Chapter 1

It was a beautiful summer day in July; I was holding Lily a beautiful baby girl with dark brown hair and crystal blue eyes with the most amazing ivory skin you could imagine. I was admiring how much innocence one child could hold. The innocence faded in a warm dream as I got side swiped with a mud ball on my right cheek. Andre, a three-year-old boy with shoulder length blonde hair and green grey eyes darted away from me he knew he was in for it. I handed Lilly back to her mother, as Lissa adored both her children absently I sprung for Andre I was much quicker and even though he was young and fragile, he still seemed to act like a dhampir. Odd based on Lissa's innocence and Christian's awkwardness shouldn't create what I have become. I grabbed his stomach with both of my arms twirling Andre into the air, Mud that layered his body flung rapidly on to me as I ran to catch him he landed into my arms shaking with laughter. Nothing could bring Lissa's son down.

I laid out on a nearby bench watching Lissa and her two kids. The four known Dragomirs left and they were always in danger, Lissa made sure I was appointed head of her protection unit, and she allowed me to choose the other dhampirs who would join me. I shared my beats with Eddie, and two other guys well known from another school in the East. Rio and Maro. Lissa always had me watch close by while everyone else did whatever else they wanted as long as they were observant.

Lissa called me over and I brought the kids into their house. Our relationship was just the same as ever except I held her children in a higher priority then I held her, which she didn't mind because she wanted it that way anyways. Christian walked in juggling a fireball making Andre start giggling and laughing. As Andre reached to touch the fireball when Christian wasn't paying attention, Lissa and I started laughing when Christian was now drenched with water and we herd a faint giggle from lily. All laughter stopped when Eddie stormed through the door nearly ripping off the hinges. "Someone's trying to get through." Eddie said in such force, we have never had a disturbance here. "Have you checked things out or are you just alerting us first", I said as I looked at him in awe, I knew we were in no real danger and after the years I have started to admire Eddie. The way he looked he has grown quite a bit from the academy. Every muscle on his body was know well defined and ripped out of his body, he was swift and alert and loved my family as if his own. "Rose!" Eddie said pulling my attention away from my thoughts. "Rio and Maro are searching for whatever it might…." I cut him off telling him to get the children, Christian, and Lissa and to stay with them until I come back.

Lissa shot her mind into mine, telling me it is ok nothing bad was going to be awaiting me. As Lissa's sense for spirit became stronger she could sense danger from a far distance where I can only sense it when it is almost too late. I ran out the door and towards the forest that lined their home. I met up with the guys, and they just stared at me. I hadn't had the chance to observe because I was hoping they would give me the scoop when I arrived. Rio glanced at me with shock written on his face, and nodded his head toward the forest. As I slowly turned my head I saw a man struggling to walk, his body was disheveled. I cautiously walked towards the man, urging the others to stay behind in case this was a trick. I stopped when the man couldn't hold his burley body weight and collapsed to the floor. I looked around and listened for anything that seemed off as I started toward him again. When I reached him I placed my hand on his back then tilted his face towards me so I could see who he may be. I gasped as I unintentionally dropped his head back to the ground. "Rio, Maro" I yelled, "Come help me get him home, he needs help now!" half pleading, and half an order. I tried to keep my face firm as I barked out orders, but I couldn't keep tears from welting into my eyes. I threw open the door and called for Eddie and Lissa I threw everything off the granite slab. As they laid him on the counter he opened his eyes and said "Roza" dimly. Then his eyes fell again and I started to weep. I yelled for Lissa, and ordered for her to heal him, she must have known it was important from the way I held myself, and the fact that I banned her from doing so. She moved her hands over his body, and then she asked everyone to leave the room.

"He is going to be fine Rose, I promise." She looked at me with hopeful eyes as she stepped through the double doors and closed the curtains. I pulled off my jacket and placed it under his head. Then I grabbed a chair pulling it closer to the counter as I placed my hand into his and I drifted into sleep. I was still half asleep when I heard a faintly familiar voice talking to Eddie asking him where my room was. Whenever I tried to open my eyes they tore back shut. I felt someone pick me up cradling me in their arms, I tried to resist because I didn't want to leave the kitchen, but my body lost over the exhaustion.

I was set into my king size silk bed and felt someone taking my muddy clothes of starting with my shoes and socks then to my shirt and pants. I could not tell who was violating me. My first thought was Adrian we started talking after I graduated. But he has never invaded my privacy such as this before. I felt a hand on my chest and I tried to tell whomever to get the hell off of me, but the only thing that came out was a grumble and a swipe on his hand. Kisses were placed on my neck soft but firm they felt so good but I had to resist I was not losing my virginity to Adrian!

His body now covered mine, as his lips left from my neck to comforting my lips. He bit on to my lower lip and pulled gently off as he whispered "Roza… Tell me if you want me to stop". My eyes flew open and all I could see was Dimitri lying on top of my now naked body. I fought for words but the only thing I could get out was " You left me and I loved you, how could you do that to me, what did I ever do to you to hurt you as bad as you hurt me. What are you…." He kissed me softly cutting off my words. "I had to leave, I was scared I would hurt you I never thought it would hurt you so much my Roza. I never gave my heart or body to anyone but you! Please believe me! I have thought about you over so many years, and I want to be with you forever if you will have me?" That's all I needed I pulled him back into me, ripping my nails through his skin. He laced his fingers through my hair, and kissed my neck making my heart beat so hard I thought he may feel it through my chest. He grabbed on to my right breast and firmly held on to it squeezing it with his large hands. He met my left nipple with his mouth. He sucked on it wistfully as he made my nipple expand outward in pleasure. I have never gone this far with any man, let alone the man I fell in love with five years ago, who just suddenly came back to me. I felt an urge through my body and I started thrusting my hips up and down. I couldn't understand why I was doing this just that it felt right. Dimitri laughed lightly as he put his lips on my ear lobes; pulling on them lightly as he pulled away he looked at me with a cute grin.

He brought his hand to his mouth and spit on it. I was wondering why he would do that, and then he rubbed his fingers on my clit making it wet, he repeated the same action except rubbing it on his extremely large penis. I looked at him with complete shock and fear on my face when he started penetrating. I reached and grasped on to his biceps as I squinted my eyes in pain. Suddenly it stopped, I looked up at him with dismay and he said in astonishment, " My Roza, your still a… a… virgin? I thought after this long you would have at least…." I looked at him blankly and said " I haven't been in love with anyone else but you, I couldn't have given myself to anyone that I don't love, I have came close but I have never been able to bring myself to do it." I said and waited for him to respond I started to get anxious I started to pull my body up from under him in a sitting position, and he forcefully pulled me back underneath him. "Rose, you still love me, enough to give me your innocence? I mean it has been five years and you haven't found anyone else?' I didn't answer either one of his questions I just pulled him towards me and thrusted his cock into me. He made a short moan implying he didn't expect that, the pain finally stopped and he was thrusting into me faster and faster. He rolled off of me and grabbed me positioning me on top of him. He grabbed my ass cheeks and moved me up and down on his penis. I grabbed on to his chest in a tight grip as I started to moan louder and louder. He placed his hand over my mouth and "sssshd" me. I felt myself moving my body around and up and down getting wetter and wetter. Dimitri who has held back any sound moved his hand from my mouth to my thigh squeezing hard enough to leave instant bruises. Dimitri started to moan so loud it made me want it even more. All of a sudden I felt a flow of injection inside of me and Dimitri closed his eyes and sighed. He grabbed hold of my waist and through me backwards onto the bed he put his penis back inside of me and started pounding his body on top of mine. I bit onto his shoulder trying to prevent me from being too loud. I ripped at the pillows as he got deeper and deeper I felt a surge of energy and pure pleasure, and I couldn't help but pull away and moan. When I was done he stopped like he knew what just happened and gave me a sexy smile, he then pulled away and wiped his fingers along my clit indicating how wet I got, then he put them into his mouth and sucked my juice of his fingers.

He collapsed next to me, I didn't want it to be over even though and hour had gone by it seemed too quick. I sat at his knees, and put my mouth over his penis licking his cum off the tip of his dick. I sucked on his tip as I moved my hand up and down his penis. Dimitri hadn't expected any of this. He pulled his body on his elbows as he was observing what I was doing to him. Every once and a while he would gasp or moan.

He would pull my hair out of my face and push his penis further into my mouth. Finally he exploded into my mouth. I never knew how disgusting it tasted and then I swallowed he looked at me with a face that told me swallowing was hot.

I lay next to him and almost doze asleep when he says " I never did anything with Tasha, I couldn't come to it I loved you too much to do it I still love you!" I love you too was all I said back and then I fell asleep. I woke up and Dimitri was standing there with scrambled eggs and bacon with ketchup. I knew Adrian came over to cook because it was exactly how I liked it. I wonder how Adrian was doing know that he knew Dimitri was back. I mean Adrian finally got rid of him and he had a shot with me not that were dating just talking still. Dimitri sat down, brushing my hair aside and kissed my forehead."Good morning my love how was your night?" He said with a bright smile plastered on his face. " It was perfect" I replied it came out shy " I have business to attend to and then I will come back I promise I wont be long it is just that the strigoi attacked last night and Tasha was killed, I tried to get her to listen but she just wouldn't listen, I .. I…" I cut him off as a tear ran down his perfectly structured face. "I will be here waiting for you… Is Adrian here?" A smirk ran across his face and he said, "Oh your boyfriend yes he is here and he warned me to stay clear away from you or he would kill me. He is tied to the tree if you decide to rescue him, as for me I think he is in love with you as much as I am." He laughed then retreated through my bedroom doors leaving me staring behind him. I ate my breakfast then jumped in the shower I got out and got dressed in my typical clothing jeans and a tank top. I went outside, to try to find which tree Adrian was tied to I finally found him bordering the forest where the lake formed. He was tied to an old oak tree that almost submerged itself in the clear lake water. I started to laugh as I approached the tree, and he gave me a warning look. "You must have done something really bad to be stuck to a tree about to drown" I said with a light tone. "I don't like him Rose stay away from him! He broke your heart once hell do it again. It took me five years to make you want to love again and he'll break you within two seconds." I looked at him and I must have given myself away because he lashed out trying to pry himself helplessly away from the tree.

"Rose how could you just give yourself a way that easy? You don't think that he's going to think your easy now. That's all he's going to expect from you now. What were you thinking? I'm going to fucking kill him!" I walked over to him untying the ropes from his body letting him drop easily into the lake " Your aura is disgusting, you fumble all over him you didn't think he fucked that whore he stayed with" I looked at him blankly and then looked away a tear falling from my face. " Oh Rose, I'm sorry you didn't know of course you will believe whatever that asshole says, but I love you even if you don't love me and I will not let him hurt you again! Baby come here" I walked to him but only on repeat mode I was used to it I didn't really want to but I wanted to be comforted what if he did lie to me what if he did have a relationship with her. Adrian took me into his arms and let me cry something Lissa has only witnessed me doing. We walked back to the house hand in hand and met up with Lissa and Christian in the kitchen after six years of being together they were still crazy for each other.

"Where's Belikov?" Christian said, I looked down and Lissa nudged him to keep his mouth shut. "He's at a meeting. Your aunt was killed by strigoi and he went to make strategy plans with the royals. Christian gasped in disbelief. "Why didn't Belikov do anything?" He said as harsh as possible. "She wouldn't stay inside she refused to listen to him, he came here because he had nowhere else to go." Christian lightened up but left the room abruptly. Lissa shrouded her shoulders and went after him. Adrian turned me around and kissed me just then, which was odd we never kissed. Just then Dimitri walked in the front door with Eddie and they both paused staring at me. Adrian pulled away and looked at them with a wicked smile. Just then Dimitri's fist met Adrian's face knocking him unconscious. I stared at Dimitri then at Adrian's limp body next to my feet on the floor. Dimitri grabbed my hand and forced me to follow I looked back at Eddie and he just grunted having no clue what was going on.

I followed Dimitri to a cove on the lake. He suddenly stopped and stared at me with dismay. "I am not going to ask what that was about I trust that it was not you kissing him it was him kissing you. Is that correct?" I just shook my head in agreement. "Now by all means this is your life and I haven't come to ruin it if you want to be with him that's fine, as long as you're happy. I know I hurt you, and it is going to take a lot for you to trust me but please try. I need you I have went to long without your embrace I cannot take it any longer, and if he even tries touching you in front of me he is going to endure a lot more than a black eye". I nodded my head again I have never been without words especially around Dimitri I always had a reply to everything he has always said. He picked me up and slammed my back against the wall of the cove and he pressed his lips roughly to mine " I have always been yours, and you have known that all along haven't you" I sighed and gripped my fingers through his thick dark hair "I love you" I said, and then he put me down suddenly realizing what I had just said. All he said was my name in Russian and goose bumps flared up all over my body.

We found ourselves running back to the manor, when I heard Lissa's screams in my head. I stopped and tried to feel for where she was exactly. Dimitri stared at me instantly realizing what was wrong, something Adrian would have asked twenty questions about throwing me off direction. I sprang forward to the south side of the building not paying attention to anything as usual just trying to stop whatever it was that was endangering my family. As I turned the corner I felt some ones forearm strike my face bluntly, as I propped myself up I saw a female strigoi with blonde hair surrounded by flames holding Lily. When I looked towards Lissa her eyes were shadowed in black and anger, I could feel her weighing me down when I got up Dimitri was taking on five male strigoi by himself striking one in the chest with a stake and ripping another's head clear off. I ran toward him knocking one of the strigoi in to the fire surrounding Lily he lit up like a torch Eddie came from behind taking one as Dimitri took on another. I ran up to the female surrounded by flames and told Lily to put them out for such a young child she was powerful with her given ability. Lily doused the flames as I jumped at the Strigoi hurling Lily into the air, Andre an earth user commanded a willow tree to catch her fall he wasn't as good as commanding his power so pore Lily fumbled once she hit the floor. I took the strigoi out breaking her neck and then Christian lit her on fire.

Lissa broke down in tears holding on to Lily with all the strength she could. Eddie checked the perimeter once more making sure everything was safe. Dimitri ran up to me holding on to me asking me if I was ok. "I am fine, how did they get in without alerting us?" Eddie followed up but couldn't find one fault how they would be able to get in here without us noticing anything " The wards aren't down I cannot find out how they did that but that was all of them. There are no more!" I sighed then picked up Andre and cradled him into my arms. Kissing his forehead and making sure he hadn't been touched by any of the strigoi. I put him down then winced at a pain that flowed through my back and stomach. I ran inside running towards the bathroom I barely made it as I hurled into the toilet bowl. "I am alright," I said as Adrian answered me not Dimitri. " I know your all right but there is something you should know and I am not too excited about telling you myself" He said in an angry tone, I stared up at him letting him know if he doesn't tell me soon I was going to kill him myself, instead of letting Dimitri have all the fun. "You have an extra aura around you. Yours is grey and black where the other one is white and vibrant." I looked at him not understanding anything he had just said. "Rose, you're pregnant!" He yelled at me then stormed off. I felt myself getting light headed and started seeing those fuzzy dots then I must have passed out.

When I woke up Lissa was lying next to me sleeping with Lily lying beside her wiggling her toes and giggling at herself. Lissa opened her eyes and smiled at me "How are you feeling" "I'm Fine, have you talked to Adrian has he said anything to you?" "Yea he told me you were pregnant but I thought he would be a lot more excited hearing that news and why didn't you ever tell me your relationship has gone that far tell me more…" she egg'ed me on with her speech as I chocked down vomit from my stomach. " I cannot be pregnant Lissa I haven't slept with Adrian I slept with…" Dimitri stormed through the door looking at me with puppy eyes throwing his duster onto the couch beside my bed. "Baby are you all right, it is ok that you lied to me we can get through this Roza, it is fine" He said everything absent mindingly not even paying attention to the fact that Lissa was sitting right there. "Dimitri, Lissa I cannot be pregnant the only person I have ever slept with in my whole life is you!" I blurted it out staring right at Dimitri, I didn't even want to know what Lissa's face was telling me but I blocked out everything she was yelling at me through her mind. "There is No physical way I could carry a child with you that's how I know I am not pregnant" Dimitri and Lissa's face froze, I looked down and started to cry once again another thing Rose Hathaway would never do. Dimitri left the room when Lissa gave him a look and handed lily to him.

"Rose I know this is hard to hear and incredibly unbelievable but you are pregnant I can feel something inside of you, If you want I could find out if there is any possible reason as to how?" I sighed and gave the, I don't care look and she left the room without another word. She sent Dimitri back in the room to consol me. "Rose if you are scared to tell us the truth just let me know I will love you no matter what and your child too I promise." "Dimitri, I haven't slept with anyone else! Only you! I am not lying why won't you believe me if there is anything in me it's yours, I promise why would I lie to you" He grabbed a hold of my shoulders and pulled me in to his giant arms and his broad chest holding on to me. "So it's mine" he whispered and I just nodded my head. I profusely began to cry.

Adrian walked in without a knock, he sighed and said "your shadow kissed. That is why this is happening your spirit is connected with the dead but a part of it still thirsts for life since Dimitri's sperm is dead to your body and since your both dhampirs your body wants to turn what is dead into life because that is what you truly seek, as for your child it will most likely be an abomination since light and dark both would have touched your child he or she would look like an angel but sin like the devil a perfect creation of bad and good." Dimitri and I fell silent and then I passed out.