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Chapter 26

Rose POV

"We're here!" Ivan called back to us from the passenger seat.

We all jumped out when Dimitri parked the car. He was right, it was gorgeous out today. Hotter than normal. I helped Dimitri get the stuff out of the boot of the car. I went to take the basket of food but Dimitri stopped me.

"No, that's ok, I'll take that; it's heavy." He said.

I rolled my eyes at his protectiveness.

"Comrade, it's a basket of food, not a basket of bricks." I commented but let him take the food. He was just looking after me.

I picked up the blankets, the towels and the sunscreen to please him and we headed down to the sand to the others.

When we got there, I lay the blankets out. Dimitri, Ivan and Christian all took their shirts off so that they were left in their shorts. I looked at Dimitri's chest and torso and the muscles rippling there.

I could get used to a view like this.

I followed their lead so I was left in my denim shorts and my red bikini top. Lissa, being more reserved, was wearing shorts and a tank top.

I saw Dimitri looking at me – or more likely my chest - appreciatively.

"See something you like, comrade?" I asked him, flirtatiously.

"Plenty" he said and pulled me close to him before claiming my lips with his.

"Am I gonna have to ask you guys to get a room again?" Ivan said from nearby.

I put my middle finger up to him in the general direction his voice came from.

"Oh, feisty…I like." Ivan said, laughing.

I wrapped my arms back around Dimitri's neck and deepened the kiss, slipping my tongue into his mouth.

"Ok, I'm gonna get sick if I have to watch anymore of this." Christian's voice said.

"Me too." Ivan said.

"Guys, shut up, I think it's cute!" Lissa joined in happily.

I groaned and pulled away from Dimitri. They were all getting on my nerves.

"I'm going for a swim. You coming?" I directed the question at Dimitri but Ivan answered.

"Hell yeah!" He yelled and took off running towards the sea.

Dimitri chuckled in my ear.

"Let's go." He said. I pulled off my shorts and Dimitri and I ran to the water.

We weren't long in the water before I pulled Dimitri to me and started making out with him. I couldn't help it. Dimitri shirtless = almost irresistible. Dimitri shirtless and wet = completely irresistible.

His hands roamed my body before pulling me up by the thighs to wrap my legs around him. I clung to him, needing to feel close to him.

We were broken apart when someone splashed us. We both looked around quickly to see both Ivan and Christian laughing.

God, they were getting very annoying.

I splashed them back and pretty soon we were all having a big water fight.

We came out of the water, laughing and walked back to where Lissa was watching us from one of the blankets.

I flopped down on the other one and Dimitri lay beside me. He wrapped a towel around me and started to rub any water off me.

It was arousing as hell.

Lissa and Christian decided to go for a walk down the beach, Ivan following them, claiming he didn't want to be around Dimitri and me by himself when we were both half-naked.

It was just as well. I was about a second away from moaning out loud at the feel of his hands on me, when he stopped. He picked up the sunscreen and squirted some into his hands. He rubbed them together and then started massaging it onto my body.

These hormones were driving me crazy… I was so wet.

"Dimitri…" I mumbled quietly. Dimitri stopped rubbing me, obviously not realising he had been turning me on. His surprise quickly turned to lust when he saw that look in my eyes. The look that said 'take me right here, right now'.

He climbed over on top of me and started kissing me again.

I was so hot…and that was not from the sun.

"Take me…" I mumbled against his lips. He pulled himself away instantly.

"Roza, we can't." he said and turned his head away from mine, looking in the direction that the others had walked.

"Come on baby." I said, turning on my 'sexy' voice. I lifted my head up off the ground and started to suck on his earlobe.

"Roza…" He said warningly, moving his head trying to stop me and sitting up.

"Come on comrade! There's no one even around!" I said, still using my sexy voice.

Dimitri looked torn.

Desperate times called for desperate measures.

"Come on baby…you know you want me…" I whispered the last part to him and started crawling towards him. When I reached him, I placed one of my legs on each side of him so that I was straddling him. I reached around to the back of my neck and started to untie my bikini.

Dimitri's facial expression changed from torn to lustful.

He growled sexily and I could feel his hardness up against my thigh.

Without saying a word he picked me up, my legs still wrapped around him and ran to his car.

He pulled me into the backseat and started kissing me like there was no tomorrow. I pulled the rest of my bikini off and he pulled his shorts off.

He slid one of his fingers up and down my folds, making me shiver and moan his name. He then pushed two of his fingers inside me and started a rhythm, moving in and out of me.

I wasn't going to be able to last very long, and I needed him…now.

"Dimitri…please." I all but begged him. I never begged anyone.

The things this man could do to me without even realising it.

He got the picture and quickly positioned himself at me entrance, before thrusting deeply inside me.

I pretty much screamed out his name as our bodies began a new rhythm. He thrust hardly and deeper, hitting new spots each time until he hit one in particular.

"Dimitri, right there!" I moaned.

He bent down and started whispering things in Russian in my ear. I hadn't a clue what he was saying and at the present moment, I didn't really care. All I could hear was the sexy tone of my hot lover, and the sounds of our moans filling the car.

He continued to hit that spot 3 more times before I came and screamed his name out in ecstasy.

He quietly moaned my name and I felt him cum inside me.

We both lay in the backseat of the car, none of us speaking just yet. We were both trying to catch our breath after our orgasms, Dimitri was still inside me.

"I love you." He said simply to me.

"I love you." I said back to him. With that, he pulled out of me and sat up, pulling me with him.

I realised that the windows were all steamed up. It was just as well – that meant no body could see in.

I picked my bikini off the ground and pulled it on as Dimitri found his shorts and pulled them on.

We both left the car to find that the place was still deserted. Thank god.

I could just imagine the awkward walk back onto the beach if people had been around.

We arrived back at the blankets and our stuff on the ground, finding that the others hadn't come back yet.

Dimitri and I lay down side by side. Dimitri took my hand. I was enjoying the feel of the sun on my skin, and Dimitri's hand in mine.

We lay in silence for a long time and I could feel myself start to fall asleep.

"We're back!" Ivan's voice said suddenly from right beside us. It actually made me jump a little. The place had been so quiet before they'd come back.

"I can see-or should I say hear? - that." I grumbled to him.

"Lighten up, Hathaway. You want some ice cream?"

Ice cream actually sounded very nice.

I cracked one of my closed eyes open to see Ivan sitting on the blanket next to Ivan holding 2 ice cream cones. I looked at Dimitri and noticed he had his hands over his eyes, shielding them from the sun.

I took an ice cream cone off Ivan and licked it. It was good ice cream.

We spent another hour at the beach before leaving. Lissa said she had an evening shift she had to cover and Ivan wanted to – in his words – 'pick up a girl…and her friend, to take home for the night.'

We dropped Ivan at a bar and Christian off at his apartment before we arrived back at mine and Lissa's apartment.

Dimitri came in with us and made dinner while Lissa rushed around and got ready for work. She left shortly after that, leaving me and Dimitri alone.

We ate dinner and then Dimitri took me to bed.

Sleep was the very last thing we did that night.

Sorry for the shorter chapter – I just wanted to write and upload this before I went to sleep. Hope you liked!