Chapter 16

VERONICA

For five minutes, I stood trying to figure out where the door could be. It's just a large wall surrounding me. The walls aren't as tall as the ones inside the castle. I might be able to pass through.

I walk over to the side that has branches on it, but just as I am about to climb over, someone coughs behind me. I wish I was really hallucinating because the thought of getting caught has left a tight knot in my stomach. I pretend not to have heard anything.

"What are you doing?" The person finally asked. It was a face I had never seen in my life.

"What do you mean?" I am your new princess. I mean princess-to-be. So what did you say again?" I tried to use my position to intimidate him, but that didn't work on him.

"A princess to be should be in a room, not trying to jump over to the vampire's world."

"Vampires... vampires what?" I almost forgot that vampires live here. If, for anything, I acted recklessly and they found me, I would be dead meat in an instant. Imagine hundreds of