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Chapter 25

Rose's POV

Two months had passed. There's been no sight of Maggie or Raiden.

My faith in him was fading by each day. I kept telling myself that he was truthful when he said that two months was the dead line and then Maggie would go free.

Yeah well in this case I consider that as a load of bullshit.

My bedroom door swung open and Ray came in with two papers in his hands. He shut the door quietly behind him then sat down at the edge of my bed.

He held up the papers and pointed to them. "Guess what this is?"

"Paper, dumbass," I said, punching him on the shoulder playfully.

He sighed, exasperated. "It's what's on the paper."

He handed it over to me. I looked down at the first sheet and saw there was a clear print of a prison. I looked up at him.

"What's this?"

"It's where I think Maggie is being held," he said.

I sat up straight completely caught off guard.

"Wait, what?" I stuttered.

On the picture was the front entrance of a ghastly looking prison that looked to be flooded with security guards. The gates to the prison stood high and the barbed wire surrounded the top of the fences making everything look caged in. A true 'prison' effect.

I sighed. "You think the Strigoi are keeping Maggie in there?"

He nodded. "Yep."

"What makes you so sure?"

He pointed to a man that was standing infront of the gate.

"Look at him."

I did.

His black hair was tucked under a cap, shading the side of his face, his skin was pale and his eyes were a dark colour. The cap provided shade for only half his face, which then darkened one of his eyes. I squinted my eyes and took a closer look at the exposed eye.

They were blood red.

Pale skin, blood red eyes.

Strigoi.

"I guess we have a lead," I admitted.

"Not only do we have a lead, we have reason to believe she's in there and guess which lucky Strigoi is going to walk in there and find her," Ray smirked.

"Oh no."

"Oh yes."

RAIDEN'S POV

"Damn, Jenna! I thought you said you had it covered!" I shouted at my younger sister, running in her direction.

She turned her head in my direction and hissed. "I got it under control!" she retorted.

One of the feeders cracked and now was having a crazy fit. He was shouting and gripping his head while running in every direction.

"He's total lost control!" shouted my other younger sister, Hayley.

"No shit!" Jenna yelled after jumping on the feeder. He was struggling against her so I quickly got on my knees before them and grabbed the feeder by the hair and brought his head to ground hard. He died seconds after.

I bared my teeth at my little sister. "You said you wouldn't drink from him!"

"I didn't feed from him!" Jenna spat. "It was Tallon."

Speaking of the devil, I thought after turning my head in the direction of approaching footsteps. Tallon rounded a corner and saw the commotion before him. He gave a satisfied smile when he saw the dead feeder on the ground. I stepped away from the dead feeder and approached Tallon. I pointed back at the feeder.

"You think this is funny?" I growled. "Now we need to get another feeder!"

Tallon rolled his eyes. "It's not the end of the world, Raiden. There are plenty of humans around here to kidnap."

"What happened to keeping a low profile? We can't have the police thinking we're trouble. That would ruin everything."

Tallon grinned dangerously. "You've lost you're evil touch, Raiden. I can't wait to get my hands around that Rose and take my revenge on her for destroying my baby brother," he smirked.

My first collided with his nose and I heard a low crunch. I withdrew my fist as Tallon fell back against the wall he was leaning against. He clutched his nose while looking at me with aggravation.

"Don't you dare lay a hand on her, understand?" I barked.

Tallon stood up and now we were face to face. Hayley came up and separated us and put herself in between Tallon and I.

"You guys are brother-"

"He doesn't know the meaning of that word," I hissed.

"Look who's talking! Where have you been all this time, huh? Hiding in Rose's shadow-"

"Stop it!" Hayley shouted as I went to throw another punch at him.

She grabbed my fist and flung it away from Tallon. I was tempted to push her out of the way but my uncle decided to show up right then.

He was the leader of this coven, which meant that we'd follow his orders or get either kicked out of the coven or be killed. He wouldn't kill a member of his family, which was Tallon, my two sisters and me. It was the other coven members that had to be careful.

He strode into the room, followed by Nadia, a girl that has had a crush on me ever since I came into the coven. I had no interest in her, yet she still didn't seem to get that through her thick head.

"Nadia tells me there's trouble amongst my family," Uncle said looking from Tallon to me.

I knew he'd blame it on me. This whole mission crashed because of me. Tallon told him that Rose got away and probably went back to her coven to tell them that we've got Maggie. Even though she doesn't know the location of where Maggie and I even am, I had a feeling Rose had a plan to track me down.

I let her down. It's been two moths and I haven't had the chance to free Maggie. Uncle changed his mind and said he'd keep her as a prisoner. For how long? I'm not sure.

Which pretty much stuffs my plan up.

I haven't seen Rose in two months. I'm in agony without her and desperately need her to hold me in her tight embrace where I always felt so safe in. She protected me from everything. She protected me from that stake that should had pierced me but didn't because of her. She saved me.

And I saved her.

Now, I felt the need for her to save me again from the hole of darkness I've returned to: home.

Home was classified as Hell to me.

My real home was with Rose and it will always be with her. Never anywhere else.

Now with Uncle looking at me waiting for an explanation, I didn't care about his rules.

I stood my ground and looked up without a trace of fear.

"I no longer feel like I belong here. To come to think of it, I never belonged here. This is your home," I turned to Tallon and pointed to him, "and you're home but is it mine? I don't think so," I said, turning back to Uncle.

He narrowed his eyes at me and his lips formed a sneer.

"You're grown weak! Undisciplined! I knew it was a bad idea to let you go on that assignment. That Strigoi has made you pathetic!" he spat.

His was talking about my Rose. My eyes darkened in fury.

"Being with Rose was the best thing that ever happened to me. And don't tell me that I'm weak because I'm sure you felt pathetic and worthless right after you lost Maria!" I yelled.

I knew mentioning my aunt's name was a shock that everyone experienced in the room. She died in a guardian attack, which made my uncle's hatred for the guardians increase. He has forbidden everyone in mentioning her name, or else he'd go weak and blame himself for the situation all over again.

"Raiden!" Tallon scowled.

I was breathing hard and staring into my uncle's eyes that now filled with anger.

He lifted his hand and backhanded me across the face. And hard.

I flew into the wall across the feeder's room. The impact took breath my breath out of my lungs as I fell to the floor.

I coughed and briefly saw Tallon walking towards me.

"Take him to his chamber. I can't stand the site of him at the moment," my Uncle said and forwarded out the door with my sisters and Nadia on his tail.

I vaguely felt Tallon drag me to my room and walked me to the bed. He left wordlessly and slammed the door shut.

I sat on the edge of my bed and pulled out the only possession I brought from my last trip with Rose. A picture of her and me.

I remembered it perfectly. I closed my eyes and pictured the moment.

FLASHBACK

"Smile, Rose," I sang, holding up a camera near her face. She chucked a pillow at me and giggled. I caught it before it could hit my face and leaned closer to her on our bed.

"I said smile for the camera," I growled seductively.

She rolled her eyes but leaned in so that our heads leaned against each other. At the last second before I took the picture she turned her head and kissed my cheek. The camera flashed.

I looked at her and gave her the look. She just smiled angelically up at me.

END OF FLASHBACK

I remembered it just like it was yesterday. I leaned down and kissed Rose in the picture. When I brought my lips away I bit my lip, trying to contain my sobs as I remembered every moment I spent with her.

I missed her so much. There were no words to describe how I felt at that moment.

All I needed and wanted was Rose.

Everything else seemed to far away to care about at that moment.

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