I'm sure all the fan-fiction readers are getting bored of this story line but I just had to write it. I've tried creating a slightly different atmosphere by adding in a few new characters.
This story takes place about five years or so after Shadow Kiss. The cabin scene still takes place but there was never a strigoi attack. Tasha Ozera, yet again, asks Dimitri to be her guardian – and maybe more. Dimitri decides he's ruined Rose's life enough – and endangered the Princess's safety – so he accepts Tasha's offer. Uh-oh, wrong decision.
[Short description of the five years]
So Rose is left heart broken at the academy. Little does she know she has more trouble to add to her list – I don't know actually maybe this 'more trouble' is for the best, up to you! Nine solid months after Dimitri leaves her, Rose gives birth to two adorable babies. *Son: Mikhail B Hathaway Daughter: Mika B Hathaway* Being shadow-kissed allows her to have a child with another dhampir – cool huh?
Rose is coping, some how, with her life and with her angelic but troublesome twins. Her hearts been damaged way beyond repair and she hasn't met up with the father of her children since he left her. At the moment she lives in a house by the academy, where she teaches. Her best friend, Princess Lissa Dragomir, and boyfriend, Christian Ozera, live next door.
Her mother, Janine Hathaway, has lost contact with Rose after she refused to tell her who the father of her twins' was. Adrian Ivashkov, Rose's second best friend, is also around. He is irrevocably in love with Rose but does he's best to hide it, although Rose knows all of this. After her former lover, she decided she's too afraid to get into another relationship.
The latest news in Rose's world: Eddie Castile is going out with Mia Rinaldi! It was bound to happen one day. Although Eddie is Christian's guardian, while Christian is at the academy or the court he is protected by the wards anyway.
[End of short description]
Rose, the twins, Lissa, Christian, and Eddie have just spent Christmas at the court with Adrian and Mia but Kirova has asked them back one week early. They come home to find some unexpected – and unwanted – visitors.
As Tasha is a royal she has to have two guardians. This new guy is called Ricardo Starov.
Tasha is with Dimitri and they – or maybe just Tasha - have some exciting news … you have to read the first chapter to find out!
Is Dimitri Belikov seriously acting slightly out of role and jealous? Is this new guardian, Ricardo Starov, acting a bit too comfortable around Tasha? Wait, did he just flirt with Rose? Nah, she would have kicked his butt by now …
*The twins' names. My little Russian name research gave me Mikhail and Mika. Mikhail is meant to mean 'who is like God' and Mika 'God's child'. So like Mikhail is Rose's little God – in replacement of her other Russian god – and Mika is sort of God's child. You get it? :) Cheesy, I know …