Not even five minutes after Frank and Joe get into the sedan parked outside the Wallace villa, Philip and Cassian are already back.
Philip is smeared with blood from head to toe. Cassian follows behind him, forcing himself to stay composed.
But it isn't easy to stay composed after what he has just witnessed.
The contrast between Philip's delicate features and the sadistic brutality with which he killed Sophia Wallace and her son Lucas will haunt Cassian for a long time.
They get into the car, with Philip taking the wheel.
They drive along the main road out of Greenwich, then take a shortcut.
A paved road lined with an endless row of trees on both sides, lit only by the car's headlights.
But less than twenty minutes later, Philip suddenly brakes as two large creatures emerge from the trees ahead, blocking the road.
They are primordial vampires, abnormally large — at least twice their normal size.
Frank grimaces in irritation.
