Chapter Seventeen

DPOV

I tried to take a nap, knowing that I would most-likely need as much sleep as possible to keep up with Rose and Lissa all day. I'd been awake for more than twenty-four hours and, for a Lycanthrope, that was a huge problem. I'd grown accustomed to not getting much sleep, which was also bad for a Lycanthrope, but I'd always managed to squeeze in a couple hours here and there to keep myself going.

Only, I couldn't this time. I was plenty tired, trust me, but I couldn't bear to think about letting a moment go by that I wasn't awake when Roza was in my arms. She'd fallen asleep almost immediately. She'd been awake longer than I had, and had probably used more energy than I had, but I knew she didn't need nearly as much sleep as me or any other Lycanthrope.

She's a True Hybrid. I suppose there was a lot more to her than meets the eye. I needed to find out what all she had been hiding from me by leaving out that small detail of her life. I knew she needed to feed from Strigoi or Pricoli