Chapter 1
Calling in a favor
It has been almost 9 months since I left the academy, since Dimitri left me, since I found out I was pregnant with HIS baby, and to top that off since I found out that there are Strigoi that are after me because they want to turn me so I will be there leader and enslave Moroi, Dhampir and humans. Sounds fun right.
After Dimitri and I spent that wonderful night in the cabin and then the attack that Dimitri survived, he decided to leave me. He gave me the whole it's not you speech but then said that it wasn't him either. He left the next day to go and guard Tasha. Sometimes I really hate her but then I realize that she didn't make him leave. She didn't even offer again but Dimitri was the one who asked her. Just before he left he said that he was doing this for me and blah blah blah.
It was only a couple of days after he left that I found out I was pregnant…..with Dimitri's baby of course . I hated him so much that I wanted to use him as my own personal punching bag. I wanted to beat the crap out of him and tell him that what I was going through was worse than the pain that he was going through. But at the same time I couldn't help the other feeling that I was feeling towards him. Even though I hated him so much, I couldn't help that I was completely and utterly in love with him at the same time.
Just a few days after I found out and after he left, I did something that I knew I might regret later. I left the academy myself. I didn't even tell anybody that I was leaving, or that I was pregnant. Just before the attack had happened I had been talking to mum and she had mentioned my farther. She had said that he was some scary looking mobster dude that lived in Baia, Russia. That's where I went when I left the academy. K went to Baia and asked around where some scary dude was and some kind people took me to his house and I have been living with him ever since.
I had run into some strigoi and they kept calling me the queen of shadows which was weird and really corny. They said that they needed me on their side because I was really powerful. I can control all elements including spirit and an element called shadow that no one really knows about and if i'm Strigoi I keep these powers and they don't go away. I also have strigoi strength and a bit of their speed so i was able to kill them quickly.
After that little incident I went to court and went to the queen and asked her about all this and she said it was all true and that I will always be in danger and that the people around me and people who knew would be in danger all the time as well. Before I left she gave me some old ancient book and said that all the information would be in here. There was 1 main leader of the strigoi and there was hundreds of little groups of about 10 strigoi that track me down. If my friends knew about e they would always be in danger because strigoi would take them and torture them until they got information about me. If they can see their telling the truth they let them go because they think it will make me join them if there nicer about it.
I knew that because I was going to be in constant danger all the time that I couldn't keep my baby girl. So here I am standing on the doorstep of somewhere I don't want to be. My little girl in my arms sleeping quietly. This was going to hurt what I was about to do but I was doing but I knew that she would be safer here than she would be with me. I knocked on the door and within a few minutes it opened.
"Rose. Are you ok? What are you doing here?" asked a concerned Tasha. "I need a favor".