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Chapter 13

The bullet flew passed Dimitri's left ear, yet he stood there, unflinching. Raiden's breathing was heavy with determination as he shot again, and again. Every time he missed. He roared in outrage and started forward.

Stumbling to my feet, I lurched forward and grabbed the waistband of his jeans, tugging him back. He turned his head towards me viciously and glared. But then his expression softened when he saw it was me.

"You're giving in to the monster, Raiden," I whispered.

He shook his head and his brow furrowed. "I've always been one."

It was my time to shake my head. "No, you're not. So stop this," I said desperately. "Please."

In those heavy seconds of hesitation, I saw his sadness and anger flash through his eyes. His determination to make it up to me was not by killing Dimitri as he thought it was.

That was my job. It always has been.

"Please," I repeated.

He hesitated at first, then reluctantly nodded.

"Alright. I'll-"

He broke of with a gasp of pain. Liquid splashed my top and when I looked down I saw it was blood. The blood looked foreign to me, sending unwanted shivers of horror down my spine as I looked up at what had splashed it on me. My first reaction was a scream rising from the pit of my stomach. The scream didn't sound as if it belonged to me.

Raiden's wide eyes slowly traveled down to meet the object sticking out of his chest.

A wooden stake.

His hand slowly reached up to it, before his pained eyes met mine.

"Rose…" was all he whispered before his knees buckled and he fell. I tried to catch him but his weight ended up taking me down in the process. Sitting up quickly, I looked at him to see his eyes were shut.

"Raiden," I said. No response. I slid closer to him and slapped his cheek gently numerous of times. "Raiden!"

Wooden stakes couldn't kill us but they did create excruciating pain. I carefully ripped the stake from his body.

"Rose!" Stephanie screamed.

Startled, I whipped my head up and saw what unnerved her. My eyes locked on with a woman I thought was dead. Her fringe was glued to her forehead from sweat, her eyes were calculating and dark as she watched my eyes widen in surprise.

Tasha.

When I saw who it was, I couldn't believe my eyes. I just killed her. How could she be alive when those silver bullets collided with her deathly pale skin? She was clutching an object in her hand and when my eyes left hers for I millisecond, I saw it was a wooden stake.

"What!" Tallon growled.

"Rose killed you! How-"

"Rose wasn't aware that she had the gun with ordinary bullets," Tasha interrupted Hayley. And then she held up another gun, identical to the one I had used. "I switched them before Dimitri gave them to Tallon whom gave it to Raiden – and then he gave it to you," she said, pointing the gun at me when she spoke my name.

Right about now, everyone was aware of Tasha being the threat in this situation, yet no one knew how to really act. I for one was not in the mood for this. I've just come to know that my husband has been telling lies all this time and now my ex's stalker is alive after I was sure I killed her?

This was all messed up.

But one thing that I learnt during training to be a dhampir was to never look away from your enemy. Keep an eye on them and their stance.

But when Raiden sudden twitched his hand, I urged myself not to look down, but lost the fight. I looked down to see his eyes flutter. Slowly, he started coming back, little by little until he was able to sit up. I was about to say lie back down, you idiot, when the stake that Tasha was holding flung at me.

I could have stopped it. My reflexes are good enough. But before it struck me, I saw Dimitri shake his head slightly, saying not to prevent the stake from plunging into me.

I didn't know why he wanted me to do that or why I even obeyed him.

But I knew it was for the right reasons.

I was prepared for the stake as it plunged deep into me, sending me falling backwards. It went deep enough to knock me unconscious a few seconds after it entered.

The last thing I saw was Raiden's mouth open in horror and then he was screaming my name.

Ooh another cliff hanger . haha

I'll try to update soon-ish but being in the last year of school + having a load of studying to do is hard to get around.

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