“Run!” she yelled at me. “He is dead! You are not going to join him!”

I saw the panic in her own face, panic over me—her daughter—getting killed. I remembered Dimitri saying he’d rather die than see me dead. And if I stood there stupidly, letting the Strigoi get me, I’d fail both of them.

“Run!” she cried again.

Tears streaming down my face, I ran.

Rose and Janine - Shadow Kiss