I'm soooo sorry I didn't upload sooner. I've had exams and stupid schools stuff. but I typed this inn class so its alittle short hopefully the next on will be better

Chapter Ten- Where's the excitement in that?

Adrian's Point of View:

I watched ad Rose hastily stumbled after Belikov, my anger slightly dwindling as I heard Rose's heart-wrenching sobs. Don't get me wrong I was still beyond pissed, but I've been in my own way protecting Rose for three years. I'm not used to being the one outing her in pain, but she completely deserved it in my opinion, after cheating on me with Belikov!I mean what the hell was going on in that pretty little head of hers? I'm the one who was by her side when she was pregnant. I even let her break my hand in several places, resulting in me where a cast for a month, while she was in labor. I was there to help her when the two of them both cried at night and Rose couldn't hold them both. I was there when she needed help potty-training Andrei or when Arina wanted to "play Guardian" when Rose was too tired. I frequently picked them up from the daycare and took them to my apartment so Rose could get a break. I did everything a father would've done, and as soon as The Cradle Robber comes back and says a few words in that Ridiculous Russian accent I'm thrown out without a care or explanation."Adrian! What's going on?" Guardian Hathaway barked interrupting my internal seething. She had Andrei poised on her hip. "You know what's going on. You heard everything!" I growled, which probably wasn't smart because Hathaway's weren't pretty when angered. "I know but-"her growl was cut off by a door slamming shut and a Russian accent shouting. Everyone was silent for a moment and then questions were hurled at me from every direction. Everyone; Mia, Eddie, Christian, Janine, and Abe, circled me in hopes of getting some answers, but it was just pissing me off. I wanted to tell everyone to fuck off and then drag my ass down to the nearest bar. Everyone talked all at once making it impossible for me to understand anyone. "One at a damn time!" I tried to yell, but all of their voices over powered mine. "Quiet!" Lissa commanded in her motherly voice. I suddenly felt sorry for her kid, because they aren't going to get away with shit. Everyone snapped their mouths shut, as she walked over calmly with Arina. "Thank you Lissa" I sighed now that everyone was quiet and gave her a grateful look, one only to be returned by a glare. "Oh, come on Lissa..." Her glare was piercing and made me feel vulnerable. "Don't give me that Adrian. She trusted you! How could you do that to her!" she shouted at me. I don't think I've ever been afraid of Lissa, until now. Her eyes seemed to glow with anger, her body was tense almost as if she would pounce any moment, and her face was turning a faint shade of pink. "Lissa calm down. The baby…" Christian reminded her putting a comforting hand on her shoulder, which seemed to be working. Lissa drew in a large breath then released it shakily, and shift Arina to her other hip. "I'm okay," she told Christian smiling. I shot Christian a grateful look and he too returned it with a glare. "I'm not doing this for you Ivashkov," he sneered. "I may not know what's fully going on, but I know you hurt Rose, worse than I've ever seen before."I didn't get a chance to speak before Janine did, "Speaking of not know what's going on. I still don't know why my daughter is out there arguing with a Guardian who she claims is my grandchildren's father." No one spoke after that. I exchanged wary glances with Lissa before she heavily sighed. "They love each other," Lissa stated simply, which of course was not enough for Janine. "Could you elaborate Princess?"Lissa wrinkled her nose at her formal title "Lissa." She corrected sweetly. "And I don't know much about how it began… but Adrian does. I just found out he was the first to know." Everyone gaze shifted anxiously to me. "Uh… well what do you want to know?" I asked nervously running my hand through my hair. "So they love each other?" I swear Janine almost gagged on the word love. I just nodded. "When did this start?" she demanded. "Well I found out at the ski resort, before the Spokane incident," I saw Eddie put and arm around Mia's waist, and Christian flinch from the reminder, "but they were arguing about not being together, Rose for it and Dimitri against it, because of the obvious reason, him being a Guardian and also being six years older and her being immature, irrational, and impulsive." I gained glares with those last words and I held up my hands in surrender. "Not my thoughts, only observations. They finally decided to be together right before the Strigoi attack at the school-""What? When? I was with Rose then..." Lissa's interested perked up; I didn't think Rose would tell her. She doesn't like to talk about those times, where she was "under his illusion" she once put it. I only knew because Roe purred everything out to me after she found out she was pregnant. She was so very vulnerable then. "No you weren't." I shook my head. "When you were taken over by spirit and attacked Jesse, Rose-""Was with me I remember!" She argued. She seemed to replay the night's events in her head when understanding dawned on her. "And then… she took the darkness away from me…" her head snapped up to looked at me. " And she went crazy trying to kill Jesse, and Belikov took her away to calm her down, and clean her up," she said the last part fast finally understanding. I just nodded. "So they?" She didn't need to finish I knew what she meant. I just nodded again, this topic making me slightly angry. I didn't want to think if them that way. Ever. "And she didn't tell me!" Lissa huffed. "Well no, she couldn't tell anyone." I defended Rose. God only knows why. "But she lost her Virginity! That's huge!" she kept arguing. "Rose was a virgin?" Christian snorted. "Of course she was!" Lissa death glared him. "Sorry for my moment of shock. "He back peddled. "It just seemed hard to believe. You know after all those rumors…""Rumors are just rumors Christian; I can't believe you would believe them!" Lissa huffed again. "Is that all? That's the last time my daughter was with… him" Janine asked, clearly pissed off. "I think so-"I stopped when I saw Lissa bite her lip nervously, and I tensed. "Unless…""I'm sorry Adrian!" she whispered, but it didn't help my anger was back in full force. "When?" I looked down avoiding my eyes. "Last night," I sucked in a breath trying to unsuccessfully keep calm. It's ok calm down. I knew they were together and probably had sex at least it was only once…

"And this morning…" I growled my anger coming back to me.

That fucking slut! I'm with her for three years, taking care of her children and her. I was in a relationship for three years with her knowing she loved another man. I was in a sexless relationship for three fucking years, because I thought what he had was special and that I could wait, that sex wasn't important. And the man who left her alone and pregnant comes back fucks her and is probably going to leave her again!

Now I really needed a fucking drink.

"I need a dr-" I started to repeat out loud until the front door slammed shut. I didn't hear anything but a pained sob so I assumed he was gone. For now or forever, I didn't know and I wasn't about to stick around long enough to find out.

"Rose!" Lissa shouting, pushing Arina at Christian and running from the room. "Rose are you OK? Rose please talk to me!" I heard Lissa shout from the living room. Everyone around me just stood there frozen, listening to Lissa talking and sobs from Rose.

"Adrian how could you do that to Rose?" Mia shouted, successfully stealing everyone's attention from Rose and Lissa.

"How could I do that to Rose? She-"

"-didn't deserve that!" Mia interrupted. "You completely destroyed her! She won't even talk to Lissa!" Eddie pulled her back then, and looked at me with a mixture of disgust and pity.

"Maybe it's better for Rose… and everyone else if you leave..." Seeing I was going to protest he continued. "For your own safety and the safety of others. Leave. You probably don't want t be here when Rose comes back to her senses."

He was right I didn't that would probably scare me shitless. I was in desperate need of a drink anyway. So turning on my heal I practically flew out of the room and almost went past Rose, who was crumpled on the floor next to Lissa, but she called my name making me stop in place.

"Yes Rose?" I asked turning around slightly.

"Fuck you," she whispered knowing I would be able to hear.

I didn't respond. I knew I wasn't supposed to so I just walked out the door and into the nearest bar.

At Sam's bar I sat numbly on a cushioned bar stool, staring at the drink in front of me. My gaze never left the drink I was drinking, not that this was my first one, every once and while I would take a drink, more like a gulp, not tasting it at all but I kept drinking thinking it would solve my problems. I mean it helps with spirit, why not with this?

"Well don't have too much fun there" Some girl said from across the bar. I just ignored her. I've been here for about an hour and already two other girls have attempted to approach me, with no avail from my side. I wasn't in any mood to talk to anyone right now. "I was kidding," she said slowly, like I was dumb, this time her voice was closer right at my side. "You know it's rude to ignore people. If you said you just wanted to be alone I would leave. No need to be so rude about it." She tried to make her voice sound angry, but I could sense some humor in her words.

"I want to be alone." I said pointedly, making sure my voice was hard and unappealing, not someone you would want to socialize with.

"Oh, and he speaks," she giggled, "I was only kidding about leaving, why would I do that when I have such a cheerful person to drink with?" She laughed again.

I finally lifted my gaze from my drink to her irritated, and froze. She was beautiful. Her dark hair fell like a curtain of silk to the top of her waist, wild and wavy, like she had just rolled out of bed, but in the sexist way. In a way this made her more beautiful, as the deep brown complimented her eyes which were of a similar shade, but resembled more of a deep chocolate. Her eyes were without doubt the most captivating aspect of her appearance, reflecting a look of wisdom far beyond her age that could not help but draw people in. I could have died a happy man drowning in the beauty of her brown eyes. She did not care much for wearing makeup, instead favouring a neutral look to compliment her natural beauty. Her lips were full and sort of pouted when she wasn't smiling. When she did, her teeth were evenly distributed and as white as any new fallen snow. Everything about her was perfect, right down to her evenly tanned skin and luscious figure. She wore a tight white dress shirt and black slacks that looked more sexy than comfortable. A guardians uniform I decided, but her shirt has open revealing a thin, and when I saw thin I mean see through, because I could see a red lace bra through the thin tank top, only making me look at her with lust.

"Are you done staring?" She asked her voice hinting at slightly annoyed now.

"Um... You're a guardian." I fumbled stupidly blurting out the first thing I thought of.

"Yes I am, it took five minutes of checking me out for you to figure that out?" She asked taking a sip of some fruit girl drink, by the smell of it.

"You're- You're wearing heals..." I tried again looking down at her satin black pumps.

She slightly lifted a foot. "And?"

Shit. I never fumbled around girls, but this was not just any girl, she was the perfect girl, and I had to have her. I know I technically I just got dumped, and believe me I didn't think I would find anyone after Rose, not this soon at least, but I had to have her. Well if I could sober up a bit and get old smooth talking Adrian back maybe I could have her.

I sat up a little straighter on the stool, to be a little taller since she was still standing, casually leaning against the bar. "You wouldn't wear heals in court if you were guarding, but your still wearing dress pants, so you're not visiting the Queen, So you must have just gotten here." I paused to look at the small, might I add sexy as hell, smirk she place on her lips. She slightly nodded her head agreeing with my statement. "So are you just visiting?" I asked pushing out as much Adrian charm in those five words as I could.

She blinked like she was clearing her mind, so I'm guessing it worked. After a few minutes of her just staring at me I smirked and gesture to the stool beside me. "Sit." I said simply, she did. "Are you going to answer my question?" I asked again.

She blinked a few more times before looking at me again, "oh, yeah sorry," she murmured. "I'm visiting my brother, it's a surprise."

"Only visiting? Such a shame. Will you be here long?" I asked a little saddened at the fact she wouldn't be here that long probably.

"It depends," she eyed me curiously, and I felt my body go on alert with her looking at me like this.

"On what?" I looked back at her intensely.

"I don't know you tell me" She smiled.

We continued talking like for an hour, me flirting with her shooting her my most charming grins, and her giggling back giving my lustful looks, that I was sure were just to drive me insane. She was beautiful, sweet and smart, I could tell from our conversations. We talking about lots of things just random topics our minds seemed to land on, but throughout this conversation we still didn't exchange name.

After and hour and a half and five drinks later she drank the last of her current drink, and then stood up. "Well I have to go."

"Go? Why go? You just got here" I questioned red alert alarms going off in my head, she couldn't leave I didn't even know her name.

"I have to go find my brother."

"Well am I aloud to know your name?" I asked.

"Nope," she said popping the "p".

"And why not" I was confused I know I was rude at first, but I know I more than made up for my rudeness in our conversation.

"Because, it will be too easy for you to find me, Ivashkov," I raised my eyebrows at knowing my name, though most people could tell the difference between all the royals. "And where's the excitement in that?" She told me like it was so simple.

"Hopefully I'll see you again, Adrian." She waved then walked out of the bar, leaving me wide eyed and stunned.