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Chapter 52
DPOV
After just about managing to avoid Natasha for the remainder of the work day, I snuck out of my office a couple of minutes early and headed home before she could track me down. I picked Viktoria up on my way as she had had a couple more apartments to look at - none of which, she told me, even compared to the one she had found earlier and immediately fallen in love with.
Upon arriving home, I expected to find Rose and Ivan lounging around and playing with Luka, however, the house was empty when we arrived.
"Can I order takeout?" Viktoria ran in ahead of me and headed for the phone in the kitchen.
"Sure," I threw off my coat and shoes and went to see if anyone was upstairs. "Order food for Rose and Ivan too; I'm sure they won't be very long, wherever they are."
There was nobody upstairs, and so I figured they had just gone out for some air or something. I entered the kitchen just as Viktoria hung up the phone.
"They said it'll be delivered within thirty minutes." Together, we set the table and waited for the others to return home…which they did, a couple of minutes before the food arrived.
"Smells awesome," Rose came back down the stairs after putting Luka to bed and grabbed her plate. She settled herself on the couch beside me and the four of us ate and chatted happily.
"Where did you guys go?" Vika asked, her mouth full of noodles. Ivan and Rose exchanged a look and I narrowed my eyes at them suspiciously.
"Ivan wanted to see the area, so I said I'd show him it while I was trying to get Luka to settle down," Rose answered and focused back on her food. "Drinks, anyone?"
I followed her into the kitchen and found her sipping water by the sink.
"You alright?" I asked, studying her closely. She glanced around me to see if the others could hear and grinned when she decided they couldn't.
"Come here," she beckoned me over and left her glass down. "I have something to tell you."
"Yeah?" I encouraged, feeling a little uneasy by the excited look in her eyes.
"I didn't really bring Ivan around the area," she began. "I asked him if he would walk with me to the doctors."
"The doct- Why? What's wrong?" The questions uncontrollably from my mouth, and I realised that the first thought that had entered my mind was that she was pregnant again. If those were the words to spill from her mouth, I wasn't sure how I would feel. I would be happy, obviously, but maybe a little apprehensive. After all, we had just about gotten our lives on track – another baby would almost definitely derail them again.
"Nothing's wrong, comrade," she took my hands in hers. "I wasn't going to tell you until later but now also suits. I went to the doctor to talk about getting off my meds; she called Dr Olendski back in Montana and they discussed it and eventually – after an hour – decided I could slowly be weaned off of them." She clutched my hands and grinned excitedly as she told her good news.
"That's fantastic, Roza," I pulled her body into mine, feeling a little guilty that I felt relieved that there wasn't a new baby. "Really. I'm so proud of you." Rose looked relatively chuffed at this and placed a kiss on my lips. Her lips moved around to my ear so she could whisper quietly…
"Also, the doc put me back on the pill so think of all the money we'll save on condoms." She pulled away quickly and winked suggestively at me, before skipping back into the living room to re-join Ivan and Viktoria.
There was a part of me that felt thankful for the fact that Rose had willingly gone back on the pill. After her secret baby scare, I was worried that having another baby was something that was on her mind right now.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't as if I didn't ever want another child because I did. Just not right now. Rose and I hadn't talked about where we stood exactly in our relationship, and she wasn't exactly an open book. Sometimes I found it difficult to distinguish what was going on in her head, and hence my worry about whether she wanted another baby.
The fact that she was content to go back on the pill came as a relief. It meant that growing our little family was something she wasn't ready for either right now.
"Dimitri? What are you doing in there?" My little sister's voice called from the next room. "We're playing the movie now so tough luck if you miss the beginning!" I smirked and joined them again, relaxing on the couch next to Rose. Thankfully, Luka stayed asleep the entire movie, and Rose and I had miraculously stayed awake to see the ending…which was more than what I could say for the other two.
RPOV
"Bed time, Ivan," I said to Ivan as I nudged him back to the world of the living – which I knew from experience – and from what Dimitri had told me - was not an easy feat. Dimitri scooped Vika up into his arms and began carrying her up the stairs, shifting his sister's body a couple of times so that she was a little easier to carry.
"I have done that way too many times this week," He groaned out, stretching out his arms and back to ease the aching once we were back in the privacy of our own bedroom. I giggled and began stripping. I pretended to go about my nightly routine – removing my day clothes and swapping them for my pyjamas – which was exactly what Dimitri would have been expecting me to do. But as soon as I was clad in nothing but my underwear, I turned and stalked over to him, enjoying the look in his eyes as it turned from tired to hungry.
"I know something that we haven't done at all this week," I replied in a sultry tone and wrapped my arms around his neck and shoulders.
It wasn't hard to catch on to what I was hinting at.
Although 'hinting' was probably an understatement; at this point my lips were sucking gently on his earlobe and my hands were already fiddling with the zipper of his jeans. I heard him sigh gently as his hands slide to my waist and from there, travelled up and down the skin of my sides and stomach. That one warm breath was enough to send shivers down my neck and goose bumps across my skin.
Dimitri leaned his head down to fuse our lips together – something I had most definitely missed while I had been away in Vermont. The feel of his lips against mine was calming; kissing him gave me a sense of both longing and reassurance, as clichéd as it sounded. One of his hands travelled up my arm and cupped my neck, angling my head so that he could kiss me deeper. My knees felt weak as his tongue stroked against mine and I couldn't help but feel astounded that even after the almost-two years we had been together, my body was still affected the exact same way it had been when he had first touched me and kissed me…except, I wasn't drunk like I had been at that first meeting.
Well, usually, anyway.
As he backed us up towards the bed and I helped rid him of his clothes, I felt that same feeling of excitement with a hint of nerves; complete with butterflies in my stomach and jitters in my tingling muscles. This was what my body went through every single time Dimitri touched me the way he did; it was a feeling that only he had ever been able to give me and I knew the cause:
Love.
Despite our carnal, unconventional first meeting, we had somehow managed to bypass the 'destined to be nothing but a one night stand' aspect of what we had done on that crucial night and, against all odds, had fallen in love.
Love, of course, didn't mean that the sex was always slow and sappy like it was in the movies; Dimitri and I had had our fair share of bed-rocking nights – some more adventurous than others.
And tonight, I was feeling a little more daring.
"Hey," I stopped moving just as the back of my knees hit the bed. Dimitri paused to and leaned back to hear what I had to say. "You know what I just realised? We never christened downstairs."
"Wha-" he was in the process of asking what I was talking about when seemingly, it hit him and his eyes lit up. Funnily enough, it was moments like this where I swore he could read my mind. As he pulled my down the stairs – both of us in nothing but our underwear, I desperately hoped neither Viktoria nor Ivan would decide to visit the kitchen for a midnight snack, as it was our first stop.
The sex train actually finished up back on our bed upstairs, after honking it's horn in various stations in almost every room downstairs.
As Dimitri rolled off of me and collapsed on his back beside me, I let out a more than satisfied sigh. He chuckled in response as he worked on getting his breath back.
"That was-" he began.
"Fucking awesome!" I finished loudly, causing Dimitri to shush me. "Sorry!"
We were pretty sweaty and the room was pretty humid after our…activities…and so, it was more comfortable if we didn't snuggle up to one another. Instead, we both turned on our sides to face each other.
"Oh," I suddenly remembered my conversation with Abe earlier. "I meant to tell you; I decided to not give the case up." I had to admit, I adored the way his eyes lit up in pride and happiness.
"I knew you wouldn't," he leaned forward and kissed me softly. "If it's the only thing I'm sure of, it's that Rose Hathaway is not a quitter."
"The only thing, huh?" I shot back. "You should be sure of the fact that I'm in love with you too by now."
"I guess you just proved that," he retorted, identical smiles spreading across both of our faces. "As long as you know that I'm totally and utterly in love with you as well."
"I do," I replied and closed my eyes in utter bliss.
Unfortunately, that bliss only lasted a couple of hours, and then it was time for Luka's five a.m. feeding.
"Did you have to wake Mama this early?" I groaned, curling up into the armchair by his cot. Luka's eyes shut as he gulped down his formula like there was no tomorrow. "I mean, couldn't you give me a break just once?"
Apparently not, as once fed, Luka decided he wasn't tired anymore. He cried…and cried…and cried – only quietening down once I had walked around the house four times and finally settled him in my arms on the couch with his pacifier.
I checked the clock to decide whether there was even any point of going back up to bed.
7.49am.
No, I guessed not. Instead, I carried him into the kitchen with me so that I could get some breakfast.
Ten minutes later, Dimitri descended from upstairs, looking very attractive his dress pants, a crisp white shirt along with an incredibly sexy looking waist coat.
"Did I ever mention how hot you look in those?" I nodded towards his waist coat, unable to use my hands as Luka was squirming around. Dimitri chuckled and walked over to me, taking Luka from my arms and placing him into his high chair.
"I think you may have mentioned it once or twice," He pulled my body to his and planted a long kiss onto my lips. When he pulled back, I could tell by the shine in his eyes that he too, was thinking of the night before. "You look tired."
"Well, I didn't exactly get much sleep now, did I?" I gave him a look and teasing kissed his jawline before moving away to get the milk.
"And whose fault is that?" he shot back, sitting in front of Luka to feed him again.
"...I want to say yours…" We smirked at each other, knowing that we would never come to a decision about who had initiated last night's activities…nor did we want to; the fact that it had happened quite obviously meant we were both to 'blame' for starting it.
"Hey Vik," I greeted her cheerfully, ignoring the sour look on her face and the tired bags under her eyes. "Not sleep well?"
"No," she mumbled back, grabbing a cereal box and dumping some of it's contents into a nearby bowl. I looked to Dimitri but he just shrugged, just as uninformed as to why she was exceptionally moody this morning.
"Good morning family!" Ivan waltzed into the room, announcing his presence like always. "We're all looking bright and cheerful today!" He smirked at Viktoria who returned his smirk with what could only have been called a sneer. "What's wrong, Vik? Long night?"
"Shut up," she grumbled, focusing her attention back onto her cereal.
"What was that?" he pushed her, leaning towards her.
"I don't want to talk about it!" She threw back, shoving him away. This only made him laugh harder.
"What happened?" I asked, looking between the two of them. Dimitri looked just as lost as I did and Luka…well, Luka was pretty much always oblivious as to what was going on around him.
"You tell us," Ivan leaned his elbows onto the kitchen counter and grinned, his eyes shooting from me to Dimitri and back again. "Heard you guys had a little…late night rendezvous." My stomach sank as I realised the reason for Viktoria's bad mood.
Both she and Ivan had heard Dimitri and I at some stage last night.
Dimitri ignored his friend as he laughed and went back to feeding our almost eleven month old.
"What, you guys have nothing to say now?" Ivan provoked us diplomatically. "Or maybe you said everything you had to last night."
"Oh shut it, Ivan," Viktoria growled at him. "It's bad enough I had to hear them going at it last night, and now you expect me to listen to this crap!"
"In our defence," I announced before Ivan could cut in. "You guys are staying in our house, meaning you should have been prepared for this. I mean, let's face it, it was bound to happen."
"Yeah, just be thankful you didn't walk in on them," Ivan added, ruffling Viktoria's hair. She rolled her eyes, but didn't look as though she was in as bad a mood.
"Whatever, I don't want to think about it," she commented and stood up. "I'm going to watch tv."
"Don't watch it for too long," Dimitri told her. "We have to leave in about forty minutes."
Ah yes. Today was Viktoria's first day at her new job, and she would be travelling with Dimitri and I…perhaps slightly unwillingly now after she had heard what she heard last night.
"Okay, okay mom…" she mumbled back and stalked into the living. Ivan started laughing even louder now.
"Well," he clapped his hands and turned to face us. "You want to call someone to fix the house."
"What do you mean?" Dimitri asked him, wiping Luka's mouth as he had managed to get more around his mouth then actually in it.
"Well, there has to be some cracks in your wall after the banging it got from the headboard last night," Ivan went on. I threw my hands up, feeling stupid to have thought the teasing was over. "I'm actually surprised it didn't go right through the wall."
"Are you done?" I asked him once he had finished laughing at his own joke. He just smirked in reply.
"God, no. But for now? Yeah alright."
"Good, because I've got to go get dressed. Will you watch Luka until Avery arrives?" I asked Dimitri, already on my way to the stairs. He agreed and I took the stairs two at a time. I pulled on the first suitable thing I could find whilst simultaneously trying to flatten my serious case of post-sex bed hair.
"Shit," I winced as my fingers caught on a particularly tangled knot. Viktoria knocked and poked her head in.
"Dimitri says we gotta go," she told me before prancing down the stairs, her bad mood seemingly forgotten as her first day grew closer. I managed to get my hair to a state that was socially acceptable and hurried down the stairs.
Avery had arrived in the meantime and was tickling Luka on the living room floor.
"Have a great day!" She called to us as we were exiting the house. I wished her the same and jumped into the car which was already started and warmed up – courtesy of Dimitri.
"You ready, Vika?" She smirked at her brother's question.
"Let's make today our bitch."
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