POV Rose Ch.1
I felt myself tossing and turning all night, when suddenly a soft hand touched my cheek. It startled me and I jumped awake only to find Adrian lying next to where I was. "Sorry I jumped, you just scared me." I didn't need to see his face to know he was concerned about me, "was it the dream again?" when he said that I felt my head pounding and my stomach do some wicked flips. I couldn't trust my voice so I just nodded my head; he reached up and squeezed my hand, "Rose I swear I will protect you from anything and everything." I tried to smile to reassure him but it faltered, he was so overprotective sometimes. "Oh Ya? How are you going to do that?" I added emphases to the 'you' just to pick at him. I raised my eyebrow and looked him up and down. He gave me a devilish smile and threw his chin up with defiance, "I`ll order a thousand guards if I have to, anything for my little dhamphire." His smile turned serious, "he will never hurt you again Rose that I swear."
The way he said that made me remember my dream from earlier. It had been about him…Dimitri. I could only remember clips of it tough. First it was Dimitri taking me hostage and how he fed off of me, keeping me weak. Then worst of all how he claimed to love me…. and how I let him. Even now I couldn't believe what happened; I could still feel those red strigoi eyes watching me making me shiver. Then I dreamt about my escape on the bridge, "Rose, stay with me, become strigoi and take your rightful place as my queen." I stayed there crouched in front of him with my stake in hand, I was exhausted but I managed a small snort, "I would rather die than become your queen of the living dead." I spat it out with as much venom as possible. He mimicked my stance and shrugged, "That's too bad, you would have been a great leader." And with that he lunged at me but not before I could shove my stake into his chest, I stood there and watched as he fell over the bridge and into the lying river below. The only problem was that I always woke with a feeling, like my mind was telling me something I didn't know.
It was Adrian's touch that pulled me from my thoughts, "You sure you're okay?" I nodded "Ya, I`m fi-" suddenly a wave of nausea rolled over me. "Rose, what's wro-" I cut him off to run to the bathroom with my hand over my mouth. Adrian was right behind me holding my hair back as I puked. He stayed there against my wishes until I was done and helped clean me up. "I'm sorry you had to see that." I was ready to cry but before I could Adrian pulled me into a reassuring hug as he rubbed circles in my back. "Its okay little dhamphire, now go lay down." I nodded and climbed into bed as I silently watched him go around the room turning off all the lights. He finally climbed in next to me and I leaned into him for support as he pulled me closer, he started to whisper something calm and soothing into my ear but before I could make out what he was saying I was already fast asleep.
