Worth The Fight

by

VampireFreakLover98

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Chapter Six


RPOV

Groggily I opened my eyes to see that I was in my room with my cover up to my waist revealing my tight tank top and the top of my boy shorts. I sat up with a groan at my aching muscles and the light pounding of my head I flinched at the sunlight and tried to recall some last memories.

All the sudden someone's hand slammed against my mouth and I screamed … but it was muffledfalling into Mikhail's embrace.

My eyes widened as I remembered almost being kidnapped. My breathing became labored as I thought about what could have happened. I could have ended up killed. Or maybe raped and then killed. He could have forced me to…I felt tears prick my eyes and let out a terrified gasp as the door to my room was pushed open.

I caught sight of Dimitri as I started hyperventilating, Dimitri must have realized what was happening because he was soon by my side and his hands were rubbing up and down my arms.

"Roza, it'll be okay… No one is going to hurt you. Breathe in and out. Deeply, calm down." His voice was soft and soothing as his hands rested on either side of my head, stroking my hair as he looked deeply into my eyes, his gaze intense as he kept saying comforting words.

I finally breathed in calmly and closed my eyes for a second and reopened them to see concern in his eyes. I smiled weakly smiled at him as I slouched forward and thought I saw longing in the depths of his melted brown eyes before his face became stoic and the emotionless bodyguard was presented to me. The smile fell from my lips and I felt anger swelling at him for never allowing people in to comfort and support him . . . why did he never let anyone in? What happened to make him this way?

"Are you alright?" only a trace of concern leaked into his words, no doubt only a small percentage was allowed out.

"Yes … what happened, after I passed out?" I asked timidly, not even knowing if I wanted to know all the answers but knew I needed to.

"Well Mikhail watched over you from the car as Pavel and I searched the perimeter of the night club…but no trace of the man who tried to kidnap you…Your father is worried immensely and would have been here but an important call for one of his, um, hotels came in. He had to take it. But your father is really worried and doesn't want you to leave the manor till our lessons start—" His eyes widened in shock and I felt my earlier anger unleash into hot rage as I sprang up into a quivering stance. My fists tightly balled, nails digging into my palms.

"What did you just say?" Dimitri's eyes widened a fraction but he stood too and looked at me with his face tightly controlled.

"Your father wants me to start training you in self-defense." I growled lowly before stalking from my room, completely ignoring the fact that I was only in minimal clothing. I could hear his almost silent footsteps behind me and knew that he was only making the sound for my benefit.

I slammed the door to my father's study open to see him just placing the phone down and his eyes widened upon my arrival, "Kiz, are-"

"She knows about the lessons," Dimitri cut in and Abe's eyes widened slightly and I knew I wouldn't have noticed had I not been staring at him so intensely.

"Yeah, Dad … pray tell why you feel it necessary for me to be protected?" I bellowed, my voicing booming from the tall walls. Abe winced slightly before standing to his intimidating height of six foot five.

"Rosemarie, you will take these lessons till I find the bastard who thinks he can try to kidnap my daughter!" his voice held anger and determination. I knew that I wouldn't win this fight but that didn't stop me from making a fight with him.

"I don't need anyone's protection! The only reason that asshole almost got me was because I was drunk!" I screeched at him as I stepped closer to his desk. I caught sight of Pavel and Mikhail along the walls and muscles were straining in their necks from suppressed laughter. I probably would have been laughing along with them had the person not been me.

"So you could have taken that man who probably outweighed you by sixty pounds and was twice your build?" my father questioned snarkily, knowing the answer. I glowered at him.

"I did get away from him, didn't I? I was completely safe and had it under control!"

"You know as much as I do that you would have passed out from all the alcohol just like you did with Mikhail and Pavel there! And from what they reported you only had a foot difference in between you and the guy because you were struggling!"

"I was fine!" I boomed, I could have imagined myself rising like in the cartoons and knew my face was flushed with anger.

"Rose! How do you think I'll feel if I lost my wife and daughter in the same month and in a span of three weeks? I would blame myself for your disappearance just as I do for your mother's murder!" His face was red and his veins were probing against his heated skin.

I felt my shoulders sag in defeat and blinked away tears, "I'm sorry, dad…I wasn't thinking about your position." It only came out in a whisper but I knew he'd heard it. Then his words finally hit me; murder.

"Mom was murdered?" I brokenly whispered as I looked desperately up at him, praying for him to deny it. But my father always gave the truth no matter how brutal it was.

"Yes," he whispered. I choked as I stumbled back a few steps and could feel the body heat radiating from Dimitri's intimidating presence. A sob escaped my lips and I whipped around seeing Dimitri's struggling features before I ran from the room and up the stairs. I could hear pursuing footsteps but slammed and locked my door and slide down it as sobs racked my body.

I had had my suspicions but I knew a sliver of hope had been in my heart that she had just been collateral damage to a robber . . . but she'd been murdered. And I remembered what the man had said last night. "He'll get what he wants, no matter who he has to go through to get it."

"Roza…" I heard Dimitri whisper from the opposite side and I heard him slide down the door and felt as he leaned fully against it. He was comforting me in his own way and I didn't know if that was the only reason I didn't fall apart there on the floor.

Tears flowed from my eyes and sobs had me slamming my back against the door. Why did my life have to be so complicated? What did I do to deserve all this pain?


LPOV

I closed the oak door to the Mazur Manor silently and felt an eerie feeling flow through me as I walked towards the staircase… I was so anxious to tell Rose about the date I'd had with Christian this afternoon and tell her I actually thought he was the one even after just one date. But the thought quickly left when I heard hushed voices from the living room.

"Abe's not going to stop till that bastard is caught…they may have taken Janine but he'll go to extreme lengths to protect Rose, Dimitri." Mikhail's voice reached my ears.

"So will I," I heard Dimitri determinedly say. I peeked around the corner of the wall and was grateful of the big plant in the way as I looked at Dimitri's face. I was always good at reading people but Dimitri made it harder…but not impossible.

"That guy better know what's good for him and never try to kidnap Rose again because he'll have to take on the wrath of Abe … and you," the last part was whispered and my brows furrowed at I looked at how Dimitri glared. Rose was almost kidnapped. My eyes widened in shock…it must have happened last night. Oh my god, if only I'd left with her…. Guilt poured into my blood and soul as I thought about what could have happened. I stayed just to hear the ending of their conversation, my eyes widening at what Mikhail had said to Dimitri and how he'd reacted.

I was up the stairs in a flash and slammed into Rose's room to see her face down on the bed not moving, "Rosemarie Hathaway!"

She groaned before rolling over and looking bleary eyed at me, "What?"

"Why didn't you call me as soon as you woke up to tell me you were almost kidnapped?" I screeched as I ran over to her and embraced her tightly.

She groaned, "How did you find out about that?"

"I overheard Mikhail and Dimitri," I said about to dismiss it when her eyes lighted up and I could barely keep the smirk off my face.

"When'd you become an eavesdropper, huh, Liss?" I felt my face flush as I let my platinum hair fall down and shield my red face.

"Don't change the subject," I snapped playfully before becoming serious.

"Seriously, are you alright…?" her eyes went downcast and she sighed heavily.

"Yeah, just a little shocked is all…but Abe's making me take self-defense classes with the Russian," her tone turned from dread to happy in a matter of seconds and I wasn't sure if it was a chance to become logically skilled in fighting or to have time with Dimitri…but I had a bet on the latter.

"You'll be okay, you're strong and tough…" she smiled at me before nodding, "So…what happened between you and Hot Stuff after I left?" Her tone was teasing as her eyes became mischievous.

I flushed again, "Well actually I went on a date with him today…He's really nice and polite, Rose! He's a little sardonic and sarcastic…but he's also got a side of vulnerability in him…Ya know, he lost his parents when he was seven…They were killed by muggers coming home from an anniversary dinner…" I trailed off as tears tried to escape my eyes but I shook them off.

Rose's eyes darkened at the sentence and she sighed, "That's horrible…who took him in?"

"His Aunt Tasha…She actually lives here, ya know! I'm going to meet her on Tuesday after I get home from my new job at an internship for personal assistant at a top lawyer estate!" I squealed, "You want to come?"

"Sure why not…" she trailed off smiling at me, a bemused expression on her face, just as I was about to ask what was up Dimitri came to the cracked door. His gaze flickered over me and locked on Rose.

"Our first class is in fifteen so get ready. Hey, Vasilisa." Before I could correct him on using my full name, he was gone and out the door.

Rose groaned as she fell back onto her bed and I stood up, "Have fun with the Russian." Teasing seeped into my tone and she lifted her head to glare but anticipation was apparent on her face.

It was only a matter of time…I left smiling sneakily. Oh yes, just a matter of time…


Hey guys! Sorry for not updating last Sunday but I was so exhausted! Anyway tell me if you liked this chapter..or if you didn't :\ -haha, jk- but please do review and tell me about suspicions or any questions you have...though some will probably be revealed when this story is done. :)

~Hannah xoxo