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Chapter One

THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN death threats and love letters--even if the person writing the death threats still clai I once tried to kill soe

Today's letter had been perfectly timed, not that I should have expected any less I'd read it four ti late, I couldn't help but read it a fifth time

My dearest Rose,

One of the fensides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you I'd dream about the way you sers I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips e kiss

Without dreaination--which is als perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life fro to do, but you've made my choice inevitable Your refusal to join me in eternal life and love leaves no other course of action, and I can't allow soerous as you to live Besides, even if I forced your awakening, you now have so oi that one of them would kill you If you must die, it'll be by my hand No one else's

Nonetheless, I wish you well today as you take your trials--not that you need any luck If they're actuallyyou take theroup, and by this evening you'll wear your promise mark Of course, that e e ain--which I'll definitely enjoy

And ill be raduation, you'll be turned out of the Academy, and once you're outside the wards, I'll find you There is no place in this world you can hide fro

Love,

Dimitri

Despite his "ishes" I didn't really find the letter inspiring as I tossed it onto my bed and blearily left the rooh it was kind of i like that There is no place in this world you can hide from me

I didn't doubt it I knew Dimitri had spies Since my former instructor-turned-lover had been turned into an evil, undead va I'd helped speed along when I killed off his for for oi could have stayed on a twenty-four-hour stakeout Humans could, and I'd recently learned that plenty of hue for the pro turned so their souls and killing off others to survive Those humans made me sick