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Chapter 7- A New Year

My club was not opened on New Year's, for one reason. For us to use. Dimitri and Ivan came back to work shortly after Christmas and was here celebrating with us. Adrian, Sydney, and I all got a babysitter to watch over our kids while we do this. It was an elderly woman who would not really want to leave and party. We were drinking and dancing just the ten of us. Somehow I ended up dancing with Dimitri. Knowing him for the past couple months, he has grown on me. I trusted him, even though my brain was telling me not to. It took a while, but he put his hands on my hips, slightly holding me while we semi-dirty danced.

I knew I probably had one too many drinks, or I would not let him touch me at all. However, my body did not seem to mind as much as my brain did. Since there were not that many girls, we were rather passed around between the guys. Baba was content on just giving us the drinks, being our bartender for the night. I knew I should not be drinking because I had Zak to watch over tomorrow and I knew I could not do that with a hangover from hell.

"Rose!" Sydney shouted from across the club. I turned and looked at her; she waved her hand in a 'come over here' fashion. I smiled politely at Dimitri and excused myself to talk to her. She was the only other person not drinking, she had babies to feed, and even then she not a big drinker. When I reached her she pulled me down to sit next to her.

"Rose, you do know that you're dancing with someone you know practically next to nothing about right?" I nod my head, other than the fact that Ivan and Dimitri were Russian, moved to the US in their teens, and moved to here recently I did not know anything else.

"I feel comfortable around him." I shrug, looking up at her. She was watching me, watching for any signs that I was uncomfortable around the 6'5" Russian. Finally she nods her head and slightly pushes me.

"Go have fun, then. Just not too much, you still have Zak to watch over."

"I know." With that I walked back over to Dimitri and dragged him to the dance floor since now he was at the bar talking to my father. He placed his hands lightly on my hips, once again and I placed my arms around his shoulders, or at least where I could reach. Trying to keep up with the beat.

(Dimitri POV)

You would not think with just the friends partying and the club not full of people it would be fun. However, I was wrong. These people have been nothing but nice to Ivan and me since we have come here and celebrating New Years with them was fun. They acted like normal twenty year olds. Ivan and I went through this phase when we were younger, heck; Ivan was still in this phase. Somehow I ended up dancing with Rose all night, and that is when I noticed how nicely her body fit against mine. I knew I should not be thinking about her this way, especially since I knew something was up about her past that I did not know. I was not going to push the matter either.

When Sydney called Rose over, I had walked to the bar to get about my third drink when her father did not hand me one. I looked up at him, he did not seem angry or protective, and he looked almost impassive.

"Watch yourself around Rose. You hurt her; I'll make sure you can't get a job in this country again." I looked at him strangely. I knew I was able to handle more alcohol, so I was not even buzzed. However, what her father was saying to me was inappropriate at the moment, since I wasn't even dating his daughter. However, I still nod my head, to give him peace.

What I've also noticed since being almost friends with these people were that all the men were protective over Rose. The girls gave her room, but they were still protective too. This just kept making me wonder even more, what the heck happened.

"Don't worry Sir. You have nothing to worry about." He narrowed his eyes at me. I knew who this man was, Abe Mazur. He was known as Zmey back home, he was rarely there, but he still seemed to have a hold on my hometown before I left. I heard less of him when we moved to New Year, but people still talked about him in fear. I never met the man personally until he did a check up on the club while I was at work and he wanted to meet his daughter's new employees.

Ivan did not show it, but I knew he was scared out of his mind. He kept looking over his shoulder until we got home. Then ragged on about how he did not know he was technically working for Zmey and how he did not even know Zmey had a daughter. Then ended up with 'Why do all the mobsters have to have hot daughters?' moment. Before I hit him over the head and told him to calm down. In addition, he did, he slowly got used to seeing Zmey and that Rose and Zak were related to him.

Therefore, I knew what he was capable of when he made this threat. In addition, he would most likely stick by it. He was going to reply but Rose came up and took me away to dance more before he could. For the rest of the night, I felt his eyes on me.

-End of chapter-

Yes. I know it is short… sorry I wanted to get something up. Maybe I can post soon.

So, I've decided that I am not going to try to post any more 'Reading the books' FF, because most of everywhere I've looked will take them down and I don't want my hard work taken down. I am sooooo Sorry, but if you PM I will give you a general idea of what I was going to make happen.