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I could feel his hands moving across my body. And man was it amazing. His lips were soft and gentle as they moved from mine and down to my neck. The passion I felt coming from just that movement caused me to moan out loud.

I moved my hands down his back and I could feel his muscles contract under my hands as I dug my nails into his hips and the gasp that came from the back of his throat caused me to look up into his piercing blue eyes. That's when it hit me that I must have been dreaming but everything felt so real. The way his hands felt as they ran down my body and his lips against mine made me weak at the knees. If I was standing, I'm sure I would have had trouble staying on my feet.

It wasn't until someone tossed freezing cold water onto me that I truly believed I had been dreaming. How could that have happened? I was dreaming about Christian Ozera at that!

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" I shouted at the person who threw the water on me. It wasn't till I actually looked up that I realised that it was the man who had haunted my dream had done it. When I met his eyes, those same blue eyes from my dream, I froze. I had no idea what to say.

"Waking you up, Sleeping beauty", he said.

I looked around to avoid his piercing blue eyes. The royal housing was way much better than the dhamphir ones. The digital clock on Christian's bedside table flashed 5:00.

"why the hell did you wake me up so early, sparky?" I asked him still trying to figure out why I am in his room and not mine.

"we have some training to do, Rosie. Get up, we need to reach there on time", he informed me.

"Chris?"

" yeah?"

"If you don't mind can you tell me why I am here and not in my own room. I sort of cant remember what happened yesterday", I said still trying to remember. I looked up to see Christian frowning at me.

"You don't remember what happened yesterday at all? "

"if I knew why would I bother asking you", I snapped at him. He looked more worried for me than angry for snapping at him.

He sat on the bed with me and put his hands on my shoulder. I felt a rush of dizziness and then the memories of yesterday rushed back.

#FLASHBACK#

"We need to have a very important talk", a voice interrupted our conversation and we turned to find Adrian. He was standing there leaning against a wall and smirking.

"What happened to your voice ?", Christian asked.

"oh! Nothing, I was just trying to act creepy", he said with a childish smile on his face. He looked different, not hungover but tired. His clothes were ruffled and he had faint dark circles under his eyes. His hair was messy but not the usual messy hairstyle he does. Something was definitely up with him.

"Alright! Lets go. We were about to come to your room anyway", I said walking in the direction of royal guest housing.

When we reached the first floor of guest house, Adrian walked up to the end of the hallway and opened the last door which was assigned to him. He walked in and we followed. I expected a little messy room but what I saw surprised me. The room which was supposed to be beautiful with cream walls and elegant setting, now looked like a tornado had passed through it. A glass lamp was broken near the couch which was lying upside down. A scotch bottle was broken and lying near the kitchen entrance.

"What the hell happened in here?" Christian exclaimed.

"Long story", Adrian said, his voice betraying the tiredness and wariness. "Lets go to the other room. This way," he said motioning for us to follow him. We entered a small room that looked like Kirova's office. It had a small coffee table in the middle with some magazines lying on it, four chairs surrounding it. Beside this, the place was totally empty. I immediately went and sat on one of the chairs. The headache had started bothering me.

"Now explain", I ordered not wanting to waste any time on casual talks. Adrian and Christian took their chairs in a hurry.

"Where should I start from?" Adrian wondered aloud.

"Why not from the beginning", Christian muttered a little too sarcastically.

"I don't know when it started", Adrian began, his hands were trembling and his voice was shaky. "Since last few weeks, I have been hearing voices inside my head. At first, I put it down to the spirit induced madness and I managed to tone down my spirit usage. Then it was okay but only for few days. It started again but this time it wasn't the voices. I knew something was wrong but I couldn't figure it out. Then I realized that I m loosing a chunk of my time. I mean its like I cant remember anything about a certain amount of time. Its a total blank. I tried a lot to remember but I couldn't. It just resulted in headache. I started waking up in the middle of the forest or sometimes near the edge but I don't have any recollection on how I reached there. There is nothing. No memories at all", his hands were trembling more. I reached out and held his hand.

He looked up and his eyes held questions, fears and desperation. Desperation for answers. I have never seen Adrian like this.

"You are not alone", Christian said his voice tired, "its happening to Rose also".

Adrian nodded as if expecting that.

"Yeah. There is something else too", Adrian said turning back to me.

"Your aura... its different", he said.

"It was always different because-",

"No not that", Adrian said interrupting Christian, " I know how her aura was. Black. Black lining of shadow kiss. But its not that. There are holes in her aura like small patches that are removed or something and.. And its dangerously close to vanishing. Whatever is left of her aura is black with a speck of colour here and there".

It took time to digest what Adrian said. What does that even mean? How can you interpret something like that? How does it link with what is happening to me?

Before I could voice any of my questions, Adrian said," I have no idea shat it means. I was shocked myself when I saw you today in the hallway"

There was a long silence and it was broken by ringing of Christian's phone.

"Hello?" There was long pause.

"yeah sure. We will be there in 15 mins. See ya", Christian replied.

"Tasha wants us to come and discuss the training schedules in her room", Christian informed us after hanging up.

"Lets go then", I said getting up from my seat.

"Wait, Rose! We are not done here. We need to discuss this", Christian said, clearly worried with the way I was handling this.

"We can discuss this later", I said dismissing it.

Before Christian could reply, Adrian said," its okay. You guys should go. We can meet up sometime tomorrow".

I nodded at him. Christian stared at Adrian for few seconds and gave him a small nod.

We left Adrian's place after a short goodbye. We walked towards Tasha's room in silence.

I was still wondering what all of these meant exactly. Is this how all shadow kissed felt? Do these things happen to Lissa also? Or is it just Adrian and me?

I was still deep within my thoughts when Christian's hand wrapped around mine and pulled me back.

"hey! We are here", he said nodding towards Tasha's door.

"oh! I'm sorry. I was just lost in my thoughts"

"we need to talk about-", Christian started but was interrupted by Tasha opening the door.

"oh! You guys are here. I thought I heard someone. Come in. Come in", Tasha said ushering us inside.

"Where's everyone?", Christian asked once we sat on the plush sofa.

"they already came in and left after giving their schedules. Why don't you guys do the same? Write your schedule here on these paper and I will figure out and set your training schedule and text you by tonight?", Tasha said giving us some blank sheets.

"yeah sure", I said grabbing a single sheet and pen. I wrote down my schedule.

"is that all? " I asked her after handing her my schedule.

"yeah. You guys can leave if you want or join me for dinner?"

" sure, aunt" Christian said.

Dinner was silent affair. It had been a long day and no one was interested in talking about anything. After dinner, Christian and I washed up the dishes and thanked Tasha for the dinner and left.

"rose-" , Christian started as soon as we reached his room.

"Christian, please. I don't want to talk about it tonight. I just feel so tired. Please, Chris".

"okay but tomorrow-"

" yeah sure. Tomorrow, for sure, we will talk about this", I promised him.

" why don't you stay over?", Christian asked when I was giving him a goodbye hug. I nodded at him.

#Flashback Over#

"Rose! Rose!", Christian called out to me bringing me out of the memory maze by shaking my shoulders.

I stared at the familiar blue eyes. Worry was clear in his blue orbs.

"Are you okay? What happened? You just blanked out?"

"I'm fine. The memories just rushed back"

"So you remember?"

"uh.. yeah", I said still trying to figure out everything that happened.

"Get ready! We need to go to gym. Everyone must be waiting for us", Christian said getting up from his bed.

"Alright. I will go to my room. See you in the gym in sometime", I said .

"you sure, you are okay?" , he asked when I was about to leave.

"yeah! Don't worry I will see you in the gym", I said and left for my room.

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