Everything had happened in an instant. One moment Rose wanted to beat up the stupid vampire who had attacked Lissa and the next her neck had snapped and she was just gone. Everything the fierce vampire guardian had been was gone in an instant. Just like before.
She was unmoving, her heart no longer beating and her skin was more pale than Lissa's. Rose Hathaway was very certainly and completely dead. Shadows pulling at her. Mason... it was happening again. The dead had come to take her.