DPOV

Rose and I had been lying on her bed for a while before I pulled away realising that I had a phone call to make.

Rose blinked her eyes open and looked at me with confusion. In the depth of her eyes I could see that she was afraid that I was leaving, and I hated myself for making her feel like that and I knew that I had a lot of making up to do.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"I just need to go call Tasha," I said moving to the side of the bed so I could stand up.

Automatically I saw Rose become guarded. "Why do you need to call her?" she asked rather harshly.

I smiled and bent down to cup the side of Roza's face gently. "I'm not leaving you Roza, I swear, I just need to tell her that I'm not going to be her guardian anymore – that I am going to stay here with you."

"What if she begs you to come back like I did?"

I smiled. "Roza – she doesn't have a hold of me like you do, and for you, I would do anything. To me, you are way more important than what she will ever be."

I could see the blush creeping into Roza's cheeks and I smirked. Smiling up at me she said; "Fine, just . . . Don't take too long."

I kissed her gently while I put a hand softly on her stomach. "I wouldn't dream of it," I whispered against her lips.

Once again she blushed when I had rested my hand on the small bump on her lower abdomen. The bump was easily concealed behind clothing but I knew soon enough it wouldn't be. Much sooner than I knew Rose would like.

I smiled as I pulled my phone out my pocket and started to dial Tasha's number. I thought about going out into the hallway to make the phone call but I realised that Roza would trust me quicker if I phoned Tasha in here so she could hear me.

Dimka! Are you catching your flight now?" she asked happily.

I felt awkward. "Um . . . Actually Tasha . . . I think I will keep my job at the academy . . ." I said looking at Rose. She gave me a small encouraging smile.

"What! What happened to guarding me?" she asked sounding hurt.

"Well, I want to work here and keep my job here."

"It's because of Rose isn't it?" she asked bluntly.

I sighed. "Yes Tasha . . . I can't leave her. I just can't do it."

"I knew that you shouldn't have gone back! I just knew that the little slut would talk you into staying with her! What did she do? Screw you and you were convinced? You know she has probably screwed that many guys and that is how she has become so good at it, because she has had a lot of experience."

I felt the anger stirring inside me as fury took over. "If you ever talk about her like that ever again, I will . . ."

"What will you do Dimka? Spank me?" I could almost imagine the seductive look she would be giving me.

I scoffed disgusted. "God no!" just imagining doing anything sexual with Tasha turned my stomach.

I cast my eyes over to Rose to see she was giving me an innocent but confused look.

"I'm not that horrible Dimka, in fact I'm sure I am better than that whore anyway," she said.

I snapped. "Don't call her that!"

From the bed, I could see Rose jump in fright and cast me an anxious look. I walked over and sat beside her and wrapped a comforting arm around her waist. Rose then leaned over and laid her head against my shoulder.

"I'll call her whatever I want! She stole you from me!"

"I was always hers Tasha, I was never with you," I said rather bitterly.

From beside me Rose looked up at me and gave me a small smile before kissing my cheek. I smiled back at her just as Tasha started talking.

"I'm coming to the school."

That shocked me out of my daydreaming of looking at Rose. "Wait what? Why?"

"Well, if you can't come here, I'll just go to you. besides I'm due to pay Christian a visit anyway."

"I don't think that is the best idea Tasha." I said.

I could almost see her shrugging her shoulders. "Neither is you staying in a relationship with your student," she countered. "What are you hoping to get out of it anyway?"

I gritted my teeth. "I'm not hoping to get anything Tasha, I love her and that's it."

"Well it doesn't really matter because I'm heading to the airport now. I'll see you in four hours," she said and then ended the call.

I sat there for a second longer before I took the phone away from my ear and turned to face Roza. I knew she wouldn't like what I was going to say.

"I take it she didn't take the news well?" Rose asked nervously. I could see that she was scared I was going to leave to guard Tasha just to keep the peace with her.

"No she didn't but that's not the problem," I said.

She frowned. "Then what is?"

I took a deep breath. "She's coming here."

Rose opened her mouth but then closed it again. You could see the shock in her eyes. "But she will start to cause trouble!" Rose exclaimed.

"I know," I said soothing Rose by rubbing her back.

"Lissa and Christian don't see her for what she can really be like. She could turn around and shoot me for all I know!" She cried obviously getting worked up.

I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into my lap, sitting there Rose buried her head in the crook of my neck.

"I will never let that happen. I won't let her touch you," I growled.

Rose shivered at my protective tone and curled herself more into me.

"I love you Comrade," she breathed.

I kissed her neck. "I love you too Roza. So much."

Rose and I had spent the rest of the time in her room just talking about random things and just enjoyed being in each other's company. It was a little while later when Rose's stomach started to rumble hungrily.

I laughed. "Come on, let's go get you fed."

Rose blushed but allowed me to help her up from the bed. She walked over to her dresser and started fishing some clothes out.

"Why are you looking for clothes?" I asked.

Rose turned to me with a smirk. "I can't go to dinner dressed like this Comrade. Do you have any idea how many guys would be drooling over me?"

I growled at the thought of anyone other than myself looking at Rose's body but at the same time I was glad she was joking with me, because I feared that me leaving her may have had a bigger impact than what it had already – even if I did come back to her.

Rose giggled but turned back to her dresser and started taking off her clothes until she was in nothing but her bra and underwear.

I unconsciously licked my lips. Rose turned on her side to admire her body and she wasn't the only one. Slowly she reached down and gently stroked the small bump that neither of us had noticed until now. Unable to help myself I got up and snuck up behind her, winding my arms around her waist to rest my hands on top of hers on her stomach.

Rose looked at me in the mirror. "What are we going to Dimitri? Soon I will be big and people will notice that I have a baby bump and I will be teased and looked down upon. I don't want that," she whispered as a slow tear trickled down her cheek.

I swiftly wiped it away. "We will get through this together. It isn't long until graduation and after you have graduated we can get our own place at court beside Lissa and Christian and after you have had some time off on maturity leave you can go back to guarding Lissa, and I'll take a night shift. That way I can look after the baby during the day while you are at work and then when you come home you can look after her when I go to work."

Rose frowned. "But then we won't have any us time," she pointed out.

I kissed her nose tenderly. "We will I promise."

Rose sighed but then looked up at me with a smile on her face.

"You said her."

I frowned. "What?"

"When you were talking about what we were going to do – you referred to the baby as a girl."

I smiled genuinely. "I bet the baby is a girl."

Rose smirked. "I think it is a boy."

I raised an eyebrow, something I knew that irritated Rose because she couldn't do it. "You want to make a bet?"

Rose smirked. "You know me Comrade. I never shy away from bets."

I laughed. "Ok so, what's the bet?"

"If I win . . . You have to dress in a French maid outfit and I will invite our friends over and you have to serve us, and you also have to buy me flowers every day for a month."

I grinned. "And if I win . . . You have to do a strip tease for me in front of all our friends and you have to make me breakfast in bed for a month."

Rose chuckled. "ok, you have yourself a deal Comrade," she said holding her hand out for me to shake it.

I took her hand and shook it but before she could pull away I tugged her towards me and wrapped my arms around her and brought my lips down to hers.

I could feel her surprise against my lips but she soon softened up and started to kiss me back.

Before the kiss could get heavy I pulled away. Rose looked up at me with a pouted lip, but I just chuckled.

"Come on, we are supposed to be getting dressed to go down to dinner," I reminded her as I pulled my duster on.

Rose sighed but started to pull on some jeans and slipped a t-shirt over her head. Couldn't help but watch her as she did so.

When she was done she turned to me with a smile and took my hand in hers.

"Let's go."

I allowed her to pull me from her room but once we started to get near the student body I pulled my hand out of Rose's.

Rose turned to me and blinked in surprise. "What's wrong?"

We are still around the other students. And we have to keep us a secret remember?"

Rose sighed and pouted slightly but nodded. "Yeah I guess you're right."

I put my hand on her lower back and started to lead her over to the food. "Let's get you your dinner."

I took a tray and I started to put healthy foods on there. I put a bowl of vegetables, a spoonful of pasta and a glass of water.

Rose came up beside me. "Comrade, what are you doing?"

"Getting you dinner," I said even though I knew what she was referring to.

"But what is all that?" She asked gesturing towards the food.

I bent down so I could whisper in her ear. "You need to eat healthy for our baby Roza," I said and the subtly kissed her cheek.

Rose sighed. "Fine, I'll eat the vegetables and drink the water as long as I can have some chips on the plate."

I frowned. "That's not healthy Roza."

"But it's potato! Potato is a vegetable."

I shook my head. "You could talk yourself into anything couldn't you?" I questioned putting some chips on her tray.

Rose grinned. "Pretty much."

I shook my head once again but couldn't help the smile from forming on my face.

We were walking over to the table when Rose started to question what I was doing.

"I'm going to stand guard against the wall near your table. I want to be close in case anything happens."

Rose sighed. "Nothing is going to happen Comrade."

I shrugged. "Doesn't hurt to be safe."

Rose rolled her eyes but slid into a seat to join her friends while I stood behind her against the wall.

It had been a while and I had tuned out of what Rose and her friends we talking about until I heard a voice that made me freeze.

"Hey Rose."

My head snapped up to look at Tasha who was giving my Roza a very malicious smirk. One could think of it as being friendly, but both her and I knew better.

"Uh . . . Hey Tasha," Rose said awkwardly looking over at me.

I gritted my teeth and walked over so I was standing at Rose's back protectively.

"Tasha."

Tasha then turned to me and smiled a sickly sweet smile.

"Hey Dimka. Did you miss me?"

Hey guys, I have to say I'm sorry about the long wait on this update but to be honest I'm not in a very good place at the moment.

I am stressed, depressed, and to put it bluntly am a bit suicidal.

Problems at home have prevented me from writing and school has just been really full on so I haven't had much time or motivation to write.

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