Chapter 76: Nightmares

Vaughn’s POV

I was half-asleep, my back hurting from the springs in the small sofa bed, when I heard it.

Someone was moaning on the other side of the room. Low at first, then higher-pitched, long and drawn out like a keening wail. My eyes shot open in the darkness, and in my partially asleep state, I didn’t know what it was for a moment. A banshee, perhaps? Or, more likely, an intruder.

The wails