Hi guys first and foremost thank you for the kind and thoughtful messages you all sent after my dearly missed son Logan passed away. As you could imagine this was the very worst time in my life and I spiralled into depression that was all encompassing. Thank you all for your patience and encouragement to continue my writing it has been incredibly hard to find interest to start again so hear it is the long awaited next chapter.

Broken Angel

Adrian's POV

As I looked around the room content to sit and watch my family mingle I felt full, free and blessed with everything in my life, I could never have imagined that I would be embraced fully by my family. Due to spirit and the darkness I had self-medicated for so long earning a poor reputation a deserved reputation to be honest, but here I was free of the darkness, free from the drugs and no longer an alcoholic.

There were two people to thank for that and for all their pain and misfortune that life had thrown at them I wouldn't change it for the world. Would I have wished Rose and Felix the pain they had endured well no of course not I wouldn't wish that on any one, but if I knew back then what I knew now well it was all worth it, every tear, every heart ache.

I now had a sister and brother by default, people who would encourage me to embrace the spirt, save me from the darkness and love me for me. I had been so distracted by my thoughts I didn't notice Ben creeping up on me from behind with a loud battle cry he charged me knocking me to the ground.

"what the hell"

Rose and Felix were laughing so hard high fiving Ben. He was slowly coming out of his shell more so after the epic snowball war and cookie eating competition, another thing I was grateful for, he was still very skinny and pale but his eyes held laughter and not the usual haunted look he had since he was changed back to Moroi. He still like Lucas refused to feed on blood but it was still very early days into recovery.

"you were so lost in thought Adrian everything alright"? asked Felix

"yeah of course" I replied "just thinking of how we all got here and everything that you two have accomplished"

"It has been a long journey to say the least" Rose smiled and as Rose does says "you deserve all the good things in your life Adrian and I for one am glad we can look back and embrace the good"

"Yeah"?

"yeah"

Abe Pov

My kids were happy, I was happy and yet I was a little bit broken too. After reading the letter Janine had left for Rose there had been a rage bubbling underneath the surface. No one let alone a child should have had to endure being bitten and used for blood, made into an addict before she was young enough to even understand what being bitten was about. I was tormented by the thoughts of what else had happened to Janine as a child did that abomination that was her grandfather do anything else to her. Janine had never told me her story, never even hinted a word about her past. She was just desperate for another bite, something that was abhorrent to me.

Yes, I'm a Moroi and need blood to survive but I would never do that to anyone let alone encourage it. I had sent Pavel out with the information he was to obtain, he had set out for Scotland almost immediately and I couldn't wait to inflict some justice on her behalf, not just for Janine but for my daughter, my Amazing and completely terrifying daughter.

"Bubba?" Rose stuck her head in the doorway "Felix and I are heading out to do a couple of pass overs of the area"

"ok be careful"

"we always are" rumbled Felix coming into my study and with that both of them ran to the sliding door that lead to the patio and jumped.

"You're not too old to be put over my knee and spanked you bloody misfits" I yelled out to them, the only answer was their laughs.

So, there you have it a long-awaited update, I'm still feeling out the characters it has been so long since this story formed in my head. Hope to get my writing style and the flow of this story back and pump out a few ore chapters soon.