"Wait, what?" Christian asked.
Lissa and Christian sat across from me and Dimitri as I told them what I had told Dimitri. The looks on their faces told me that this was almost too much to handle.
"My sister, Rebecca married this asshole and he was…evil for lack of a better word. I could tell and when I exposed him, he wanted me done away with. He left and just came back to terrorize my sister."
"Is that why you run off to talk to your sister?" Lissa asked.
"Yeah, pretty much."
"That's illegal. Haven't you called the cops?" Christian asked.
"Yes, but it doesn't do anything. Cole isn't one to be taken down by cops," I replied.
"You can't go home until this guy is arrested and locked away for good," Dimitri said sternly. He rubbed a hand on my back.
"I know but I need to go home eventually. If he gets to Phoebe then I am going to kick his ass."
Dimitri hugged me to him. "You will be safe here, I promise."
"I know, but you can't promise that. You don't know Cole like I do."
Later that night, we were all crowded around in my and Lissa's room. Christian and Lissa were lying down on her bed and Dimitri and I were on the floor. His back was against the wall and I was snuggled into his chest.
"We should go out tomorrow night," Lissa suggested.
"That is if Rose can pass her biology test," Dimitri chuckled.
"If the material was more entertaining, there would be no failing grade," I pointed out.
Everyone laughed at my joke and, as they call it, Rose-logic. It was the same twisted thinking that my sisters called Paigology.
"Do you hear that?" Christian asked seriously. We stopped laughing and strained our ears to hear. There was something outside.
I got up from the floor and looked out the window. A pair of bright red eyes connected with mine and I blanched.
"Witch!" he yelled.
"Oh no. Not good!" I jumped away from the window and grabbed Lissa's hand. "Strigoi!"
Lissa ran with me and Christian while Dimitri pulled out his stake that he had just gotten in his novice classes. I found an empty room and shoved the two of them in.
"Stay put until I get you," I ordered.
I closed the door and took off towards my room. Dimitri was battling two demons and he needed help. I looked around my room and found Dimitri's spare that he left here a week ago. I grabbed it and came up behind the one that Dimitri was fighting. With all the strength in my arm, I stabbed the demon in the back. He screamed out in pain, but it didn't kill him. With my magic, I pushed it in and the demon froze and fell to the ground in a heap.
Dimitri immediately turned to the next Strigoi. I looked up just in time to see him get backhanded across my room. Pulling the stake out of the dead demon's back, I straightened up in front of the demon.
"Turner said that you were here. I'll have the pleasure in killing a Charmed One," the demon cackled.
With my magic, I threw the stake at the demon and it went in cleanly. The demon stared at me in a mix of rage and pain. Her body froze and fell just like the other. I stepped around the bodies to get to Dimitri. He was out cold.
"Leo!" I called. I waited a moment before he orbed in.
"What happened?" He demanded as he took in the bodies of the Strigoi.
"Demon attack. Dimitri is out cold. Can you heal him?"
"Yes." Leo moved me out of the way and held out his hands. I watched them glow as the magic seeped into Dimitri's body. "He should be fine. I need to leave before he wakes up."
"Okay, go, go." I shooed Leo out of the room.
I ran out of the room and grabbed Lissa and Christian from their hiding spot. When we came back, Dimitri was sitting up rubbing his head.
"Where were you guys?" He asked.
"I went to get these two. They hid while we fought," I answered as I pointed behind me.
"What happened?" Dimitri asked.
"You got hit pretty hard. How do you feel?"
"Fine. Nothing hurts."
"If you got hit, how can you not hurt?" Christian asked.
"I have no idea," Dimitri said standing up. He looked at me with smoldering brown eyes and something told me that he was either making sure I was okay, or he knew something.
