Rose POV

I wake up to hear my brother's blood curling scream. I always hated that sound knowing that I can't do anything to help.

God. I just want to know what happened to cause this kind of reaction from him. Just think Rose. I thought to myself. I couldn't remember. Until I saw him through the crack in the door.

That god for saken bastard. Is he not satisfied enough with the pain he's already caused us? With that thought, I remember what happened.

We had been running from the academy for a month. We left after our parents died in a car accident. My best friend Vasilisa Dragomir (Lissa, we call her) was with us. We were coming back from our vacation, and my parents and I were arguing about my constant partying. Johnathon and Lissa were trying to get me to stop because they hated to watch. We got into a wreck and both me and my parents were killed. Lissa brought me back, and her boyfriend Christian researched it. I'm shadow-kissed. Much like St. Vladimir's badass guardian Anna. Dimitri mentored me for a few months, before Johnathon and I left. We fell in love and got together a month before I left. I left him. Stop! Rose, you had no choice. I told myself that daily. I know he doesn't want me anymore. And I don't blame him.

We went to stay with my grandmother for a couple of weeks. She had a new boyfriend that liked to beat them. He killed my grandmother and I took Johnathon, and we left. We were running for a few weeks I had enough money to rent a room for a night. I went to get Johnathon and I breakfast that morning, and when I got back I found Johnathon knocked out on the bed. When I went over to him something hit me hard in the back of the head and I blacked out. Then I woke up here.

My small room had nothing but a single window and a rusted hook with chains that where linked to my wrists.

I'm gonna kill him.

Dimitri POV

I never thought I would ever want to see my Roza again. But I can't lie to myself. I still love her. I still want her. I will always want her. After we apprehended Victor Dashkov, the academy allowed all guardians to re-train the psy hounds that were used in an attempt to kill Rose and the princess. They tracked Rose here, to a small cabin in the middle of the woods. We didn't need the hounds when we reached the out skirts of the woods. You could hear Rose's brother screaming for her to wake up. When we reached the house, we dispersed into our stationing. I went to the window that I was stationed at. God, help her.

"Get away from him you bastard!" My Roza. Always wanting to protect her brother.

Then a man I have never seen walked in.

"Well, look who's awake." He spat. He wore a black t-shirt and denim blue jeans with red NIKE tennis shoes.

"Look who's still beating people to make himself feel like a man." She looks so fragile. She has a black eye and a cut on her head that is bleeding.

"I hope you like your room." He said as though she never spoke.

"I'm pretty sure Hell has better accommodations." She said trying hard to keep the venom in her voice.

"You'll tell me, won't you?" He lifted a gun and pointed it at her head. Just then, Alberta signaled for us to move.

I busted through the window and he grabbed the front of Rose's shirt, pulling her up to his chest pointing the gun to her head again, ripping the front of her shirt in the process leaving it to show her chest providing evidence of bite marks further toward her neck. Johnathon ran up behind the man with a knife in hand. When I relized what he was doing I lunged for the gun while he fell to the ground. He hit his head and was knocked out instantly.

I found the key to the chains on him and unlocked Roza's wrists, giving her my duster to cover herself with.

It's over, I thought. Now it's time to battle to keep my Roza.