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Chapter 36

DPOV

"I'm going out with the girls again this evening," My Roza announced while we were cuddled up on the couch Thursday morning.

"Are any of them single?" Ivan piped up from the armchair.

"Why do you want to know?" She asked him after rolling her eyes.

"You know…" Ivan waggled his eyebrows at her.

"Dimitri, tell your friend that he's a pig." She said to him and snuggled closer to me.

I looked at Ivan.

"You're a pig."

"Hey, don't gang up on me!" He said, pretending to be offended. "Dimitri, are you gonna be on my side ever now that you have a girlfriend?"

Rose looked at me with big brown eyes.

"Nope."

"Well what about bros before h-" Ivan cut himself off when he saw the dangerous look Rose was giving him.

"If you value your life, you won't finish that sentence," she growled out.

She was so sexy when she was angry.

I tightened my hold on her.

"Ivan's an asshole, you'll get used to it." I said and kissed the top of her head, breathing in her scent.

Ivan grumbled something about 'not being fair' and went into the kitchen to get another beer.

Roza closed her eyes and leaned her head back against me. I moved my hands down to her growing belly and rubbed it gently.

We lay in peaceful silence for a few minutes. I listened to her breathing in and out, and I automatically felt calmer.

"What do you think it is?" she asked me quietly. "A Boy or a girl?"

I thought about it.

"I'm not really sure," I answered truthfully.

"Well, what would you like?"

"I honestly don't mind. I would be ecstatic with either." I answered her. I couldn't wait until our baby arrived, whether it was a boy or a girl didn't matter to me, as long as it was healthy.

"What about you?" I asked her. I was curious to see if she had a preference.

"I don't mind either." She answered and turned her head around slightly so she could kiss my jaw. "I love you."

My heart beat loudly every time she spoke those words. How had I fallen in love with a girl so perfect – and even better, she loved me back.

"I love you too."

She turned slightly in my arms and buried her face in my neck.

It wasn't long before her breaths became deep and even and I knew she'd fallen asleep.

I was glad, she'd been up a lot of last night feeling nauseous and was obviously tired when we eventually got up this morning.

Of course, it didn't help that we had basically slept on the floor.

When Ivan had been 'dealing' with his hangover yesterday – and by dealing I mean drinking more beer until he was too drunk to feel anything – I had managed to slip out the wooden support of the bed. I had kept the mattress in the room so Roza and I could use it until we got a new bed. I was hoping to go with her to the store to tomorrow because Ivan told me he had to go into work for a few hours; this would give us enough time to pick a bed that was similar and get it delivered and set up in the house without him notic-

"Dimitri!" Ivan yelled. Rose groaned and rolled over so she was facing the back support of the couch. It was amazing that there could be people blowing horns and banging pots in front of her when she was asleep, and she probably wouldn't even notice.

I gently moved Roza off my chest and got up just as Ivan came storming out from the hall way.

I motioned for him to be quiet and led him back into the hall. I was really hoping he wouldn't notice.

Ivan stared at me for a moment, obviously looking for an explanation. I decided to play it cool just to piss him off more.

"Well?!" He said after a moment of silence.

"Well what?" I answered, acting oblivious.

"What the fuck happened to my bed dude!"

"Oh…that." I smirked at him. Ivan was hilarious when he was pissed off.

"Yes, that!" He replied, glaring at me. "What the hell happened?"

"Funny story…You see, we kind of broke it…" I finally told him, rubbing the back off my neck.

"How?!" He asked me incredulously.

"Do you really want to know?" I asked him, already knowing the answer.

"No!" He said loudly. "Spare me the details."

"I'm glad, it might be too much for your innocent mind to handle." I smirked at him.

"Innocent, my ass." He said smirking back.

Fun Ivan was back.

I was about to make some smart comment back but was cut off when Rose came running from the living room area, straight passed us and into the bathroom, where she started throwing up.

Ivan grimaced and I followed her in. I rubbed her back and whispered in her ear until she had finished.

"Ugh, this is one thing I really won't miss." She groaned.

I helped her up to the sink and she brushed her teeth, and then buried her face in my chest.

I could hear her start to cry softly against me so I picked her up and cradled her to my chest. Carrying her back to the couch in the living room, I let her cry and tried to soothe her by whispering sweet nothings in Russian in her ear.

It worked and she fell back to sleep against me.

"She ok?" Ivan came back into the room after a while.

Despite both of their stubbornness, I knew that Ivan and Roza had grown to care for one another like brother and sister. I knew that Ivan was genuinely concerned about her wellbeing, despite the carefree front he put up most of the time.

"Yeah, she's fine." I whispered back. Roza was now sleeping soundly on my chest.

I hadn't told her it was my birthday tomorrow. It's not that I didn't want her to know but it was a weird thing for me to just slip into conversation. Plus, I didn't want to make a big deal out of it.

"I promise I'll get you a new bed tomorrow." I whispered, loud enough for him to hear me and smirked at him.

"You'd better. I paid good money for that bed." He retorted.

"I doubt that. If you had, it would still be intact." I replied, knowing the original bed hadn't been that expensive.

Ivan rolled his eyes but didn't reply.

"I'll be back in a while; I have to run an errand." Ivan said after a couple of minutes.

"Since when do you 'run errands'?" I mocked him.

"Since my best friend got a girlfriend and I had to start doing stuff for myself." He replied and grabbed his keys. I chuckled at him as he shut the door quietly behind him.

I had a strong feeling that this 'errand', had something to do with tomorrow.

Roza slept most of the day, got up to eat and then went back to sleep, this time in the bedroom.

I had to go back to my own apartment to get some clean clothes but returned to Ivan's within an hour. When I got there, Ivan was asleep on the couch. I checked on my Roza who was still fast asleep in the room. She had called Lissa and her other friends and cancelled her plans with them because of her morning sickness. I felt bad that she had to deal with the nausea and all of the other pregnancy symptoms. My sisters had warned me the last time I talked to them to be supporting and loving to Roza – not that that was a problem. I wanted to help her with the pregnancy and be there for her. Karolina said that at this stage, Rose's hormones were all over the place, and that they probably would be for the next 5 and a half months. I was more than willing and ready for it.

I could advantage of the fact that the house was quiet to call Abe and see if there was any updates on the Dashkov case.

"Mazur." His voice said sharply.

"Sir, its Dimitri."

"Belikov! How's my Rose?"

"She's good sir, she's asleep. I was wondering if there were any updates on Victor and Robert Dashkov?" I asked him straight out. I didn't want to waste time chatting, I wanted to get back to Roza.

"Afraid not." He replied. "As I predicted, the sightings in Idaho turned out to be bull."

"No new leads?"

"No. I'm getting more people working on it though. I don't like the idea of these lunatics running about. I've gotta go, Belikov, take care of my girl."

"Will do, sir."

He hung up and I returned to the bedroom.

Pulling off my shoes and clothes, I climbed in beside my Rose and pulled her close to me.

She sighed deeply and snuggled into my chest. I loved having her in my arms.

I rested both of my hands on her tummy and imagined the day that I would get to hold our baby for real.