A/N: I do not own any characters and the ideas are borrowed from the movie The Proposal. This story is rated M due to language and possible future lemons. Please enjoy and review, favorite and follow if you like, there will be more to come! As for updates they will be random but hopefully they won't be to far apart! All human and original pairings for the most part! Not all characters will be the same like in the books obviously!
The proposal
My boss is freaking hot, he's sexy and full of confidence. He always wears a fitted suit and his shoulder length hair tied back at the nap of his neck. His Russian accent is just a bonus. The only problem about my boss is he's a total ass-hole. He is very strict, he likes things done a certain way and only that way. He's intimating, cold but he runs the most successful businesses in the city.
Dimitri Belikov is the owner of several establishments. All in all they're successful but there's one night club that he owns called Buria. It's opened only three nights a week and gets over crowded fast, the only time it will be opened on a day other than Thursday, Friday or Saturday is if a special event is booked, this place does the best business out of all of them.
He also owns another night club called Karma and another one called Gibberish which both do excellent as well. His restaurants are high up there too, Eternity, Twisted and Flame. He's got some of the best chefs' in the world working there. The businesses are amazing and most of the time I feel extremely lucky to be working here but not today.
"Rose, let's go." Dimitri demands as he comes out of his office. In the back of Eternity is his office, mine is just outside of his since I am his assistant.
Just a few minutes ago I had gotten a phone call regarding Mr. Belikov's immigration forms and I am expected to accompany him to this meeting.
Once we reach his Cadillac escalade he opens the door for the passenger side, so he's an ass-hole with a bit of manners.
When we're off he surprises me. "So you're off for the next few days, what are your plans?" He asks me.
"Sir?" I ask confused.
He barely glances my way. "Am I not allowed to asks personal questions though you know every thing about me?"
"But you're my boss and I your personal assistant, it's my job to know everything about you." I tell him.
When he doesn't say anything I decide to answer, "I'm heading back home, my best friend just got married so I..."
"We're here." He says, cutting me off, ah I should have seen that coming.
Oh god this place is freaking packed full of people. "Give me a second." Mr. Belikov says pulling out his wallet. I watch as he takes a hundred out and then puts his wallet away and heads to the front of the line.
"Sir, you don't mind if we step in front of the line right?" Dimitri asks showing his hundred dollar bill off.
The man gives a toothy smile, takes the cash and waves us forward as the person next in line gets called up.
"What can we do for you today?" A lady asks, I can't help but notice how she straightens in her seat a bit.
"Dimitri Belikov, I received a phone call regarding my application." He tells her. The lady starts typing away on the computer in front of her, the happy smile on her face slowly disappearing.
"I'm sorry Mr. Belikov but according to the computer stats it's saying here that you've been denied. You can fill out another application but it will take a full year before you're allowed back, in that time you'd be forced to shut down all business's that you own..." The lady explains.
Dimitri stops her. "That is unacceptable, besides it's all nonsense, I am engaged to be married." Dimitri says shocking me like crazy.
"You are?" The woman asks losing her smile as we both stare at him.
He nods, "Rose, this is my fiancee." He says pulling me by the waist, this is the first time he's ever touched me other than my hands.
Her smile is back but it's no longer that friendly flirty smile. "Come this way please." She says and she leads us to an office down a long hall. "Please have a seat someone will be right with you." She says closing the door.
"What the hell was that?!" I whisper shout at him.
He looks down at me. "That's the first I've ever heard you swear." He says and the sighs. "Just please go along with this for a minute until I can think of something else."
I don't get a chance to answer or say anything because a balding man walks into the office. "I'm Mr. Nagy and I have a few questions for you Mr. Belikov and Ms..." He hesitates looking at his paper work on his desk.
"Hathaway." I tell him. "Rose Hathaway."
"Ah, Ms. Hathaway. Are you two committing fraud in order to keep him here?" Mr. Nagy asks. "Who is he to you?"
I look up at Dimitri. "He is my fiancee." I say but I sound so unsure of myself.
"Yes, yes but what else?" He asks.
"My boss." I tell him.
"Yes, I am her boss but it just so happens after all the long nights together, late dinners and working together for four years we fell in love. We didn't know it would happen but it did, I proposed to her two weeks ago and we've taken some time off to visit our family's and to tell them the good news." Dimitri speaks up. The way he says it and looks down at me almost has me believing his story if it weren't for the fact that I'm apart of it and know the truth.
"Where are you two heading?" He asks.
"Montana. It's where I'm from." I tell him.
"And then to Russia, my sister has been dying to meet her." Dimitri says taking ahold of my hand. I feel nauseous..
He looks between the two of us and sighs. "You're really going to do this?" We nod. "Okay let me let me explain the process that is about to unfold, step one: we do a schedule interview with both of you in separate rooms and we'll asks you real questions that real couples would know about each other. Step two: I dig deeper, I ask your friends, family, your neighbors, about your relationship and if everything doesn't add up you Mr. Belikov will be deported indefinitely and you Ms. Hathaway will face a fine of $250,000 and five years in a federal prison. So are you sure you want to do this?" Mr. Nagy explains.
Oh thank God I skipped lunch today otherwise it would be making a reappearances.
"Um, Mr. Nagy the truth is..." I look over at Dimitri again, his eyes are harden black orbs, hiding all emotions. "Dimitri and I fell in love and he wants to marry me and I want to marry him."
Mr. Nagy's face hardens. "Okay, I guess we will be doing this the hard way. I will set up an appointment and we will be in touch."
I'm trying to keep it together just walking out of the building and Dimitri is acting perfectly normal working on his phone. "We have a flight to Montana tomorrow, we will stay there for a few days then we will take a few more days off and we will fly to Russia and don't worry I'll pay for everything." He says tapping away before we reach his vehicle. He opens the door for me and I automatically sit as he closes the door and walks around to the driver side. The entire ride back to Eternity I'm quite, processing or trying to process what just happened. I've always thought I'd get married some day but not like this and not so young. I'm twenty two and he's twenty eight and god five years in prison! I can't do that, the thought of it freaks me out.
"...You will be, right?" Dimitri asks.
"What?" I haven't been paying attention at all to what he's been saying.
"If I pick you up in the morning you'll be ready, right?" He repeats.
"I can't do this." I tell him.
"Please Rose, I need you to do this for me." He says turning in his seat a bit. "Marry me for just a year tops and then we can get a divorce."
"$250,000 fine Dimitri! Five years in prison! I'm pretty badass but I refuse to do prison time!" I yell at him.
"So many curse words today, it's not normal." Dimitri says face still straight and not giving away any emotions. "I'll pay you, $250,000 if you also promise to not quit on me at the end of this marriage. You'd be very hard to replace as a assistant."
"Thanks, I guess for that last part." I tell him.
"Stay right here, I'll be right back, but think about it while I'm gone." He says stepping out of the vehicle, where are we?
I watch him disappear around a building and sit back. Would $250,000 be worth a year of my life? Okay it probably would be okay and it's not like I don't spend nearly every day with my boss anyways, oh god but he's my boss and I could end up going to jail for five years if we don't pull this off! But we could, couldn't we? $250,000 I would get out of all of this. Ten minutes later he's back and pulling us away from the curb.
We pull up outside of Eternity and he comes over to my side to open the door as he usually does.
"So, what do you think Rose, do you think we can do this?" He asks.
"Ask me nicely, Mr. Belikov." I tell him.
"What?" He asks shocked.
I put my hands on my hips. "You heard, Mr. Belikov, Ask. Me. Nicely." I tell him, he's never seen this side of me. "You spring this idea on me with no warning and pulled me into this with out even asking how I felt about it or if I even wanted any part in this, now ask me nicely. Oh and I want the money up front."
He glares, "I don't think so Rose. Half now half later after the year is up."
I cross my arms. "Fine."
He kneels down on one knee, what?!
I didn't mean like this or out here in public where everyone is watching!
"Rosemarie Hathaway, Love, we've known each other a long time..." Oh god people are stopping and staring! "There is no one I'd rather marry than you so would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" Holy hell, where did the little black box come from?! He pops open the box and I am a little shocked, the ring is beautiful, elegant and just perfect. It's just a solitaire but it's so me.
I look from the ring to Dimitri's eyes and I can barely see a tad bit of worry, finally some emotion and that's what makes me smile and utter out one word, "Yes."
He smiles back, takes the ring and places the ring on my finger, a perfect fit. I'm so shocked. People around us starts clapping and cheering as he stands up and pulls me towards him to give me a very first hug and a light kiss on the forehead.
"Thank you, Roza, thank you." He tells me before stepping back, placing a hand on my lower back and leading me through the small crowd into the restaurant, where my co-workers look as confused as I feel.
Once we are alone my smile drops and his does too. "How are we going to do this, Mr. Belikov? How are we supposed to lie to our families and the courts and make them believe that we're in love?"
"First, you're going to have to stop calling me Mr. Belikov and just Dimitri." He says seriously. I nod. "Second, we can do this, it won't be forever."
"You're going to have to loosen up a bit around my family, Dimitri. They know I'd never date someone so stiff." I tell him.
He just stares. "I have no idea what you mean." He says.
"Seriously?" I ask, he shrugs. "Okay we can work on it tomorrow. Is there any way I should act around your family?"
He shakes his head. "Just be yourself and you'll be fine." He tells me. He sits back in his chair and sighs. "You can have the rest of the day off, go home and pack Rose and I'll see you tomorrow."
"Are you sure, I didn't get much work done and we won't be back for a while?" I ask him.
He nods, "I'm sure." He says. "Go home."
"Okay, I'll see you then." I say and turn to head back out to my office. I gather my belongings and ignore the daggers that are being thrown my way, some look betrayed, some of the ladies look jealous, I hurry out to my crappy little Honda and hop in. I look down at the ring on my left hand and my heart stutters, I am engaged to be married. Fake married to Dimitri Belikov, one of the most successful men I'd ever known. What did I just get myself into?
A/N: so there it is! Stick around for the next chapter!
