Chapter 2

Rose POV

Once on the airplane, I prepared myself for the worst. I had died when I was giving birth to Viktoria and Alyssa and they brought me back to life with their spirit, and now with three bond mates, the ghosts were even worse than before. As I imagined once the plane was high enough in the air, I started getting the worse pain imaginable in my skull. It reverberated through my body until I eventually passed out from the pain.

I woke up several hours later, and noticed that the pain had reduced to a dull throb in my forehead. I looked around and saw that we were now landing. I walked off the plane and into the airport. I was greeted by an overly ecstatic Lissa with Christian standing by her side. Before I could say anything, Lissa ran over and hugged me so tight, that I could hardly breathe.

"Can you please let go now?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, sorry, I'm just so excited, I haven't seen you in years, and I have soooo much to talk to you about. Oooh but first we can go shopping and-"

"Lissa, breathe."

"I'm sorry I'm just really excited to see you for the first time in years."

"I know Lyss. I can't believe I'm finally seeing you again!"

"So, how's Rosalie?"

"She's great, but now that Bad- Influence Hathaway is here, she should be swearing in no time at all." said Christian. Lissa and Christian had finally had a child a few years ago and had named her Rosalie after me. Sweet I know. But of course it had been Lissa's idea. I was surprised that he had agreed to it in the first place.

"Nice to see you too Sparky. And I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I am most definitely not a bad influence. Now let's get out of this airport shall we."

"Fine, but only because I don't want to sit here listening to you two yapping." said Christian.

"Yeah yeah, you know you missed me."

"Yes how could I not miss-"

"Both of you quit bickering. And it really is nice to see you again Rose. said Lyssa, always the peacemaker.

Christian just rolled his eyes.

We were heading towards the car when I felt a familiar nausea. That was another thing that was worse than before. My two extra bond mates made me that much more sensitive to strigoi. Quickly, I pushed Lissa and Christian behind me and leapt forward, grabbing my stake.

"Strigoi." I grunted. "Stay back."

Luckily, they did as I said. I crept along beside the bushes and leapt out, catching the strigoi of guard and slashing it in the arm. He screamed out in pain and I took the opportunity to stake him right through the heart. I then did the same to the other six. The whole thing only took about five minutes, though it felt like a lot longer than that.

Once we got to the car, Christian spoke.

"Wow. When did you get so good at staking? Seven strigoi at once by yourself, that must be a new record."

"Actually, no. It's not even close." I sighed. While I had been in Turkey, I would go strigoi hunting almost every night. I had improved my staking skills and had even made a name for myself in the strigoi world.

They called me the slayer.

Actually, right now Lissa was trying to track down the slayer and see if he would be willing to guard court. What she didn't know however was that I was the slayer. I wanted to keep my identity a secret. The only people that knew were Viki, Lyss, and Sydney.

It helped that everybody thought that the slayer was a guy, but it also meant that I had to be careful about showing my marks.

I didn't know exactly how many marks I had, but the last time I checked, it was around 2,600 marks. Sydney was the one always keeping track of my numbers, I'd have to ask her about that later.

"Oh that reminds me, I should probably call Sydney, and I need to schedule a time to get my new marks. I still haven't gotten the other 10 from the attack yesterday..."

With that, I took out my phone and called Sydney. She picked up on the first ring.

"Hey Rose, what's up?"

"Hey Syd, there's been a bit of an accident on the way to the car."

"Okay." she sighed. "How many?"

"Only seven this time"

"Where are you?"

"Still at the airport."

"Okay I'll send some people over, and Rose, "

"Yeah?"

"Please be careful."

"I will, I promise."

"Okay bye, I'll see you soon"

"Bye"

I hung up and looked over at Lissa.

"How long does it take to get there from here?" I asked

"A couple hours." She responded.

"Get some sleep Rose." she said quietly. "You're going to need it."

I wondered what she had meant by that, but before I got the chance to ask, I was already fast asleep.