Hey everyone so this is my fourth chapter…
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Brooke xx
I never moved my head, but my heart rate increased to an unhealthy rate. Ahead of me Lissa turned her head sharply, Dimitri stayed calm from what I could tell and right now they were the only ones to get me out of this situation.
And so I did a dangerous thing and leaned forward to face whoever had recognised me. A dark brooding, yet familiar face appeared. I let out a sigh of relief at who it was and smiled.
"Guardian Tanner," I said a little too relaxed. He looked around him suspiciously and then came to meet m gaze. From what I could see, everybody was agape by the fact that we'd gotten lucky.
"I'm not going to ask Rose, I never saw any of you," he said with a sly smile. He backed away from the car and let the gate open. Dimitri wasted no time in flooring it, and I turned back to slowly watch the gates to the court disappear behind me.
"So, where's Abe?" beside me Christian moaned and put his arm over his eyes. Dimitri stayed quiet, but part of me wished that he would be the one rescuing me and taking me away on some secret romantic getaway. Ironically Adrian was the one to respond and I felt a flash of guilt for wishing it were just me and Dimitri.
"He'll be meeting us later, right now we're driving to the state line. We're going to Idaho". He'd said finally. I'd never really being to Idaho, and in these circumstances I wasn't going to enjoy it much.
I leaned into Adrian's arm, but just as I was about to go to sleep I felt Lissa talking to me through the bond. It was weird considering she was only a few feet away. She was warning me to not make Dimitri jealous and it was making me angry. I knew she was just trying to help but she needed to stay out of it.
Dimitri and Adrian had no clue about the one sided battle going on in my mind. He'd rejected me and I'd moved on. I was with Adrian now, and I was happy. He'd never hurt me like Dimitri had, he'd been there for me when I'd come back from Russia sore and broken and he'd helped me put my life back together. He deserved a chance.
I took in my surrounding; we were driving through the mountains, rugged land. Trees were the only things I could see. But Lissa kept distracting me to get off Adrian. Her sort of mothering instinct was taking over.
"Lissa, god! Will you just shut up?" I shouted. Everyone jumped at my outburst and I already regretted it, but something dark inside me began to stir. Lissa turned back and I saw nothing but shock in her eyes. Christian looked wide-eyed, while Adrian had let go of my hand. They all just looked; Dimitri on the other hand never flinched.
"Pull over," I said. Dimitri never moved. "Rose, just calm down," he tried to tell me. "Pull over!" I screamed. As he slowed the car, I climbed over Christian and got out of the black SUV.
The smell of wood hit me first and I walked into the forest blindly, having no clue where I was. I wanted to hit something, I was so mad over the littlest thing. Behind me I heard a car door open and shut. Even when I was upset, I was on alert. I felt no Strigoi and relaxed at the thought a little.
I leaned back against the tree staring into nothing. His scent hit me first as always, and he moved with those same lethal steps as always. I turned my head sharply at his arrival.
"She doesn't fucking get it!" I yelled at him. Dimitri's face portrayed absolutely nothing. I put my hand to my forehead in frustration. "Wait a minute, they're unprotected," I said looking back to the car. "They have Christian and we're only a few feet away Rose," was all he said. I laughed sarcastically. Finally Dimitri's face portrayed something.
"What's wrong?" he asked. I looked at him sceptically and coughed. "Lissa doesn't seem to grasp the fact that you don't care about me anymore, basically". I saw a very brief glimpse of hurt in his eyes. I hadn't realised but I had silent tears starting to run down my cheeks and my urge to hurt something increased from what Dimitri said next.
"I'll always care for you Roza," he said softly. That was it I lunged for him. He blocked my attack perfectly, but that didn't stop me. He held me back with my arms and I managed to elbow him in his face and I broke free.
"What do you want from me, Dimitri?" I screamed in between sobbing. I collapsed into a heap on the ground. "I gave you everything…then when you came back you refused me. Now…now you want to care for me!" I yelled in utter disbelief.
Behind Dimitri I saw Lissa, Christian and Adrian standing by the car now. Adrian went to step forward but Lissa stopped him. Finally I summoned the courage to look back at Dimitri.
"Why?" I whispered. I made myself stop sobbing and really meet his gaze. I saw worry there, and came forward and helped me stand up. I brushed off my now dirtied jeans and pushed my hair off my face.
"You finally did it Dimitri Belikov, you broke me," I told him. As I pushed past him to go back to the others he gripped my arm tightly and pulled my back to him. Before I could stop him he kissed me, it was soft and sweet, but it wasn't for the right reasons. That small amount of darkness that was still inside of me reared its head again and I broke the kiss and went to slap him, but again he anticipated my every move.
He stopped me forcefully, but I felt nauseas all of a sudden. Dimitri must have sensed my change in attitude, because he released my wrist and slid his hand into his jacket and pulled out two silver stakes. He handed one to me and quickly made his way over to the others.
I turned slowly in a circle and felt confident that I could take anyone. Worry rushed through me. What if Dimitri was turned again? What about Lissa? Why had I snapped like that? Was the darkness going to take over me?
As I was lost deep in my thoughts, that's when the Strigoi jumped me. It was a women and she was a former moroi, so she was untrained. I staked her through the heart easily and without Dimitri's help, but as I removed my stake from her heart I heard somebody clapping.
I turned quickly and felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. There he stood, the man who's turned Dimitri. I got into the fighting stance and waited for his first move.
"Well done Rose, I see Belikov did in fact turn back. Such a shame, but it'll make it that much easier to kill you both," he said with a sly smile.
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