Hey guys sorry I'll probably be updating slowly until school ends, but I'm trying my best. This chapter is pretty long at, 6,000 words, and not the most exciting one I've ever written but it was necessary for the development of the next conflict. The next few chapters won't be too exciting but pay close attention cus everything is important, but hang in there I promise it's worth it.
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Oh and cus I haven't done this in a while, I defiantly don't own VA, so yeah... that's my disclaimer.
Enjoy!
Chapter Thirteen- He won't keep his promise...
Dimitri's sleeping face was the best thing to wake up to in the morning, I smiled and brought a hand to trace the outline of his lips but before I touched his face his hand shot out and grabbed mine, making me yelp. "God Dimitri you scared me," I exclaimed and slapped his shoulder but his grin never left his face.
It had been six days since I was released from the hospital, they wanted to keep me over an extra night, but there was no way in hell I was letting that happen, so in a forced compromise I was to "take it easy" and take prescription iron supplements for the rest of my pregnancy and to insure I actually did this Dimitri was to watch over me. So basically the last six days consisted of me sitting on my ass while Dimitri waited on me hand and foot. I felt so damn lazy, on the fourth day I tried to sneak in some guarding but Lissa had informed all the guardians of my bed rest condition and no one wanted to fuck with the hormonal Dragomir Princess.
The second day Dimitri and I sat down with Arina and Andrei and told them that Dimitri was their Dad. They didn't ask too many questions. They were too excited by the fact they had a Dad, to question too much, though Arina broached the baby topic again wanting to know how it happened. I don't think they fully understood what Dimitri being their dad meant. I think they just thought I never gave them a Dad and when they asked for one I just picked out one and gave it to them. I think they were too young to know that a Dad should have been with them from the beginning. We hadn't told them about the baby thinking it was too much to tell them all at once, but I was dreading more of Arina's baby questions.
The whole time Dimitri and I were home we had Arina and Andrei stay with us just being together to get them used to Dimitri being around. Being, apparently, severely anemic, pregnant, and still having to take care of Arina and Andrei, Dimitri and I talked about it and decided it would be best if he moved in. Arina and Andrei had taken up calling Dimitri Daddy, and I could see the light in his eye every time they recognized him as their Dad, and I absolutely loved seeing him so happy.
"Good morning Roza," He said pulling me closer to him by the wrist he still held.
"Good morning," I smiled pressing my face against his chest, inhaling his delicious scent and moving my free hand down to trace the outline of his abs. He let out a comfortable sigh, letting go of the hand he had once held, and wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me flush against him. Without any further hesitation, I grabbed his face with both hands and pulled him down, locking our lips in a heated kiss that sent him, and I, into a hungry frenzy. I gently sucked on his bottom lip as he tugged at my hair, causing a rather loud moan to escape his lips. He responded instantly, as if the sound woke him up, he started to pull back but I wrapped my arms tightly around his neck and lifted my hips to meet his, causing him to gasp in surprise by the contact. I knew he had given in when he relaxed once again into the kiss.
Since I got back from the hospital Dimitri avoid any... extracurricular activities... between us, because I was "too weak." I had tried a couple times to seduce him to no avail, I even attempted a surprise attack, that he quickly side step, but I was determined to get my way this morning.
I closed my eyes as he drove his tongue into my mouth again, holding my face close to his. He moved his hands down my body to the small sliver of skin exposed between my rising shirt hem and my pajama shorts, if you could consider the pathetically small scrape of fabric shorts. His hands were warm and soft and I gasped quietly into his mouth the second his fingers came in contact with my bare back. I arched my back, pressing myself against him harder as I gripped his neck tightly. My lips curved into a grin as I took his bottom lip between my teeth gently. He pulled my face up, for a moment, kissing me hard then yanked his lip from the vise of my teeth.
When his lips finally left mine I took this as an opportunity to push down his pajama pants, as he lowered his face to the crook of my neck, trailing wet kisses down my skin until he reached the space between my breasts where my shirt dipped slightly. Not disconnecting his lips from my skin he paused at my chest.
"Roza? Are you sure your feeling O.K?" he mumbled against my skin. I could tell he wanted this so badly, I could practically feel the lust rolling off of him and barreling into me, but he never failed to ask me beforehand if this was something I wanted. I knew I could say no, and he would gladly stop without any resentment. But I knew I wanted this, probably more than him, I don't even know why he would even ask that question, I had been all but trying to tie him down this week it's not like I would change my mind now.
"Yes," I said impatiently, Dimitri had stopped his kissing and halting any of our previous movements, and I need some friction soon.
"Roza..." he said seriously, and I huffed.
"I promise," I said in the sincerest voice possible which was hard when my brain was cloud with lust and impatience.
Finally, he reached up, hooking a finger in the v of my shirt and pulled it down further as I once again arched myself up against him. The only sounds in the room were the quiet mewling noises I had realized were coming from my mouth and the unsteady rhythm of our breathing. His hips pressed against mine and I felt a throb pulse through my entire body. As he placed open mouthed kisses along my collarbone and cleavage, I began tugging at the hem of my shirt, trying to pull it up and off.
He chuckled, gently biting down on my earlobe. "Would you like some help Roza?"
I quickly nodded, "Yes," A small groan came from my mouth as I tried pushing him off of me just enough. "Please."
He nodded and lifted up a couple inches. Then reached down and tugged the offending cotton up and over my toned stomach. I'm sure just to tease me a little further, he stopped and moved his lips down to my navel, circling his tongue around it and leaving a trail of wet kisses down to my pant line and across my left hip.
"Dimitri!" I growled in frustration.
He chuckled and moved his hands to slowly pull down my shorts, so could kick them off to the floor. He moved his mouth back down, kissing just above my center. I threw my head back and closed my eyes, my shirt completely forgotten.
He softly kissed his way back up my stomach to the skin right below my breasts. Finally, his lust getting the better of him, reached under me, as I leaned up slightly, and tugged the shirt up my back and over my head in one quick swipe. I sighed and grabbed the shirt out of his hand, tossing it across the damn room where it would be forgotten until later.
"Took you look enough." I smirked, but Dimitri just chuckled once and lowered his face down, kissing the crook of my neck then letting his eyes roam over my half naked body freely. He paused when he saw the one article of clothing I still had on.
"This," he gestured to the lacey black thong I still had on, "Has to go."
I simply nodded and swallowed hard as he quickly got rid of the offensive material. I just couldn't seem to stay still. "You're driving me insane." My voice was barely a whisper; all you could hear was the want and need covered with complete desire.
I could see him contemplating on teasing me a bit more, but I squashed that the second I lifted my hips back up, grinding them hard against his own, sending him a message, and by the way he rolled to his side, quickly kicking off his boxers, I think he read it loud and clear.
I pulled him back on top of me and gripping his shoulders, and breathing in his ear heavily. "I want you." Then, to prove my point, I wrapped my legs around his waist.
He swallowed hard, as he steadied himself above my entrance. "Are you sure, Roza?" his voice was full of concern and I just smiled kissing him again in confirmation.
I looked into Dimitri's chocolate brown eyes. He didn't need any further reassurance, and pushed himself into me, keeping his gaze locked on mine the entire time. I thirsted for him, I hungered for his body. I had to touch him, hold him, and love him. I started to meet him for every thrust, our bodies moving together in synchronization. He closed his eyes and started to kiss my neck again as his thrusts became more urgent. I could feel myself building up inside and I knew he was too. With one final thrust, we both came together. I gripped his shoulders tighter, digging my nails into his flesh slightly. My arms shaking as I felt absolute pleasure flood my entire body. The feeling of want, love, and lust came crashing down on me all at once.
I laid there for a couple minutes, calming myself down and bringing myself back to earth. I cuddled into Dimitri's arms and took slow deep breaths, trying to get my breathing back to normal. My eye lids felt heavy, but I knew that was just from sex induced exhaustion. I smiled at Dimitri as he slowly reached to hold my cheek in his palm. I didn't know what to say, but Dimitri captured my lips with his, saying everything with a kiss. When he pulled away, I grinned back at him. "Shower?"
He nodded and pulled himself up. Once he was above me again, he leaned down and placed a chaste kiss on my lips. Then sat up and I followed him, pulling myself out from under him and tossing my legs off of my side of the bed. I started to stand, but wobbled a bit and landed back down on the bed.
Dimitri was by my side in an instant, hovering worriedly, and still completely naked, above me. I laughed and pushed myself up again this time my legs were steady. "Calm down Comrade I just got up too fast," I stood on my tip toes to kiss his chin and took his hand, "Now how about that shower?"
Exactly an hour and a half later, long after the water had gone cold Dimitri and I reemerged from the bathroom, spirits high. It was safe to say that, that was the best and longest shower of my life. Despite the activities being done in the shower I felt clean and refreshed. I practically pranced into my closet pulling on some white lacey underwear; you never know what situation you'll be in later, though I know which one I want to be in...
I was about to pull on another pair of sweats, which had become my favorite outfit since I just sat at home all day, but I didn't want to wear those today. I was itching to do something other than hang out at Lissa's or my own apartment. I at least had the planning of Lissa's bachelorette party to distract me with me, but now that was all perfectly worked out I would have nothing to do.
I walked out of my closet and back to my room, where Dimitri stood clad in straight legged black jeans, and was, wait for it...
Shirtless.
I leaned on the door way of my walk in closet and watched him from behind, his back muscle moving under his skin as he pulled a belt through the hoops of his jeans. "Are you going to just stand there and watch me or was there a reason you came back, without even getting dressed?" Dimitri chuckled, turning around.
I gave him my man eater smile and moved toward him wrapping my arms around his waist, "Well I was coming to ask you something, but I got" I paused and looked at his bare chest again biting my lip, "distracted," I hummed.
"Well what was your question?" He said amused.
I ripped my gaze from his chest making a mental note the kiss every inch of it later, "Oh, I was wondering if we could do something today?" I asked hopefully. I saw his face turn down, and before he could turn me down I continued. "Not something big or very active. I just want to get out of this apartment; I'm going crazy trapped in here. Please, please, please," I stuck out my bottom lip completely ready to play dirty and give him the most pathetic face I could achieve.
"You haven't been stuck here," he said I was about to protest when he continued, "you've been to Lissa's." if it wasn't for the humor in his voice I would have cheerfully beat him to death.
"Dimitri..." I whined for him to take this seriously.
"Ok fine, I have wanted to take you and the kids somewhere." I gave him a look to continue. "You know my family's been in town," I froze then. I knew he was going to ask for us to meet his family. I had been dreading meeting his family. I mean if they knew about me they probably wouldn't like me. I mean how they could; I had hid his kids from him for three years, and then lied to him about it. I wouldn't like me if I was them so I couldn't even imagine what they already thought of me.
"No," I interrupted quickly.
"Why Roza?" He looked at me with a hint of hurt on his beautiful face.
"I mean, I can't," again confusion clouded over his features. "They probably hate me, and I completely know why. If I were them I would hate me too, but I don't need them to confirm what I already know. I want them to like me, they're a part of you and I want every part of you to like me, but how could they? After everything I put you through... "I looked down not wanting to meet his eyes.
"Rose they don't hate you, they want to meet you. They want to meet the girl who gave me children. My Mama is especially excited to meet the girl who has my heart. They don't care what happened when I left, because of just that. I Left. You didn't hide them I left and didn't keep in touch with you everything after me leaving was my fault, not yours and that's the way they'll see it. The way they do see it. They've actually been calling everyday begging me to bring you, Arina and Andrei over." He cupped my face, and forced me to look at him. "I love you so they already love you." He kissed my forehead and I couldn't help but smile, even if it was a little nervously. I was still nervous even if he insisted they already loved me.
"Ok," I said quietly nodding. "Well I guess I should finish getting ready," I told him glancing down at my mostly naked form.
He chuckled kissed my forehead once more than moved to finish putting the rest of his clothes on himself. I moved back to my closet and grabbed a slightly flowing white sundress that came down mid-thigh, and slipped my feet into a pair of blue and silver strappy Louboutin sandals. When I walked out Dimitri was gone, he probably went to wake up Arina and Andrei so I took this time to move to my bathroom to finish getting ready. My hair was slightly dry by now so I used the defuser on my hair drier to dry my hair so it would dry wavy. I put on some light brown eye shadow and some clear lip gloss, I looked myself over once to make sure I looked alright then headed to Arina's room know Dimitri would have saved waking her up for last.
And I was right, when I entered the room her lights were still off and her blinds tightly shut so that no sun would trickle into her room. I switch on the lights and heard a groan from underneath the heap of blankets on Arina's bed. "Princess it's time to get it!" I called going straight to her closet. She groaned again I saw her sheets shifted slightly then her movements and sounds halted, I guess she fell back to sleep. Seriously it was almost nine! She acted like she only had two hours of sleep when I know we put her to bed at nine. "Arina! Up Now! We are going to meet Daddy's family," I called to her again. I pulled out a cute navy and white tunic dress and doing something I never did, I paired it with light pink leggings, and then bent down to snatch up a pair of white converse from her floor.
"Daddy has a family?" she asked finally coming out of her cocoon of covers.
I laughed, "Of course he does Silly," I sat next to her and smoothed out her hair.
"Who does he have in his family?" she asked.
"Well he has a Mommy, a grandma, three sisters, and niece and nephew." I told her helping her detangle herself from her covers.
"WOW! He has a grandma? Is she like a million years old?" she exclaimed excitedly.
"I don't know sweetie, why don't you get dressed and we can ask Daddy," I told her pushing her clothes to her. If she noticed she was putting on a dress she didn't say anything as she scrabbled to shove on all her clothes. She tried to race out of her room when she was finished but I dragged her to her bathroom so she could brush her teeth and I could fix the rats nest on top of her head that was her hair. I pulled a brush begrudgingly through her hair then put it in two simple braids. As soon as I gave her the Ok she rushed out of the room in search of Dimitri to ask him about his ancient Grandma.
"Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! Daaaaddyyyy!" she yelled running into every room until she found him sitting at the kitchen table with a dressed and smiling Andrei.
"What Printsessa?" he asked alarmed by all her shouting.
She creased her brow at his words. "What does that mean?" she asked, temporarily forgetting her question.
"Princess," he answered.
"But you didn't said Princess," she said confused.
"He didn't say Princess," I corrected lightly.
"Yeah you didn't say Princess," she repeated.
"I did just in Russian," he tried to explain while eating his breakfast, of toast and cereal.
"Ohhhhh..." she said like she suddenly got everything. I saw her eye Dimitri's breakfast and moved to make her, her own.
I walked back to the kitchen to see Dimitri had already toasted enough bread for Arina and I, and had set out the cereal for us. So all I did was butter the toast and make the bowls of cereal then carried it to the table setting one in front of Arina, who was still in Dimitri's lap. I kissed Dimitri lightly on the lips before taking my own seat next to Andrei.
"What was that for?" he asked smiling, but I just shoveled a large spoonful of fruity pebbles in my mouth and shrugged.
I think he was about to say something, but Arina must have suddenly remembered her question because she squealed loudly and began talking at top speed, her mouth full of toast. I wrinkled my nose, "Reny, chew with your mouth closed," I scolded lightly. Unlike Andrei who would've closed his mouth smiled and apologized, Arina, being too much like me, she opened her mouth wider.
"Ew, that's gross. Momma said close your mouth," Andrei told her sternly stepping into his big brother roll he never put himself into.
"No!" she yelled muffled by the food in her mouth.
"Arina, swallow your food," I said in warning, as she continued to taunt her brother.
"Arina, do as your mother asks," Dimitri stepped in; his voice was hard and authoritative. It reminded me of the way he would talk to me when I was his student. Is it weird that, that voice suddenly got me excited?
Arina promptly closed her mouth and swallowed, then smiled brightly at Dimitri. I shook my head, for some reason Arina would listen to every word Dimitri said, but completely ignore me when I asked her something. I didn't realize it but I guess this whole time I had been eating pretty quickly, because my food was gone. I looked around the table and noticed everyone was basically done eating so I offered to take everyone's' bowls to the kitchen, if Dimitri would get them ready to leave. When I came back Arina and Andrei were sitting next to each other on the couch, Arina slumped over rolling around, in a pair off sea green sunglasses she found somewhere, messing up her braids, cue the eye roll. Andrei was sitting up as Dimitri was bent over tying the laces on his black and gray vans. I hadn't noticed what Andrei was wearing but he looked adorable.
Dimitri had put him in black and gray plaid shorts with thin aqua blue stripes and a few pink ones; he had on a matching aqua blue short sleeved collared shirt. Dimitri himself was the least dressed up of us all, but he still looked amazing. In straight legged black jeans, with his stake in the compartment on his black belt, a tight black shirt, with a slight V-neck and black converse. I had to blink and relook at that sight. Dimitri in converse? That was weird sight, but he had been wearing a lot more types of shoes than his black boots lately.
"Well don't you two look nice," I said entering the living room. I scooped Andrei up into my arms and he giggled loudly, "Did Daddy tell you where we were going?" I asked kissing his cheek multiple times making him laugh more.
"Yes Momma!" he shouted pushing away from me. I laughed and put him down, as soon his feet touched the ground he took off to hid behind Dimitri holding on to his pant leg.
"Is everyone ready?" I called out. I heard a high pitched yes from Arina and a giggle from Andrei as Dimitri lifted him up into his arms. "I'll take that as a yes then," I turned, grabbing my purse that was at the small table near the door and picked up my stake that was next to it. I flipped it a couple times in my hand and smiled at the feeling of having my weapon back again. While I was sick Dimitri banned me from the use of my stake and it had to stay at the door until I was better and since I was going out today, I think that would mean I was better, but of course Dimitri had to burst my happy little bubble.
"Roza... Why are you taking your stake? You know the agreement." He chastised.
"I know Dimitri, but since I'm going out that means I'm all better, and you wouldn't want me to be unprotected would you?" I gave him the second pathetic pout of the day, now I see where Arina gets her cute faces from.
"Fine." He gave in gruffly. "but if anything happens you are not to do anything but keep you, the kids and the baby safe, by not fighting," he was smart to add in the last bit because I was about to comment on it. I frowned, but I knew this was all I was going to get from him to I agreed and shoved the covered stake in my purse, next to my cell phone, that I guess I had left in my purse from yesterday.
We moved from the apartment not bothering to lock the door and Dimitri lead us to the guest housing that his family was staying in. It was pretty far, and after ten minutes of walking, in which I had to listen to Arina, complain until I finally picked her up and carried her rest of the way, we were there. They were staying on the second floor in two three bedroom apartments, his two eldest sisters, Karolina and Sonya, his niece and nephew, Zoya and Paul, were staying in one room. And his mother grandma and younger sister Viktoria were staying in the other. Apparently his younger sister was only a year younger than me making her twenty, so maybe we would get along...
We were all meeting at his mother and grandma's room, for our little meeting and the closer we got to the room the more nervous I grew. Arina started to squirm so I set her down as we stepped into the elevator. I was not holding her anymore I was too nervous, I clutch Dimitri's hand for comfort and I instantly felt release once our skin made contact. He looked at me and smiled comfortingly, "It'll be fine Roza, I promise." I couldn't help but to smile back, his words defiantly made me feel better. Once the doors opened Arina jumped out like a tightly wound spring that had just been released. Andrei wriggled out of Dimitri arms and follow suit of his sister calling her name while he chased her.
"Walk!" My voice rang out in the halls ways and instantly slowing my kids pace. Dimitri had led me toward a room close to the elevator one the Kids past by a long shot. "Over here," I waved them over which probably was a mistake because they both came running at top speed Arina almost falling flat on her face. I just sighed choosing to not comment, and turned to Dimitri squeezing his hand as an OK to knock on the door. He knocked and within seconds the door flew opened and standing there was a short girl, probably Viktoria because she looked young, with the same long dark hair as Dimitri's and the same endless brown eyes.
"Dimka!" she squealed happily pulling him into a hug. It was a short lived because someone came up behind her and opened the door wider.
"Viktoria let go of your brother and let them in," A lady, who I assumed was Dimitri's mother, told her. Viktoria moved from the door and pranced into the living room calling out to everyone that Dimitri was here. I was about to walk in when I felt little hands close in around my leg, I looked down to a stone faced Andrei and lifted him into my arms. His arms went around my neck and he hid his head in my hair, I could feel him softly twirling strands of hair at the back of my head. Arina walked in bravely by herself in front of Dimitri, the biggest smile plastered on her still sun glassed face.
As we walked into the living room I took in everyone there. On the plush couch sat two women I would have guess too be Karolina and Sonya. One of the women had a talkative little girl in their lap and a boy about the age of thirteen siting in a chair next to the couch entranced by the laptop in his lap. The girl who answered the door floated over to the boy and ruffled his hair teasingly. "Look Uncle Dimka's back, and look who he brought," the girl said smiling. Now everyone's attention was on us the little girl and both women's eyes were either on me with Andrei cowering in my arms or Arina who was holding Dimitri's hand, well more like his fingers his hands were too big for her to wrap her little hand around. The woman who had led us into the room, called everyone's attention with a quickly said Russian sentence. I knew immediately Arina would have to comment on this.
"Mommy did you hear that?" she chirped excitedly. She ran up to Dimitri's mother and smiled largely. "What's your name?"
"Olena," the woman responded politely, so I was right it was Dimitri's mother, "I'm your grandma."
"I know Mommy told I was going to have another Grandma, I already have one," she paused and held up a finger, and looked at me to see if she was doing it right, I nodded in confirmation, "but you don't look like her, my grandma has red hair and it's pretty now." She rambled randomly. "And did you know what?" she asked.
"What?" Olena played along.
"She's a Guardian like Mommy and she has a stake, but I'm not allowed to touch it," she said the last part with a pout.
She was going to continue, but Olena spoke first, "Well isn't that something. Little one I told you my name but you never told me yours."
"Oh..." Arina said smacking her head laughing. "I'm Arina Vasilisa B. Hathaway." She told her proudly. Arina loved to tell people her whole name; she never introduced herself with just her first name. "And that-" she pointed to Andrei in my arms, "is my little brother Andrei." She smirked knowing full well that she was the younger one.
"No! I'm older!" Andrei protested suddenly becoming brave enough to come out of the shelter my hair provided.
"Nu-uh!" She protested putting her hands on her little hips.
"Momma..." Andrei whined.
"Arina, you know your brothers older by three minutes," I told her sighing. I don't even know how many times they've had this fight before. Arina turned her attention back to Olena and I guess Andrei realized he had come out of hiding because his body went rigid and he scanned the room with a stony expression on his face.
"Well if I didn't know he was Dimitri's before, I would definitely know now, look Sonya he's got that same hard mask Dimka does." The woman with the kid on her lap said. Her English was submerged by her Russian accent but I could still make out what she was saying, I guess she only spoke in English for my benefit.
"Your right, he's a miniature Dimka!" The other said. I guess my face must of read confusion, because she quickly apologized, and began introducing everyone.
"Oh, how rude of us we didn't even introduce ourselves, I'm Sonya, and this next to me is Karolina and her daughter Zoya, and her son Paul is the one ignoring everyone's existence on the chair." She gave Paul a mock glare and was going to continue but Viktoria piped in.
"And I'm Viktoria, but you can call me Vika! And you know Mama already, and then there's..." she looked around the room looking for someone frowning, "Well babushka was here, but she ran off somewhere." Her frown quickly turned into a smile again, I could tell she would be fun to be around she was so bubbly. I knew she was only a year younger than me maybe I could introduce her to Lissa they would defiantly like each other.
"Hi, umm nice to meet you all I'm Rose," I said lamely, my nerves getting the better of me. Arina finally noticed Zoya was her age, almost a year older, and immediately pounced on her new cousin while everyone was introducing themselves. They chattered away at each other in the floor by Karolina's feet.
Dimitri and I occupied the love seat next to the couch and we all talked happily, after only a brief awkward moment , despite all my fears no one held anything against me they accepted me with open arms, especially Viktoria, she was so bubbly and fun to talk to. After a while she had pulled me away from Dimitri and forced me to sit and talk with her on the floor, claiming we needed "sister bonding time" after almost an hour of us trading stories, almost all of hers had ended with Dimitri being completely embarrassed, or in clothes of the opposite gender. I thought I was going to pee myself I had laughed so much in a short amount of time. We had been there for nearly four hours, deciding to just eat lunch with them, since no one was ready for us to leave and vice versa, even Andrei went and sat with Paul, who watched Despicable Me with him.
"So how did you and Uncle Dimka have kids?" Paul asked curiously, looking up from his laptop, but his mom reached back and slapped the back of his head I had to try not to laugh. "What?" he asked surprised, his Mom only coked an eyebrow and said something in Russian that didn't sound complementary. "Oh, come on you all were thinking it!" he protested, Karolina muttered something that made him shut up but he still looked at me expectantly.
I turned my head to Dimitri raising both my eyebrows in question; did he not explain how we could have kids? "I never really got around to telling them the full story..." Dimitri explained.
"Despite how rude the question is, we are kind of curious, how did you get pregnant?" Sonya asked timidly, I could tell she had been wandering this for a while but was too polite to ask until Paul put it out there.
"Well, I'm sure everyone's heard of the car accident the killed all the Dragomirs, except for one?" I asked, but I was sure everyone had. When everyone nodded I continued, "Well technically I died in it too." Everyone was shocked at first then their features turned into confusion as the realized I had said I died.
"But then how are you... alive?" Viktoria asked from her large chair beside the couch.
"She's shadow kissed." A voice said from the hallway, a short old woman who must of been Yeva, walked into the room calmly, like she hadn't just said something almost no one had heard of. "Aren't you Rose?" she asked again.
"Y-yes how did you-"
"Babushka what's shadow kissed?" Paul asked confused.
"It's what happens when you're brought back to life by a spirit user," She explained like it was no big deal, It was a huge deal! How did she- Oh! I remember Dimitri telling me his grandmother "Saw things" but I had never believed him, maybe this was something she saw.
"Spirit user?" Viktoria asked.
"An element forgotten by Moroi that is only now being rediscovered," she explained.
"But how does that help Rose have kids?" Sonya asked clearly trying to put the puzzle together but was missing a few key pieces. Yeva didn't answer that one she looked toward me for an answer.
"Oh... well when I died she healed me, brought me back and we figured she must have changed a lot of genes since I gained new senses and I guess my ability to reproduced with other Dhampirs was one gene that was corrected." I blushed a little it was weird talking about myself this way.
After a few more questions were asked the subjected was dropped and new topics emerged, everyone wanted to know more about me now, after finding out about me being shadow kissed they were curious about other aspects of my life. Everyone except for Yeva, she stood silently in the corner of the room tucked away from all conversation. So after telling everyone basically my whole life story Dimitri and I decided it was time to leave. It was almost two now and I'm sure Lissa wanted to know where I was, but we had an announcement to make before we left.
We were stood up and Dimitri took my hand, "Before we leave Rose and I actually came over here for another reason besides introductions. We know this is a lot for you finding out I had kids and meeting them and Rose all in a couple short weeks, but there's just one more thing." He took a breath and smiled, "Rose is pregnant."
Viktoria's loud squeal rang threw the loudest of all the happy sounds in the room, she bounced up out of her chair and flung her arms around me saying how happy she was, then bent down to talk to my stomach, Dimitri said something disapproving in Russian but she glared at him replied and smiled at my stomach.
"Hey baby number three, this is your Aunty Vika, you don't know me yet but I'll be your favorite aunt-" before she could finish talking I burst out in laughter. "What?" she asked standing up and looking at me as if I were crazy.
"Lissa-said- the- same thing!" I laughed breathlessly.
"What?" Viktoria asked again.
"Lissa called the baby, baby number three too," I said panting from my outburst. "You and her really need to meet," I said this lightly, but Viktoria's eyes lit up and she told me she would love to meet my friends. I guess she wasn't used to having no friends around. I answered a few more questions on how far along I was then had to explain how I knew so soon.
"Well we better go Dimitri said lifting up a sleeping Andrei, him, his sister and Zoya had all fallen asleep a little while ago, Karolina had taken Zoya to a bed somewhere in the room and I was going to get Arina but first I had to go to the bathroom. I excused myself and went to the bathroom quickly, wanting to get Arina and Andrei home before they woke up from their nap and would be cranky all day.
I had just finished washing my hands when the door opened, startling me. "Oh my-" I paused when I noticed it was Yeva. "Oh God, Yeva I didn't know it was you, you scared me," I said with a nervous smile, there was just something so intimidating about this old woman.
"He won't keep his promise," she said.
"What?" I asked confused what she was talking about.
"Dimitri, he won't keep his promise. He'll try but sometimes that's not enough," she continued.
"What?" I asked breathlessly, "I don't know what you're talking about," I told her weakly, even though I did know and she knew I did.
"Be careful Rose some people shouldn't be underestimated or overlook." Then. She. Walked. Away! Leaving me confused as hell and nervous because deep down I knew what she was referring to.
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