Chapter 5
My mom was waiting outside when we left the building. She pulled me aside while Dimitri and Lisa admired the outside building made of ivory. When he saw my mom he shot me a quick glance. I nodded toward him, signaling him to take Lisa farther away. I can't stand the way she was looking at me like I was a little tramp fallowing Dimitri.
"Rose, I'm very mad that I have to pull you over to actually tell you to not follow guardian Belikov around."
"Excuse me, guardian Hathaway," Lissa came over and then I felt very uncomfortable. "Rose is my guardian now, and I'd appreciate it if you left my guardians alone."
"Yes, Queen Dragomir." My mom walked away and Lissa smiled and looked over at Dimitri. He smiled and turned around back in position. I caught up with my mom and grabbed her arm, she shrugged me off. She turned around and slapped me. I fell to the floor. I got up.
"What the hell is your problem?" I asked and I stared at her in shock. She's hit me but not this hard.
"You bitch, you have taken my dream away. For the rest of your life you will protect Valissa. Hopefully yours won't last won't last that long." She turned around before I could turn this argument into a fight. At night I saw my mom with a dark figure, I was on my break so Lissa was with Dimitri so I followed my mom and dove into some bushes. My mom touched the figures arm and he drove his fangs into my mom's neck, when she fell to the ground I ran and got Dimitri and Lissa.
When we got to the seen my mom was laying with a man, he looked Strigoi. I plunged a stake into his heart and Lissa covered her mouth and started to cry.
"Dimitri, don't let anyone know take Lissa to the field." He walked away with slow agony burning in his heart. You could tell he knew it was wrong to leave her there with her now turned Strigoi mother. She laid there and cried, her mom had not survived the change into a darker soul, the venom of this man had not spread she was gone forever. To make sure she was gone, Rose pulled out another stake and plunged it into her mom's heart. A few minutes later Lissa and Dimitri arrived where she her mother, and the Strigoi man lay. Dimitri picked her up and Lissa laid her hand on Rose's arm. When Rose woke the next day she had two more Molninja marks burning in her neck.
"That makes five," I whispered to her but then noticed Lissa was sitting in the love chair across from her bed.
"I'm so sorry, I told them only one more since it was your mom. They told me it was Dhampir rules, and there should be no exceptions. They found this letter from your mom addressed to you do you want me to read it to you?"
"Yes." I couldn't make eye contact with Lissa.
She began to read.
My darling daughter, I love you don't think I don't. I have failed to tell you that I wanted to be with your father. I never told you he was Strigoi. I knew He and I would die together just I hope you killed us. You have grown up to be what I expected you to be. I'm so sorry I have treated you the way I have. It was not right of me. Please I am begging you for my forgiveness. I left this world with your father and I hope I do not see you where I rest soon. I knew you would think this is your fault it's not. Rose Hathaway I leave you all I have and my undying love and soul. Please do not loose the black covered book in my room it has the secrets in it, only Hathaway's like you can open, I am the missing link and you are the one that has just begun.
When Lissa stopped she saw me crying.
"I found the book in her room here, take it." She told me.
I opened the book, there laid pictures of my father. Lissa sat next to me I looked up at her and smiled.
"This is my father," I said I smiled and looked up at her. I started to cry.