Chapter 4

"It's really you," Lissa said. I nodded.

"It's really me," I said.

"What you been up to Rosie?" Christian asked. For once, I was glad he called me Rosie.

"I missed you," Lissa said. "I've been looking for you for forever!" She had tears in her eyes, threatening to fall. On instinct I reached forward and hugged her.

"Don't cry," I murmured. She hugged my tightly and then let go, pulling back to looked at me.

"You look so different," she said.

"It's the makeup."

Gabby walked up with the tray and said, "You owe me big for this. I've already got touched four fucking times!" As if to prove a point a guy came and got a drink, touching her breast with his arm as he did so. I would have thought it was a accident if he didn't have the damn smirk on his face. Gabby took a deep breath as if to calm herself before she looked at him, really looked at him, and saw how hot he was.

"You're off the hook," she said to me and then smiled at him. "What's you're name?" She asked the hot guy and then he followed her as she made her rounds, looking at him the whole time and smiling.

"Rosie the matchmaker," Christian said.

"I try," I said, smiling.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I really missed you," Mia said. "I never thought I'd see the day we were friends and then you left and I missed you as a best friend." Eddie hugged her tighter and smiled at me, showing off his pearly whites.

"Hathaway," he said. "I can finally be complete." He even dramatically clutched his chest with his free hand.

"Castille, you are the missing part of me," I said in return and he just kept smiling. I pointedly ignored Dimitri. Other guardians that were playing their part as regular human guys noticed me and their eyes widened.

"Your Dad tracked you as far s he could and his last place for you was in Michigan," Lissa said. "We would have never guessed L.A."

"Two years." Silence.

"Rose, I think the back room guy wants you," Adrian said. I noticed that he didn't call me 'Little Dhampir' and it hurt. He didn't love me anymore. He had said loved, but I hadn't though anything about it.

"Good God, Chase!" I yelled when I was almost there. "Can't wait three minutes?" I asked.

"Someone wants you," he said. "He's a moroi and says he needs to see you now. Really, he's scary. He had, like, three guardians and I don't think he's royal. He claims you know him. Real flashy guy."

"Did he have a bright scarf and a coat with lots of jewelry?"

"Yeah, you know him?"

"That's my Dad, Abe Mazur."

"He's your Dad?" Chase sputtered. "He's like the mobster of mobsters!"

"Yeah, I know it." I walked out the back door where I assumed he was. I had to go backstage and then further to the back door. Outside was an alley with a big dumpters sized trashcan that stunk up the place.

"Old Man?" I asked.

"Kiz?" He asked, coming out from behind the dumpster. Somehow his bright scarf and big coat had no dirt on it after being back there. His three guardians came out next, staying behidnd him.

"The one and only," I said. Being the middle of the night and all, it was kind of chilly out here to be in a short dress and heels. I rubbed my bare arms and Abe took off his coat to wrap it around me and then his bright red scarf too. I loved the way it gave off heat. Under that he had on a black shirt that really showed that he was pretty damn fit for a moroi and the black was probably to look dangerous.

"How have you been?" He asked.

"Okay."

"I could have gotten you a place to stay and given you money if you wanted to leave."

"I like it here now. Everyone who works here is a dhampir and then there's one moroi." Sabrina was the only moroi here.

"Well, do you have enough money?" He asked.

"Yeah. I have two roomates." He raised an eyebrow.

"My roomate got a boyfriend so he moved in and then the broke up, but he still stays there." Abe didn't look too happy about that. "If it makes you feel better, we sleep on different floors." He relaxed slightly.

"You know, your mother has been worried sick about you. She'll want to see you." I nodded.

"I missed her too."

"Not just missing you, she went to look for you everytime we found a location where you might be," Abe said. "She even went on her own vacation days just to do something constructive abuot finding you. You know how she never used to vacation." She had never vacationed to see me in school so I knew she must have been worried to take time off.

"How's she doing?" I asked.

"She's on Lissa's royal guard. Alberta's the head and Janine is the one Alberta goes to when she needs help, like a co-captain or something." Akward pause. The guardians, apparently trying to not hear the conversation, shuffled on thier feet.

"Go in with the other guardians and act like real humans staying at a club for drinks and girls."

"If someone asks, tell them I told you to go in for free," I spoke up. They nodded and me and then went in. Then, I gave in to the urge I had had for a while. I hugged the old man.

"Love you, Baba," I said, using the owrd turkish for Dad. He was surprised and then hugged me back.

"Love you too, Kiz." After a little talk about my life, a very little since some of it was super privite, he went into the club with me. As soon as we were in there Sabrina showed up and gaped at Abe.

"Sabrina?" I asked, really concerned for her health. Eating a fly isn't good for the digestive system, or at least the brain knowing you ate a fly.

"Abe Mazur?" She stuttered and then I got it. He was the guy everyone feared. I put an arm around her a led her back away from Abe.

"It's okay, Sabrina. He's my Dad." Her head shot around so fast her blond hair flew in the air.

"Your Dad?" She sqeaked. I nodded. "I feel sorry for your boyfriends," she muttered and then ran out of the hall and into a room. Abe just stood there with a smirk on his face.

"Well, I guess I've still go it!" He said. I showed him to the V.I.P part of the club and he sat down next to me in a seat. I sat next to Lissa and caught sight of Gabby disapearing in a corner with an arm around her. Probably the hot guy from before since she wasn't resisting, more like holding on to him.

"Rose, are you coming back with us?" Mia asked. Silence. Then I got a whiff of that familiar after shave and saw those so familiar brown eyes.

"There are Strigoi outside somewhere," he said with that Russian accent. "We should leave." Lissa turned to him.

"But the security guards here are guardians," she said.

"There are humans here, too," he said. She looked around and frowned, turning into Queen mode.

"Our hotel was for Moroi so we should go there, but if it's too many it will be hard to get there," Lissa said and in an idea hit me.

"We could close the club and blend in. Get a jacket to cover up your blond hair, it might stick out since most of the people here are guys with short hair. Then we could get to a car fast before they realize it," I said.

"They've probably already picked our car out and are watching it," Alberta said, coming up and smiling warmly at me for a brief moment before she went back into work mode.

"They wouldn't have picked my car," I said. "They probably don't even know I'm here. I have four other seats and I'm sure some people can cram in there," I said. Lissa and Alberta nodded so I knew it was a done deal.

"Who's riding with me?" I asked, getting my keys out my bra. Yes, I ws discreet about it, kind of. It hard for people not to notice, though, they all ignored me gicen the situtaion.

"Rose, Christian, Lissa, Mia, Adrian, Eddie and I will ride with you. I'm sure we'll find a way to fit," she said. it was bad numbers of guardians for three royal moroi and another moroi, but two of the moroi knew offensive magic.

"Ready?" I asked. They nodded and followed me down to the bar.

"Chase!" I yelled as I slipped of my shoes. I didn't plan on running in heels.

"What?" He yelled back, coming over to me.

"I need you to gt Kyle to shut this place down. Strigoi are here. We're going to use it as a distraction to get the Queen and of of the two last Dragomirs out of here." He stumbled in pouring a drink.

"Really?"

"Do I look like I'm playing?" I snapped. In three minutes people where leaving. Our little gang ranf or my car, which was close thank God, and then jumped in. As soon as we were on the road, they gave me the address, and I was going as fast as I could under the speed limit, because we didn't need to be stopped. That's when in the darkness I saw two pair of red eyes in front of the car.