Hey guys, I'm glad you all liked chapter 8. It might be a while before I update Chapter 10 for a while because I'm going away and yeh. But then when I get back I will update ASAP :DD I hope you enjoy this chapter and really hope that people will continue to read my story:D Don't forget to review and tell me what you think of this chapter. I thought it was pretty good lolz, but that's just me. Anyway bye for now and enjoy:DD
We had sex until the sun came up and he rocked my world.
Sadly that's not how it went. Just as he was about to enter me the door flew open and there stood Christian, mouth hanging open at the sight of Dimitri and me about to have sex.
"I knew you two would get together!" He screamed.
I pushed Dimitri off me and scurried underneath the blankets to cover my body, pulling it up to my chin.
"Dude," Dimitri threw a pillow at him. "Not cool!"
He hopped under the blankets with me and I moved my face away so Christian couldn't see me. This was so embarrassing.
"In the future when you two decide to hook up and want to keep it a secret, try not to leave your clothing out in the open." Dimitri put something by my face and I turn to see that it was my shirt. I twisted my head to see Christian grinning like he had won the lottery.
"Piss off will you!" I snapped at him and that made him burst out in laughter.
I saw one of Dimitri's shirts on his draws. Throwing the blankets off me I grabbed his shirt I pulled it on.
"Ahh!" Christian screamed. "My eyes!"
I growled at him. "Why are you still here?"
With his hand still covering his eyes he said, "You're right, I so need to be telling Lissa right now."
My eyes went wide at the thought of Lissa knowing what I was about to do with Dimitri in his bed.
"Christian wait!" He stopped and turned around.
"Yes?" He grinned.
"You can't tell Lissa about what you just saw, okay."
"And why not?"
"Because..." why couldn't he tell Lissa? Why was I so hell bent on keeping this a secret? Maybe because I had no idea what this 'thing' was. "Because what you just saw was nothing," he scoffed. "It's true; you stopped it before anything could happen."
"By the sounds of it yous were going at it all night."
"What?" Oh my gosh, he thought it was me that was having sex with him all night. "No before that–"
"Yeah, sorry man. Were we being too loud?" Dimitri piped in.
"What?" I exclaimed and looked at Dimitri with pure anger. Why was he saying that? I wasn't the one who had sex with him all night. It was Tasha–
Oh... now it clicked. Tasha. As in Tasha Ozera, Christian's cousin. She was older than him but Christian was so protective of her, she was practically the only family–blood related–that he had.
"Sort of," Christian shrugged. "But I knew you two were together. All the teasing and pretending to hate at each other just made me curious."
"I wasn't pretending." I growled between gritted teeth.
"Whatever just keep it down a notch okay?" He was just going to close the door when I stopped him.
"You're not going to tell Liss, are you?" I asked him.
He shook his head, "You can do that."
"Thanks Christian." He nodded and walked off and that's when I turned on Dimitri. He lay on the bed, the blankets hanging loosely on his hips with his hand behind his head. He looked me up and down and I knew he liked what he was seeing, but I wasn't in the mood for that. I wanted to rip his head off. "Why did you let Christian believe I was the one you were having sex with all night?"
He just shrugged and smiled at me. "You look good in my clothes."
"I can't believe you! He's never going to let this go now. He'll think that you and I have been getting it on for a while now!" I yelled.
"In case you didn't notice, he already thinks that." Dimitri just lay back on his bed acting as if he didn't have a care in the world.
"Well I wonder what Christian will think when he finds out you've been shagging his cousin." I sneered at him
Dimitri's smile dropped from his face. "It's not me who doesn't want Christian to know, it's Tasha. But I've only done it with her a couple times so it's not like we're dating."
"You know Christian will hate you for having sex with Tasha and yet you still do it." I stare at him with disbelief.
He doesn't say anything and I know he knows that I'm right. "Just don't say anything to him." He says.
I wouldn't tell Christian, of course I wouldn't, it was just nice to know I had something over Dimitri.
"You know I'm glad Christian walked in when he did because he stopped me from making a very big mistake." I pick up my underwear off the floor.
"You didn't seem to think it was a mistake the other night." Dimitri stands up and I had to look away so that I didn't look in that particular area.
"Yeah well I do now," I picked up my shirt from the bed and walked to the door. "The fact that you were going dip your friend in me, just seconds after dipping it in someone else was a total wake up call. I deserve to be treated way better than that and I certainly don't need you." I slammed the door on him before he said anything else, and it felt good.
I did deserve better than what Dimitri was about to do to me. I mean, gross, he double dipped! Anyone should be treated better than that, but I guess he's not the type of guy to do it. That's okay, I didn't need him, but to be honest, I really wanted to have sex with him again. He was soooo good and I was glad that I actually did it with him. I just wished he was a better person so that I could keep doing it with him.
I shook my head. It didn't matter, I didn't need him and that's the way it was going to be.
I hopped in bed, pulling the blankets to my chin and closing my eyes about to drift off, only to remember that I was wearing Dimitri's shirt.
"Shit!"
~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
Two weeks had passed and Dimitri hadn't tried anything on me. He hadn't so much as hit one me. I was still contemplating whether I liked it or not.
Anyway, Lissa invited the gang again to go out and for the first time in a long time I had actually brought a guy back home. It was the whole one night stand thing and I felt great. It wasn't the greatest sex I had ever had but it was a start. Lissa, of course, wanted to know every single detail of what happened and she was happy that I was getting back out there again. Adrian and Christian on the other hand, didn't think the guy was good enough for me but I just shrugged him off. I didn't need to be protected, I needed to have fun and loosen up.
Lately I had noticed a few weird things going on with Adrian. He was always angry lately, and snappy, and that wasn't like him at all. Every time I brought up things about his company he would change the subject, and I couldn't get what Darius had said to Adrian the night we all went out together, about how he was sorry to hear about Adrian's company. I didn't get what he was going on about, but I'm sure there was something goin on; and it wasn't good.
I asked Adrian to have lunch with me at home while everyone was out. We would have the whole house to ourselves so we could talk, and I could find out what was going on with him.
I had ordered Pizza cause I couldn't be bothered cooking anything, and pulled out a box of coke.
"Rose!" I heard Adrian call my name out.
"Out here!" I answered, pulling out a drink and taking a seat at our table and chairs set we have outside on the balcony.
"Hey, what's up?" He asked as he takes the seat beside me.
I shrugged. "I just wanted to have lunch with you."
He smiled and took a pizza. "What's the real reason?"
"What makes you think I have a reason?" I take a pizza myself and lean back in my chair.
"Because I know you," he replies. "You never go all out for lunch if wanted something, so spill it. What do you want?"
I bit my tongue. I forgot how well he knew me.
I eat my Pizza before I look him in the eye and ask him what I've been meaning to ask him for days now. "What's been going on with you lately?"
He looks away and then back to me. "Nothing."
"Don't give me that. I know something's wrong, Adrian. It has to do with your company right? What's happening to it?" I say to him, giving him a firm look.
"Nothing's wrong, Rose." He saw and goes to stand up but I grab him by the hand so He doesn't move.
"Tell me, Adrian," I look at him with pleading eyes. "You can tell me anything. Just... please. I know something's wrong."
He doesn't say anything for a while, but then he looks down at his hands and takes a deep breath. "My company is going under. We've lost quite a bit of money and now it's crumbling before me."
I blinked. "What? How? When did you find out about this?"
He wouldn't look at me and I really wanted him to, but I knew that he was too embarrassed to admit this. "I found out about a couple months ago. I've been meeting with investors and lawyers to find out if there's a way I can fix this whole mess, and all of them keep telling me I can't."
"There has to be a way! Maybe you could go into partnership with your dad or something?" He was already shaking his head before I could even finish my sentence.
"I've already talked to my father and you know how he is." Adrian almost laughed. Almost. "Everything that I've built is going to crash right before my eyes and there's nothing I can do about it. It's all my fault." He seemed so defeated and I wished there was a way I could help him.
"How is it your fault?" I asked.
"I invested a lot of money into something that I thought would be great, and it went under, and then everything went spiralling down from there. It was one the biggest mistakes of my life and now I'm going to lose everything that I've worked for." He put his hands in his head.
"Can't you get a loan or something?"
"No, I've tried but no one will loan me the money I need. I had to bust open my savings account, but it wasn't enough."
"How much are we talking, Adrian?"
"A couple million."
"What the..." I trailed off. "Adrian what the hell did you invest in?"
He didn't say anything at first and but after a couple of seconds he said something and I swear I could've bashed his head in.
"A Casino."
"Adrian are you kidding me?" I exclaimed. "What the hell were you thinking?"
"That's the thing!" He looks up and for the first time, his eyes meet mine. "I wasn't thinking. After we broke up I went into a dark place and I just kept spending my money on things I didn't need, and then I got into gambling and invested a lot of money in a casino. Later on it went bankrupt and I've been trying everything I can to save my company, but there's nothing I can do but sit back and watch."
"What if you get help from someone, like go into a partnership or something?"
"No way," he shook his head and gulped down the rest of his can of coke. "I'm not going to share my company with someone."
"Adrian it's either that or you lose it completely. Sharing it will be the only way to save Ivashkov Industries. When you get back on your feet and enough money, you could buy them out."
'Not going to happen."
"You are so stubborn!"
A smile twitched at his lips. "I've put my whole life into this company and built it from the ground up–"
"And look what's happened," I saw him flinch and that made me feel bad. "I'm sorry, but you're right. You've put everything you had into this company and you're just going to let it crumble because you don't like sharing? Come on. We all have to make sacrifices in our lives, this is yours."
"You know I hate it when you're right."
I smile at him and give him a kiss on the cheek. "I know," I pull him in for a hug and put my head in the crook of his neck. "Thank you for telling me."
He kissed me on the forehead and placed his head on mine.
It was a nice tender moment and I loved it.
~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
"Excuse me, Ma'am, you can't go in there," the blonde secretary said. "He's in a meeting."
"It's important." I pushed past her and burst through his office doors.
"I'm so sorry, Sir," Blondie apologized. "I tried to stop her but she didn't listen."
I looked at Dimitri and he placed the papers he had in his hands on his desk. It looked like he was in a meeting but I didn't care. The only people there were Darius and Ivan.
"That's okay, Sophie," Dimitri waved her away. "She's with me."
I gave 'Sophie' a fake smile as she left, closing the office doors behind her.
"Ivan, Darius." I nod towards them and they greet me back with a, "Hello Rose."
"Do yous mind?" I gave them both a raised eyebrow, indicating to them to get out.
Darius gave an awkward cough and he and Ivan stood up. "Uh, we'll just go ... somewhere."
Ivan pushed him and shook his head. "We'll go get some lunch. Anyone want anything?"
"Get me the usual will yah." Dimitri said to them.
They both nodded and walked out, Ivan stopping to in front of me, giving me a wink. "Go easy on him will you."
I smiled at him, "Never."
He chuckled and followed Darius out.
"What do you want, Rose?" Dimitri said as he leaned back in his leather seat. "I was just in the middle of something."
"How long have you known about Adrian's company going under?" I said straight away, not bothering with small talk.
He shrugged. "A while."
"Why didn't you tell me?" I said.
"I thought you already knew."
"At the club when Darius was teasing Adrian you knew about it and even after you didn't bother to tell me."
"I had other things on my mind then, Rose."
I scoffed and shook my head. Of course he did, because 'sex' was the number one topic on his mind.
"I want you to invest in his company."
It was silent for a second before Dimitri burst out laughing. I frowned at him. Why was he laughing?
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Dimtri chuckled. He had this fat grin plastered on his face and it really pissed me off.
"You heard me." I was grounding my teeth now.
"You want me to invest in Ivashkov Industries? My rivalry? As in Adrian Ivashkov's company?"
"Yes."
"You're joking."
"Does it look like I'm joking to you?"
"Why would I do that?"
"For a good cause?"
"Try another one."
I sighed. "Because Adrian needs help. He's desperate and he will lose everything if you don't help him."
"Well he should have thought about that before he made a stupid decision."
I bit my tongue on that one. I was here to help Adrian, and dissing on Dimitri right now would not be helping Adrian. "You're the only one I know with the money to help him out. Please, Dimitri. He's done everything he can but the truth is he can't do it alone."
He was silent and I could see him contemplating the decision. "What do I get out of this?"
"A partnership with a good businessman?"
"He can't be that good if–"
I cut him off. "Yeah, yeah I get it. He made a mistake and now he's paying for it. But you can help him. Just till he gets back on his feet and then he can buy you out or whatever."
"Rose this is a really big ask. If the company goes bust and I've put all this money into it, then I'm going to be in the same position as Adrian. I don't know if I can do that just because you want to help out your... boyfriend."
"First of all; he's my ex-boyfriend, and second of all; I know it's a big ask but you know you can do it. I wouldn't be asking you if I didn't think you could."
"I'll have to look it over first before I make any rash decisions, okay?"
"Okay that's fine." I smiled at him.
"But if I do this, it has to be on one condition, agreed?" He looked so serious, a look that I hadn't seen on Dimitri before.
I nod "Agreed. I'll do anything if it means you'll help him."
A sneaky smile pulled at Dimitri's lips. "You should really hear the condition before you agree to it. Oh well, too late, can't back out now."
My eyebrows knitted together. "Well what's the condition?"
"I haven't decided yet," he shrugged and started swinging side to side on his chair. "But when I know you'll be the first one to find out."
What had I just gotten myself into?
Don't forget to review this chapter:DD Just click on the button below ;)
xoxo
ADarkTouch
