They didn't know if Victor was tricking them by saying his brother was in Las Vegas, but with no other leads and needing to get out of Alaska fast, it was the only thing to do. So they headed off. They soon ran into a slight problem though. Victor didn't have an ID so they couldn't take a public airplane. Once returning the can to Bud's Car Rental, Victor asked him if there was a private airport near by where they could take a charter. Bud told them their was but it wouldn't be cheap, but money was of no issue to them. Lissa had a trust fund which funded her with money each month and Rose had a left over credit card from when she sweet-talked Adrian, her boyfriend, into funding her trip to Russia in the previous book. At the airport they met up with a pilot who could take them, but only to Seattle, there he knew another pilot though who could take them all the way to Las Vegas.
On the plan ride Rose was able to get out of Victor why his brother was living in such a highly populated place, such as Las Vegas, because vampires usually lived in smaller cites where they could go undetected, especially ones like Robert Doru who do not want to be found. Eventually he gave in and told them that Robert didn't live in Las Vegas proper, that he lived in a small city just outside of it near a canyon. Victor told them though that Robert valued his privacy so they would have him meet them in the middle of Las Vegas. Once they arrived they took a taxi to the middle of the strip. They instructed the taxi driver to take them to the Luxor, which was the hotel they were going to be staying at. They were staying there because Eddie had always wanted to stay their; he told them if your going to stay anywhere in Vegas it might as well be in a pyramid.
Once they were all settled in their room Rose commanded Victor to call Robert. She wanted him to use Lissa's cell phone instead of the hotel phone so she could have record of the phone number. It took some convincing on Victor's behalf to get Robert to believe he was actually out of prison. He then started to make his pitch on how Robert needed to come meet them. After twenty minutes Victor finally convinced him to come meet them and he set up a dinner at one of the hotel's restaurants and then disconnected. They waited in the room until dinner. Suddenly a knock was heard from the door. Lissa new it was Adrian, who was Rose's boyfriend, because he was also a spirit user and when spirit users are in close range they can sense each other auras. He walked in happy to see all of them, except when he saw Victor he was in shock. He demanded what was going on and told them that everyone was out looking for him. Now that Adrian was here, he wouldn't leave so Rose had to go tell him what was going on.
Rose took Adrian out of the room and downstairs of the casino so that her friends and Victor wouldn't hear them. Adrian took of after finding out Rose's true intensions on why she freed Victor : So she could get to Robert, who hopefully would help her turn strigoi back, and if it worked she could turn Dimitri back, who was her "ex-boyfriend" who she still longed for. Rose really didn't want Adrian made at her, she truly did care for him a lot and loved being with him. She asked him to help but he just said he needed more drinks and took off. As he left she told him they were meeting at 4:30 at the restaurant, and then he was out of sight.
4:30 came around and it was time for them to head out. When Rose opened the door way Adrian was standing there, as if he was about to knock. He said hey in his normal casual formal and told them he was going to join them. Then they were off to the restaurant where they were meeting up with Robert Doru and hopefully finding out about Dimitri's only salvation.
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