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Home is where you are.

Chapter 3.

"Comrade," I said, "how long is this ride supposed to be?"

"Rose, we've barely been on the road for half an hour and you're already concerned about how long the ride is supposed to be?" he asked with a rueful smile.

"Yes, all this inactivity is making me restless." I said. Dimitri laughed.

"We got four and a half hours left roza." He said.

I groaned. I really felt restless. I hadn't been able to Trane this morning and just sitting around was making me more than restless. I felt miserable

Lissa and Christian sat in the back while Dimitri drove and I rode shotgun. I was grateful for one thing though; being out of the wards no longer gave me a headache. It was actually really cool not being bonded to Lissa anymore, but I was still scared of the darkness taking over. It scared me when she would get upset or irritable but I never talked to anyone about it. The only person aside from Adrian that could tell just how worried I was for Lissa was Dimitri. He found out because he was just totally in tuned with my thoughts and emotional instability. Adrian found out simply by looking at my ora. Adrian and I still hung out sometimes, but our friendship was strained. I wasn't sure that we would ever be able to fix our friendship.

Thinking of our friendship now and actually comparing it to the one we had before I agreed to give him a fare chance always put an ache in my chest. I really did care about Adrian just not in the way he had cared for me. However, I was no longer Adrian's love interest. He was whole heartedly in love with one of my good friends. Sidney Sage. She was an alcomist who had managed to break her tattoo. According to her, the tattoo not only prevented you from telling people about the supernatural world of the vampires if they didn't know, it also controlled your mind. The main goal was to ensure that humans and vampires never had to interact, but if an alcomist did something he or she shouldn't have, their tattoo would be re inked and stronger magic would go in to that tattoo therefore forcing them to do what's right or rather, what the alcomists believed was right. Sidney had helped Dimitri and me when we were on the run and her tattoo had been re inked. She had been sent to Palm Springs on a mission to keep my friend and Lissa's sister, Jill Mastrano Dragomare safe. It was there she had met Adrian and the two had fallen in love. Nevertheless, Sidney was an amazing girl and she and Adrian made a great couple. Adrian didn't spend anymore time than he had to with me though. When he did, it was a miracle. It was on one of these rare and precious occasions that he had told me that he knew that I was worried for Lissa's safety. He had told me that I should tell her how I felt, but I hadn't told her yet. I didn't want to upset her. She had once told me that I was trained to protect her body and that I didn't need to worry about her mind.

Soon the SUV pulled up to a grand looking building. This was the place that the council members were holding their meeting. It was gorgeous and I knew that if Sidney were here she would be admiring the architecture. Guardians had come down earlier to scout out the place and make sure there were no Strigoi. No one had thought of putting up wards however, they all claimed that we wouldn't be here long.

I didn't give Dimitri a chance to stop the car before I jumped out and stretched. This made everyone else laugh. I glared at them all.

"Let's go." Dimitri said.

"Near guard and far guard?" I asked.

He nodded. I walked with Lissa and Christian while Dimitri walked further behind keeping an eye on our surroundings.

We walked in to the building only to be greeted with an airy silence.

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