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Freedomwriter2010
Chapter 20
RPOV
"Are you excited Rose?" Lissa asked as she bounced on my couch with her hands under her. Dimitri was out with Ivan for the day and Lissa decided to stop by and hang out with me.
"I am, just a little nervous, I don't know what he is expecting this trip to do. I mean I still walk on egg shells trusting him. I say I trust him but do I really? Its hard.." sighing I ran my hand through my hair.
"I know its hard but its clear that he is trying to make things work between you two huh? He seems to want to make things work, and from what you told me about this Mia, she sounds like the instigator in this whole .ordeal…" leave it to Lissa to make sense of the situations.
"I know but you know what Dimitris rep is outside of our marriage. Yes its settled down and as one of Russia greatest bachelors there is a lot of tabloid news about him, but girls still pursue him. Like we will go out for dinner and the waitress pretty much serves herself on a golden platter, and how do I know that his macho-ness and faithfulness to me isn't just for show? It makes me feel super insecure sometimes." I grunted and leaned back.
" I'm worried that he is going to get tired of me and blame failure to this marriage all on me. What if he just decided one day that he was tired of waiting for me to sleep with him and he goes to our parents and lies. Like what IF lissa?" She just stared at me.
" Rose, I think you have been watching too many soap operas by yourself. Did you not hear his vows the day of your wedding? He clearly has feelings for you and wants to try something with you. His face when you walked down the aisle that day, it was…wow.. just like he was already in love. I know you guys are still in the rough and you aren't clearly a couple but he will definitely be by yourside, and your side only. Just take a deep breath and know that you are with him. Don't be afraid and relax, you will never give into your feelings if you are always uptight about this stuff." She laid a reassuring hand on my leg as we sat on our bed.
"Thanks Lissa, your always giving life lessons, what would I do without you." She gave a mock thinking act.
"mmm I don't know, probably crash and burn without me. I am your pilot in life after all." Her laugh wrapped around us and we continued in our talk, and her trying to pack lingerie in my suitcase for my trip with Dimitri. That matchmaker her…
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"Dimitri, I have had this blind fold on my eyes for the past half an hour, where are you taking me?Are you taking me to the backwoods…disposing of me?" He gave me a playful nudge and I just laughed, but not to say I wasn't nervous. It was freaking me out.
"We're almost there Roza. But the blindfold won't be taken off until we are onto our transportation." He gave my arm a squeeze and sat back in the vehicle we sat in. We sat in a comfortable silence for maybe five more minutes before we came to a stop.
"Okay Roza, do you still trust me?" He asked as he leaded me out of the vehicle. As soon as my feet touched the ground, and the air flew around me, I knew what we were doing.
"Is that an airplane jet I hear!?" I asked clutching his arm practically screaming over the loudness.
In one swift movement my blindfold was off and my eyes widened slightly as I stared at the huge airplane in front of me.
"This, is our business jet, which I so gladly booked for us, to fly to our final destination." He gave me a cheeky grin and intertwined our fingers together. "This trip is going to win your heart by yours truly."
I gave a snort. " It'll take a lot to win me over, you better have something truly amazing set up." I playfully bumped him and he laughed as we walked towards the jet in front of us.
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As the jet took off, I could help but clutch at Dimitri's arm. I hadn't flown in a very long while. I had to of been ten or eleven at the time and it was to go see my aunt in Turkey before she passed away. It wasn't the greatest, and in the sense that I really just didn't care the old bat was sick and dying. Aunt Kirova was mean, she was rude with her words and made me feel bad about myself.
This trip would be a whole lot better though, and It made me giddy inside and not scared to be going to who in the hell knows where with a man I had known for three or four weeks.
"Are you okay?" Dimitris voice broke the silence, and the wheels turning inside of my head. I hadn't realised I had been holding my breath until I had gone to speak to him.
"Mm, I will be when the plane is horizontal and not almost vertically in the sky and then maybe ill be able to breath properly again. Its been a while since I've flown, the last time was to Turkey to visit a dying relative. "
"Well I'm here so just sit back and relax, remember to take a deep breath once in a while and you'll be okay. I don't need you fainting from lack of oxygen alright? Do you hear me Roza?"
I gave a brief nod to his stern-ness, it was just like how my mother was with me sometimes.
At this moment I almost felt very vulnerable. I didn't want him to leave me though, to go anywhere without me while I sat here, awake anyway. I just needed his presence close by. Too much watching the news, especially when it involved aircraft.
Soon after the plane decided to level out, and we were finally on our way, securely in the sky.
"How long will we be on the plane comrade?" I asked sipping on the water bottle I had beside my seat. Luckily there was catering on this plane which was much appreciated. We had a hostess on our private plane and she was sort of ticking me off. Her and Dimitri seemed to have a connection, or more of a personal relationship from before. So casually everytime she came around, I would cling to him like a child. Immature, I know but I could care less. Like when I got my water from her, I had to literally whine for it and have him pay attention to me. Oh well she had returned to her little area for the time being.
Playing with my fingers he kissed my temple. " We will be on here for fourteen hours and twenty five minutes."
I gasped." What!? Fourteen hours. Where are we going comrade? And how long have we been on the plane"
His laugh graced me again. "We've only been on here for fourtyfive minutes love. Don't worry though, you'll probably sleep most of the way."
I snorted." Yeah right smart one, Im not leaving you and blonde bimbo over there alone by yourselfs to do whatever while I sleep. No way José."
"Rose…"
"What? Dimitri I can be jealous and meddling all I want because I cant trust you in that department yet. You are a womanizer just face that fact and it will eat at me for the rest of my life, well married to you anyway I mean –"
"Do you plan on leaving me?" He asked gruffly, pulling his hand away from me. Here we went sitting on a plane with no way out. Of course.
"No, I don't plan on it, but maybe itll happen because you are you and as Dimitri Belikov you will always have the gene in you." We just stared at each other until he unbuckled his belt, and with an angry huff he got up mumbling angrily in russian. Unfortunately I knew what he was saying.
"You know just because Im Turkish doesn't mean I don't understand you smart ass." I got up and walked down the aisle following him.
"You just don't get it Rose." He turned and faced me. " I am trying to really have you trust in me, and yes, I am sorry if Mia came onto me, I tried to stop it, I did. You only see the past in what I did and not what Im doing with the future and what things have been put onto me." He rubbed the back of his neck roughly.
He sighed, and all I could do was look and watch him for his next speech and move.
" I want you to trust me Rose. I really do, and I want to have my past in the past, please understand that. Just ike the air hostess, it was old time news and yes it is a consequence for playing around with them so much but I don't want it anymore, do you know why?" I shook my head.
"Because I had a blessing in disguise come to me, and it was you."
In that moment, my heart was the only thing I could hear beating and my cheeks were flushed with a red tinge. Again Dimitri, one of Russias bad ass bachelors and most wanted guy had just poured his heart out to me. But I didn't have enough time to keep on thinking because in the midst of our heavy conversation, Dimitri was closing the space and pulling me into his strong arms, his lips closing in on mine.
"Rosemarie Mazur, you are one of the most interesting, spontaneous, warm hearted and hard headed people I have ever met, but that is probably the reason that I am falling for you, and very very fast." That was all he had to whisper before his lips were tasting mine.
Sitting us down on the plush seats, I straddled him, feeling so intimate and it was something I had never experience with anyone, not even Andre.
The electricity between us sparked everytime our lips touched. His hands gripped my hips and his thumbs drew circles on my hip bone. Suddenly, I could feel his rough feeling hands, slide under my shirt and in that moment I knew where this could go. Untangling my fingers from his hair and from around his neck, I held his wrists.
"D-Dimitri, w-we cant. Not here, not right now." Leaning my forhead against his, he opened his eyes and looked at me, almost looking into my soul. I could feel his head nodding.
"I understand." Taking a deep breath, I leaned back, and changing the subject into something light.
"How about we take our minds off of this, how about we get blondie to make us some good food and get a deck of cards. I wanna kick your ass in some good games of cards."
Dimitri stared at me before laughing once more, his laugh shaking us as I sat on his lap.
" You're on Roza."
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