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Chapter 15

DPOV

It was getting harder and harder to only remain only friends with Rose. I kept thinking of her all the time and the kissed we shared in her office. The other day, she smiled her gorgeous smile at me from my office and all I wanted to do was get up and kiss her again.

When I was home one night, Ivan was trying to give me some 'helpful' advice.

"Just do her again and get it out of your system." He said.

"Ivan. I told you, I really like her-" I started.

"Yeah yeah yeah, you've told me a million times. You love her and want to date her, blah blah…What happened to staying friends with her?"

Good question.

"I don't think I can any longer." I said quietly.

"Then ask her out! It doesn't matter if her father's Abe Mazur, one the greatest, and most frightening FBI agents in the world! Just ask the girl out and stop going on about it!" He exclaimed, turning his attention back to the TV.

It wasn't the most sensitive advice he had ever given me, if he had ever given me 'sensitive' advice, but it was advice all the same.

"Alright, I'll ask her out then." I said and slapped his shoulder. "Now get out."

"What? Why?" He said.

"Because its 1am and I have work in the morning!" I said, pushing him out the door.

"Wait a sec!" He said putting his foot in front of the door so I couldn't close it. "When do I get this great, amazing, sexy fox girlfriend of yours?"

"I haven't asked her out yet."

"Yeah but she'll say yes." He said confidently.

"Why are you so sure?" I asked him.

"Hello? Have you seen you?" He asked me.

"Are you gay now?" I asked him laughing.

"Hell naw! I like the ladies. You off all people know that. See ya Dimka!" He said, finally leaving.

Laughing I closed the door and sighed.

I was going to ask Rose out.

A couple of days later

I was in my office trying to work up the nerve to ask her out.

Was Ivan right? Would she say yes?

I think she will. I mean, she's made it clear she likes me too.

My phoned beeped. I read the text from Ivan:

Just do it already man!

I had been irritating him even more lately. He claimed I wouldn't shut up about Rose, and was getting annoyed at me not having asked her out yet.

It was a quiet day at the office so I got up to go over to Rose's office.

But as I opened my door, I nearly ran smack into her.

"Rose?" I asked her, noticing she was about to knock and enter my office, but she also had her eyes closed.

Her eyes snapped open and I was immediately lost in their depth.

"Hi," she said to me softly.

She looked a little pale and flustered.

"I was just coming over to talk to you. Is everything alright?" I asked her. I was starting to get worried.

She paused for a minute.

"Wait, did you just say you were coming over to talk to me?" She asked, looking surprised.

Should I ask her or not?

"Yes, I wanted to ask you something." Ask her, definitely ask her.

She looked at me expectantly.

"Come in please, Rose." I turned around and held the door open for her. After she had entered, I closed it. I sat down in my desk as she sat opposite me.

She was looking scared, and still pale. I was concerned.

"So, Rose, what is it you wanted to talk to me about?" I asked her.

"You wanted to ask me something first?" she said back. I noticed she was steering the conversation away from herself.

"Well, I was just wondering…if maybe you wanted to go on a date with me?" I spit out. Please say yes…please say yes…

She looked shocked. "What?" she asked me. "You like me?"

"Yes." I replied. No point beating around the bush.

"What happened to 'strictly professional'?" She asked me, obviously joking but I still flinched. I had been such an ass to her that day.

She needed to understand how I felt for her.

"Roza," I got up and walked around and sat on the desk in front of her. I gripped her hands. "I've liked you from the first moment I saw you, and the feelings I have for you have only grown over these past few weeks. I'm at a stage where I can't keep away from you much longer. I want to be with you, no matter where we work or who we work with or what they say."

She looked surprised at me pouring my heart at to her and didn't reply.

"So, will you go out with me?" Oh god, this was a stupid idea. Why was I doing this?

"Yes!" She said, excitedly. "I mean, of course, that would be nice." She said, obviously trying to keep her happiness in check. It made me happy that I had this effect on her.

"Great." I said and smiled at her. She was so beautiful…even more so when she was elated and smiling. "I'll ring you with the details?" My subtle way of asking her for her number.

"Sure, here's my number." She wrote it down for me.

She started to leave. I remembered that she had come to my office first.

"Wait, Rose!" She turned around. "You wanted to tell me something?"

"Oh! Right. That. Never mind…it was nothing." I was going to ask her again but then smiled at me and I lost all coherent thoughts.

Just before I left work, I text Ivan.

She said yes.

He texted back less than 60 seconds later.

Celebration?

I rolled my eyes. Ivan used any excuse to party.

When I got home, Ivan was already inside with beer…lots of it.

"I want my key back." I said to him.

"Not a chance. You gave it to me, you deal with the consequences."

"Actually you took it."

"Whatever. Here." He threw me a beer and took one for himself. After we had a couple, we went out to a nearby bar and had a few more. By the end of the night, I was more than a little tipsy, and so was Ivan. So we got a taxi back to my place and Ivan crashed on the couch.

Next morning

I had an awful headache when I woke up the next morning, but on the bright side, I didn't have to work today.

Mama had called me and asked me to come over. I hadn't seen them in over a week.

"Dimka" She greeted me and hugged me.

I sat outside with Sonya, Karolina and Viktoria. I was thinking about Rose. Where was I going to bring her? I wanted it to be special.

"If you guys were asked on a date, where would you like the guy to take you?" I asked, without thinking.

The three of them stared at me.

"Who is she?" Vika asked me.

"What?" I asked her. How did girls know these things?

"Dimka, you couldn't be any more obvious." Sonya added.

Great. Just great.

"What's going on?" My mother walked in.

"Dimka's has a date!"

Déjà vu.

Why did this always happen to me?

"With who?" Mama asked, excited.

"Just a girl from work," I admitted. There was no point denying it. Their woman intuition somehow told them everything.

"What she like?" Vika asked me, plonking herself beside me.

"Never you mind, just answer the question."

"Take her to the cinema." She answered.

"No, I want to be able to talk to her." I replied.

Karoline told me about this fancy little Italian place on the other side of town.

It sounded perfect. I made the arrangements.

It was moments like this that I loved having girls in the family.

Friday evening

I had made reservations and called Rose, telling her to dress up. I hurriedly pulled on my fitted suit. Ivan had put me behind schedule by messing and trying to get me to drink before I left.

I made it to Rose's on time however and knocked on her door.

I heard more than one voice from the other side of the door.

When she opened the door, I was aware that there were other people with her in the apartment but my attention was completely on the gorgeous being in front of me. She was wearing a sexy, yet classy deep red dress.

"Hiya," she said to me.

"Hi." I breathed back. I was about to tell her she looked beautiful when I was yanked inside the apartment by a bubbly blonde.

She pushed me down on the couch.

"Hey, I'm Lissa, Rose's room-mate. This is Mia and Sydney, our friends. You're Dimitri, right?"

"Yeah I am." I answered, taken aback.

"So what are your intentions with our Rose?" She asked me, turning serious. What do you say to that?

Next thing, Rose and the other two girls started laughing. She was joking.

"They're just messing with ya, Comrade." Comrade? I didn't get a chance to ask her what she meant. She pulled me out of the apartment and we headed off.

Throughout the evening, we talked about work and our families. As she talked about how she grew up, I realised Rose hadn't known a lot of love and compassion in her life.

We continued eating and chatting, when suddenly, she looked uncomfortable.

"Dimitri? You know that day you asked me on this date and I said that there was something I wanted to talk to you about?"

"Yeah…well, the thing is, it's not really nothing." She said to me.

No, it didn't look like nothing either I thought, thinking of the day in my office.

I paused and looked at her, waiting for her to continue.

"Is it hot in here?" she asked all of a sudden, looking around.

"Roza. Just tell me what's wrong." I said to her patiently, but it was killing me to know what's on her mind.

She took and deep breath.

"Dimitri…I'm pregnant."

Time stood still. I didn't know what to think. Was it mine? Of course it was mine – she wouldn't be here telling me or trying to tell me in my office if it wasn't mine.

Just breathe.

"Look, Dimitri, you're the father and you can be as involved as you want to be. Whatever you want, but I'm going to have this baby." She said.

She was going to have this baby. She was going to have my baby. Our baby.

"Do you want me to leave?" she asked me. I saw tears and knew she was about to cry.

How could she think that?

I stood up and placed my chair beside hers.

She was still looking down at the table so I lifted her face up.

"Are you ok?" I asked her. She had obviously known more than a few days. She was still young – she must be so scared.

That's when her tears really started. I knew Rose. I knew that she would be embarrassed about crying in front of me. Not to mention that she was crying in front of me in a public place.

"Come on." I said and took her hand, leading her out of the restaurant.