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Chapter 29,

Belikova

Ibrahim gently led his wife through reception with Aidan and Cameron in front of them and Ian a few steps behind. Janine was not having any of this ´she's fine honey´ bullshit her husband had been giving her and he knew it.

Coming to a halt at the front desk Janine pushed both her sons to her side with strength they didn't know she had in that tiny body of hers. Janine slammed her hand down on the table startling the two nurses sitting at their computers typing

"My daughter, where is she?!" Both of the nurses looked up with a look of fear in their eyes as they looked at the redheaded firecracker standing in front of them with four large men around her with stone cold faces

"Y-your daughter ma'am? I-I need a name to find her"

"Rosemarie Naila Mazur"

Quickly she typed the name into the computer before looking back up at the Mazurs "I do have a Rosemarie N. Belikova on file. She's in room 365, third floor and down the hallway to your right"

All three brothers looked between each other at the last name she read out of the file and then they turned to their father who only shrugged his shoulders and shook his head.

Janine didn't even blink an eye at what the nurse read, she didn't care all she wanted to do was see her daughter and be by her side. Janine didn't wait for her boys to follow she strode to the elevator and repeatedly jabbed her finger into the arrow pointing up as if it was going to force the elevator to go any faster

"Janine dear, you need to relax" Abe said calmly behind her, he knew his daughter was safe, Dimitri was with her and all of the men. Janine swiftly turned to jabb the finger into her husband's chest and growling at him through clenched teeth

"Tell me to calm down one more time Ibrahim Mazur, I bloody dare you. I will not relax until I have my baby in my arms and see that she is in fact all right. Now if you are going to stand here and tell me to bloody calm down you might as well leave" The elevator door opened as she finished talking and she quickly entered turning towards the four stunned males in front of her and snapping "well?!"

The Mazur men all hurried after the angry wife and mother standing with her arms crossed and glaring eyes. The elevator was silent all the way up, no one said a word and no one made a sound before Cameron broke the silence with a question

"You all heard her say Belikova right?" The only replies he got were grunts from his brothers, a shoulder shrug from his father and silence from his still fuming mother.

Finally the elevator door opened and Janine strode out her fists clenched and brows drawn, they turned down the hallway and saw Dimitri standing with a man Abe recognized as Ivan.

Dimitri looked over his shoulder before he turned back and pointed a finger at Ivan who took a step back and placed his hands in front of him.

Janine didn't stop to greet the men. She pushed Dimitri out of the way and stopped in the doorway of the room, her daughter was fast asleep in Olena's arms, one of hers and Abe's oldest and closest friends. Janine let out a sigh of relief as she saw the older woman laying beside her daughter. Taking quiet steps she made her way to the other side of the bed and stroked her daughter's hair.

"Oh, my baby! What did they do to you?" Slowly Janine lifted the sheet lying on top of her daughter and saw the ugly lines on Rose's legs, closing her eyes Janine drew in a deep breath to calm her nerves.

"Ma?" Janine opened her eyes to meet her daughters

"Hi baby" Rose smiled and reached out for her mother and pulled her down

"You're here"

"Of course I am, my baby's in the hospital and just been found. I am not going anywhere"

Olena was about to get out of the bed when Rose stopped her with a hand and pulled her back before she turned to her mother and pulled her in as well. The three little women lay together in the tiny bed with Rose squeezed between them falling asleep again, she felt safe between the two mothers in her life.

When Rose was softly snoring Janine grabbed Olena's hand and squeezed in gratitude "Thank you Olena"

"No need to thank me, she's family. You are family. It's what we do. You'd do the same for any of my other girls" Olena said squeezing back, Janine nodded feeling exactly the same way as Olena did, they were family and she knew she would do the same for any of Olena's daughters or sons for that matter.

"How is she doing?"

"Better, she doesn't want to tell Dimitri when it hurts. She knows he'll blame himself. And there is also the fact that your daughter is very stubborn" Olena chuckled at the last part making Janine smile and sigh

"She gets that from her father"

"On the contrary, she gets her stubbornness from her mother and her Scottish blood. Words of advice, never argue with a scott if you can help it. It never ends in your favor" Ibrahim said as he stood at the foot of the bed with his sons, Ivan and Dimitri and earned a small glare from his wife.

The three brothers rolled their eyes at their parents. Cameron smirked before his face turned blank and he turned towards Dimitri who stood beside him

"Why is she listed as Rosemarie Belikova in the files?" Dimitri answered in a grunt without taking his eyes off Rose "Might as well get used to it!"

All three of the brothers' heads turned in Dimitri's direction along with Dimitri's and Rose's mother "What's that supposed to mean?" Aidan asked in a low voice

"I asked her to marry me" the matter of fact answer coming from Dimitri annoyed Ian making him speak up

"And?!" Dimitri turned towards the three of them "and she said yes"

Both mothers gasped then smiled. The corners of Abe's lips turned up in a slight smirk Finally! He thought to himself. Aidan glared at Dimitri along with his brothers "I don't remember you asking us for permission!"

Dimitri looked him dead in the eye when he replied "That's because I didn't."

"Why the hell not?! She's our sister we should have some say in it" Cameron all but shouted, earning a glare from everyone in the room apart from his brothers. Even three of Dimitri's and Ivan's men in the hallway turned to look inside and glared at the back of Cameron's head in a warning not to wake her up.

"She is not some property! And if I had to or wanted to ask someone for her hand it would be her mother and only her mother" That earned him a satisfied smile from his future mother in law, an approving smirk from his future father in law and sour and pissed off faces from the Mazur brothers.

Olena smirked at her son, he had been raised in a household of women and she'd always thought him that no matter what he'd heard a woman was always the head of the family and usually what she said was what was done.

"The only one who can give him permission is me" Rose mumbled from the bed smiling slightly when all the men in the room apart from her father stiffened and slowly turned to look at her.

"It lives," Ivan said, smirking as he winked at Rose from the chair by the window. Now he was the one who got shot glared from everyone including his own men, Rose however just smiled and reached a hand out. Ivan stood up and pulled her hand to his lips

"I'm glad, we´ve been missing you"

"Thank you Ivan"

Rose looked over at her brothers and father, who all smiled a little before frowning again when they saw the damage done to her face. Rose knew she looked bad but she smiled through the pain and spoke to the three scowling men she called her brothers "What, You can't hug your little sister?"

Cameron was the first to break and he walked to the side of the bed where Olena had slowly slid out, and pulled her into a soft hug. Rose's grip was tight and she breathed in the scent of her brother, he wore the cologne she gave him for his birthday, she smiled.

"How are you doing baby sis?"

"Could be better, but I'm alive that's what matters" Aidan came next hugging her and kissing her hair, when Aidan stepped back Ian took a step forward and Rose smiled until her eyes zoned in on his bruised and swollen hands, Rose ignored the pain in her own body and reached out and grabbed his hands

"Rose, it's nothing" Ian mumbled trying to pull his hands from hers, Rose looked up from his hands and into his eyes with unshed tears in hers. The room was quiet as the two siblings looked at each other and then Rose pulled her brother into a hug letting the tears fall onto his shoulder and began to sob uncontrollably.

Dimitri was about to go to her when Aidan and Cameron stopped him shaking their heads, Dimitri stepped back as hard as it was and watched the woman he loved sob in her brother's arms.

"I promised you'd never have to do anything like that again" Rose said between sobs

"It's okay Rose, I did what had to be done and I'd do it again if I had to. You're my baby sister and I protect you when it's needed in anyway I have to"

Rose cried even harder at his words and Ian began to rock her in his arms stroking her hair "Thank you Ian, I love you"

"I love you too Rosie"

Rose & Dimitri

After her little breakdown with her brother she managed to calm down and talk to each and everyone in the room. When she was talking to her family Vlad pushed away the men standing guard by the room and zoned in on her smiling face.

Without even looking at anyone other than Rose he made his way towards her and grabbed her face gently between his hands and turned her head side to side, lifted her chin up and examined her neck and shoulders, with a disapproving face he turned towards Dimitri and the Mazur men

"If any of you let this happen to her again I will put a bullet between your eyes!" Then he turned back to Rose, kissed her cheeks and walked out.

The room was completely silent for a few minutes before Cameron spoke in an amused and hushed tone "I don't know about you guys but I believe him" That earned him a slap at the back of his head from both of his brothers.

Rose smiled and looked at Dimitri who was glaring at the door "Dimitri" he stopped glaring at the door and turned to face Rose "да роза"

"Lay with me?" Dimitri's whole face lit up at her words and he didn't hesitate to go to her.

Aidan started protesting but his mother grabbed his ear and hissed "if this was your wife you wouldn't have waited for her to ask. So be quiet and let your sister be happy, God knows he deserves it"

Rose had just gotten comfortable with Dimitri's arms wrapped protectively around her when there was a knock at the door and Boris' head popped in

"Boss, the doctor is here"

"Let him in" giving Dimitri a nod he opened the door wider to make just enough room for the doctor to walk through without touching the large man in front of him, when the doctor was halfway in Boris stopped him placing a hand on his chest

"Any more harm comes to her, you'll never be found" Boris didn't look at the man he kept his face straightforward, no emotion whatsoever.

The wide eyed doctor gulped and nodded his head in understanding, removing his hand Boris jerked his chin in the direction of the bed and stepped aside. The doctor drew in a shaky breath before forcing a smile.

"Good morning, I'm doctor Harold. So Mrs. Belikova, how are we doing today?"

Dimitri triumphantly smirked at the Mazur brothers and he smirked even brighter when Rose didn't say anything to correct the doctor

"Sore but otherwise I'm fine"

"Would you feel more comfortable talking to me alone or would you like to have all your ...err family present?"

"Uuhm, can Dimitri stay?"

"Of course"

"And Boris" Rose smiled. The doctor's face looked like he was in pain as he looked around the room.

"All right you heard the doctor lets go get some food" Abe ushered everyone out of the room leaving only Rose, Dimitri, the doctor and of course Boris.

"All right mrs. Belikova I have nothing but good news for you today. After looking at your charts I saw that there are a few broken ribs and your wrist is fractured along with your jaw. No internal injuries, so that's good. The cuts on your legs will heal in time and it's unlikely the scars will be of any bother. The bruises will heal in time like the rest of you." The doctor looked up from his tablet and smiled at her face of relief before he continued

"Now, as for the fetus you must drink at least.." both Dimitri and Rose froze until

Boris grunted a "what did you say?"

The doctor looked up to see the stunned faces of everyone in the room "oh my, I assumed someone had told you. The reason we didn't take you to the x-ray room after a few tests, is because you're currently about 8 weeks pregnant and everything looks just fine Mrs. Belikova. The fetus is growing and if everything goes as it should you'll both be in perfect health"

Neither Rose nor Dimitri spoke as they tried to absorb all the information they had been given. Pregnant. There was another human being growing inside of her right this minute. A baby, his baby. He was going to be a father.

Dimitri smiled and looked at Rose who had tears streaming down her face sitting completely still "Rose, what's wrong?" Dimitri slowly asked

"They could have killed our baby" Rose whispered, fisting the hem of her hospital gown. Placing a hand on her stomach he rubbed his thumb back and forth then he dried her cheeks

"But they didn't. You heard what he said, everything is okay. You're both going to be fine, I'm going to take care of you, both of you. If I'm not there Boris or Vlad will be. They can't hurt you or our baby."

Rose didn't say anything but she rested her hand on top of his on her stomach and nodded. Dimitri kissed her hair and turned back to the doctor asking him about everything and anything he could think, but not once did he stop running his thumb back and forth on her abdomen in a soothing gesture.

Rose was calmer having Dimitri with her to keep her calm. She never doubted he'd stay with her and if she was right Dimitri could be happier about the pregnancy. She was ready to become a mother but she wasn't ready for everyone to find out.

Rose let Dimitri take charge of the conversion with the doctor, she didn't feel like talking. She was still trying to process the fact that there was a human being growing inside of her, a part of both her and Dimitri. Would it be a little boy who looked just like his father and would become the next head of the Russian bratva, or a little bratva princess who would never be able to step out the door without having a group of uncles following her every move. Rose smiled to herself as she let her thoughts wander in joy.

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