Logan.
I held tightly to Mom and Dad’s hands.
I had already said I wouldn’t go.
I thought the voice would stop.
But I was wrong.
Behind the mansion… in the dark part of the forest… I saw the red eyes slowly glowing in the shadows.
Like two flames staring straight at me.
And I heard the voice again.
Lower.
Colder.
More dangerous.
“So you are brave, child…”
The air seemed to grow colder.
The guests inside the mansion could not hear it. They could not see those eyes.
But I knew Mom and Dad could.
“You do not need to come to the gate,” the voice continued.
“You are right.”
I frowned slightly.
If that was true… then why was it calling me?
That was when I felt a strange tremor beneath the ground.
At first, it was faint.
Like something moving deep below the earth.
Then it gr
