Hit List - Complete

Long Live The Queen

The phone did not finish the second ring before Abe answered the phone, but he didn't respond for a few moments. Switching the phone to speaker, Dimitri and I listened to scuffling on the phone before Abe's voice rang through the living room.

"What I found is rare – even more rare than Spirit. From what I've read, this has been considered a myth, but now that you've told me you've both experienced it...fascinating," Abe says quickly, awe ever-present in his voice. It is weird to hear Abe so rushed, and I quirk my brow up at Dimitri and he shrugs, as clueless as I am about Abe's demeanour. "What did you find?" Dimitri asks, running his hand over the top of my feet.

On Abe's side of the phone, we can hear a door close and pages being flipped. "In loose translation – you are turning into a different breed, one that can survive like Moroi but are immortal and much harder to kill. Soon you won't look like Strigoi, you'll slowly revert back to how you looked when you were Dhampirs."

I'm stunned, this seems more like a fairytale than anything. "How does this happen?" I ask, twisting my hair around my index finger, trying to sort the thousand questions flowing through my head, although some of these questions have a much deeper, Russian voice.

"It's because of you, Rose. The Spirit that ran through you when you were Dhampir carried over after you were tur- uh awakened. When exactly did you two experience the memories and such?"

"A few months ago," Dimitri says. "No, what were you doing?" Abe says with a sigh.

"I had just awakened Eddie, and I brought up to Dimitri that it felt good. So I asked him to feed from me, within seconds of him doing it, it was like my mind was being assaulted," I explain placing my phone in my lap.

Back and forth we answer questions, flip flopping between telling Abe what we have experienced and asking about things he's found. Knowing that eventually we would slowly become more "human" was unsettling, but Dimitri and I were both curious on how far it could go.

"You will have to be careful when you lose your tempers. While you may be able to feel normal emotions, your anger will force the more Strigoi part of you to become the forefront personality. It can be more dangerous than if you were normal Strigoi. Have you and Eddie fed from each other the same as you and Dimitri have since you awakened Eddie?"

"Once, but there were a few days between that. I fed from him one day and a few days later he fed from me. Why?" I ask, glancing towards Dimitri again to see his face set with focus.

"Try to prevent feeding with others, this shouldn't become common knowledge. You also don't want to be bound to more than one person. You could become unstable," Abe says seriously and I nod, even though he can't see me. Watching me nod to myself, Dimitri sits at the other end of the couch and chuckles. I frown and wipe the small pillow I am resting against at Dimitri with a huff. "How do we know if we have "bonded" completely?"

Abe makes an uncomfortable grunt in the back of his throat, clearing his throat before saying bluntly. "Feeding at the same time during sex."

Dimitri and I both start laughing at the uncomfortable tone Abe carries. Who would have though this badass mobster would get uncomfortable the though of his Strigoi daughter having sex?

"I guess we checked that box, eh Comrade?" I jest, rubbing my foot over the seem of his jeans while smirking as I can hear him thinking about what happened earlier.

He narrows his eyes at me, a low growl rumbling in his chest when grabs my foot to stop my ministrations that are not doing anything to help the not so small problem growing in his pants.

"There is a lot here that I need to show you, I'll be back in Russia next week, we'll talk more then," Abe says before disconnecting the call and I laugh harder at how quickly he wanted out of that phone conversation.