Hi, another chapter up! Hope you like and please review! It's a little short but I'm already working on the next chapter.

I slowly opened my eyes; I was surrounded by worried expressions.

"Roza," Dimitri sighed, he placed his hand on the side of my cheek. That's when I realised I was on the ground.

I sat up quickly, despite my friends protests. I looked around to see the manager of the casino standing in the background looking at me. I stood and Dimitri put a hand around my waist for support.

"I'm fine," I promised, however none of them looked convinced. I sighed and walked towards the manager. "What's in the far back room here?" I asked icily.

"Nothing, um, nothing. Why?" He asked way too shakily to be true.

"You see, when you say it like that, it just makes it easier to determine that as a lie." I replied, walking forward. "Now, what is in the back room?" I repeated. If he made me say it again he wasn't going to still be in one piece.

The manager still didn't answer.

As much as I hated him right now, I didn't think it would help my case if I murdered a seemingly harmless moroi. So, I decided to see for myself. But, before I got too far my friends stopped me.

"Rose, what's going on?" Adrian questioned confused.

"Can I explain later?"

"No, you have a lot of explaining to do. So, start now." Eddie demanded.

I scowled at him; at all of them.

I took a deep breath before answering quickly, "A few weeks ago an anonymous person- well I guess he's no longer anonymous- broke into an alchemist office here. Before you ask how I know I'll tell you. I was suspected by a friend because of my connections with you, Liss." All of them stood listening intently. So I continued, "So, we just found out that he" I nodded my head towards the manager, "stole those files on Eric Dragomir containing personal information about him and now he's hiding something here, that I need to find."

"How do you know that there's something here to find?" Lissa asked.

"You know how I, ah, used to see ghosts?" I asked rhetorically, they nodded. "Well, I kind of saw Shadow Kissed Anna's ghost when I blacked out. I don't know how but this is all connected. Tomas, the manager, Tatiana's murder, Anna, Strigoi showing up everywhere. It's part of something bigger." This was the first time that I'd voiced my theory and it felt weird. I was so used to keeping my worries to myself that I now felt a huge amount of relief wash through me. "Can I go now?"

"NO!" The manager yelled, "If you value your life you won't interfere."

"Are you threatening her?" Dimitri spat through his teeth.

The manager visibly shrunk back, "Not me, but you don't want to get on 'his' bad side."

"What aren't you telling us?" Christian asked; he had fire literally spurting out of his finger tips.

"I thought you would have realised by now that I'm not going to tell you anything." He replied his old cocky self returning.

"So, you're banding against your own species to join the wrong side?" I asked dumb founded.

"The winning side." The manager corrected.

I just frowned. The winning side? Since when were Strigoi ever going to win against us. We had just proven what guardians can do against Strigoi. But, the only time I'd seen guardians struggle was just before Dimitri was turned. I shuddered at the memory but I had to dig deep into my mind. The attack on the school had shown what Strigoi could do when they worked together. And humans were already working for them, so, was it possible that moroi and dhampirs were working with them too? I'd say it's possible, but not probable. The Strigoi only started joining together last year. So, what changed?

As I was thinking I was heading to where I thought the back room would be. I went around to the little corner that held the bathrooms and instead of turning left at the toilet sign I turned right. I found a hallway that held one door at the very end. I headed towards it with my friends on my heels. Our footsteps were echoing through the corridor.

As we reached the door, it was locked. However this is when having a really strong- not to mention hot- boyfriend comes in handy. He slammed his shoulder against the door and it broke open first try. But, what I saw inside was a real shock. I was definitely not expecting to see her.

It was a complete replica of Lissa, the jade green eyes, the blonde hair. Despite the blood that covered her body you could easily tell that it was Lissa's half sister. Whatever her name was. But, why on earth was she here? This just gets more and more confusing.