hey its me again, sorry its been so long since i updated, my excuse is exams

ive taken in everybodys advice and ive made this chapter twice as long as the last one

oh and i dont own the night world

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Chapter Three: Not Right

Rose-Leigh's POV

I didn't care how shocked he was that I ran.

Questions were going through my mind.

Who had paid him? Who wants to find me? What do they want? Am I still safe here?

I kept running, I wanted to find somewhere safe, but I knew now that someone had found me nowhere was safe.

If only I could remember those two weeks! Maybe then I'd remember him. But he'd said three years ago. The missing two weeks had only happened a month ago.

I was beginning to get out of breath, I'd run pretty far but my training was out of practice.

I slowed down to a jog and looked around to try and figure out where I was. I was surrounded by trees, and that was all I could figure out.

I was lost and scared and somebody from the Nightworld had found me, that was terrifying, and then there was the other terrifying fact that I could feel myself begin to have a panic attack.

No! You are not breaking down here! Don't be a pussy! Think Rose!

I stopped jogging and stood still, trying to get my bearings.

Ok there were lots of trees, that meant I'd most likely run westward. Wow that must have meant that I'd flown across the park to the opposite side of it, and goddess knows how far into the trees. There was no path around me, not even really a trail, which meant that there was less chance of him following me, who ever he was.

I sat down on a nearby rotting log, catching my breath, I didn't exactly feel safe enough to do so but my lungs felt as if they would burst.

I thought back to three years ago, I'd been posing as a witch from Circle Midnight to get information about the council's next moves, I'd been able to do that because the witches had managed to find a way for me to appear as a witch, have the feel of one and the closed mind to anybody who thought to look through my mind.

It was my first mission and it had taken most of my training, I'd had to mingle with everybody and act as if I knew what they were talking, and then when the conversation turned to humans I'd had to act as if I thought of them as vermin as well. The most trying thing of all had been the blood wine, a strange combination of bitter wine and fresh blood, I'd drunken it and only winced the first time I'd tried it, it was absolutely disgusting.

I'd been cornered by a very powerful leader of Circle Midnight after three months of pretending to be a midnight witch. He told me that he knew that I wasn't a witch and he knew exactly what I was. He gave me the choice of either leaving for good or him announcing that I was in fact a human, and by doing that he would make me the next meal for anybody who felt hungry at that moment. Of course I'd made the choice of self preservation; there were a lot of vampires and shape-shifters there.

No, wait, I'd been found out before that, by a vampire.

On my second night at one of the parties, he'd started talking to me about the increasing number of witches leaving the Nightworld and joining Circle Day Break. I hadn't realized that as we were walking he'd been taking me outside, the minute we were alone he turned to face me and told me that he knew that I didn't belong here and that he was going to go to the nearest council member and tell them everything he'd figured out.

I'd acted without thinking, and did the only thing I knew would work.

I'd seduced him.

I'd been warned in my training that this could happen, that I could be put into a position where using my body could be my only way to get out of a situation, Day Break had even given me a short lesson on how to do it properly. I'd never actually considered that I may need to actually do it though.

After that night, I found a routine forming, I'd mingle for a little while, attempt to eat the food and then in a place alone with him, I'd have sex with the vampire again. Though those moments alone with him did become the highlight of going to those parties, I was careful to never form any feelings for him. I couldn't even recall his name or his face, though I was sure it hadn't been Russell.

I heard a twig snapping not too far away from where I was.

He'd followed me.

I estimated a minute to a minute and a half before he reached where I was. I did the sensible thing to do when talking with a vampire, I broke off a sharp piece of wood from the log I was sitting on and concealed it behind me.

"Why did you run?"

He said as he came to stand a few paces in front of me.

I said the first reply that came into my head, "why did you follow me?"

He stepped closer to me and laughed softly.

"I told you, I've fallen in love with you. You can either believe me or not, but I didn't spend three years trying to find you to be shot down before I even get a chance."

I leant back on my arms and took a good look at him, trying to remember him in some way. I wasn't quite sure whether I wanted to remember him as the vampire from three years ago or not.

He was a medium height, perhaps taller if he was standing at his full height but he seemed to have a posture that said something more negative about his self-confidence. He had dark, almost black hair with natural sun streaks of every colour; they'd probably been there before he'd been changed – although vampires could go out during the day without being harmed by the sun, not many of them liked to because it weakened them and left them in an almost human state.

His face was delicate featured and soft, but also strong, giving him the look of somebody who could be compassionate and unyielding at the same time, a face that I should remember. He had soft creamy skin, without any markings or scars, telling that he'd lived a nurtured life before being changed; any injuries he'd received after being changed would heal quicker and leave no marks unless they were inflicted by wood, a poison for vampires.

I paused before looking any further up, that would mean I'd be reaching his eyes. I exhaled and met his eyes. They were an icy shade of blue, almost a gray. At first glance they seemed cold and uninviting, but looking deeper I could see that they could also be strangely warming. His eyes carried a message, he was in love. With me.

My mind immediately started an internal argument; he could just appear to be attracted to me, but anyone good enough at acting could pull that act, he did resemble the vampire but there are probably so many Nightworld vampires that looked like that that it wasn't funny, and though he seemed sincere he could still be getting paid to do this.

Screw it, take a chance, he might just love you.

I knew that the thought wasn't mine, he'd put it in my head to sway my decision over to trusting him, and damn him, it was working.

"You say you love me, but how can I know for sure that that's the truth and you haven't been hired to do this?" I said tilting my head and giving him a questioning look.

Russell was silent for a minute, seriously thinking his reply through. "I think you're my Soulmate Rose-Leigh."

That got my attention. I'd seen various different Soulmates on my missions with Circle Day Break and my stays at some of their small communities, and I'd heard first hand what it's like to have a Soulmate, and what it felt like to be near yours. I wasn't feeling any of that right then. That rang alarm bells in my head, I began thinking about the different scenarios this could be.

Stay calm. He cant know that you've figured it out.

"And how did you figure that?" I said leaning forward and resting my elbows on my knees, not a very defensive position, but I'd regained enough energy to be able to move fast if I needed to.

My body language probably wasn't what he was expecting, instead of leaning forward in interest, I was looking at him as if I was talking to a toddler, I had one brow raised and a crooked smile on my face.

He searched my expression, and then knelt in front of me grabbing hold of my hands feverishly. "I know you're my Soulmate because I can't ignore my feelings for you, I love you Rose, and I always will. We were made for each other."

The sad fact was that he could have actually convinced almost any other girl this was true, he had the right balance of cuteness and sincerity. Thankfully I wasn't any other girl, and I could see through it.

"Russell, we're not Soulmates. You don't even know what that means do you? It means two people who have been tied together; spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. And we're not that, it's a two way thing and I'm not in love."

He looked defeated for a moment, before the look was taken over by determination, though the hurt didn't leave his eyes. He grabbed the tops of my arms and pulled me to my feet, not before I could quickly flail me hand behind me and grab the wooden piece.

"You do love me. You're just too scared to admit it. It's alright; I can help you through that. I'll be able to show you off as mine at the parties."

That was all I needed for a confirmation that he wasn't acting alone, there was no way I would be going anywhere near any Nightworld parties or meetings or anything even remotely Nightworld related.

I wrenched my arms out of his grasp and pushed him against the tree behind him, holding the sharp end of the wood to his throat. I knew that I didn't have a hope in hell of trapping him; he could probably snap my neck with one hand if he wanted, all I had on my side was a piece of rotting wood but I kept the confidence in my voice.

"Get this through your head. I. Don't. Love. You. And you can pass that on to who ever hired you as well, I'm not sucked in that easily. I'm trained to resist things like you. You see me as vermin, I see you as a parasite. Try anything on me again, and I swear I won't stop myself from killing you." I pressed the wood against him hard enough to break skin for extra force in my words.

I let go of his neck and walked off in the opposite direction, leaving the forest.

I didn't let go of the rotting wood until I was safely inside my safe house.

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