The lights in the club were pulsing and the music was blaring. A lot of people were crowded on the small dance floor.

"Hey babe, want a drink. My treat." Some random guy says, right behind me as he slips his arm around my waist.

"Get your hands off of me or you will end up like the rest of them," I say through clenched teeth as I point over my shoulder to pile of guys who thought they'd try to come on to me. After that he avoids me like the plague. I'm Rose Hathaway. Or some people know me as "Убийца" or "killer" in English. I've made more than a million strigoi killings in the days since I quit my job as a guardian. That was five years ago. Right now I'm doing my job which is hunting strigoi. They tend to stick to night clubs because of the intoxicated humans, moroi, and the occasional dhampir.

Soon after the guy leaves me alone the strigoi I'm stalking decides on his pray, a petit human girl. As he leads her to the back I follow stealthily and just as he's about to drink I push my stake into him. He must have been a newborn and a moroi to. I punch the number I know so well into my cell phone. "Sydney? It's Rose, we've got another one."

"Same club as before?"

"Yep."

"See you soon." And she cut off. Well my work here is done. Time to go home. I live in one of my father's houses here in California. He's the one who sponsors my adventures. The house is on the beach and is huge, but my whole team fits there. It's mainly just me, Denis, Art, and Lev. Not to mention the unpromised dhampir I find. At the moment there is just two. I'm training them and mentoring them but that just brings back memories about why I left court in the first place.

FLASHBACK

"Love fades, Mine has." With those little words, part of me died. I ran out of that church as fast as I could so no one would see one of the Hathaway women cry. I packed all my stuff and asked my dad for a place to stay. He came to court along with the friends I made in Russia and he took us to this house in California.

END FLASHBACK

I haven't spoken to or seen Lissa or Dimitri in years although I still get sucked in her head lots of times. When I got home all the lights were on, and an unfamiliar car was in the drive. I walked in the front door and saw someone from my past I never thought I'd see again.