Chapter 1

Dimitri and I got engaged last year when we were able to save Adrian and his wife from the Alchemist's wraith and are going to marry in the next year. This Thanksgiving we went to Dimitri's family and everyone was happy to see him again after the last visit we had; which wasn't as long as this one has been. Dimitri's mom Olena made a really good dinner for Thanksgiving and I am still in love with her cooking from the last two times I have been here. Dimitri's Grandmother Yeva sat on one end of the table knitting a scarf while humming a tune. She was scary and very wise at her age. While his mom sat on the other end of the table. Karolina who sat between her kids Paul and Zoya on the other side of the table was Dimitri's oldest sister in the family. Next to Dimitri was Sonya his younger sister and next to her was her kid Katya. Then next to Katya was Viktoria the younger sister and who got upset at me for ruining her love life that wasn't true. The guy wanted to have it with her and leave her and she didn't realize it at all. So I sent Zmey also known as Abe Mazur who also is my dad to intervene, ending our friendship; on the last visit she apologized to me so now we are friends again. Dimitri also ripped into her after I told him what happened with her. She was sad but understood where I was coming from after he told her what the guys in her hometown do for money.

Later that night we all went out and sat around a bonfire and made s'mores. Paul kept lighting his on fire and burning it, so Karolina helped make them for him. Zoya kept laughing whenever he kept burning his marshmallows. Karolina yelled at her and told her to stop laughing it wasn't funny at all. Dimitri helped make Katya her marshmallows because she was still a little too young to do it herself. Viktoria and I made perfect marshmallows the way we liked them and it became very messy when we ate ours. Dimitri on the other hand had a hard time with waiting for it to be roasted to the way he liked it. "Why won't this work I have been leaving it in and it didn't even catch on fire," he said. I looked at him and giggled a bit. "Because you don't have it all the way in the fire for it to catch on fire." I said. After a few moments he looked at me and then did it. It caught aflame and he blew it out and did the process over again until he had it to a golden brown all around. After a few more S'mores Katya, Paul and Zoya went to bed.

Dimitri's mom and I helped clean up the mess we all created before we all went to bed. When Dimitri and I went to our room we changed and laid down to go to sleep. While I was sleeping I was pulled into a Spirit dream and in front of me stood my best friend Lissa. Lissa was my best friend since when we were in kindergarten at St. Vladimir's Academy. We had a bond I was her Shadow-Kissed mate, up until Tasha Ozera Christian's Aunt tried to kill Lissa. Naturally I jumped in front of the bullet and took the hit. I died but was able to heal myself from the incident and lost the bond between Lissa and me. "I see your getting better at this." I said. She smiled "Yeah I have learned a lot from Adrian." She said. Adrian was another Spirit user he was my ex-boyfriend. Who fell in love with an Alchemist named Sydney. They got married but the Alchemist's didn't like it; it went against their laws. They live in their own home with a baby boy. They have their hands full and I invited them to my wedding along with Lissa and Christian Ozera her boyfriend. Of course I invited my mom Janine Hathaway and my dad Abe Mazur to the wedding. My dad is going to give me away at my wedding. I gave Olena, Viktoria, Yeva, Karolina, Sonya their invitations; I also told them that the kids were invited. I also went to Oksana and Mark and gave them their invitations. I told them it was going to be here in this town so they didn't have to worry about leaving.

The following morning we ate breakfast with Dimitri's family before we had to head back to the airport. We said our goodbye and told them we would be back to celebrate Christmas if we can. We arrived at the airport and boarded the plane, I sent a messaged to Lissa and told her we were on our way back and would be back to court around night, which was daylight. I got a reply of alright back from her. For the rest of the trip I slept peacefully on the plane. When we got to the airport we took the car we brought back to court. Once we got back to court we went to bed so we can be up early for the meeting that Lissa was holding with the rest of the Royal family.