"Princess, your grandmother would like to see you." I looked up from the current book that I was reading and nodded. My name is Rosemarie Korsakov. I am one of the last three Korsakov's left in the royal family. There is my grandmother who is currently the queen. Since she is the queen, I was given the title Princess. My younger brother, Riley who will be a junior next year, was the youngest in our family.

Our parents were killed in the same accident that killed Lissa's parents. The crash also killed my eldest brother, Anthony, and Lissa's older brother Andre. Lissa, Riley, and I were in a separate car behind theirs and we saw the entire crash.

Our two families have been known for their ruler ship in the past, and now they are known as the two smallest families. Lissa is the last in the Dragomir royal line, and the Korsakov's are right next to them.

Also, when we were younger, everyone thought that Lissa and I never specialized. Well, we just found out not too long ago that we had specialized. We had specialized in a different element. An element that nobody even knew about, Spirit. Then when we went on a ski trip awhile back, we found Adrian Ivashkov. He turned out to be another Spirit user. He came back to campus with us to study Spirit with us. We spend as much time as possible between classes and other boring royal stuff to practice it and teach each other our tricks.

So far, Adrian has taught Lissa and me to see auras. Lissa taught us to heal. I taught them to use compulsion to make people think they are somewhere they really aren't, or they are hearing something or feeling something that's not really there. Adrian has been teaching us to dream walk, and so far I have gotten the hang of it. Lissa is struggling with it, and is getting very upset over it.

There is one thing though that I don't have and they do. I don't have a shadow-kissed person. Lissa had saved one of our dear friends, Mason from dying. Well actually he did die. When we were at the ski lodge, Mason and Eddie were competing with each other over who could do more dangerous tricks. Well one of the tricks went back and Mason broke his neck and got himself killed. Adrian saved Molly from death. We never knew how it all happened, but when we found Adrian, Molly was his guardian and so we never questioned it. I though on the other hand do not have a shadow-kissed person. That is what upsets me because when we use spirit, it takes back of us out of each other. So we slowly go crazy or get super depressed. That is what happened to Lissa about a couple months after she saved Mason.

Since Lissa and I are very rare, we have already been placed with one of our two guardians. My guardian, Dimitri Belikov. Every novice said that he is some badass god, and after seeing him fight a couple of times, I believe it. He is always caring and supports me, but he does a good job of doing his job.

When I looked up from my book, I saw Dimitri standing there. I nodded, closed my book and stood up. We were on spring break, and my grandmother ordered that Riley and I were to come to court for 2 weeks during the break. So before I left, I promised Adrian and Lissa that I would do as much research as possible about Spirit. I put the book I was reading in my bag and Dimitri guided me out of the library.

"Do you know what she wants?" I asked. The spot where his hand was on the small of my back was so warm. I loved it when he touched me.

"No clue princess." He said looking down at me. I gave him a small smile and he gave me one and looked up.

"Dimitri, how many times to I has to tell you," I started; I hated it when he called me princess. "You need to call me-"But he had cut me off.

"Rose. Sorry Rose." He gave a small chuckle and the opened the door to the royal house. We walked to my grandmother's private room and I saw that Riley was already there waiting for me with our grandmother. Dimitri bowed to my grandmother and then went and stood by the other guardians against the wall.

"Rosemarie." My grandmother said as she walked around her desk and gave me a small hug and a kiss on the cheek.

"Grandmother." I said curtly and I sat down in the chair next to Riley. My grandmother sat back down at her desk and then continued.

"Now, in a few days you both will be returning back to the academy." She said and both Riley and I just nodded. "Then Rosemarie here will be graduating. I unfortunately won't be able to make it."

"It is perfectly alright grandmother." I said, and I was kind of glad. It would be so bad if the queen came to a graduation just to see her granddaughter graduate. There would be so much craziness. "I understand."

"Well, we are here to talk about your plans for after high school. Riley will come with you back to court. Riley, here you will spend the summer and then come the fall, you go back to school. Rosemarie, you were planning on attending Leigh with Princess Vasilissa, correct?" When I just nodded she continued. "Well, when you graduate, you will of course, get Guardian Belikov as your guardian, and I believe you parents' wishes that Mr. Eddie Castile becomes your guardian as well?"

"Yes, Eddie has been a good friend to me and my parents loved him. When his mother passed away, they offered our house to him and he lived with us during the breaks. He is like my brother."

"Well, he has good grades, and if he does well on his trials, I don't see as to why he wouldn't be your guardian. Also I have secured a house for both you and Princess Vasilissa to live in while you are in college." She said, and I gave her a small smile. Then she passed me a folder, and when I opened it, I saw my new house.

"Grandmother, it's perfect." I gushed. It was exactly me and Lissa's style.

"I thought you would think that." She smiled as I looked from picture to picture. "Now, we have to get onto another topic." She took a breath before continuing. "As you know, we are the last Korsakov's. So it is my job and duty to make sure that you both continues the family line."

"Where are you going with this?" Riley asked suspiciously.

"Well, I have some people looking into other royal children. Around your age. Someone who has enough Korsakov blood in them to make sure that they can help you both continue the family line. As I am aware neither one of you is in a relationship, so chances are, you will be set up in an arranged marriage." That did it. I got pissed.

"What the hell?" I yelled as I stood up.

"Rose," My grandmother started but I cut her off.

"No way in hell am I going to marry someone who I don't love. And can you really expect Riley to do the same. Even my parents wouldn't have wanted this for us. They said to follow our hearts. Maybe you could have gotten Anthony to do this, but you know that me and Riley would never do a stupid thing as this bullshit!"

"Rosemarie Janine Korsakov." My grandmother scolded. "You will not speak to anyone with that language. Now listen here. I know what you were going through. I too was forced into an arranged marriage between your grandfather and I. That didn't turn out bad at all. We had your mother Janine, and she was forced into an arranged marriage between her and Ibrahim, and that didn't turn out bad either. They loved each other and gave me three beautiful grandchildren. So you will go through this once it is settled. That way you can extend this family line."

"But-"I started, but I was cut off.

"No buts. Now leave. Both of you. I have a lot of work to get done." Then she put on her reading glasses and went back to her paperwork.

Once we were outside of the Royal house, Riley said, "Rosie, I know you don't like that, but neither do I. But you have to think. What can we do? We need to continue our line. Our ancestors and even our parents did everything they could to extend this family line. Do you really want to waste all of their hard work? Who knows, maybe you will fall in love with someone who has enough Korsakov blood in them." Then he gave me a small smile, a hug then disappeared to hang out with some people who were at the court.

"Doubt it." I mumbled.

"What Rose?" I turned around to see Dimitri looking at me.

"Nothing." Then I decided to change the subject. Nobody knew about my secret feelings for Dimitri. And I certainly didn't want him to know about them. "Are we going to Leigh tomorrow to look at the campus?" We started walking, and I couldn't help but notice that we were walking really close together, and our hands occasionally brushed each others.

"Yeah, and her majesty has ordered that two more guardians will be accompanying us tomorrow." He said looking down at me, waiting for my reaction.

Then I started to panic. "What about Eddie? I thought he was going as some type of training?"

"Of course Eddie's going."

"Then why all the extra guardians?" This really confused me. Important Royal traveled with two guardians, but four was unheard of.

"For protection." He said as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

Of course I had to ruin this entire thing with what I came up with next. "Well, with you guarding me, I'll be protected." Dimitri just laughed.

Then I swore I could have heard him say lightly "Oh Roza..." By this time we had arrived back at my suites. I opened the door, and he followed me in. The campus has been under heavier guarding because there were threats of Strigoi nearby. So Dimitri stayed in my room to guard me.

When the door closed, I walked into the kitchen. "Want something to drink?" I called out. Dimitri walked in the doorway of the kitchen and leaned against the frame.

"I'm good for now." He said with a smile. I just nodded and went to a cupboard and opened it getting a class out. Then I went to the freezer and grabbed some ice to put in the cup, and then poured some ice tea in my glass. I was starting to walk out of the kitchen with my glass when I slipped. I fell down hard, and the glass shattered.

Dimitri was by my side in seconds. "Rose, are you all right?" I could tell there was some concern in his voice. I had just gotten the wind knocked out of me, but other than that I seemed fine. When I just nodded, he lent his hand out, and I took it and he helped me up. "Go sit on the counter, I'll get this cleaned up."

"Dimitri I-"I started but once again I was cut off.

"Now Rose." I just nodded and hopped up on the counter. He got the entire mess cleaned up in a few minutes and even poured me some more ice tea. I reached out for the glass when he gasped. I was confused and looked down at my arm. There starting from my elbow to my wrist was a huge gash from glass. I didn't notice it because I had long sleeves on. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up." He got a towel and wrapped it around my arm, and then led me to the bathroom.

He picked me up and sat me down on the counter. Then he got the first aid kit out, and starting unpacking everything he needed. He took a piece of gauze and started to dab at the cut. I winced and his eyes filled with concern again. It didn't take him long to bandage me up. But when he was done, his face was just mere inches from my face, and he was rubbing my arm.

I really wanted to kiss him at that moment. I didn't know how he would react, but before I knew what I was doing, I wrapped my legs around his waist, and one hand snaked around his neck, and I pulled his lips against mine.

At first he didn't respond, but then I felt his kiss me. It was a gentle kiss at first, but then my hand reached up into his hair and I pulled him harder against my lips. His hands moved from my arm to my waist pulling us closer. Then I felt his tongue on my lips asking permission for answer. I opened my mouth and little, and our tongues started a war for dominance.

He picked me up while still making out with me, and carried me out of the bathroom and into the bedroom. He sat me down on the bed, and rolled over so I was on top of him. Then his phone rang. I grumbled as he seemed as if cold water was splashed over him. He quickly got me off of him and answered his phone. The phone call lasted just mere minutes and was held in Russian.

When he was finished he just looked at me. I was still on the bed, and I was hugging my knees. "Rose, we can't do this."

"Why not? Moroi and dhampir hook up all the time." I stated. It was true. Most relationships don't last, but there's some flings.

"Because you are going to be betrothed. You need to extend your family line. Besides, I don't think of you like that." Then he turned around and left me alone in my bedroom.

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