I own nothing.
She looked happy. That was all I could think as I stared at Lissa. I was lucky. The day I had arrived back, she had chosen to go out on a shopping trip. Her two guardians followed her,
along with Christian's. I saw Eddie as one of them, and I recognized the others as people from my old grade. Lisaa laughed, with her arm around Christian's. Apparently, they were still dating. But I couldn't think over this, because I heard a noise behind me. I turned around quickly, and almost staked Adrian Ivashkov in the heart. He was the one who had given me the money that had enabled me to go after Dimitri. For that, I was grateful. But I really wish I hadn't seen him. I had promised Adrian that I would give me a chance, because of his silly crush on me.
"Litte dhamphir, how are you? It's been so long. I can't believe that you cut your hair!" He said it in his normal teasing tone, but I saw real relief and happiness in his eyes at seeing me. I straightened up. "How was Russia?"
"You were checking in on me, I see. I guess I expected it," I said, before continuing. "Russia was cold. And no, I didn't find him. And again, no, I'm not back. I just wanted to see with my own two eyes that everything was all right," I finished, and stared at him, waiting for some witty response. I didn't expect the one he gave me. Adrian grabbed me in a hug, murmuring how glad he was to see me. That ended any witty comeback I would have had for him. I glanced behind him to see his guardians, trying to look like they weren't looking. I knew that this would be around the court's by tomorrow. Damn it. This meant that I would have to go see Lissa. And I'd hoped to just make sure she was ok.
"So you're going back then," he said it as a statement, not a question.
"I was going to stay for maybe a day or two, then go back. I'm not sure if I'm going to go to Russia, or go somewhere else, and look. I've been all over, but I keep going back to Russia." Why was I saying this? I knew that he had kept track of me through the bank accounts.
"Are you going to see Lissa?"
"I'll have to," I muttered, pointing at his guardians.
"Come on. I'll take you to her right now. I was actually supposed to meet her here. She's probably wondering where I am by now," he said.
"Okay, Adrian."
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