Another new chapter!

Also I have noticed that I seem to be spelling Strigoi- Strogoi. Please ignore this. I tried to correct the ones I found.

When I finally walked out the second door to join Nathan in the hallway, I saw no Strigois patrolling the hall.

"Where is my guard?"

"Why would you need a guard?"

"To make sure I don't escape." I said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Like you could escape." Nathan said laughing which in turn infuriated me. Really what did he call what I was doing right now?

Ignoring the many remarks I wanted to say in response to his obnoxious attitude, I decided to remain on his good side. "Which way is out?"

"Shut up and follow me. You talking all the time is starting to become annoying."

Again, I had to ignore the many comments that I wanted to say in response to his rude manner. I mean two minutes ago he was practically forcing me into bed with him and now he is treating me as if I some stupid blood whore.

When Nathan started walking down the hallway, I began to follow closely behind. With every step took the nagging feeling to snap at his rude behavior subsided. I was extremely fortunate at this since these days Rose Hathaway is not known for her self control.

The weird thing is as we continued to walk by the areas I recognized during my walk outside with Dimitri, none of the Strigois and humans I had seen before were around. I suddenly felt this nagging feeling to ask Nathan where everyone went but decided not to. I needed him to help me escape and he had been very touchy the last time I spoke to him. With no stake or sharp objects around me, there is no way I could really defend myself if he decided to kill me. Therefore, I decided to keep my mouth shut.

While we walked throughout the halls, I focused on the beautiful designs patterned across the walls and the ceiling. Dimitri explained to me once that this entire building belonged to Galina. Whoever this Galina girl was had extremely expensive taste. Dimitri had also told me that Galina ran a dangerous business that involved many illegal things. Of course most of those illegal things were harmful to humans. I tried to convince Dimitri to explain what these harmful things were many times but he always seemed to avoid the subject. I assumed that he felt knowing the truth would discourage me from wanting to join his undead mafia. He tried very hard to only tell me the good things that came with being a Strigoi.

"I have to take care of something." Nathan said in a whisper unexpectedly once again forcing me out of my daze. Now letting myself focus on Nathan I could see that he had stopped outside an elaborate set of French doors.

"Stay here. I mean it. Stay right where you are. Any closer and she will sense your prescience." Nathan said continuing to whisper before knocking on the door.

I was about to ask him who this 'her' was but decided that maybe talking was not the best idea in this situation. There was a reason Nathan chose to whisper to me. The 'her' behind the doors was not meant to hear what he was saying. This would mean that she was a Strogoi. My suspicions were correct when Nathan entered the doors filling me up with nausea. There was definitely a Strogoi behind those doors and I had a good idea who it was. Galina. I didn't really know that much about her. Dimitri had told me that she was his old instructor back when he was in school. She had been turned into a Strogoi a few years ago during a battle. Dimitri had come here after the fight at St. Vladimir's Academy to seek refuge from her.

Dimitri had told me that she was the leader of this little Strigoi mafia. Once I was a Strogoi, Dimitri and I would eventually kill her and take control of her business. He had said that it would take the both of us to kill her. I hate to admit it but the thought of needing two Strogois to kill one scared me. It meant that this Galina was strong. In addition, I surely didn't want to run into her right now. Despite all of this, I was curious as to what Nathan had to say to her. Could he be in there telling her about me? Could I truly trust him?

These were questions I needed answered for my own safely so I broke Nathan's rule of staying put and walked up to the doors and placed my ear on the door in hopes of easedropping on their conversation. I became ecstatic when I started to pick up bits of pieces of their conversation. As I pushed myself further up against the door, from what I could hear it sounded as though Nathan was begging Galina to let him leave. This was a good sign. He had not betrayed me.

"You will go nowhere." The female said who I assumed was indeed Galina.

"Only for a couple days. " Nathan said in a pleading voice.

"You have no need to go anywhere. I give you everything you want here."

"I know that and I am obliged but…you let Dimitri go anywhere he wants. You give him anything he wants. You never tell him 'no.'" Nathan said beginning to become angry. To me Nathan sound as if he was a child accusing his mother of playing favoritism.

"Dimitri does what is needed to be done. " Galina said annoyed.

"I'm sure he does." Nathan said sarcastically. I wasn't sure what Nathan meant by that statement but I found myself becoming jealous. What kind of things did Dimitri do for Galina?

It was the sound of something breaking that snapped me out of my jealous state. "Speak to me like that again and it will be your last words." Galina threatened.

The breaking noise must have been Galina. By the sounds of I could probably guess that she either threw something at Nathan or threw him into the wall. I just hope he is still alive. Nathan being dead would serious mess up my plan. I still had no idea how to escape this building. Although she did say 'if you speak to me like that again,' therefore he has to be alive or else that would definitely be a stupid thing to say to a dead person. Suddenly I yearned for the spy hole you usually see in the movies. I needed to see what was going on behind these doors. Weren't all doors supposed to be constructed with secret spy holes?

After what seemed like forever, the silenced finally broke.

"Nathan why do you make me do these things to you?" Galina said almost sounding both remorseful and demanding. "You know I care for you but your jealously over Dimitri is beginning to become a bother to me."

"I know. I apologize to you for that. You just speak so highly of him. You let him get away with everything. If anyone else brought home a blood whore you would have them kill it. Yet, Dimitri is able to keep his locked away in a room for weeks."

Blood whore. Seriously. Was I a blood whore? True I had been giving my blood to Dimitri but that didn't make me a blood whore. Blood whores let Moroi men drink their blood during sex. I never had sex with Dimitri plus he was a Strogoi so I couldn't be considered a blood whore. Right?

"He seems infatuated with that thing. His time is running out. He will change it or kill it. If it isn't changed soon I will kill it."

"You will kill it despite his protest?" Nathan said curiously.

Suddenly I didn't like where this conversation was heading. Wasn't Nathan supposed to be asking Galina to let him leave? However, I guess finding out how I will die if this plan goes bad will help.

"You seem to be under the impression that I care how he feels?" Galina said mockingly. "Dimitri is strong. He is a fighter. He keeps my enemies at bay. I care nothing about how he feels." Galina said laughing. "I may even make him watch me kill her."

"He would be furious!" Nathan said excitedly.

Again, not a topic I wanted them to discuss any further. I had convinced Nathan that taking me with him would hurt Dimitri but I'm pretty sure killing me in front of Dimitri would be worse. I couldn't have Nathan agreeing with Galina. I needed to intervene.

"I love the way you think." Nathan said.

"I know you do." Galina said seductively.

All of a sudden there was a loud noise like objects had fallen on to the ground followed by a scream. The scream came from Galina. Only this wasn't a scream of pain but of pleasure. Suddenly I knew what they were doing behind this door and I no longer desired a spy hole. I was actually thankful that I didn't have to see what was going on. Really Nathan, Strigoi sex now?

It all made sense now. Galina refused to allow Dimitri to kill Nathan because he was…her lover. However, Nathan wanted to have sex with me back in the suite so did this mean that Strogois were incapable of being loyal to one another. Unfortunately the more I contemplated this, the more jealous I became. Was Dimitri unfaithful to me? During my stay here I never truly considered him to be my boyfriend. I loved him and I believed he loved me. I mean he asked me to spend the rest of eternity with him so that would mean he had to love me. I'm almost positive that as a Dhampir Dimitri would have never cheated on me. I mean, when he was contemplating going off with Tasha he choose not to because he would think of only me when he was with her. Therefore, since Dimitri couldn't fully love her, he let her go in hopes of her finding someone who could put her number one in his heart.

However, Dimitri was a Strigoi now. Would he still hold the same beliefs? As I continued to process this new found revelation my jealousy turned into disgust. I was glad I chose not to let Dimitri change me into a Strigoi. The more I learn about them, the more disgusted I become.

When I had finally agreed to never become a Strigoi, I decided to take a seat a few feet from the door. I found myself becoming impatient with Nathan and his stupid Strigoi sex antics. We needed to go. Dimitri would be back soon and I didn't want to see him.

After about thirty minutes of non-stop screaming, everything went silent. I assumed that they were done. This sort of took me by surprised. I didn't know anything about Strigoi sex but you'd think it would have went on longer. The thought of Nathan lacking in that department definitely put a smile on my face.

A few seconds later, I heard the doors opened up and nausea began to consume my body. It was Nathan. As Nathan walked out the door, he quickly closed the doors behind him and turned to make eye contact with me.

"Like what you heard?" Nathan said smiling. Obviously he took pleasure in having me hear them having sex.

"Not particularly." I said letting my Rose attitude slip out. Could I really be blamed for being a bit sarcastic? I had to sit here for thirty freaking minutes and hear his non-stop sex escapades.

"Don't worry you will have your turn soon." Nathan said with his smile growing bigger ultimately revealing his fangs. The way Nathan was acting now truly disgusted me but I tried not to show it. I thought Moroi men were disgusted man whores but really Strogois were even beyond that.

"Could we leave now?" I said trying to sound calm. I needed to keep reminding myself that I needed Nathan. Also, as soon as we were out of here I could rid myself of him.

Instead of giving me an answer, Nathan started to walk down the hall. As I jumped up to follow him, I took a quick glance at the clock stationed in the hallway; 3:00AM. Yeah we were definitely going to get caught.

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