Chapter 4

"So, what dose the paper say next?" I asked, looking around the room.

Dimitri got up and made his way to the kitchen and brought everybody drinks out. I got up and looked at the drinks to see that he brought out root bear, coke and water. I haven't really thought about it but I was pretty thirsty from all of the reading.

I still didn't know what all of this really means, these books in my life.

Before, I knew it I everybody were making there way around Dimitri for drinks. Before, I could get over there, all of the root bear were gone. Which kinda made me a bit mad of course, there was only water left.

I sighed.

"Here, Rose." Dimitri said, handing me something. Root bear! "I saved you one."

I took it from his hand right away, drinking it down, "Thanks Dimitri."

Looking over towards Adrian with a smile to see that he had two drinks too. He was looking right at me, kinda holding the one of the drinks out towards me. The root bear out towards me and a water in his other hand.

He also saved me a drink.

He turned away and placed the root bear on the table and sat back down in his seat. It was sweet of him to save me a drink, it was also sweet of Dimitri to save me a drink too. I gave him a small sad smile before taking my seat as well.

"So Lissa? What do we have to read now?" I asked, cupping my my drink with both hands.

"OH, OK let me look." Lissa said, looking back over the small paper. "Oh, here it is. Read chapter twenty, page 277 and it saids for Christian to read this time.

I looked toward Christian, who for the first time, a little sly.

"Really? Sweet? I get to read a part of Rose's life in her point of view! Goodie!" Christian gave us all a small smile.

"Just ahead in read it!" I told him, "No one really cares."

Christian started reading...

Isaiah swept in with Elena in tow. I had a fight a sneer when I saw her. He was arrogant and mean and all-around evil. But he was that way because he was a leader. He and the strength and power to back up his cruelty- even if I didn't like it. But Elena? She was lackey. She threatened us and made snide comments, but most of her ability to do so came from being his sidekick. She was a total suck-up.

"Wait.." I told everybody, "This is from the time that we got kidnapped!"

Christian stared at me, "Duh!"

Sometimes Christian makes me so mad! But, I still smiled and told him to go on.

"Hello, children," he said, "How are we doing today?"

Sullen glares answered him.

He strolled over to Mia and Christian, hands folded behind his back. "Any changes of heart since my last visit? You're taking an awfully long time, and it's upsetting Elena. She's very hungry, you see but- I suspect- not as hungry as you two."

"Man," Christian came out of his state of mind. "I always hated that guy."

"Everyone did." Mia laughed with a smile.

Christian narrowed his eyes. "Fuck off," He said through gritted teeth.

He stopped to think about how this might look before going back on.

Elena snarled and lunged towards. "Don't you dar-"

Isaiah waved her off. "Leave him alone. It just means we wait a little longer, and really it's an entertaining wait."

Elena eyes shot daggers at christian.

"Guys, I got to say something." Christian stopped reading. "I am such a badass!"

"Honestly," continued Isaiah, watching Christian, "I can't decide which I want more: to kill you or have you join us. Either option offers its own amusements."

"Don't you get tired of hearing yourself talk?" asked Christian.

Isaiah considered. "No. Not really. And I don't get tired of this, either."

He turned around and walked toward Eddie. Poor Eddie could barely sit upright in his chair anymore after all the feedings he'd gone though. Worst, Isaiah didn't even need to use compulsion. Eddie's face simply lit up with stupid grin, eager for the next bite. He was adduced as a feeder.

I looked over to Eddie, who was staring at the book in front of him, a look of shame on his face. "Eddie. That wasn't really you in there...you had no choice."

Eddie only gave me a small nod.

Anger and disgust flooded through me.

"Damn it!" I yelled. "Leave him alone!"

Isaiah glanced back at me. "Be silent, girl. I don't find you nearly as amusing as I do Mr. Ozera."

"Of course, he didn't." Christian told me, "I'm damn right adorable!"

"Just keep reading, Christian. No one really cares." I told him.

I hear a few small laughs coming from our friends around me.

"Yeah?" I snarled. "If I piss you off so much, then use me to prove your stupid point. Bite me instead. Put me in my place, and show me what a badass you are."

"No!" exclaimed Mason. "Use me!"

Mason. I sighed. My old friend, my best friend. God, I missed him so much.

I felt tears coming out of my eyes.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?"

He strolled away from Eddie and put a finger under Mason's chin, tiliting his head up. "But you," Isaiah said, "Don't really mean it. You only offer because of her." He released Mason and walked in front of me, staring down with those black, black eyes. "And you... I didn't really believe you at first either. But now?" He knelt down so that eh was at my height. I refused to look away from his eyes, even though mean it. And it's not all mobility, either. You do want it. You really have been bitten before." His voice was magical. Hypnotic. He wasn't using compulsion, exactly, but he definitely had an unnatural charisma surrounding him. Like Lissa and Adrian. I hung on his every word. "Lots of times, I'd guess," He added.

He leaned toward me, breath hot against my neck. Somewhere beyond him, I could hear Mason shouting something, but all of my focus was on how close Isaiah's teeth were to my skin. In the last few months, I'd only been bitten once- and that was when Lissa had en emergency. Before then, she'd bitten me at last twice a week fro two years, and I had only recently come to realize how addicted to that I'd been. There is nothing – nothing- in the world like a Moroi bite, like the flood of bliss it sends into you. Of course, by all accounts, Strigoi bites were even more powerful...

I didn't dear look up from the book, scared of the looks I might get.

"Rose, you only did all of that to help me.." Lissa told everybody. "I wouldn't have made it without her."

I swallowed, suddenly aware of my own heavy breathing an racing heart. Isaiah gave a low chuckle.

"Yes. You're a blood whore in the making. Unfortunate for you – because I'm not going to give you what you want.

He backed away, and I slumped forward in my chair. Without further delay, he returned to Eddie and drank. I couldn't watch, but it was because of envy this time , not disgust. Longing burned inside of me. I ached for that bite, ached for it with every nerve in my body.

When Isaiah finished, he started o leave the room, then paused. He directed his words at Mia and Christian. "Don't delay." He warned. "Seize your opportunity to be saved." He tilted his head toward me. "You even have a willing victim."

He left. Across the room, Christian met my eyes. Somehow, his face looked even gaunter then it had a couple of hours burned in his gaze, and I knew I wore the complementarity one: a desire to sate that hunger. God. We were so screwed. I think Christian realized it at the same time. His lips twisted into a bitter smile.

"You never looked so good, Rose." He managed, just before the guards told him to shut up.

"Rose..." Christian told me. "You make me sound so messed up!"

"Sorry, but the truth hurts, huh?" I asked.

End of chapter 4

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