I'm bakc! I'm sorry it took so long to write again. Enjoy the chapter. The next one is already written and ready to go but I'm leaving for argentina in a bit so I will post it when I am back. Or maybe tomorrow before I leave I will see.


Chapter 28


DPOV

What Rose had just revealed was a lot to take in. I couldn't believe she hadn't told me. The bullying, and the threats had been going on for month, way before this Riley situation. She had no reason not to tell me, after all we had called each other almost every day during those times and not once had she mentioned this. I agree the break-up threats were harmless but once they were life threatening, or even just physical, she should have told me!

"What would you have done if I told you?" she said throwing her hands in the air. "It's not like you could ditch Christian and come help me."

"Yes I could have" I said although I would've had to think about that one.

"No you would not. You can't" she said. She was right.

I took a deep breath to try and calm myself. This was frustrating. I was mad at her for not telling me but we had just agreed to talk through everything and figure things out between us. I didn't want us to start fighting again. We both needed to come clean with everything.

"Rose, since we're putting everything on the table I think it's time I tell you Riley's secret." I said.

RPOV

This was extremely frustrating. How could he not have told me something as big as that?! Okay that's not fair, I too hadn't told him about something big, but it didn't change the fact that it was hard to grasp and very very frustrating. I guess I could sort of understand how he was feeling now.

"She could be lying!" I exclaimed.

"I can assure you she's not Rose" he said calmly.

"She's part of my team! How could you withhold this kind of information from me?" I asked.

"Rose you know I couldn't. I know what she's going through. I've been there." He answered.

"How could I forget" I snapped. Immediately regretting my words. I had crossed a line and I knew it. I didn't even mean it. "I'm sorry" I said. Dimitri sat down on the bed, putting his face in his hands. I sat down next to him and rubbed soothing circle in his back. "I didn't mean it." I continued.

I kneed down before him taking away his hands and cupping his face.

I looked him in the eye. He seemed so sad and defeated.

"This is behind us. You know it." I stood up between his legs still cupping his face. I leaned down and placed a kiss on his lips. "I love you Comrade. We'll get through this. Thank you for telling me now."

He stood up consequently pulling our bodies together before kissing me again. The kiss started out slowly but quickly turned heated. God had I missed him. But we both knew we had been withholding information to each other and that was something that we couldn't do anymore if we wanted things to work. Our lips parted to breathe, however instead of trailing kisses down my neck like he would usually do, he let his forehead rest on mine letting both of us cool down. I let my hands trail up his biceps as his went to my waist, pulling me close.

"Promise me you won't hold any information back from me again." He whispered.

"I promise as long as you promise to do the same." I answered. "We have to be able to trust each other if we want things to work. I'm tired of fighting with you."

"Me too" he admitted.

We stayed there relishing each other's presence before Dimitri broke the silence.

"So what do we do now?" he asked. Letting me take the lead.

"Well how about we start by checking the apartment for cameras and bugs?"

"Sounds good"

"But we have to be careful. I don't want the person to be on to us. Plus they, whomever they are, can't know that you know. I can't tell anyone. Let's just redecorate like I said initially, move everything, pretend we want to start fresh and as we move things we can check it. Plus I've been wanting to get some new furniture." I admitted.

"What's wrong with our furniture?" he asked in mock shock. He knew just as well as I did that the furniture the school had given us wasn't to our taste at all. Remodeling was well over due.

We started putting all the furniture we didn't like in the corridor while sweeping them at the same time. Then we moved from room to room. To anyone it would seem like we were only refurnishing but we weren't. We figured out where some of the bugs were and decided to get rid of lamp or object it was connected to in order to not seem suspicious. To keep our cover we kept one bug in the kitchen but we made sure there were no cameras left. This should do the trick we hoped.

Once we were done Dimitri sat down on the couch we had kept and I sat next to him sheltering myself under his strong arms. He drew patterns on my arm as we order new furniture we both liked. Which was not easy might I add. Dimitri was dead set on buying a brown bookshelf with bull's horns on the side. He finally got his wish in exchange, I was allowed to choose all the different furniture for the room. That book shelf was so not going in the room. I swear Dimitri looked like a kid in a candy shop when he saw it. It was actually quite adorable.

That night, we both laid in bed.

"We should tell Hans." He voiced.

"He would kill me." I exaggerated "Hi Gurdian Croft, in case I wasn't already blacklisted I have been withholding threats against our queen." I mimicked. "Yeah like that's going to go well."

"But you could blame it on the fact that they mentioned you had to remain silent." He said.

"Meaning I would still be protecting the Queen by not mentioning it. It's really risky." I answered.

"He could help. I think it's worth the risk."

"Okay, but no phone call, we need to get him outside of his office, who knows if that place if bugged as well." I sighted.

"Well figure this out tomorrow. Go to sleep now milaya, it's been a long day." He whispered as he kissed my hair.

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xoxo Cloclovilla