Chapter 74

It was a fortress, no doubt. A huge victorian fortress with tall, thick stone walls. But that wasn't what had my gut in a twist. It was the name... Dreaden. The same name the lady from the candle shop uttered before she got a seizure. But I had heard it way before than that, though I couldn't remember when or where.

They had all been warnings that I so foolishly disregarded.

Now I was paying the price.

I didn't get to mourn over my stupidity for long because yelps from the girls snatched my attention. Two of them were being dragged by a man forcefully.

Something snapped inside me, and I shot to them, pulling them off his clutch.

"They can walk by themselves." I glared at him.

"You-" He took a threatening step towards me when another of them stopped him.

"Let them, Doyle."

He looked like he had an entirely different thing planned in his head for me, nonetheless, he didn't protest.

I turned to the girls huddling around me, and my chest tightened to see the affrighted looks on t