Chapter 31

"I find you guilty." I let out a huge breath of relieve I didn't even know I was holding in. The cocky look on Adrian's face disappears immediately.

"You are being sentenced to forty years to life in a maximum-security prison. You will not have a chance at parole. Case closed." Judge Dashkov says and bangs his gavel on the table. I feel like a huge chapter has been closed and sealed. He is going to be far away for a very long time. the court officer puts the handcuffs on Adrian and starts to lead him out. He stops at the table I'm standing.

"This is far from over Rose." He threatens before the guard drags him away. Dimitri comes to me and pick me up for a hug. He spins me around a bit and I can feel the tension leaving his body. He has been so worried about me since I got back. Sometimes at night, he just lays awake and watches me sleep to make sure I'm still with him. Adrian being put away, gives him the opportunity to relax a bit more. The threat Adrian spoke to me gets pushed to the back of my mind as my family starts a group hug in the middle of the courtroom. All I can think about now is the love I feel coming from each of them. As far as I'm concerned, he will never see my face again.

"Let's go home." My father says. We all head out of the courtroom to spend the rest of the day at my parents' house. I wish the happy feeling could have stayed with me forever. I wish I can say that my life went by as smoothly as I wanted it to, but that would be a lie. As the months went by and the twins in my stomach grew, I fell more and more in love with them both. I knew that I wouldn't give one of my babies up. No matter who the father is. After every doctor's appointment, my heart just grew bigger and bigger to fit them both in. I didn't see them as Dimitri and Adrian's babies anymore and neither did Dimitri. They are ours and that is that. We agreed to never tell the kids until they are old enough to understand. I don't want Adrian to be in their lives but I will not withhold the truth from them. Dimitri and I had a big disagreement on the matter. He feels that we should never tell them. He is their father and that is the end, but I can't do that to them. I don't want to tell them to hurt them or hurt Dimitri. They just need to know. I don't want my child to ever get to know Adrian so I will make sure to tell him or her exactly what Adrian did to me and why I'm against them seeing him. We decided not to know the sex until birth and then we will do a DNA test to see who is related to Adrian. I will not hold it against my baby, I just want to know for future knowledge. But the babies are healthy and doing great. My business has also been doing great. I started doing big events and I got a co-photographer. Angeline Dawes. She is incredible and such an amazing person. We hired Jill as our assistant and she and Angeline has become big parts of our family. I never thought I would be this big in the photography business. We just started doing some elite weddings for celebrities and incredibly rich people. Hiram Lodge's daughter Veronica is getting married in a few weeks and we will be covering everything. The Lodges are a very powerful and rich family a few towns over and if we do good for them, we will be set for life with them. Veronica loves photos and she is planning a lot of shoots in the future. I paired up with Mikhail's cousin after their wedding. His name is Grant. We worked really well together at the wedding and he agreed to help me out whenever we need a videographer. Sonya's wedding was beautiful and I'm so glad I got to be there. She looked stunning and everything was just magical. Talk about weddings. Lissa is going to wait until after she gives birth to the twins before she walks down the aisle. She agreed to wait a few weeks after I give birth as well. I would like to walk down the aisle with her, not waddle. But everything is planned. We just need our dresses, which we will get before the wedding. They found a house near the studio a week or so ago. It's beautiful and so Lissa. It's a three-story white Victorian house with a beautiful garden and a massive back yard with a pool. There is a room for each of them and then two spare bedrooms. There is a house right next to theirs that I absolutely love. It looks more or less the same as Lissa's but it has a wraparound porch and a balcony by the master bedroom. But the house is already bought. It was for sale when Lissa brought me and Dimitri over to check out the house before they bought it and I mentioned how much I love it. Lissa told me that the house was sold a week later. It's a bummer. It would have been amazing living right next to my best friend. Sydney stuck around after trial and she started working as Dimitri's receptionist again. She met a really nice guy named Trey and they have been together for nearly three months now. I'm happy that she got over the whole Adrian thing. She looks much more like the fun girl I got to know in the beginning. It seems that all our lives are getting better and better now. I started my project to help victims of abuse. It's called The Road to Recovery. A bunch of people is involved with it. My parents donate money and gets other donations for us from business partners. Arthur gives the victims legal help where ever he can. I do some shoots with them and we track their progress with pictures. Dimitri and Christian help them with learning self-defense. Celest, another trainer at the gym, offered to help out with class as well for the victims who don't want men to touch them. Natalie writes each one of them a kickass story to share with the world. Sonya is a therapist and she helps by giving them free sessions. We run solely on donations.

"You know what we are missing for TRR." I ask Dimitri as we lay in bed. We say TRR instead of The Road to Recover. He turns his head to look at me.

"What Roza?"

"A house for them to go to when they get scared. A safe haven." Dimitri thinks my words over for a bit. A lot of the victims feel out of space in their old lives and they struggle to adjust at home, especially if they were attacked in their homes.

"I'll ask around and see if there is a space big enough where we can give them a safe haven." Dimitri says. I love that he is always willing to help out and stand by me. Dimitri moves down a bit and start to pepper kisses on my stomach under my shirt. After the trial, we have been going at it like bunnies. I just can't get enough of him.

"I love you so much Roza." Dimitri says and starts to move lower. He places a kiss right over my sex and it feels like my whole body is lighting on fire.

"Oh, do that again." I say. He pulls my pants down and starts to leave open mouth kisses all over my sex. It feels phenomenal. The things he can do with his mouth. My phone starts to ring next to the bed. I decide to ignore it because Dimitri's mouth is the only thing I want to concentrate on right now. The phone starts to ring again. I pick it up from the bedside table. It's Lissa. I decline the call and it starts to ring again before I can put it down.

"Liss; I'm in the middle…"

"Rose, we are at the hospital." Christian interrupts me. I sit up straight making Dimitri stop and look at me.

"Is it time?" I ask.

"Yes, she is contracting fast. The babies will be here soon." He hangs up the phone after I promise to meet him there as soon as I can.

"Lissa is in labor." I say as I start to get out of bed. Dimitri runs to the bathroom and starts to wash his face. The pregnant lady in me gets annoyed that we were interrupted but Lissa's best friend is so excited to meet her new god-sons. She is having twin boys.

"Do you think I could drive and then you continue with what we were doing?" I ask Dimitri, knowing he will say no. There is a 99% chance that I will crash the car if does that while I'm driving. Dimitri just gives me this are-you-serious look and shakes his head. The hospital is close to us and we get there is less than 10 minutes. My mother and father are already in the waiting room with Rosalie. She is getting so big now. She is almost one year old. Only two more months to go. She started crawling a month ago and Christian says she is fast on the walking trail.

"Dimitri and I will be right back. Call on my cell if there are babies." I pull Dimitri with me. We walk down the hallway until I see an on-call room. I open it up, glad that it is unoccupied. I pull Dimitri in and lock the door behind us.

"Rose, what are you doing?" Dimitri whisper yells as I take off my pants.

"I need you right now, my hormones can't take it anymore. Unzip your pants and do me right now." Dimitri looks around the small room. It's nothing fancy, just a bunkbed and a nightstand.

"We can't do it here." He says. I breath in deep, trying to keep my cool.

"We can and we will. It will be like an episode of Grey's Anatomy, you can be McSteamy." I can see Dimitri is trying really hard not to laugh at me right now. I walk to him and unzip his jeans. If he won't do it, I will. Dimitri lays me down on the small bed and he doesn't waste anytime penetrating me. I try to keep my screams of pleasure to silent moans but it's hard. We return to my parent twenty minutes later. We went twice. I just couldn't get enough of Dimitri. My father just gives us a look of amusement. I talk to my father about my idea of a safe haven for the victims. He agrees with me that it's a good idea and having a place like that will help us get more donations and volunteers.

"We have two sons." Christian almost yells as he comes into the waiting room. We all follow him back into Lissa's room. She is on the bed with her two babies in each arm. It feels like déjà vu seeing her in the hospital bed with a baby and that tired but happy look on her face.

"Family meet our newest members, Eric Dragomir-Ozera and Lucas Dragomir-Ozera." I feel tears streaming down my face as I take in the little bundles of joy laying in her arms. She hands me one of her sons and my mother takes the other one.

"I have Eric, right?" I ask Lissa. She nods her head. I have no idea how she tells them apart; they both look the same to me.

"Hey beautiful boy. It's aunty Rose." I say to him. He makes a sucking motion with his lips. He must be hungry.

"I think he wants some boobies." I say to Lissa as I give him back to her. I take Lucas from my mother much to her dismay. I walk over to Dimitri and show him the baby.

"In one month, we will be here holding our own babies." I say to him. He wraps his arms around me.

"I can't wait."

"I just hope it's not two girls or two boys. I would love to have a boy and a girl. The best of both worlds." Dimitri looks down to my stomach and tilts his head to the side.

"My babushka says that when a woman is carrying low, it means it's a boy. I think we are also having two boys." I rock side to side with Lucas.

"Can you imagine two boys like me and two boys like Christian running around causing mischief where ever they go." I ask Dimitri. he shrugs his wide shoulders.

"Or they could be like me and Lissa, calm and peaceful." I roll my eyes at him.

"Sorry to disappoint Dimitri but no child of mine will ever be calm and peaceful. Then it will not be the offspring of Rose Mazur." Dimitri laughs and I feel the vibrations through my body. I love it when he holds me and laughs. It just feels right. I look down at Lucas to see him also sucking on an invisible nipple.

"Looks like he also wants boobies and mine aren't open to babies yet." Christian pulls his face like he ate a whole box of sour skittles. We leave Lissa and her babies alone for the rest of the night.

Xxx

Dimitri and I drive to Lissa and Christian's new house. We want to make sure everything is in place for the welcome home party for the twins. they will be home in three hours and I still want to set up the food, or rather I will watch as Dimitri sets up the food. There is going to be a chocolate fountain. I feel bad for not having a party for Rosalie when she got home. I'll make up for it by giving her an amazing first birthday party. Dimitri parks the car in front of the garage.

"Come with me first. I want to see how that house looks." I take his hand and let him lead me to the house next door, the one I love.

"Dimitri, I know I dragged you into an on-call room last night to have sex but that is different this is asking a stranger to see their house." I say to him. He literally rolls his eyes at me and opens the front gate. We walk up to the front door and Dimitri knocks. We stand there for a few seconds before he knocks again.

"No one is home." I say to him.

"Guess I'll just have to use the keys then." Dimitri pulls out a key from his front pocket. I look at him with wide eyes.

"Do you want to do the honors?" Dimitri asks and holds out the key. I still just look at him and I feel tears start to pool in my eyes. Dimitri smile sags and a frown of confusion takes over his face.

"Did I do something wrong? You said you loved this house…" I silence him with a kiss. He is the best thing that ever happened to me and I can't imagine my life without him right by my side. Maybe he is my reward for going through such terrible things.

"No, no, baby, you did everything right. I love you so much." I give him a couple more kisses and then I take the key from his hand. I put the key into the door but turn back to him before I turn the lock.

"Promise me, promise me this is forever." Dimitri takes my face in his hands and looks directly into my eyes.

"Forever and a day Roza." He gives me a kiss that is so filled with passion and love that my head starts to spin. I turn the key and open the door.

"Surprise!" My whole family shouts as we enter the large living room. Everyone is here. My mother, father, Lissa, Christian, their kids, Jill, Angeline and Sydney. I give Lissa the first hug.

"How did you get here so fast? When I called you this morning you were still at the hospital." Lissa just tapes her nose in a way to say: 'I have mad skills'. I greet the rest of my family. I never knew I had so many people in my life until they all come together. Dimitri and Christian head out to the car to get all the food I thought was for the twins. This was a huge surprise that I never expected.

"Rose, your father and I just want to let you know that we are so proud of you. You have been to hell and back but you didn't just give in. No, you rose up. You are an inspiration." I try really hard to swallow the lump forming in my throat at my mother's words.

"It's because of the way you raised me mom. You and dad raised me to overcome anything and to never give up hope." I pull them into a group hug which is hard for an eight-month pregnant lady to do. I felt the babies kick and start to laugh. They want to be part of the fun.

"They want to join the party too." I say to my parents as we feel the small kicks.

"Not yet little ones, just four more weeks." My mother tells them. I head over to the snack table Dimitri and Christian set up and start to fill up a plate with all my favorites.

"How did you hide this from me for so long?" I ask Dimitri as I stand next to him. He gives me a small smile and wraps an arm around my shoulder.

"It was really hard not to tell you as soon as I did it. I hated keeping things from you but I wanted to make sure everything was perfect with the house. There is one more thing I have to show you." I follow Dimitri up the stairs which is hard for me to do because these babies weigh a ton. My whole family looks at us with knowing smiles. The first floor of the house was just the TV room, a huge kitchen, a dining room, a study, a toilet and a living room with a fire place. The second room is mostly bedrooms. There is three bedrooms with their own bathrooms. There is also a decently sized laundry room and a closet for bedding. The third floor is where Dimitri is taking me. It has three bedrooms as well. One that is the master bedroom, it takes up half of the floor with two walk-in closets and a massive his and hers bathroom with a jacuzzi size bathtub. I can just see me and Dimitri relaxing in that tub together.

"This is what I wanted to show you." Dimitri opens up the door to one of the much smaller bedrooms on the third floor. It's a nursery decorated to be gender neutral. He leads me through the joint bathroom the two rooms share and I see that the second room is also a nursery with more or less the same decorations.

"I kept it basic and then we can add colors when we know what sex they are. When they get older and we have more kids, we can move them down to the second floor." I turn to Dimitri and just hold him into my arms.

"You, Mr. Belikov, are amazing." We stand there in our kid's bedroom just holding each other. I don't know how long we stood there but after a while my mother and father came looking for us.

"Do you recognize the crib?" My father asks. I take a closer look at the wooden crib at the far side of the room. It's dark maple wood with carvings of roses in the side.

"We had a carpenter make the exact same one for baby number two with a more neutral carving on it. We are hoping that one will be a girl to go with the roses." My father says. The crib looks amazing even though it is twenty-one years old. I head into the other room to look at the crib in there. It looks almost identical except for the carvings. This one has vines carved into the sides.

"Maybe once we know what their names are, we can put their initials on the headboard." I say to my parents. That would be special. And hopefully one day my kid can use this crib for their kids. We head back down to the rest of the party.

"I'm just going to run to the car and grab my jacket." I tell Dimitri. he offers to go instead but I decline. I love that Dimitri wants to do things for me but I'm a strong and independent woman. Running to the car takes a lot longer than it use to. I grab my jacket from the back seat and close the door. I notice a white envelope with my name on it on the windscreen. I open it up and take the letter out.

Little Flower

You can't imagine the joy I felt when I learned that our nights together formed the life growing inside of you. I'm sorry you waited so long to hear from me, but I had things I needed to do. Just know that you can't keep my child away from me for too long. I will be with you and our baby, soon. I don't know what we plan to do with the bastard child, maybe drown it? I don't know yet. But be patient my dear.

I love you always

*Daddy Adrian…

Fear sets in and I can't breathe. Adrian is planning to take me and my baby this time. He will never stop until one of us is dead. A sharp pain shoots up through my body. It feels like I'm being torn apart. It's contractions. My babies are coming now.

The drama is never really over. I want everyone to please let me know what baby pairing do you want. Two boys, two girls or one of each and if you have any idea on nice sentimental names. I like having my readers involved with my story. You are after all my inspiration.