We went in opposite directions as I tucked the gun in the hoodie pocket looking around carefully. The building hardly had any guards or servants around as I walked down the corridors. Taking one route trusting my instinct led me only to a dead end. Okay no going with instinct, I said to myself in my head.

It took me a few more corridors to reach the place where we met Jamien in the morning. I half walked and ran as the place got darker making my heart thump.

As I went further, two men came into my view looking at me. There were no men guarding this place when we visited earlier, why were they here now?

"And where might yea' be heading to miss?" the shorter man asked me with suspicious eyes.

"I was asked to fetch a book from the chemist by master Jamien," I answered hoping they would let me through.

"Sorry but the chemist has locked his room and left the palace for the day," the other one replied. Shit, this wasn't good, "Come tomorrow."

"Please you need to help me," I pleaded, "Master Jamien said he needed the book and if I don't get it he'll fire me from the job," I said with tearful eyes.

Both of them looked at each other in question wondering what to do. The color in their face and movements made it obvious that they were humans, which made it advantageous for me.

"Alright," the shorter man said.

"What are you doing?!" the other one responded.

"Ten minutes not gonna harm us, huh. Moreover, yea' know how temper tantrum that vampire is and I need the job," he then raised his hand showing me his fingers, "Ten minutes and not more than that, girl," he said throwing a bunch of keys at me.

"Thank you, so much," I thanked them with relief.

"Let's go take a walk until then, Pete," I heard the man speak as I walked towards the door they were guarding.

Turning the knob I pushed the door getting inside and closed it. I only had to find Marc and everything was going to be easy from there. I went to the floor where Marc was in which had rooms on both sides of the corridor. I knew it wasn't the starting rooms as I remembered walking a few meters before entering the room my friend was staying in. Time to do some trial and error, I thought.

Going to one of the doors, I used the key which opened to an empty room. Not this one. The next one I opened to find two crossbreeds strapped to a bed and wires sticking around them. Definitely not this one either. After a couple more tries, I finally found the room to see Marc sleeping there peacefully.

When I went to open the lock of the chains surrounding his legs, he woke up due to the sound.

"Is it time for food?" he murmured opening his eyes drowsily.

"No, but its time to wake up," I said opening one of the locks quickly. I don't know how many minutes or seconds were left in the ten minutes the guards had given me.

"Lilly? What are you doing here?" he asked me as he yawned loudly.

"We'll be leaving right now. Few complications arose," I added in the end, removing the last lock, "There, all done."

"Thanks, it feels much better now," he said stretching his legs.

When we left the floor and went above I heard voices meaning there were guards again. Before I could say anything, Marc sneezed alerting the guards of our presence there and I mentally face palmed myself to the situation in front of us.

"Whoopsie my bad," he laughed nervously looking at me.

"Whose down there?" one of the guards came down, "Aren't you the patient in room number forty-two? Get back to the room," he ordered Marc and another two guards stepped down from the stairs.

"What's a maid doing here? Call Dr. Kaplan," one of them said to the other.

"Why were there guards if he was a patient, it wasn't like Marc was a criminal unless there was something else going on in here.

"We need to leave right now," I whispered to Marc but they caught on to it. Great, these were vampire guards and not humans.

"I don't think you will listen to us obediently," one of the guard in the front said pulling a long iron rod. I didn't know what it was until I saw white and blue sparks coming out of it. The other vampire guards took out similar rods making us gulp.

They came charging towards us and we dodged it. When one of the guards cornered me we heard a growl from behind and the growling increased in the passing seconds.

I moved to my side to see Dozer standing there looking at the vampire in front of me.

"What's the dog doing here? Someone kick it out," ordered the guard which made the dog growl even more.

When it opened its mouth, I felt my throat go dry. They weren't the normal set of canine teeth instead they were more of vampire teeth. It stood there angry as it growled and challenging them to make a move, looking like a ferocious animal. One of the vampires went for the kill but to only be ripped apart in the end.

"Bloody hell, is that a vampire dog," commented Marc in awe. Not the time to adore it, Marc, I said mentally.

In no time other vampires laid dead there except for one electrocuted by his own rod when he tried to hit Marc with it. I saw Dozer flick its tongue across its teeth, licking the blood clean and coming to stand next to me.

That's when I remembered what Luke had said before leaving me. It was Dozer he was talking about, the dog found its way to me due to the hoodie I wore right now. The hoodie must be covered with Luke's scent.

When the dog rubbed its side to my leg, I was scared where it would bite my leg off from my body but sighed after it walked towards the stairs looking at us. That is when Marc fell down and he held his head in his hands.

"Are you alright?" I asked him worried while he has his eyebrows furrowed in pain and eyes shut.

"Yeah, don't know why I keep getting these headaches...like really sharp ones," he said getting up and when he opened his eyes I understood the reason behind it.

His eyes were gold and brown in color just like the ones I had seen when I came across the crossbreeds.