The way that it should have been

Chapter 50

"Is that the only reason?"

"Yes."

"You will never remember that I compelled you or that my uncles were ever anywhere near you. Do you understand this?"

"Yes."

"Good. Now, go to sleep for two minutes."

With those words Kirova did as she was told. Those two minutes would give Roza, Pavel and Sergei the time to resume their original positions in the room before Kirova woke back up.

Moving the conversation along, so that Kirova wouldn't think she missed too much while she slept, Roza moya spoke to her father. "Baba, which of the guardians is named Vinh Duy Khuc?" (my, daddy)

"Why?"

"Because mom told me that he is Tasha's soul mate, and I want him to be the one assigned to guard her."

"That's genuinely nice of you Rose, especially after the way that she has treated and spoken about you since the two of you met. So, thank you so much." Christian said.

"It's nothing. I have my soul mate, my father had my mother, you and Lissa have each other, Yuri has Celeste, Emil and Liz have each other. And I want to be sure that as many of my friends and family members have their own soul mates as possible. Plus, my mom said that as soon as they meet, they will be just like Mitya and I, and you and Lissa were. And that when Tasha meets Vinh she won't ever look at Dimitri as anything other than an old friend ever again. Sooo it's not all completely altruistic."

We all laughed at and with her, well everyone except that sour faced suka Kirova who had just woken up a little bit ago. Even Stan laughed that time, but as for Kirova, she was still looking at Abe with fear all over her face. Because of what he'd said before Roza compelled her, even though Kirova didn't know that she had been compelled. And knowing Abe and his reputation as I do, she is right to be afraid. Ad if I didn't love Roza moya as much as I do, I would be yeblya terrified of the man myself. (bitch, hell, my, fucking)

Roza turned to Kirova. "Kirova, I know the truth behind why you hate me so much. And I am going to tell you something especially important so listen very closely. It was not my mother's fault what happened to you, you tried to hit her, not the other way around. All she did was step back and you fell flat on your face. So, it was actually all your own fault."

Kirova looked startled.

Everyone else looked curious about what she was talking about. But I already knew because she had already explained it to me.

"So, in fact you broke your own nose, not my mother."

Now everyone looked like they wanted to laugh. But the room was quiet except for a few snickers and giggles from the other students until Alberta spoke up.

"What are you talking about Rose?"

"Kirova went to the same academy as my mother, as you know. And while you were all there a royal had a thing for my mother. He used to send her gifts and flowers to the academy every day, so on and so forth. As you also probably know."

Alberta nodded.

"You know how it goes when a royal is trying to convince, bribe or entice a dhampir woman into their bed. But my mother cared absolutely nothing for the guy, and she told him so repeatedly. That did not keep him from trying to change her mind though. It didn't keep him from trying to impress her with his money and position. And it also didn't keep him from more or less trying to buy her, just as far too yeblya many of the royal males do." All of the female dhampir in the room nodded, I guess that meant that they had all been through the same or knew someone who had. (fucking)