Defend herself? Not even close, but Rosalie wasn't the type to keep guns around, or to use them. She had sharp fingernails and she had taken Vlad's advice and gotten pepper spray, but she was doubtful that either of those things would hold off Vaughn for too long.
She returned his smile tentatively as they ate, because of course she wouldn't mind being around and helping him, but next time, it wasn't inconceivable that his real princess would find him first. "Did you, last time? Forget who you were completely?" she inquired as she thought about his last question. "It might," she allowed. "Nothing else has had a repeat, but Ella, for example, was saying how it was really another person inside of them- you- with separate memories and such. So it seems like they could resurface."