Why?” the voice asked. “I’m not done with you yet.” Lauren turned around with big eyes.

“What?” she asked. The eyes had a huge grin now.

“You still haven’t answered all of my questions it,” the voice said. The dripping water grew louder than ever. Lauren winced and shut her eyes as she broke down screaming.

“Lauren!”

The vampire opened her eyes. Lauren found herself back in the car. She panted wildly as she looked around. What was that just now?

“Lauren?” Fred asked. The vampire turned her focus towards him.

“Huh?” she asked.

“I’ve been calling you for the past five minutes,” he said. “Are you feeling okay? Do you want me to turn or keep going straight?” Lauren blinked at first.

“Huh?” she asked. Then her ears caught the vampires chasing them in the sky again. It didn’t take her long to remember what was happening.

“Yes,” she said at last. “I’m fine. Turn right up ahead. There is a tunnel. I’ll come up with a way to lose them there.”

“You sure?” Fred asked. His passenger pressed her lips together as she pulled her knees to her chest.

“Yes!” Lauren said with her voice trembling.

“Okay,” he said. The shop owner stepped on the gas as his passenger looked out the window with her lips pressed together. She could still feel that hand grabbing onto her wrist, sinking its nails deeper into her skin.