Chapter 27
Adrian drops me down on the bathroom floor.
"You are filthy and we need you clean for what I am planning. Clean yourself up." Adrian points to the bathtub. The bubbles have gone flat and the water is freezing cold when I get in. Adrian looks at me for a few minutes before he turns around and leaves the bathroom. I sink all the way down until I'm completely covered in water. I will not be his victim very longer. I would much rather die. The burning feeling starts to make its way down my throat into my lungs. Drowning was always my worst fear but I would take that over being violated every single day. A hand grabs me by my hair and pulls me out of the water.
"Are you really trying to piss me off?" Adrian asks me calmly.
"Fine, if you want to act like a baby, I will treat you like one." Adrian pumps some lavender scented shampoo into his hand and starts to scrub my hair. I just close my eyes throughout the whole thing. I haven't been washed in the bath since I was four. I hate it, his hands touching every part of my body. It's sickening. He unplugs the bathtub and the water starts to drain.
"I laid out a dress, get yourself ready. Dimitri will be here in twenty minutes." My heart speeds up at the mention od Dimitri's name. why is he coming over? Is Adrian going to hurt him? I hope not. Is he going to let me go? Probably not.
"What is happening?" I ask as Adrian drags me to the bedroom. On the bed is a red strapless ball gown covered in white lace. Under normal circumstances, I would think the dress is amazingly gorgeous.
"Just get dressed." Adrian pushes me onto the bed. I put on the dress as fast as I can. Adrian makes me sit down and dries my hair.
"It is so beautiful when it is down." Adrian runs his hands through my hair.
"You are fine just like that. No need for make-up." Adrian grabs me by my arm and starts to pull me out of the room. He grabs a pair of heels that is by the door and we walk all the way to the living room. He ties me up to a chair in the middle of the big room and start to put the heels on my feet.
"You are a fine prize my little Flower." I pull on the restrains.
"What are you doing?" I ask him. He starts to pace in front of me. He looks crazy. Really crazy, like he needs to be locked up in a strait jacket. He stops pacing when the doorbell rings. He pulls out his gun and walks to the door.
"Dimitri, come on in." I hear Adrian say.
"Dimitri, run. Don't come in!" I yell. I should have known it would be useless. The second Dimitri heard my name, he came running into the living room. His eyes stretch wide as he takes me in.
"Roza? What is going on?" He comes towards me but Adrian stops him by pointing the gun at him.
"Not another step Russian." Dimitri takes a protective stance in front of me.
"Adrian, I don't know what is going on here but you need to put the gun down." Dimitri sounds scary. He will do anything to protect the people he loves. He once told me so.
"No. I have the gun here. You listen to me. I love Rose and I want her. But she will never truly be mine as long as you are around. So, I have a proposition. We will fight for her. Man V.S man. Till death for the lovely Rose." Adrian says. He wants to fight Dimitri. What is going on in his head? I don't want to defend Adrian in any way, but Dimitri is lethal. He will wipe the floor with Adrian. This is getting out of hand.
"Adrian, this is stupid. Just let me go." I say to him.
"So, what will it be Dimitri? Fight or die? Because I will not just let you walk out of here now."
"Adrian, do you really want to do this?" Dimitri asks. Adrian puts the gun down on the counter and walks closer to Dimitri.
"You may be a good fighter Dimitri, but I am a good fighter too." Adrian holds up his fists and motions for Dimitri to come at him.
"Dimitri, he is crazy." I say. What if Dimitri gets hurt? I can't handle that.
"It's fine Roza. Adrian, this will be your funeral." He lunges forward. Adrian is taken by surprise but he recovers quickly. Adrian is a good fighter. He blocks Dimitri's blows but he also doesn't get any hits in. Dimitri kicks out his leg to get Adrian of balanced but he blocks it. It looks like a well-choregraphed dance they are doing. Adrian strikes out as fast as a cobra and Dimitri blocks it. I'm impressed, I have never seen anyone block a blow that fast. I recognize some of the moves Dimitri has taught in his classes. I don't know where Adrian learned his fighting skills but it doesn't look as practiced and precise as Dimitri's. They are very evenly matched. I can't say who will win and who will lose. And that is scaring me. Adrian lands a blow to Dimitri's face. He stumbles back and that gives Adrian the opportunity to jump on Dimitri. I try to untie my hands while they are fighting. I need to help Dimitri in some way.
"Adrian!" I yell at him. He is sitting on Dimitri, pounding on him. Adrian looks up when I call him and that gives Dimitri the chance to switch positions. Dimitri lands blow after blow on Adrian's face. He is going to kill him. I can't let Dimitri kill for me.
"Stop Dimitri. he is down." I say as I see Adrian's eyes close. Dimitri gives him one more punch and then stands up. He runs towards me and takes my face into his bloody hands.
"Oh, my Roza." He unties my hands and pulls me into a hug. It feels so good to be in his arms again. Tears leak from my eyes as the feeling of being safe washes over me.
"Let's get out of here. First the kidnapper takes you and now Adrian." Dimitri shakes his head. He kisses me on the lips and takes my hand. I stop him from walking.
"Adrian is my kidnapper. Mason was innocent. Adrian killed him." I say. Dimitri looks at me again. Confusion is clear in his eyes. He didn't know the whole story. Every one that knows me still thinks that Mason is the person behind my kidnapping. They don't know that he is just being used as a pawn in Adrian's game.
"Yeah, and I will kill you to." Adrian says from behind us. We both look at him. He stood up and grabbed the gun from the counter as we were reuniting. Dimitri tries to push me behind him but I protest. Dimitri will not get hurt because of me.
"Adrian, please. Don't. I will go with you." I say. Dimitri looks at me with wide eyes. I will do anything to protect him.
"Roza. No." I take a step forward but Dimitri grabs my hand. I pull back from him and shake my head. I have another plan.
"Dimitri, I want him. I can see that now. Let me go with him and then he and I will just leave. You will be safe." I whisper the last four words to him. I need him to be safe.
"Come here then." Adrian says. I walk towards him. He pulls me towards him and wraps his arm around my neck, my back is to his front.
"Put the gun down. Now, Adrian." He reluctantly presses the button to release the ammo clip and then he puts the gun on the counter.
"Now, Belikov, I will kill her if you follow us." Adrian warns.
"Call the cops." I mouth to Dimitri. I reach up to Adrian's hand and grab his thumb. I do just as Dimitri taught me way back in the beginning of our training. He sees what I'm planning to do and whips out his phone. I slide down Adrian's body and kick him in the groin. I hear Dimitri talk to the cops as I jump on Adrian. I take the gun and smash it to his head a couple of times until I'm sure he will not get back up anytime soon. I run into Dimitri's arms. He angles himself to keep an eye on Adrian.
"You're safe now Roza. The police will be here any minute." I just stand in his arms until we hear the sirens coming closer and closer. I give the officer my statement. They load Adrian into an ambulance and take him away.
"You are good to go, but you need to head to the hospital first." A detective tells me as soon as I'm done telling them the whole story. Dimitri talks to the paramedics and they agree to let him drive me to the hospital. Going through the whole thing in the hospital after getting free again just feels redundant. We all know what he did to me. Why do we need to go through all this again?
"Rose, could we talk alone?" The doctor asks as she comes back into the room. Dimitri looks at me and then at the doctor.
"You can talk in front of him, it's fine." I say to her. I lace my fingers with his. I need his support right now.
"Rose, there is no easy way to say this. You are pregnant." It feels as if my heart stops. Adrian did it. He got wat he wanted.
"It looks like you have a heteropaternal superfecundation pregnancy." I raise both my eyebrows at her. I can't even pronounce that long word. How am I supposed to know what it means?
"It means that you have two babies growing inside you. But they are fathered by two different people." My head starts to spin and I can hardly think straight. Two different fathers. That means that Dimitri is the father of one and Adrian is the father of the other one.
"How is that even possible?" I ask.
"It happens. It is very rare but it happens." I look to Dimitri. He is just staring at nothing. I can't even begin to imagine what he is thinking.
"I think I'm going to be sick." The doctor hands me a bedpan and I throw up everything I have left in my stomach.
"But I was on birth control when we first… and then Adrian took me…" My mind is to mingled up to form straight sentences.
"Birth control is not always effective." The doctor says. I know it is not always going to stop a baby from forming but its hard to process.
"Is it possible to abort one without harming the other?" Dimitri asks. I'm strongly against abortion but I do think some situations are the exception. This is the exception.
"There is a way to do that, but the two eggs are so attached to each other that we risk losing them both and there is always the risk of damaging the womb and delaying any future children" This is not happening. I could risk everything just to get this baby out or I could just give birth to it. Would I really be able to give birth to a baby made out of rape and hatred? It will be half of Adrian. But it will also be half of me. I look to Dimitri. I need support on this. I need someone to tell me what to do.
"What do you want Roza?" Dimitri asks me. I don't know what I want and that is the problem. I could always give the baby up for adoption when it is born but then my child will never know its brother or sister. And the system is not always a good place for a child to be.
"I don't know, what do you think?" He sits back in the chair and run a hand through his hair.
"I think this is something you are going to have to think hard about." I feel a frown form between my eyes.
"It's your baby to. One of them. Do I risk losing our baby just to get rid of one? I want babies Dimitri; I want lots of babies. But I want them with you." Dimitri puts his hand on my shoulder and squeezes a bit.
"I know Roza. Maybe we should talk with your family and see what they think. When is the deadline for a discussion like this?" Dimitri asks the doctor.
"We can't do abortions after 24 weeks." We leave the hospital soon after that. The whole ride to my parents' house, we say nothing. Both of us too stuck in our own heads to talk. This is a big deal. It is a very big deal. Could I really kill a human being that is growing inside of me? I know how it happened and all but the baby is not guilty of anything. But what if I give it up for adoption and it has a terrible life. I can't guarantee a good life for it without me. Wouldn't it be cruel to give it suck an awful life? I'm enveloped in by the people I consider my family as soon as I walk into the house. Lissa and my mother are crying as they tell me how relieved they are about me not being dead. My father holds me in his arms a bit longer than he ever has. I'm the apple of my father's eye and I have gone missing twice in my young life. My father must have been broken the second time around.
"I can't lose you again kiz. I just can't." I nuzzle my face deeper into his chest, inhaling the smell of his cologne he has worn since I can remember.
"I love you, baba." I feel a drop of water running down the side of my face. I look up to him and see that he is crying to. I have never seen my father cry. He has always been so strong in front of me when bad things happen.
"Will you all please join us for dinner tonight as a family?" My mother asks. I would love nothing more than to be surrounded by my loved ones. We all hang around the kitchen as my mother makes dinner with the help of Dimitri and Christian. Dimitri filled them in on half of the story while I was being examined in the hospital, but they don't know how deep everything went.
"Mason was innocent of the kidnapping. He developed a drug addiction after his dad passed away. Adrian used that to get him to do some of his bidding. I'm not sure what. But the brake cable was Adrian, he wanted to kill Dimitri." I start my story.
"Adrian killed Mason the night he took me. Mason was about to tell me about Adrian. He shot him and then took me to his house. He told me that he wanted to make a baby with me. So, he again did what he did in the cabin. I saw Lissa and Christian there once. I tried to get to you but his house was like a maze. You drove off before I could get to you." Lissa hugs a sleepy Rosalie to her chest as new tears fall from her face. I didn't tell them that to make her or Christian feel bad. It is just part of what happened. I don't blame her.
"I got out of the house and then Adrian caught me. I told him that I love Dimitri and I wanted him to let me go. Adrian went even crazier. He called Dimitri over for a fight. The winner get's me. He was very confident in himself but he didn't win. Not this time." Flashes of the fight runs through my head. Dimitri had to get two stitches for the cut above his right eye but other than that, he only has one or two bruises.
"Thank you, Dimitri for saving my daughter." My father says to him. Dimitri just nods his head.
"There isn't much I wouldn't do for her." I look into his eyes and know what he is saying is the truth. And I would do anything for him. He is my soul mate.
"There is something else we need to talk about." I say. I wish I had good news to give them. I wish I could just tell them that I'm pregnant with Dimitri's child and that is that. But my life has never really been straight forward. I hope that I will be able to get a break now that Adrian is behind bars. I hope the only wobble I have to face is the baby and from then on everything will be smooth sailing. I just want a normal boring life with Dimitri. Well, nothing with him is boring. But I just want peace. I don't want to fear for my life anymore and I don't want to be taken ever again. I will start practice with Dimitri as soon as I can. I want to be able to defend myself better. I want to be better. And I want to help woman who gets abused or raped to get their confidence and power back. Woman are not the weaker sex. We are equal to men and no one has the right to lay a finger against us just because we are woman.
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