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"Adrian" I called once more.
Dimitri was fuming mad, his movement stopped and the look on his face told me that things were not going to end well.
"Why the hell are you calling out that losers name Roza?" he hissed grabbing my face painfully bringing it closer to his.
"Because I love him not you" I yelled into his face. Before I knew what was happening his hands were around my throat. I guess turning me into a Strigoi was no longer an option for him. Now he was just out to kill me and end it all. I felt the air escaping my lungs, my eyes meet his one last time. The eyes of the man that I once loved was no longer there replaced with the eyes of a killer that was choking the life out of my helpless body.
The next thing I felt was warmth surrounding my body and the outline of a beautiful face. Trying to get my eyes to focus I was pretty sure I was dead I asked "are you an angel?"
"No Little Dhampir I am no angel" Adrian said kissing my forehead, running his fingers down my cheek to get the lose hair that had fallen partially coving my eyes gently tucking it behind my ear.
"Adrian" I let out a sigh thankful that he had shown up when he did.
"I am here, you are safe now" he said.
After another minute I looked around. "Adrian why are we in my room and not the beach or somewhere exotic like usual?" I asked glancing down to see I was still in my pajamas.
His voice took a serious tone that I had only heard him use a few times since I had known him and all of those times usually had something to do with my safety. "This is not a dream Rose, I was walking back to my room when I felt a pull to your room. I don't know how to explain it but it was like you were calling for me and I ran here as fast as I could. Your door was unlocked, which is something we will discuss further at another time but it prevented me from having to break it down. When I got in here you were thrashing around in your bed calling out my name, that is when I woke you up" he said wrapping my body closer to his chest.
While he told his story I had realized he was sitting on my bed, my body had been pulled onto his lap my head resting on his shoulder. I knew it couldn't be comfortable for him but my body refused to move and for once I was ok with that. "Adrian it was awful" I started to sob I wasn't sure how I could tell him that Dimitri was going to rape me and that when I called out for him he decided it would be better to just kill me. Or the fact that admitting my feelings for Adrian is what had pushed Dimitri over the edge.
"I am so sorry Rose, two days in a row I let him get to you" he said bringing his head down to rest it on mine. The closeness would have bothered me a month ago but now it was a necessity. Between my dreams, and hanging out with him I spent over half of my day with Adrian and I was now craving more time with him.
"Don't blame yourself you told me to wait thirty minutes I was just so tired, I should have got out of bed and not chanced it. Plus you have spent the last two months protecting me from these nightmares. I am ruining your life" I sobbed again into his chest wishing I could finally be ok.
"Rose there is no way you could ruin my life. I have already told you that I love you, that doesn't mean I only love you when you are one hundred percent, I loved you when you loved another, when you felt like you were broken and would never be ok and I will continue to love you no matter what" he said kissing the top of my head before shifting my weight off of him. "You are tired and need to rest, give me five minutes to get to my dorm and I will be waiting for you" he said now standing. He turned to walk out when my body reacted. The thought of him leaving me was unbearable so I did the only thing I could think of. I grabbed his hand and pulled him back to the bed. "Please stay" I said glancing up at him before looking at the wall.
The cocky smile that I was expecting didn't show up only a look on concern. "Are you sure?" he asked.
"Yes" is all I said as I slid closer to the wall to give him room.
As he slid his shoes off, it was the first time I noticed what he was wearing. He had dress slacks on with a blue pin stripped button up shirt. He looked handsome but he would not be comfortable sleeping in it.
"Adrian please get comfortable, you are staying as a favor to me. I don't want you to be uncomfortable" I said looking back at the wall. "I will be ok in this" he said gesturing down to his dress attire. "No you won't so stop arguing and strip" I said giving him one of my man eating grins. With that he slid his pants off exposing his dark blue silk boxers, then unbuttoned his shirt exposing his bare chest. I was use to his body in my dreams but hadn't had the pleasure of seeing it in real life. He caught me staring and a smile worked its way onto his face. "See something you like?" he asked still smirking.
I didn't say anything just laid my head down onto my pillow and patted the bed telling him to get in. He turned the light off and then I felt the bed shift as he climbed in. He turned onto his back before grabbing my arm pulling me toward him allowing me to curl into his body resting my head onto his chest. "Where shall we go tonight Little Dhamphir?" he asked wrapping his arms protectively around me.
"Your grandmother's garden, I always feel safe there" I said closing my eyes knowing that Dimitri would not be there to hurt me but Adrian would be waiting.
We spent the rest of the night sitting in the garden talking about everything except my dream about Dimitri. When Adrian started visiting my dreams I told him that Dimitri was not allowed in our dreams and he made sure that it was never brought up. Each dream was like a break from reality were I didn't have to think about what had happened, and I was doing my best to keep it that way.
There was a few times I noticed him staring at me with concern in his eyes, but whenever he noticed me looking at him he would flash me a smile then make a joke.
We were laying on a blanket watching the sun set, when I felt Adrian's hand move to hold mine. We always hugged and he had made it a habit of kissing my forehead each night before I would wake up, but his small gesture of holding my hand sent a chill through my body. I wanted to tell him that I loved him, that I still loved Dimitri but he was gone and I was ready to move on. Pulling my hand from his I rolled onto my side. Adrian had opened his eyes when I had pulled my hand from his, I could see the hurt in his eyes. "Sorry I had to try" he said sitting up putting his hand back into his lap.
I quickly moved my body so that I was now positioned in front of him. "Adrian" I said trying to get him to look at me, but he keep staring past me. "Adrian" I said again now placing my hands on the side of his face so he would be forced to look at me. I tried to give him a reassuring smile, but there was sadness in his eyes and I had to do something to make it go away.
I closed the space that was separating us and brought my lips to his. The moment they touched I knew it was right, everything in my body was on fire and I finally knew that what I said in my nightmare was true I love Adrian. It started off soft, we were both making sure that the other wouldn't pull away. When I realized he wouldn't the pace picked up my hands found there way into his hair while his went around my waist pulling my body closer to his.
When we finally broke apart we were both breathing heavy. Adrian still had his arms wrapped around me and my head was resting on his shoulder.
"I wanted to tell you something" I said into his neck afraid to look at him.
"If you are going to tell me that was the best kiss you ever had I would have to agree" he said chuckling then turning to kiss my forehead.
"Would you expect anything less from me?" I asked sitting up to see his face. He smiled leaning forward to place a small kiss on my lips "no, not at all. Now what did you want to tell me?" he asked his eyes smoldering. I wanted to kiss him again but knew if I didn't tell him that I could chicken out. So instead I grabbed his hands holding them in him and took a deep breath.
"Adrian, I have never told you thank you for everything you have done for me" I could tell he wanted to interrupt me so I placed my fingers over his mouth to tell him to let me finish. "You have always been there for me even before the attack on the school. At times it was a bit annoying but at some point you grew on my. Then when I left you supported me and looked after Lissa when I couldn't. That alone was enough to make me realize how much you cared about me but over the last two months you have proven your love everyday and every night. You have been my rock through all of this. I am not sure if I could have survived this long without you." The tears were rolling down my face, his hand gently wiped them from my cheeks before he placed a kiss on each tear stained cheek.
"I am sorry that this is how I have to prove my love, through all of you pain" he said wiping away another tear that fell.
"You have been the sun in the darkest moment of my life. I am ready to move forward with you because I lo."
Just like that the dream faded to darkness.
