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Chapter 7

RPOV

I ran into Sonya's arms when she finally flew down from Spain. The whole family rejoiced and embraced me hard. Tears would be in all of our eyes if we weren't Strigoi. A wail brought my attention to Hope, whom Aleena was cradling.

I lifted her into my arms and kissed her cheek. She giggled happily once she recognized me.

Scott walked up to me and bit his lip.

"They got caught?" he asked.

I nodded. "Dimitri's got them. Sonya I have three thousand dollars," she tried to interrupt but I shook my head. "No, wait. I've got three thousand in cash. How much do you have?"

"More than enough," she replied.

"We need seventeen tickets to Philippines. Dimitri told me to meet him there in four days." Did last night count as a day? It better not have.

Carmen stepped forward.

"Where in Philippines?" she asked.

"Dipaculao," I said. "On the beach."

Her eyes sparkled. "I got an idea."

I raised my eyebrow. Uh oh.

RAIDEN'S POV (PREVIOUS DAY)

"Damn, this place is a dump," Joe muttered, gesturing to all the rubbish dumped at the entrance of an alleyway.

I nodded in agreement. He was right. We flung ourselves into the alleyway before could be detected by a few policemen a few blocks down. In our disguises, even I noticed that we looked very shifty.

Once safe, my phone starting to ring.

If this is Sonja phoning again, I'm going to loose it.

I looked down at my phone and saw that it rang from a private number. I accepted the call and held it to my ear.

"Sonya, for the last time. Stop calling me," I growled.

"Raiden?" Rose gasped.

My whole world lightened up at the second I heard her voice. I couldn't believe it. How had she escaped?

Both of my brothers whipped their heads in the direction of my phone. They heard her voice too.

"Rose?"

Oh God, please tell me I wasn't daydreaming of her voice again.

"It's me, Raiden," she sighed in relief.

"Rose, where are you? Are you okay? Did he hurt you? I swear I'll-"

She cut me off. "Sweetheart, I'm fine. I'm in Novosibirsk. Where are you?"

She was here?

"Where?" I breathed.

"I'm in town."

I looked at my brothers and a wide grin spread across our faces. It'll be easy to get to her since we were in the same city. All we had to do is capture her scent and follow it.

"I'm coming. I'm in the city as well, with Marco and Joe," I sighed with reassurance.

"I miss you," she said.

"I miss you too, baby." God, she had no idea how much I missed her.

"Oh, what was with you talking about Sonya-"

A blow to the back of my head sent my splintering forward and headfirst into a brick wall. My phone slipped from my grip, and clanged to the ground. I turned to see my attacker and froze. It was Dimitri. Another four Strigoi men were with him, two on both of my brothers.

Dimitri strike his hand forward and clasped my hair tightly and then banged my head once again to the brick wall.

I could hear Rose trying to talk to me on the phone.

"Raiden? Baby, can you hear me?" Her voice was getting more and more frantic.

"Rose!" I yelled as Dimitri threw me across to another Strigoi, whom just arrived. He held a tight grip on me and made me face Dimitri.

Dimitri slowly bent and picked up my phone. While getting back up again, Joe and Marco were held back as well.

My anger was boiling in my veins.

Dimitri lifted the phone to his ear.

"Don't you dare talk to her! I'll fucking kill you!" I screamed, meaning ever word.

He had a mock smile on his lips when her heard her say my name again.

"Hello, Roza," he said harshly.

I growled at him.

"NO!" I heard her scream.

Oh God, she going to have one of her spaz attacks again.

"Listen very carefully. Or else your Raiden's dead. Meet me in Dipaculao, its in Philippines. We'll be waiting on the beach. It's almost impossible to miss us. If you ever want to see your beloved again, meet me there in four days," and then he hung up.

Dipaculao? Why there?

Dimitri walked lazily towards me.

"Let me get this in your head: you touch my Rose and I'll kill you. You try to run away and I'll kill you. You hurt anyone in my crew and I'll kill your family-"

"What did you say?" I could hear the hysteria in my voice.

He did not just say what I thought he said.

"I said-"

"DON'T YOU EVER CALL ROSE YOURS!" I thundered. "SHE'S MY WIFE AND LOVER AND SHE WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU, YOU PIECE OF-" he cut me off as he punched me square in the jaw, throwing both me and the Strigoi holding me back against the wall.

I groaned again and was lifted up again to my feet, this time by Dimitri.

His dark eyes bore into mine.

"Backchat again and you'll never see her again. Got it?" he spat.

He got a glare from me in return.

"Roll out," he spat to his crew and we all made our way towards a parked black Hummer outside the alley.

I'll see my Rose again. One way or another, she'll figure out one of her brilliant ideas and come rescue me. Like she always does.

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