The hours passed very slowly for Dan and his family. He wondered if those detectives considered what he had told them. It was already getting dark and he wanted to be sure if they would go after Zander or not, so he asked his father to send someone just as an observer.They decided to send Jerome, who would be placed in a strategic position away from the police, if they went, and from the vampires, and would be making continuous reports to them with his cell phone.Jerome arrived in the area at almost eight o'clock at night. He located himself on the roof of one of the abandoned buildings about three hundred meters from the meeting point.The meeting with Zander would be at midnight. He looked for movement in the surroundings with night vision binoculars and realized that the vampires were already beginning to arrive, positioning themselves around the meeting point. He put himself on alert in case they approached where he was and to be able to flee in time. From

Zander watched the smoke from the explosion with great satisfaction. His plan had worked and he was pleased that he didn't have to use anyone else to deal with the alpha's son. For his part, seeing the explosion and with the creature out of the picture, Mulligan gave the order. All the policemen formed a semicircle around where Zander was and began to move forward pointing at him. Seeing that he was surrounded, Zander signaled and the vampires posted in the trees began to descend while others inside the building behind him came out to face the intruders. Seeing that they were coming upon them, Mulligan ordered to open fire on them. The luckiest were the SWAT men, who had machine guns and could hit vampires in the head and heart. Many agents fell after deadly claws and bites. In an instant Mark saw Zander return to the building and enter it. He fought his way through at gunpoint and kicks and went after him. Norma saw him and followed him, but not before taking out a few vampires as

Dan opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling of the room. Next to him, Christopher, Darius, and Amira were waiting to see how he would react after almost a week of being unconscious. His wounds had healed completely and the marks of the bomb splinters could barely be seen on his body.“Dan, how are you feeling?” Christopher asked.“Welcome back, son,” Darius told him. “Tell us: how do you feel?”Dan continued to stare at the ceiling without showing any emotion.“Son, please tell us something!” Amira begged, anguished.A tear welled up in one of Dan's eyes, then ran down his cheek and ended in his ear.Christopher guessed that Dan remembered the whole incident as soon as he woke up.“I see you've remembered everything,” Christopher told him. “I'm so sorry Dan. I'm truly sorry.”“Son, please tell us how you feel...” Darius asked again.&ld

The day after his meeting with the detectives, Dan received a visit from Norma and Erick at his apartment. The reason: to talk about the attack on his uncle Christopher's house. The day after the confrontation where Brooke and several policemen died, Christopher went to them to tell them that the unknown creature had indeed saved him from the attack of the vampires and that he had woken up in Central Park hidden in some bushes. He told them that he did not know why he had saved him or why he had taken his computer. Norma told him what had happened hours before in the abandoned industrial park and Christopher assumed, given the times and circumstances in which it had appeared, that perhaps this creature is waging a war against vampires and that it is saving humans who are at risk before his presence. Norma also made the observation that it was strange that his family was the target of them and he just shrugged his shoulders.Remembering all that, Norma was in front of Dan in h

Talking to that detective about Brooke deepened Dan's feelings of sadness and frustration. Especially when thinking that she could have been one of Zander's concubines or lover. He was so depressed that he didn't want to leave his apartment, not even to buy groceries to replenish his pantry. That same night he wanted to have a drink of whiskey but realized that he did not have it at his house, so he decided to go out and have one in a bar or nightclub. Since he didn't want to have problems, he avoided those close to his house, since he had confirmed that some other vampire came to them, and thus they would not see or recognize him.But he was wrong. His desire to drink some whiskey did not let him see that vampires were scattered throughout the city.He chose a bar in lower Manhattan and once inside he ordered a bottle and brought it to a table. He liked to drink at the bar, but this time was different. He chose a table at the back of the room that seemed to be the most discreet in th