Wedding in Baia

by darkangelgalforever18

Rose and Dimitri's wedding. I always loved the idea of them getting married in Baia and I couldn't get this idea out of my head and it pretty much wrote itself. Let me know what you think! Thank you all for reading! There are some pretty intense lemon scenes between Dimitri and Rose along with some swearing so please be aware this is adult.

I woke up looking at my engagement ring. I still couldn't imagine I was engaged to Dimitri. This all seemed like a dream. I looked over at a sleeping Dimitri and smiled as I heard him murmur something in russian. With Lissa going to Leigh again this year I had been going to classes with her and trying my hardest to keep up in the classes, which as I was never good at some classes in St. Vlad's was hard enough. However for my job I had to keep my grades up to stay with Lissa in school and keep her protected. I did something even crazier, I told myself I wanted to learn more Russian. I always loved when Dimitri spoke to me in the language but I wasn't the best at learning forgien languages so I hadn't been making much progress until I asked Sydney for some help and she, being the amazing woman she was, came up with a whole class for her to teach me russian, complete with daily homework assignments.

I kissed Dimitri's head and reached over to my nightstand and grabbed my laptop and signed in and pulled up my russian assignment from Sydney and a few others just in case Dimitri woke up. I know we told each other that we weren't going to lie but I wanted to surprise him with my Russian at our wedding. It seemed kind of silly that I wanted to keep my learning Russian a secret from him but I wanted our wedding day to be as perfect as possible.

Once I finished the Russian assignment I sent it to Sydney in an email and I kept working on other homework. I swear Calculus was my worst nightmare, way worse than Strigoi. Thankfully my best friend Lissa decided for our cover to not be blown she would help me with my homework and tutor me. After I got all my homework done I opened a locked document on my computer. Lately I had ideas for my wedding vows but I could never get anything that sounded perfect. I kept these drafts in a document on my computer, locked so Dimitri couldn't read them. When he asked about it out of curiosity I told him I was journaling and he didn't press the topic further. I wrote a few things down before I started to see him stirring next to me. So I saved the document and put my laptop on the nightstand before nuzzling into Dimitri.

"Morning Roza. You are up early." He said as he kissed the top of my head.

"Yep, I just wanted to get my homework for the day done so I don't have to worry about it later." I smiled, kissing Dimitri's nose.

"It's Saturday, you don't have school today." He said pulling me tight to him.

"Yes that's true Comrade, but I do have a wedding to plan with Lissa and the old man wants to go all out for this crazy wedding." I said as I looked up at Dimitri with his messy brown hair and his deep brown eyes that I could gaze into for an eternity. There was no doubt Dimitri was the only man I wanted in my life, he was my home. I made a mental note to write that in the vow journal.

"If you don't want a big wedding just tell your father Roza, he just wants you to be happy and your day to be perfect."

"It's not just my day, Comrade, it's also your day." I laid my hand on his cheek. I knew he would never say it but as I didn't have many family traditions I wanted to incorporate some of his family and culture's traditions.

"As long as I am married to you Roza, I don't care what else happens. I could marry you right now."

"In your t-shirt and underwear? I think something more than just underwear might be needed for our wedding." I said slyly. "Plus, all you are wearing is boxers."

" Okay fair point." He said conceding.

"Don't worry I won't make our wedding too painful. My dress however, is going to be the most beautiful dress I've ever worn."

"Of course it will be Roza,"

I smiled as I sat on Dimitri's stomach as I reached down and kissed him passionately, our tongues fighting for dominance until we both ran out of oxygen. "Alright, time for me to get up to meet Liss for breakfast. Do you wanna come with me?" I said as I stayed sitting on Dimitri's stomach.

"Are you going to be talking about your dress?" He looked at me seriously.

He didn't want to know the details. He was so serious he didn't even want to know how much my dad offered to spend on a dress, which was a lot. Being a mob boss gives you ridiculous amounts of money, like crazy amounts. Given that I was having my dress made by one of the best seamstresses on court meant it was going to be expensive, even if it was a pretty casual dress but my dad got used to spoiling me when it came to clothing. Most of the money I saved for the future if Dimitri and I ever wanted to move out of court and have our own house or for if we had kids someday.

"No Comrade, we are going to have another appointment with the seamstress to nail down the design but she won't even think about mentioning it in front of you." I smiled as I slid off the bed and started to get dressed, throwing jeans and a bra on and a clean black t-shirt on before I grabbed a pair of socks and grabbed my phone and my wallet from the nightstand.

"Okay, I'll come," He said as he dressed as I headed to the living room to slide my shoes and leather jacket on. "I need coffee and breakfast anyways."

"Okay Comrade, if you don't hurry I'll beat you there." I smiled as I stood at the front door. He appeared in a grey t-shirt with jeans on and all he was missing was his duster and his shoes. "Maybe we can get some sparring in this afternoon."

"I always love sparring with you Roza, gotta keep our skills sharp."

"Yeah, because there might be another dhampir that gets another 5 molina's and takes the title of being the second best guardian and best guardian. I still have you beat babe." I said smirking, I knew it was a little bit of a low blow because I killed a bunch of Strigoi when he had been one.

"That's because of the time I lost. Remember I killed some when I was lost, I just didn't get molina's Roza,"

"Yep, but according to our necks I out-beat you, probably because I was taught by the best." I giggled and winked as I started to run towards the diner we always met up at. I knew Dimitri would be behind me in seconds but I used every second of my head start from him and I laughed as I saw him trying to catch up and it just pushed me to run faster and harder.

"Roza," He yelled and with that I started running as fast as my legs could take me as I laughed hard and I reached the dinner halfway across court in just a few minutes. I took a moment to slow my breath and I saw Dimitri come up as I waited at the door. "Why do you make me chase you Roza?" He asked, his eyes filled with seriousness.

"Cuz you made me run when we were back at St. Vlad's. Payback Comrade." I winked as I slid into the dinner and smiled seeing Lissa and Christian. "Hey Lissa, so I was thinking of a black wedding dress." I said a little louder than I needed to.

"Oh Rose, you're funny." Christian looked at me and waved to us. "I'll tell Dimitri what the real dress looks like."

Lissa giggled and smacked Christian. "No he wont Dimitri he has no clue."

"It's going to be a tight dress that barely covers her. One that god would smite you for wearing it into a church." He laughed and then Dimitri laughed as we sat down.

We ordered our drinks and food right away given we all knew what we wanted. We always got the same things. As we ate Dimitri's left hand found my leg and he just laid it there while we ate. Once everyone was done Lissa looked at Dimitri smiling.

"Now that we've had breakfast I need to take your fiance to go dress shopping and talk about what wedding traditions to include in the wedding."

"Of course Lissa," He nodded. "I love you Roza, have a good day. Let me know when you want to meet up at the gym later?"

"Yep, I love you Comrade." I kissed him softly before I got up and linked my arm around Lissas as she said goodbye to Christian and we started walking out together.

"You'll be a professional wedding planner before Christian even asks you." I giggled as we headed towards the seamstress.

"Maybe, we'll see?" She blushed. "So, I looked up some russian wedding traditions. There's one you might not like, but it's quite funny." Lissa said as she pulled something up on her phone showing me some of the most common traditions. The first tradition showing on the phone was called 'The Ransom'

"Wait, ransom?" My eyebrow raised curiously studying Lissa. She couldn't be serious, holding me ransom for money from what Dimitri got paid would be crazy. He's not the one paying for the wedding.

"No, but another common one instead is this showing Dimitri a napkin with all of the bridesmaids lipstick prints and he has to pick yours, if he gets it wrong he has to pay something."

"That could be funny." I smiled and we looked at the rest and I saw the word 'Crowning' and I blushed. I've never thought of myself as a person who wears a crown. "I'd be okay with the bride-napping one during the reception and the toast one, and the bread one. I like food." I smiled big.

"Okay, I think it'd be funnier if the bride-napping one was a surprise for Dimitri." She giggled.

"Oh absolutely," I giggled as we made it to the seamstress. We just had to pick out details about the dress and I sighed seeing Abe in the store already talking to the seamstress. He wanted me to have literally the biggest and most expensive dress I could. I swear if it was up to him I'd be covered head to toe in diamonds.

"Old man, what are you doing here?" I sighed looking at him as we sat down at a table with the seamstress.

"I want to help my daughter pick out her dress." He said grinning before the seamstress cleared her throat and asked my thoughts about a few designs set out on the table. I picked up one drawing that was tight to about mid-thigh and flared to look like an A-line dress. The top was a sweetheart with a bit of a plunge to show off some cleavage and a little skin but not too much. She had what looked like some dotted lines to make it look like it was an illusion top, so I knew it would be invisible with jewels spaced along the top to add a little sparkle. The boobs of the dress and a very beautiful amount of jewels and lace and there were a few more smaller designs along the dress down the sides and the hips. The back was low cut showing off most of

my back and the whole thing had little dots for jewels. The dress was just at floor length which is what we talked about. I did not need a train, I couldn't fight very well in a wedding dress, let alone one with a train. I smiled and then I looked at the others, but this was the one.

"I love this," I said looking at the seamstress. "The top of this is see-through right?" "Yes, I can take it off if you'd like though, I thought I'd show you the idea with it on it and

as we build the dress we can decide if we want to do it or not."

"Okay, I don't know how I feel about that part, but the rest of it sounds amazing." I smiled looking at Lissa and then at the drawing of the dress.

"We just need to get your measurements and we will make a mock-up dress and I'll email you when I need you to come in for some fittings and then once we make the dress we will need a fitting or a few depending on if we have to change any measurements."

"Okay. I have my dress done." I said looking at Lissa smiling.

"Yep, one more thing off that list, or at least mostly." She smiled and then the seamstress took me to a changing room for me to strip to my underwear and she took my measurements and wrote them down on a pad of paper.

"My Rose, you will look beautiful in that." My dad smiled as I saw a tear in his eyes. "Old man, don't get soft on me now. I have to tell you a secret, it's a russian tradition we

are going to do at the reception." I said as he started to raise his eyebrow.

"Mr. Mazur, there's a tradition saying that during the reception people are able to "bride-nap" Rose until Dimitri pays a ransom basically." She smiled and I saw the biggest grin take over my father's face. He was totally up for this.

"Really?" He asked. "I can help with that." He grinned and I saw a sparkle in his eye. "Yes but it's going to be a secret to Dimitri." Lissa said clearly excited over this idea. "And I'll even be in on it, sorry Dimitri," I said, shrugging. "However Dimitri doesn't have

much money. I'm sure he'll pay you back in whatever way you want. He might even let you land a few punches at the reception." I giggled. I knew my dad probably knew how to at least throw a punch correctly but I knew he wouldn't be able to hurt Dimitri.

We headed out of the store and my dad wandered off to god knows where and we kept going towards the palace. "Hey Rose, are we still having game night tonight?" Liss said smiling.

"Yeah, Dimitri and I will be there." I smiled and realized I needed to text Dimitri about meeting at the gym. "We were gonna go work out and maybe spar for a few hours before coming over."

"Okay, have fun with your 'sparring and workout'." Liss said, rolling her eyes.

"Hey, we are going to be at the guardian gym, not at our place."

"Okay, whatever you say." She blushed and giggled. I dropped her off at the palace making sure her guards were there and I nodded towards them and smiled as I pulled my phone out and texted Dimitri.

Hey Comrade, I'll meet you at the gym in 5. Can you bring my gym bag from the house?

Given that we were going to be working out most of the day I knew I'd desperately want a shower and it was easier to shower at the gym since we would have to pass it on our way back to the palace for game night. Game night was the one time most of us still acted like middle school kids. Games like 7 minutes in heaven and truth or dare, etc. Thankfully Sydney and Adrian weren't here to make it too difficult.

Today's workout started with a 3 mile run and then weight training. I was starting to really get quite good at weightlifting now that I've got some free time being on court. I could bench 195 lbs a few times. After I was done with weightlifting and Dimitri went to punch the punching bags I used one of the pull up bars and did pull ups with my legs straight out in front of me and I watched him from the other side of the room as I felt my t-shirt scrunched up just under my chest.

That's when I got down and went over to my bag and stripped off my shirt showing off the grey sports bra that I wore underneath it and then I put some boxing gloves on and starting punching a speed bag close to Dimitri, I was very aware I was covered in sweat and the leggings I changed into when I got here hugged my legs and ass well showing off all my muscle. We hadn't even gotten to sparring yet and I looked over at Dimitri as I kept punching and I saw him look over my body and I saw his eyes linger near my ass.

"Hey, stop looking at my ass. My fiance would kick your ass if he found out you were." I grinned and I kept going with the speed bag and I saw him walk closer to me.

"Oh yea? What would he do if I did this?" He grabbed me by my waist and pinned me down to the mat.

I went into fight mode and with a gloved hand I punched him in the cheek and kicked behind his knee to give myself enough chance to flip Dimitri onto his back as I pinned his hands above his head and I giggled.

"He wouldn't do anything because I can get out of a hold like that pretty easily." I said standing up and throwing the boxing gloves over to the speed bag as I dodged Dimitri's attacks. We were so in tune with each other's movements which made our sparring look like a well coordinated dance. "Come on Comrade, we have plenty of time before the wedding, dont be shy." I winked as I saw him go to grab my face and I ducked down just a few seconds ahead of him and with my foot I swept his foot out underneath him and sat on his chest holding his hands above his head.

"You win Roza," He conceded as he reached up to give me a heated kiss and I pulled away quickly.

"Come on, I know when you're holding back I can see it in your eyes." I grinned and I let him up and turned to walk away and he spun me around by my arm and pinned me against the wall behind me. My hands were above my head, he had a tight grip of both wrists with one hand and he lifted my leg to his hip. His forehead was almost touching mine when he whispered.

"Now I win, Roza." He said gruffly before kissing me with so much passion and heat. Making out with Dimitri after sparring was weirdly the sexiest thing. He let my hands go and I tangled my hands in his hair and pulled my other leg up to his hips and I smiled as he leaned forward even more and then I took my chance.

I threw my body forward making Dimitri hit the mat on the floor and I scrambled to get to a crouching position and I saw the surprise on Dimitri's face. I grinned as he held his hands up as our way to say we conceded. Something I almost never did.

"I win." I spoke as he got up and I saw that giant smile along his face. "Shower time, I'll be back." I winked at him and smiled as I saw him go over towards his own bag. No doubt he wanted to shower and change before we went to hang out with the friends.

Once we were done Dimitri told me he was going to take our bags back to the house and he would meet me at Lissa's and I smiled and gave him a kiss as a thank you.

Once I walked into the palace I saw Lissa setting up for the get together.

"What are we eating tonight?" I asked, smiling. "I just had one of the best workouts ever and damn I'm starving."

"Pizza, is that okay?" She looked at me and I told her that I warmed up with the run and weightlifting.

"Yep I'll probably eat one or two myself, Dimitri will probably eat at least two or three." I smiled. "I won our sparring today." I grinned.

"Seriously Rose I don't know how you can do that much of a workout." Lissa said as she was ordering pizza on her phone.

"Hey, I gotta stay sharp. Nothing will happen to my Queen." I said bowing.

"I swear Rose, you must be all muscle." She smiled and I showed her my stomach showing off my abs.

"You look like that and you eat two pizzas in a single sitting." She rolled her eyes. "Yes, and I barely break a sweat with a 3 mile run. That's the pre-pre-workout." I said

grinning. "And I even got all my homework done for the weekend. Including my extracurricular class." Lissa may have been helping me practice my Russian since I needed to practice speaking but I couldnt with Dimitri if I wanted it to be secret.

"Nice," She smiled and I put on some music and I started dancing around the room. It was always funny to twerk in front of Dimitri during the parties or if I could get him to dance and I'd grind up against him. Usually when I did that he would growl or murmur something dirty in Russian in my ear. Luckily I always controlled the music so I was going to make sure we had quite a few good songs that I could dance and tease him with.

"Hey Liss, I think I picked at least one color for the wedding." I called and smiled as she ran over to me

"Yes!"

"Sapphire blue." I said sheepishly. "I've always liked blue, but I don't know what other colors to put with it. But it's not the end of the world." I shrugged.

"Okay, I can come up with some ideas tomorrow and show them to you."

"Sounds good Liss, where is everyone?" I said whining and as I sighed laying on the couch my head hanging towards the floor my feet pointing to the ceiling and I heard the door open. Dimitri strode in smiling as Jill, Eddie(who was on vacation visiting Jill), Mia,Christian, and Sonya followed right behind him.

"Hey everyone!" I said smiling. I waved and Dimitri just rolled his eyes and I sat up and made sure no one was behind him and I jumped at him and he laughed as he caught me and set me back down on the couch next to him. I snuggled up into his lap and smiled.

"Alright, what game is first?" Mia asked looking around at us and I jumped up hearing a knock at the door and I knew that was the pizza.

I tipped the delivery guy and I took all the pizzas and set them out on the counter and table and I took a box and walked back over to Dimitri. "I don't care but I'm starving," I said as I swatted Dimitri's hand away from my pizza.

"Let's start with truth or dare!" Mia said, smiling as we all agreed.

"Sonya, truth or dare,"

"Truth," She said blushing, she was still a little shy around us sometimes.

"Is it true you and Mikhail want kids?"

"Actually yes, we are kind of trying." She said sheepishly as she blushed more. Everyone in the room said well wishes for them and I leaned against Dimtri who now had a plate full of pizza. She looked at Eddie before speaking. "Eddie, truth or dare."

"Dare," He spoke confidently and I saw a smirk cross Sonya's face.

"I dare you to try and take out Dimitri, within 5 minutes." I took Dimitri's plate and giggled. "Good luck Eddie. He had quite the workout today. Maybe you can take him." I winked

and I saw him look at me as I pointed to the back of my knee and then my ankle giving him the hint to hit Dimitri there. I knew Dimitri's weak spots and sometimes I played dirty.

Dimitri and Eddie circled each other in the middle of the room and Eddie went to attack and Dimitri blocked and I saw he was trying to get Dimitri closer. Dimitri went to grab him and Eddie ducked and hit Dimitri in the stomach quickly and he rolled to keep out of Dimitri's grasp. I looked up and saw Jill looking at Eddie with wonder. Just then Eddie was still on the ground and he quickly elbowed Dimitri in the back of his leg and then he spun his body and swept Dimitri's other foot to make him fall over. Eddie then pinned Dimitri on his stomach and pretended to steak Dimitri with air. Eddie helped Dimitri up and they gave each other a guy hug clapping on their backs.

Once Dimitri sat back down I handed him his plate of pizza as I finished my first pizza and leaned against Dimitri's arm.

"Rose, truth or dare."

"Truth." I said, sighing.

"Have you and Belikov ever fooled around in the gym?" He looked between us. "Not anything more than kissing." I said honestly. "It makes for a great distraction." I

giggled as I felt Dimitri staring at me.

"Lissa," I grinned evilly.

"Truth," She said without needing the prompt. "Have you ever gotten a grade lower than a B-?" "No, never." She smiled. "Dimitri, truth or dare?"

"Truth," He seemed to be a little tired and didn't want to do any silly pranks tonight. "What's your favorite color that goes with sapphire blue?" Lissa said as I stared at Lissa

so hard I could bore holes through her.

I could see the shock on his face and then he looked at me questioningly and I just shrugged. "I'd say light grey and maybe a light pink."

Lissa smiled. "Thank you Dimitri."

"This is boring tonight." Mia complained, "Can we do another game? Never have I ever?" She asked everyone and we all nodded.

Since Christian didn't get a question he was the one to go get us all two bottles of water each and once we ran out we were out.

Jill started. "Never have I ever kissed a Moroi." This made all of us drink.

Eddie then said. "Never have I ever had a sibling." This time everyone but Christian and I took a drink.

Mia was next, "Never have I ever slept with a teacher." She said looking over at me as I and Dimitri both took a drink and I smacked his arm.

"Roza, she wasn't my teacher at the time, plus you killed her. Gallena"

I nodded in understanding and Sonya smiled. "Never have I ever gotten ya know excited in public." She said looking around as all the guys took big gulps of the water.

Next was Dimitri. "Never have I ever used a tampon correctly." This made all of us girls gulp down quite a bit of water.

"Never have I ever had sex in a church." I giggled and winked at Liss and Christian.

"You are never going to let that go will you?" Christian sighed.

"Nope, you're lucky he didn't smite you."I giggled as he and Lissa took a few sips of their

water.

"Never have I ever made out with a strigoi." I took a gulp of my water.

"Never have I ever gotten engaged." This got only me, Sonya and Dimitri to drink.

"Never have I ever loved someone." Mia said as I sighed and everyone drank.

"Never have I ever used any other magic other than water." Jill said smiling, making the moroi drink.

"Never have I ever had causal sex." This got Mia, Sonya and Dimitri to drink. Dimitri was on his second bottle now.

"Never have I ever been able to kill strigoi." Sonya said and everyone but Jill and Mia

drank.

"Never have I ever made someone wait to propose to me." Dimitri spoke gruffly as he kissed my head. I looked and noticed Lissa taking a drink.

"Wait what?" I said looking at her and she blushed and softly giggled.

"Never have I ever had a penis." I giggled and winked at Dimitri as the guys all took

drinks.

"Never have I ever been able to carry a baby," Christian said looking at me and all us girls took a drink.

"Never have I ever teased my significant other in public." Lissa giggled and we all took a drink, even Mia. Dimitri was the first one out with Eddie.

"Never have I ever had a tattoo." Sonya Lissa and I all drank.

"Never have I ever been a dhampir." Sonya said, looking at me and I took a drink.

"Never have I ever been a Moroi" I looked at the last people all being moroi.

"Never have I ever had a period." Christian said softly.

"Never have I ever had a family member break the law." This made everyone including me drink. I don't know what laws my dad's broken but I knew he had, and Jill's sister Lissa had broken the law.

"Never have I ever been in love." Mia said and this got everyone else out.

"Little morbid of a note to end on."I said as I went over to hug her and I grabbed a remote nearby as I turned music on. "Time for dancing."

I smiled and winked over at Dimitri and I walked over to him as I saw people starting to dance. Sonya excused herself shortly saying something about Mikhail expecting her home. I offered my hand to Dimitri. "Mr. Hathaway, may I have this dance?" I giggled as it got him to stand up and roll his eyes. Dimitri put his hands on my hips and leaned his forehead on mine. "I'm not taking your name Roza,"

"I know Comrade." I reached around his neck and swayed with him. "We are apparently taking dance lessons for this wedding. Something my dad said we needed to do."

"Okay, but I already know how to dance Roza, it's more for you. Grinding against me isn't very wedding appropriate." He whispered close to my ear and it made my breath hitch.

"But it is fun." I winked, "And you seem to like it."

I looked around and Lissa decided to sit down on the couch and work on homework and Christain was reading a book. Mia excused herself seeing that it was starting to get late. Eddie and Jill were dancing and then I noticed that he was kissing her neck and I smiled. I was so glad they were happy.

When the song changed to a hiphop song I took Dimitri's hands in mine and I turned my back against his chest as his hands were still intertwined with mine in front of me as I took a step back, pushing my body against Dimitri's and I heard a very low growl in my ear.

God that was hot when he did that. I turned my head and winked up at Dimitri biting my lip and I smiled and rocked my ass against him before stepping forward. He followed and took the step forward and he put his big hands on my hips as we kept our bodies as close as possible with the clothes on and in public.

I heard Dimitri mutter in russian "Боже, Роза. Я хочу трахнуть тебя" and I had to play like I didn't know what he was saying, even though I was pretty sure I knew what he was saying from his body language. He kissed along my neck and gently where my neck met my shoulder and I had to hold back a gasp given there were others here. I knew I would pay later in private for teasing him in front of others but it was just so fun and kinda sexy to get him riled up in public.

"Roza," He whispered along my neck and I twirled around quickly, his hands landing on my hips again as I faced him I wrapped my arms around his neck, a new slow song was on. I noticed it was 'How to save a life' . I smiled at the irony.

"I know how to save a life." I whispered back smiling up at him.

"Technically Lissa saved my life." He looked at me challenging me knowing what I was doing but damn even he couldn't pretend like my efforts weren't working.

"Yes but you don't love her like you love me babe." I grinned, catching a glimmer of light bouncing off my ring.

"True, you are my only love Roza. My one and only." He came closer, his mouth practically touching my ear as he whispered, "And you're gonna be in trouble later for dancing on me like that."

"Would you like me to not dance like that?" I giggled quietly. "I could stop doing it, you know, but I thought you liked it."

"Yes when there aren't people around Roza," He said nodding over to the other couples in the room that were honestly too wrapped up in their own things to even notice.

"Yeah, like they are paying any attention, now a big moan would." I giggled. "Even if I told them wedding details the only one who would notice would be Lissa, and I saw her sex life. She can see us dancing and making out."

"You want to be punished tonight, don't you Roza?"

I blushed and rocked my hips a little more than necessary to rub up against him. "I don't know what you're talking about, Comrade."

His voice was husky but barely audible next to my ear, "Naughty girl, Roza." He growled knowing that the purrs and growls were super sexy. "Would you like a chance to be a good girl?" He said softly.

"I'm okay with whatever you like," I said matter of factly, he teased me way more and tried to make me beg for him more if i was "naughty" but if I was a good girl he'd give in much easier. Either way I knew he would be stripping me and taking his way with me and I would be more than willing to let him use my body however he would like. He was really a god when it came to sex.

"You need to pick Roza," He smirked and let go of me and went back to sit in his chair with a smirk on his face. He was testing me. Given the song 'Hard' came on I decided that I couldn't just do the "good girl" tonight. The music got me too wound up and he knew that I wouldn't be able to behave long enough to get out of the hole I was already in. So why not enjoy it.

I giggled and turned the music up louder seeing that Jill and Eddie were making out with Jill against the wall, and Lissa and Christian were making out. I'm sure they didn't even realize we were here. I walked closer to the chair and shook my ass a little as I turned to wink at Dimitri. I saw the heat in his eyes flame up again telling me he was going to really "punish" me later.

God, I was so lucky to have such a sweet amazing sexy man. I saw the gears spinning on his face and that's when I sat on his lap grinding and stood up right away facing him. I set my knees on either his hips and I leaned forward showing off my chest in his face.

His hands instinctively held my lower back and I heard him growl. He studied my body and I'm sure thinking of pushing me into the bathroom across the room and taking me right here, but I knew he wouldn't, given that I needed to be "punished" he wouldn't do me the favor of making tonight easy.

He picked me up and set me on the floor and spoke to the others in the room. "Roza and I are leaving. Have a good night." He said smiling at them and his smile fell just a little as he looked at me. This was my cue to take his hand and walk home with him.

Once we were in the stairwell he pinned me against the wall with my hands on either side of my head and he kissed me with burning passion that was common after I teased him like this. This time I let a moan escape me but it was muffled by our kiss and I didn't mind. "Roza, you will listen to my commands tonight without question. Do you understand?" He said low and I knew if I said no he would growl and make me beg even more.

"Yes, Dimitri." I said softly looking up at him with the most innocent face I could muster. "Good, now let's get home." He said as he wrapped his fingers around mine and we

practically ran back to our house.

Once we were in the house he kicked off his shoes and told me to do the same. He took his duster off before picking me up with his hands on my ass and instinctively I wrapped my legs around his torso and my arms around his neck. He roughly tossed me on the bed and I bounced a little but I didn't mind. "Take your top off, slowly." I followed his directions and I started to reach up for him and he took a step back. "No," He said fiercely. "Strip completely for me, slowly," He said as he started to take his own clothes off as he watched me.

I did as he followed, our clothes ended up in a big pile on the floor. He reached over to the bottom drawer of his nightstand and I knew that things were gonna get naughty. He pulled out a pair of leather cuffs and he showed them to me. I laid my hands near the headboard knowing the drill of him putting the cuffs on. As he did he made sure to lean close and run his hands over my body, letting them linger on my inner thighs.

I let out a soft moan and I felt Dimitri's hair along my shoulder as he kissed and bit the side of my neck as I tipped towards the other side to give him more access. He stopped and bit a little harder and lingered longer than normal in one spot that did drive me crazy making me moan out his name like a prayer.

"Dimitri, Dimitri, please." I sighed softly.

"Please what? What would you like, Roza?" He spoke softly, looking me in the eyes.

"I need you in me. Please fuck me." I pulled a little at the restraints.

"Okay my Roza," He kissed down to my breasts nipping and sucking gently on one as he started rubbing my pussy with his fingers before he quickly inserted two fingers and pushed them in fast and hard. Dammit I should've been more specific. I felt myself building and as my breathing increased he sped up and stuck another two fingers in. "God you are tight tonight. I have to warm you up." He said winking as I knew what he meant. As he continued he kept kissing my body and nipped gently as I moaned.

"Faster please, I'm getting close Dimitri." I gasped and I saw him pull his lips off my body, noticing his hair was almost completely hanging down around his face. He bent down and kissed me even more passionately, his tongue sliding into mine dancing together. He sped his movements up and let his thumb rub on my clit fast and I started to gasp. He rested his forehead on mine as he watched my face as I became undone and I came against his fingers.

I was out of breath and I knew that this was just the warm up. He grinned and removed his fingers and licked them one by one as I watched before he pulled my legs further apart and bent my knees and set them on his shoulders giving him a position to go deeper. He gently held himself at my entrance and looked into my eyes.

"What do you want now, Roza?" He growled.

"I want you, I need your cock. I need all of you in me." I panted.

"Oh? What are you willing to do for this?" He said gently letting the head enter me for a second and then pulling out.

"Anything, I'm willing to do anything for it. Please Dimitri, I need you." I said softly and I heard the desperate note showing in my voice.

"Good girl." He said as he entered me all the way and pulled almost completely out before entering again and kissing me as he started to speed up and I knew he was just as desperate for this as I was. He leaned his hands next to my head and I heard him growl as he kissed and bit at any skin he could reach. I pushed against him to his pace and I moaned loudly the only thing I could, Dimitri.

"Roza, god I love being inside you." He said as he was deep inside keeping the pace quite fast and I noticed he was close to the edge along with myself. I tipped my hips up a little changing the angle just slightly letting him hit a specific spot that I knew would undo us both quickly. He sped up as he heard me gasp.

"Dimitriiiiii,keep going faster harder, I'm so closeeeeee." I begged gently pulling at my cuffs as I wanted to touch him and pull him closer to me.

"God Roza, fuckkk." He growled as he kissed my neck softly as I felt him twitch as my body squeezed around him deep in me and we both released at the same time and we kept going through the waves of our orgasms. Once he had a moment to breathe he got up and cleaned me up and he kissed me and took the cuffs off kissing my wrists. I'm so glad we had these instead of regular handcuffs. We had previously used regular cuffs and they left some

pink marks that were pretty hard to conceal but since these were wide they didn't leave any marks on my skin.

I smiled as he still had the inside of my wrist at his lips. "I love you more than anything." "I love you more Roza," He smiled and kissed my forehead. I smiled and got up to go

shower and as soon as I was taking my ring off I looked up at my body in the mirror. I stood in the doorway looking at Dimitri smiling up at the ceiling.

"Dimitri, what the fuck is this?" I pointed to the big purple dark splotch at the base of my

neck.

"That, Roza, is called either a hickey or sometimes it's called a love bite." He said sarcastically.

"Yes, I know that but why did you do it?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I may have lost control a little there," He grinned widely. "Would you like another? I can do one on the other side."

"No," I rolled my eyes as I turned back to the bathroom and I saw him staring at my ass as I walked away. After my shower I threw one of Dimitri's old t-shirts on and I slid into bed and snuggled into his chest. He instinctively wrapped me up and I always felt so safe in his arms and he kissed the top of my head as I let out a yawn.

"Rest Roza, you've had a busy day. Tomorrow we can talk about more wedding stuff." He smiled. "I love the color you picked." He said softly as my eyes fluttered shut and I fell into sleep quickly.

The next morning I woke up smiling as my head was still on Dimitri's chest and I heard his soft breathing and his heartbeat and I closed my eyes. This would never get old. I could lie here forever with him.

After a few moments I fell back to sleep and woke when Dimitri got up to get ready for work. He had a shift checking on the wards surrounding court, since Christian had a lighter schedule this week and didn't need as much personal protection since he'd be with Lissa most of the weekend. Since I wasn't working today I stayed in bed and snuggled up with Dimitri's pillow as I could smell his scent on it.

I heard my phone chirp seeing a text from Lissa

Any thoughts on a venue? I don't know if you have a specific location thought of yet. Also we need to nail down a date, a venue might help us pick a date that it's available. -Liss

I smiled and I knew exactly where I wanted to get married. The church in Baia. It meant a lot to me when I was there and I knew it was the church Dimitri went to as he grew up and I knew it would be so nice to get married where he grew up.

Yes, I want to get married in the church in Baia. It means a lot to Dimitri and it's a beautiful venue. I'd like to get married maybe late may early june? I don't want it to be too cold or warm.- Rose

My phone made a chime again with another text.

Okay, I'll let Abe know and we will get in touch and see what they say about their availability. Given it's 4-5 months out hopefully we will get something in those weeks.-Liss

Yes, another thing off the list. I trusted Lissa and her eye for details. I turned the tv on and watched say yes to the dress as I gave my commentary to the empty room. Seriously, these women were picking horrible dresses. Occasionally they tried one on that was nice but none

even seemed to be as amazing as my dress. Even though I haven't actually seen my dress on me I knew it'd be perfect. It was literally being made just for me.

It had been a few weeks since I told Lissa that I wanted to marry Dimitri in Baia and we got a few dates back and we decided on a wedding date of June 5th. Once we got the date set we sent out invitations to our friends and family and we were keeping it small. I didn't want to parade in front of a bunch of people. It was just something I wanted to keep small and special to those we loved. Abe totally understood and was okay with that even though he wanted to throw a big bash.

I think he understood that Dimitri and I were happier with a smaller wedding. Lissa picked out some beautifully mixed flowers for our bouquets. I knew they were navy and pink and white, I could spot a few roses in the bouquets but I trusted her. All the flowers I was shown were always so beautiful that honestly I would've been fine with any of them.

Dimitri's sisters were more than happy to help me get ready, even though I didn't want a big wedding party since I wanted them all to enjoy the day. We didn't have a ton of guests so I wanted them to enjoy the day. We asked Declan to be our ring bearer and Sonja's little girl to be our flower girl. Paul was going to walk down the aisle with a sign saying. "Here she comes…"

Dimitri learned about the bread tradition and the toast we were going to do with him and he was very happy to see us add a few traditions into the wedding. His suit was being made by the seamstress who was making my wedding dress. His suit would be a light grey with a white shirt and Navy tie with a small white and pink flower and a pink pocket square. I told him that after the pictures he could take off his jacket and wear his duster. He assured me that he could live without it for one day. Dimitri told me he had the wedding bands covered and he wasn't going to let me see mine till he was putting it on my finger.

Trying on my mock dress was amazing. Even though it was just out of a solid underskirt material it showed off my figure so amazingly. The perfect amount of cleavage, and we decided to go without the illusion top. I hadn't tried the real dress on yet. The seamstress promised me it would be done in plenty of time for us to fly out to Baia. It still felt unreal, that I got to have the wedding I always wanted with the only man I've ever loved.

I took every moment to enjoy this experience. I was so excited and also nervous. I had most of the wedding planned out now and I was so flustered when it came to my vows. I've always had a hard time saying how I feel out loud, and being with Dimitri was, well it was like I found another part of me.

I woke up stretching seeing Dimitri was sound asleep next to me. I kissed his cheek as I got up and got ready for the day. Today was my final wedding dress fitting. I told Abe he had to wait till the day to see it so he was not allowed to tag along today but my mom and Lissa were coming. I knew tears would be falling today so I opted for no makeup and I made sure to grab the shoebox with my wedding heels in it, they were a decent 4 inches. They weren't able to fix the full foot of difference between me and Dimitri but it definitely helped so he didn't have to lean over so far.

I met my mom and Lissa outside the dress shop and I was happy we were doing this early so hopefully Abe didn't try to crash the party. Once I put the dress on I walked out to the platform she had in front of a bunch of mirrors angled to show every side of my dress. I smiled and I turned to show Lissa and my mom and I saw they both were crying.

"What do you think?" I asked hoping they loved it.

"It's perfect. You're perfect, Dimitri is one lucky man." Lissa said, smiling and coming to hug me carefully.

"You are more beautiful than the day you were born, you are one amazing woman and I'm so proud of you sweetheart. Lissa's right Dimitri is the luckiest man in the world." She said, wiping her tears away before she came over to hug me tightly.

I looked at myself from every angle before I asked Lissa to take some photos with my phone so I could send them to Olena and Dimitri's sisters. I knew they wanted to be here but couldn't make it so I promised to send them photos.

Dimitri and I both decided that we didn't want bachelor and bachelorette parties since we both said that we didn't need to celebrate not being together. We did tell Olena she could throw a get together when we got to Baia a few weeks before the wedding. Given that Dimitri wanted to spend some time with them. Lissa and Sydney had to oversee everything to make sure the wedding was perfect.I wasn't even allowed to see the church until it was all done being decorated.

I smiled as Dimitri carried our bags onto the plane that was taking us to Baia. It was so weird to realize this was the last time I'd be at court as Rose Hathaway, I'd be coming back as Rose Hathaway Belikov. It still sounded weird to me but I knew it would take time getting used to the new name.

I was going to be Mrs. Dimitri Belikov and that made my heart leap with happiness. I smiled as I winked at Dimitri before I sauntered up the steps to the plane putting a little extra into the sway of my hips. I didn't need to turn around to know he was staring very obviously at my ass. I guess he must've not cared about others seeing him stare because honestly we were going to get married.

Once Dimitri was on the plane he sat next to me on the couch and pulled me onto his lap and kissed my neck as I was talking to Lissa who was on Christian's lap.

"Liss, you'll love it. St. Petersburg is beautiful. We are going to be there for a day before heading into Baia. I'm sure Syd will have an itinerary if Comrade doesn't." I giggled as he stopped and sat up.

"St. Petersburg is beautiful, but not as beautiful as my Roza." I gently smacked his arm as I rolled my eyes.

Sydney, Adrian and Declan boarded with Jill and Eddie. Declan ran up to me and I smiled sliding off Dimitri's lap and landed on my knees on the floor to scoop Declan up and hug him tightly.

"Hi auntie Rose." He said smiling. "Are you excited? I'm excited to see your pwetty dress. Momma and daddy made me practice walking in a straight line."

"I'm very excited to marry Dimka. But I am even more excited to take you to Baia. I might have to show you around without momma and daddy."

"Momma said St. Petersburg is pwetty." He said and I stood up holding him and tickling

him.

"My little nephew, it is beautiful. Almost as beautiful as my dress." I kissed him and set him back onto the ground and he smiled and climbed up Dimitri and sat on his lap. I walked over to Sydney and smiled. "Son's first time to St. Petersburg, that's big."

"Yes," She smiled before hugging me tight. "You've come a long way from when I met you in St. Petersburg." Sydney spoke and I saw that she was trying to hold back tears.

"Me? You overcame even more than I have." I smiled nodding to Adrian and Declan. "Who knew the next time we'd be flying there you'd be a mother and wife, with us evil creatures." I smiled gently, elbowing her as she laughed.

"Yea, I wouldn't believe you if you told me that back then that this is where we would be. And all in 3 years."

"Dimitri's really good with him. I'm so happy we can have kids. Don't get me wrong I'm scared of being a mother but I know I can handle it with Comrade by my side. He's a natural."

"You'll be amazing, you're going to be one scarry momma bear. You always care for others with everything you have."

"Thanks Syd." I smiled and we took our seats as the plane was getting ready to take off. Declan sat with Dimitri and I and we told him some stories amending them to be appropriate for his age.

"Uncle Dimi, are u gunn cwy when you see auntie Rose?" He looked at him curiously. "I no see u cwy."

"I'm sure I will Dec, and I'm sure she will cry even more." He smiled and winked at Declan.

"Auntie Rose, I wuv u, is u gunn have babie wif Dimi?"

"Yes, we will have a baby. I don't know when but I can't wait to be a mommy." I said smiling and I saw a look of surprise and happiness cross Dimitri's face. We talked about trying after the wedding but I realized I never said that I was excited to be a mom in front of Dimitri.

Once we were flying Declan ran and went to spend time with others and I smiled as I snuggled back onto Dimitri's lap looking up at him. "Yes, Dimka, I am excited to be a mom when the time comes. Don't get me wrong I'm terrified of screwing up but I can't wait to carry our child, even if they are the strongest dhampir in the world."

"I love you with everything my Roza." He smiled and kissed me and I kissed back passionately. When I was kissing him nothing else existed. It was just the two of us and I couldn't wait to kiss him in front of all my friends and family in that church.

I told him I wanted to go talk with Liss and Syd about some other wedding things and I took my laptop with us where a lot of the documents were stored and we went into a separate room in the plane made for mostly board meetings and I smiled as they met me in here.

I pulled my computer up and opened my vow journal. To say I was procrastinating with my vows wasn't a joke. I needed Sydney's help. Given that I was getting better at Russian I was far from fluent enough to translate anything more than a sentence or two at a time.

"Rose, you don't have them written?" Sydney asked, seeing that I just had ideas in a bullet format on the page.

"Umm I suck at saying how I feel. I'm a woman of actions, not words." I said bluntly.

"Rose, just write how you feel. It will come, but preferably before the wedding." Liss said, laying a reassuring hand on mine.

"Thanks guys, I think I need some alone time to just get everything down on paper before I get your help translating and pronouncing some words." I smiled looking between the two of them. They gave me hugs and told me good luck before heading out. I needed to be alone so I didn't hold back on my emotions and feelings to write this for Dimitri.

I didn't want anyone else's influence on what to say but I did need help translating and saying a few of the things I knew I wanted to say in Russian. I put on some music and smiled, closing my eyes for a moment focusing on Dimitri and our love before I opened my eyes and started typing. Occasionally I had to re-write or reconfigure some sayings to make them sound the best. I did my best to translate but I knew Syd would correct them if there was something wrong there. I would definitely need help pronouncing some of the russian words.

After about an hour I texted Syd to come back and help me with some of these words and I knew this was going to be my homework of russian until the wedding day. I just didn't want anyone hearing me practice until the wedding. I wanted it to be a surprise to everyone except Sydney and Liss that I was learning Russian.

Once I was done I saved everything and turned off the computer and headed back to where everyone was. Adrian and Declan probably walked to a back room for him to take a nap. I smiled and turned on some music. "Dance party time." I smiled and Sydney went to the room Adrian and Declan were as she was tired too. I pulled Dimitri up as we danced and nothing would take that big smile off of his face. His cool exterior would be gone for a while. I'm sure his soft demeanor would show even more around his mom, grandmother, and sisters.

Once everyone was tired we let the music keep playing as we all sat down, everyone but Dimitri and I fell asleep. I was too excited and just a little nervous to sleep.

"Roza, you should rest." Dimitri smiled as he saw me yawn.

"I'm too excited." I said plainly, there was no denying that I was so excited to come with him to Baia. Seeing it through his eyes, I couldn't wait.

"It's still going to be a little while before we get to St petersburg. Rest for a little. I'll keep watch if it makes you feel more comfortable." He said as I could see that he was starting to get tired too.

"Don't be silly, we are in the air and there are plenty of guards on duty here." I smiled looking at my fellow colleagues.

"Lets rest Roza," Dimitri smiled as he picked me up with his hands around my waist and he carried me to another small bedroom in the back. As soon as we laid down in the small bed we both fell asleep in moments. It really had been a while since we slept.

I woke as Dimitri gently shook my shoulder. "Roza, it's time to get up. We're here in St. Petersburg." He smiled and kissed me passionately before pulling me up to sit and I leaned forward and put my shoes back on. Once my shoes were on I jumped at Dimitri. My arms wrapped around his neck as he caught me, his hands holding onto my waist. "Come, my bride. Time to go see the city and celebrate." He smiled and kissed my nose as he set me back down and laced his hand in mine as he led me off the plane.

I smiled and we got our stuff settled in our hotel rooms we had for the night given we arrived around lunchtime. We could've headed straight to Baia but given that so many people wanted to see St. Petersburg and we had time so we decided to stay here for two days before

heading to Baia. Our two days in were great and I loved seeing the wonder and amazement on Lissa and Christian's faces. Declan was so amazed but I think he was more excited to be on his first vacation. The second day I went shopping with the girls, it was so fun and Jill was so excited to see the fashion around us. I was happy I could give them all an amazing vacation that they all deserved. After the last few years we all deserved some time to just relax and enjoy ourselves.

Dimitri squeezed my hand and he whispered in my ear after we were hanging out after our shopping spree. "They're all so happy, they all deserve this. Thank you for choosing Baia. I can't wait to marry you, my Roza, or should I start calling you Mrs. Belikov." He smiled and I couldn't help but kiss him with all the love in the world. I couldn't imagine loving Dimitri any more than I had in this moment, but I knew that life always threw us surprises.

I felt Dimitri start to kiss down my neck and stop at a spot where he usually left love bites and I gently pulled his head away "Comrade, you don't need to make more work for my makeup artist. If it shows in the dress you will not be leaving marks till after the reception." I smiled, holding his head in my hands.

"Well I don't know what the dress looks like so how will I know what will or won't be showing?" He grinned up at me lovingly.

"Let's just say it's strapless and shows a bit of skin, Comrade." I smiled and winked at

him.

Driving into Baia I was glad that we got our own car since we would be heading off on our honeymoon after our wedding. Dimitri wouldn't tell me what he had planned for our honeymoon and he assured me he had a bag packed with everything I needed. I hoped he didn't forget anything.

"I wish I could've been there to introduce you to my family the first time you were here." Dimitri said, his hand resting on my knee.

"Well, I actually wasn't quite conscious when I came to Baia last time. My head lost a battle with a brick wall." It wasn't uncommon for us to get beat up in our line of work.

"Of course Roza," He said, letting out a small laugh. "Let me guess you woke up with my mother over you, trying to get you healing."

"Actually, yes, my dad brought me to her." I smiled blushing a little knowing how well Dimitri knew me. "She's an amazing woman. I see why you adore her so much. They were all so accepting of our relationship when I was here last." I smiled and I thought about how sweet they were all to me treating me like his widow when I had last been there. Our relationship was serious but not as serious as it had gotten in the last 3 years. Now I would become part of the family for real this time.

He smiled at me and didn't say anything else but kept driving with his hand on my knee and I waved at the car behind us seeing Lissa wave back from the passenger's seat. Dimitri lead the way to his childhood home and pulled the car up into the driveway and I smiled getting out of the car and making my way to our backseat and I started to grab bags, Since we had the whole back seat empty we set all the formal clothing there in gown bags and I grabbed all of them along with one of my bags, Dimitri grabbed the rest and we walked up to the door and Dimitri knocked before leaning me down and giving me a soft kiss on my forehead.

"Dimka! Rose! Welcome!" Olena pulled us both into a tight hug and I moved to try and let the clothes stay as safe as possible from getting beaten around too much. "Let me show you to your room so you can put all that stuff away." She nodded to all our bags.

"Thank you Momma, but I don't need an escort to my old room." Dimitri said softly as we followed her into the house.

"Right, I'll welcome everyone else. Dimka you better behave." She said, lacing a little seriousness into her soft tone.

"Of course Momma," He said nodding and he showed me to his old room that we were staying in. When it came to the night before the wedding he would stay in a hotel with some of the other guys so he didn't see me before the wedding. I hung up all of our clothing and then we set our bags down before I smiled looking around the room trying to imagine a younger Dimitri growing up in here.

After a moment we went back downstairs and I saw the look of wonder on Lissa's face. I knew she was always curious to see where Dimitri grew up. After a little while I saw Paul walk in from the backyard with a toy wood steak and I saw him run up to Declan. "Hi, I'm paul." He said, offering a hand out to Declan. "What's your name?"

"Declan" He said softly, holding onto Sydney's leg.

"You can play with my toys if you want." He smiled.

"Thank you," Declan said and he reached his hand out to Paul and shook his hand before studying the toy steak in his other hand. "What dat?"

"It's my steak, I can't actually hurt anyone with it but I like it. Do you wanna play with it?" Paul offered it to Declan and he took it smiling adoring the piece of wood.

"Uncle Dimka!" Paul smiled and ran full force at Dimitri hitting his legs with a thud. "I missed you."

"I missed you too, have you been good for momma?" He said kneeling down and hugging Paul close before picking him up and spinning him around.

"Yes, I even got a toy steak. I want to be just like you and aunty Rose." He smiled and looked at me and reached for me.

"Hey buddy," I smiled, taking him and nuzzling my face in his hair as he held tight to my

neck.

"Has Uncle Dimka been good?" He looked at me seriously.

"Yes, he's been good, he behaves like a perfect gentleman." I smiled looking at Dimitri before Paul smiled and wiggled out of my arms.

That night I got dressed in a small white lace dress as I knew we would be having an engagement party and I hoped that Dimitri and I could warn everyone from court to go easy on the vodka. I learned the hard way it was way stronger than normal vodka.

Olena told us we were doing the Gorka tradition here instead of at the reception and I did not need any other prompting to make out with an amazing man that by this time in a few days would be my husband. I noticed Sydney didn't take one of the alcoholic drinks that was passed out but used her water instead.

The superstition is that the longer we kissed the sweeter the drink and the stronger our marriage. You didn't need to tell me twice to kiss Dimitri for as long as I possibly could. I made sure to take in a deep breath before reaching up to Dimitri to kiss him and he leaned down and the kiss started off soft and grew with all of our love for one another and the rest of the world fell

away and he was all that I needed. I almost forgot we had an audience as we kissed and we finally broke my forehead resting on Dimitri's and I saw him look at his mother and she smiled.

"Well, we counted up to 240. The longest I've seen in a while. That's four minutes." She smiled and she pulled me into a big hug. "Welcome to the family Roza."

Afterwards people were handing out more little shot glasses. I took only one the whole night. I didn't need a repeat of taking more than I could handle. The party went all night and everyone was laughing and talking and I smiled and kindly asked Adrian if I could sneak Sydney away for a minute.

"Hey Syd," I asked when we were at the front of the house and no one else was around. "You ok? You seem a little off and I noticed you've been drinking water all night." I looked at her worriedly.

"Oh yea, I just am not a big drinker," She shrugged but I was pretty sure there was more.

I didn't need to have any superpowers to know when my friends were lying.

"Bullshit Syd, are you?" I asked pressing the topic further.

"Am I what?" She looked at me seriously.

"Are you pregnant?" I asked and I saw something flash across her eyes. "And don't try lying to me. I'm not stupid."

"Yes, we just found out, I didn't want to announce it till after the wedding. I didn't want to take any attention away from you guys." She said quietly.

"Oh Syd, I'm so excited for you guys." I hugged her tightly, not realizing I was probably crushing her. "Is that why Dec asked if Dimka and I were gonna have babies?"

"Probably, we talked to him about how we might be having a baby soon, we aren't quite sure how much he really understands about it." She said very matter of factly.

"I'm excited for you,"I smiled and I walked her back to Adrian smiling. They were really perfect for eachother.

I woke up groggily and felt the bed empty and my brain immediately panicked. Dimitri, what happened to him? Is he okay? As soon as my panic rose it fell as I realized that I, infact, did go to bed without him last night despite my pleas for him to stay. He wouldn't give in to seeing me the day of our wedding until I walked down the aisle.

I smiled and thought of Dimitri, I couldn't wait to see him and kiss him. I looked down at my engagement ring and I thought about the night he asked me to become his wife. I never doubted for a moment that he was the one. I always knew that no matter what, he was my future.

I was making history today and I could feel the butterflies fluttering around in my stomach. I got up and went to the bathroom and started a nice hot bath and smiled, sinking into the amazing bubble bath letting all my worries go. Nothing could ruin this day for me, today I wasn't a guardian, for today, and today only, I was the princess.

"Rose?" I heard Lissa call as she knocked on the door. "Rose, you better be getting ready." She called from the door still.

"Yes Liss, I'm in the bath? Wanna come join me?" I laughed and that must've been enough for her to realize that I was awake and already working on cleaning myself for today. It was still early but I knew I should get the showering and shaving my body hair off done now

before I got busy with other things. I was so glad that my dad and mom hired a photographer to take photos and videos of the whole day from after we ate breakfast until the party started tonight. Once I was done with my long drawn out bath and I showered to wash my hair before I got dressed in my silky white tank and pants and pulled a soft dressing gown around me that was white that said "Bride" across the back.

I walked down the stairs smiling letting my hand run down the wall as I thought Dimitri must've done a ton as he grew up here. It still seemed so amazing to me that he grew up here, all his best memories were held within these walls. And I was lucky enough to have my memories of today in the same home he grew up in. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Once I was down the stairs I headed to the kitchen smelling the beautiful scent that Olena must've been working on for a while and I smiled seeing a fresh loaf of Olena's bread that was my favorite last time I was here. She told me Dimitri was obsessed with it to the point where she made him learn how to make it.

"Good morning Roza," Olena smiled and nodded as I reached for the loaf of bread and a bowl of butter and a plate. I saw that all the other girls were awake and I took a knife and cut a big chunk of bread and slathered it with butter before offering it to Lissa and Jill.

"Morning everyone. Seriously Jill, Liss, this is amazing! Olena is the best cook I've ever met." I smiled.

We all ate and I smiled and saw Paul playing around in the other room. Once I was done eating I walked into the living room and smiled at Paul. "Auntie Roza," Paul said, hugging me tight.

"Hey buddy, how did you sleep?" I smiled.

"Good, are you really going to marry Dimka today?" This made me laugh a little.

"Yes Paul, nothing can stop me from marrying him today. Not even all the Strigoi in the world." I kissed his head and picked him up and showed him the bookcase that got Dimitri interested in the westerns he was obsessed with. "You know these are the same books that Uncle Dimka learned to read with? He still loves reading, he even read books when he was Strigoi.I saw it."

"Really? Strigoi read?" He laughed.

"Well Uncle Dimka did, promise me you will be careful if you become a Guardian." I said looking in his eyes softly. "We love you too much to let you get hurt." I said kissing his hair.

"I promise Auntie. Will you two teach me when I'm bigger? I want to hear all your stories." He said, staring up at me adoringly.

"Oh I will, all in good time budd, do you wanna count my molina's?" I smiled and knew this was something he always loved doing.

"Yes! Can I? Please?" I smiled and set him on the couch as I sat down on the floor and I held my hair up so he could see my whole neck and I let the robe slide a little showing some molina's that started to take over where my shoulders and neck met since I had so many marks and I didn't want them to too close together the only other option was to let them start spilling down my shoulders and back.

"Wow, there's a lot more here than the last time you visited Auntie." He said and I laughed.

"Yes Paul, I got a lot of them from the Strigoi back then but Uncle Dimitri and I hunt them when we can. Even Uncle Dimitri doesn't have this many. " I smiled as I felt his finger trace every inch of ink on my neck and back.

"Wow, how old were you when you killed your first Strigoi?" He asked and I turned to look at him and I held his little face that looked so much like Dimitri's.

"I was 17, but it was very very dangerous for me to do it when I was that young. They hurt my friend and he didn't make it out." I sighed thinking of Mason.

"I'm sorry Auntie."He said softly and he gave me a kiss on my cheek. "I won't kill a Strigoi until you and Uncle Dimka say I can."

"Good, your momma doesn't want you getting hurt." I smiled and kissed his head. "You look so much like Uncle Dimka." I smiled, feeling my eyes sting with a tear.

"I can't wait till you and uncle Dimka have babies," He said softly. "They'll be the best. Can you play with me a little before you need to get ready?"

"Yes, they're all still eating." I pointed at the kitchen. "Did you know grandma made fresh

bread?

"Yea, it's the best when it comes out of the oven," He said and then he instructed me that I was to play the Strigoi and he was going to hunt me with his wood steak. He pretended to fight me and steak me and I giggled when he was sitting on my belly with his steak over my chest, a little too high. "Close budd, but here aim a little lower and more to the right." I said as I repositioned his hand holding the blunt piece of wood over my heart. "You might give me a run for my title." I smiled and winked at him and he laughed hard and I picked him up and tickled him mercilessly before taking him into the kitchen. "Want more bread now that you killed your first fake Strigoi?" I smiled.

"Yes please." I set him down and saw him reach over and rip a chunk of bread off the loaf and run away with it.

"Karolina, he's a lot like his uncle." I said as he ran away. "We were playing and he was damn close to placing the steak right."

"Yes, he is a natural, he always asks for stories about you and Dimka." She smiled. "I might have to ship him off to you for a while. He would love to have some one on one training with you guys. He's still young though." She sighed, "I don't want him growing up too fast."

"I know, he won't, I promise." I hugged them all and smiled and I heard a knock at the door and Viktoria got up and answered it and in walked my mom and dad followed by a photographer and a hairstylist and makeup artist. Abe was really going all out since his initial wedding budget was over 3x what ours was actually going to be. I told him to save that money for later on.

"Good morning Rose." My mom and dad both said coming over to hug me.

"Morning mom, dad" I smiled. I still didn't call him that much but given it was my wedding I figured I would give him the pleasure of hearing that instead of my usual snarky comment. Damn I really was going soft today.

"Well, we've got plenty of work ahead of us." My mom spoke as she led the hairstylist and makeup artist up the stairs and helped them set up so they could start. I smiled and my dad had a wooden box in his one hand.

"What's that dad?" I smiled trying to get a better look at it but he hid it behind his back.

"It's our present for our daughter on her wedding day." He smiled, kissing my forehead. "I'm so proud of you."

"Thanks," I smiled and Olena gestured for the women to get upstairs to get their hair and makeup done for the wedding. I went upstairs and sat on the bed in my and Dimitri's room. The hairstylist set up here and the makeup artist was in the bathroom and I smiled as we got the dresses out and hung them up.

The photographer took a few of my things including my engagement ring and my shoes and the perfume that my dad had bought me for today and a few other little details. I noticed Abe handed her the box and I was a little jealous that she got to see what was in the box before I did. Since my mom was up here first she was the first one done with her hair and makeup and the girls would swap when one was done. It was like a perfectly executed assembly line. I offered to go first but I was told that they wanted to get everyone else done before me.

The only dress that was still hidden was mine since Abe was still around and he wasn't going to see me until after I was dressed. I was actually going to get dressed at the church as I didn't want to walk around all of Baia in my heels and wedding dress before the wedding. It was a beautiful dress but I knew it wouldn't be easy to walk a mile in those heels.

Once everyone was done up I had tears in my eyes seeing all the women I loved looking their best and laughing. I pulled everyone into hugs and told them thank you and that I loved them one by one.

"Rose, I'm so happy for you." Lissa said softly as she sat next to me. "I can't believe you two are actually getting married. You are so beautiful and he's so lucky to spend the rest of his life with you." She said and I saw Jill and Sydney standing nearby tearing up and I pulled her closer.

"Liss, Jill,Syd, you guys are family and just because I'm getting married doesnt mean that I won't need girl time away from him. And no matter what, I can't get rid of you guys. You're just a few of my sisters. I smiled and nodded to Dimitri's sisters. I'm so lucky to go from a single child to now having six sisters." I smiled as Lissa wiped a tear away from my face.

"Thank you for everything you've done for us. You deserve this day to be perfect," Jill said letting a tear escape and Sydney dabbed it away with a tissue.

"Jill, don't ruin your makeup Rose isn't even in her hair or makeup yet." She said and giggled a little.

"We are all gunna cry a lot today aren't we?" I asked, smiling.

"Oh yes, lots of tears." Lissa said smiling. "How long do you think it'll take Mr. Mazur to

cry?"

"Oh, only two seconds after seeing me in my dress," I smiled, "And Dimka. As soon as he sees me, and if not as soon as he hears me speak Russian."

"You learned Russian?" Olena turned around surprised.

"Yes, for our vows, I want to say Dimitri's name and my first words at our wedding to be in his native language." I smiled blushing. It didn't matter if others in the room knew now, it was only hours before the wedding.

"Oh Roza, that's the sweetest thing anyone's done for my Dimka." She said and she launched herself at me in a big hug. "Thank you again for bringing him back to us."

Yeva came up to me and smiled, putting her hand on my cheek and spoke softly. "Вы с Дмитрием были созданы друг для друга. Сегодня мы станем свидетелями того, как вы

станете одним из них.(You and Dmitri were made for each other. Today we will witness how you will become one with him.)" The tears were springing up in my eyes and I spoke softly.

"Спасибо тебе, Ева. Я люблю тебя.(Thank you Yeva. I love you.)"

She smiled and kissed my head and went to go get all dolled up and I smiled and realized that it was my turn to get my makeup done while Yeva was going to get her hair done.

I had a pretty natural makeup look, I did choose a light pink shade of lipstick to match the color of the pink flowers in the bouquets. All the girls doted on me and smiled and they were shoo-ed away when my parents came up and I turned to face them and they smiled telling me how proud they were of me and that they had this present for me. I realized it was the box and I smiled and Abe set it down in front of me.

"Open it Rose." He said softly and I did. Inside was a beautiful necklace that had such a feminine design with diamonds dotted all over it and sapphires hanging down every so often. I covered my mouth from shock before I saw two sapphire stud earrings that matched perfectly.

"This is an old family Heirloom of mine." Abe said softly as he took the necklace out and put it on me. And my mom added the earrings. I felt tears spring to my eyes.

"Dad, this must be worth a fortune." I said gently touching one of the sapphires.

"It's yours now." He said softly, "It was my mother's, she wore it on her wedding day." He said softly before wrapping me up in a big hug.

I came out of the bathroom once my makeup was done and with my mom and dad coming out behind me as I had the jewelry on and I saw everyone gasp and they all came to study the beautiful necklace.

Once my hair was all done I smiled and it felt like a fairytale. I looked up and Yeva added a small little silver clip to the hair that was slightly pulled away from my face with little twist jewels dotting the rest of my hair. The clip had a very similar design to the necklace, looking like silver ivy with some diamonds along it.

"My mother wore this at her wedding and I wore it at mine, now you will wear it today.

This is your something borrowed, and old." She said softly.

I touched my necklace, "Blue," I smiled and looked at my shoes and dress. "That's the

new."

I kissed Yeva's cheek again smiling. "I promise to take care of Dimka for the rest of my

days."

"You better, that boy can't live without you." She said softly.

" I know," I giggled a little. "I can't wait to see Dimitri's reaction when I tell him my vows." I smiled like a small school child and Paul came running in.

"Auntie Auntie you look beautiful. That necklace is really pretty," He smiled and kissed my cheek before he was ushered to get his hair taken care of. I saw Declan come running in as well and I picked him up and swung him around smiling.

"Hey Dec, how are you today?" I kissed his face.

"I'm good, you marrying Uncle Dimka today, oooh pweetty neckwace, you wook very pweety today auntie." He smiled and kissed my cheek.

"Thank you Dec," I smiled and set him down. "I want to give you something special, okay?" I said as I grabbed a small box and ushered him into an empty room. "I'm going to give you a special present but it's a secret okay?" I smiled.

"Ok Auntie." He said smiling as I opened the box and handed him his own toy steak. "I need you to protect those rings okay? You've got your steak now I think you can do the job, What do you think?" I smiled and I saw the biggest grin show across his face and his eyes were so wide and I saw a tear fall softly and I wiped it away.

"Yes Auntie, do I get to keep dis?" He asked, focusing all of his attention on it in my

hands.

"Yes, it's yours, I can't wait to teach you how to use it." I smiled at the sweet young boy. "Momma knows it's yours and she won't take it away unless you misbehave with it okay?" I smiled and kissed his head and I slid it into a pocket in his little jacket. "You even have a pocket for it."

I saw Sydney come and watch us from the doorway and I nodded smiling at her. I knew this was a big moment for him and I wanted to make it special, she understood how much Declan looked up to me and Dimitri and she told me I could give him his first toy steak and after seeing him adore Paul's steak I had to get him his own. I kissed his head and picked him up and handed him to Syd. "Momma, auntie giveded me a steak!" He squealed.

"She did. Congrats, soon you'll be just like her and Dimitri." She smiled and I saw tears spring up in her eyes again.

A little while later we made our way down to the church and I smiled. My arms were linked with Jill on one side and Lissa on the other.

"Sydney, now me, who's next?" I smiled looking between the two sisters.

"No, I'm still too young." Jill spoke

Once we got in the church I peeked in from a window and saw the beautiful church decorated with flowers at every pew and I smiled seeing a few giant vases at the altar. The priest stood in Navy robes, not something he normally would probably wear but I'm sure Abe gave him enough money so he fit in with the rest of the wedding.

I quickly took my eyes before Dimitri could see me and I was ushered into a small room in the church where my mom, Lissa, Jill, Sydney, Olena and all of Dimitri's sisters were in, and the photographer and I became very self conscious knowing they were all here to help me get in one dress. A dress I now realized that I wasn't able to wear a bra with. This could go wrong pretty quickly and I hoped that no wardrobe malfunction would be caught on camera.

I smiled as I saw my dress and I reached out and touched it and I heard a faint clicking but I didn't care. All that mattered was studying this amazing dress that I was going to wear. That I was going to become Mrs. Rose Hathaway Belikov in. I felt a tear spring to my eyes and I dotted it away quickly. I then looked over to Lissa and Sydney who were looking at me expectantly.

"Alright, time for this to really happen." I said softly. "Time to put my wedding dress on, then all I have to do is actually get married." I smiled realizing this was the most important day of my life and I wanted to soak up every moment possible.

Once the dress was on and buttoned up and I had adjusted my boobs to sit perfectly in the dress I gave all the girls hugs and told them I loved them before they left to go sit in the church. Sonja left her little girl in with Sydney and Lissa, Paul and Declan were also getting ready in the front after I said my thanks again to everyone.

With that the photographer spoke up and smiled. "Alright Rose, time to show off your dress to your father."

My mom walked out of the door and smiled as she had brought my dad in with one of his scarves covering his eyes and his hands were out as he tried to walk in the room without seeing. "Hey old man," I spoke softly and reached up to take his scarf off his eyes and I saw he was holding his eyes shut. I took a step back and smiled and whispered "Open,"

I knew the photographer was behind me taking photos of his reaction and I smiled at his expression of wonder, awe and pride in his face.

"Rose," He said softly as he came and kissed my forehead and I heard the clicking of the camera move closer to our sides, no doubt getting as many angles of this moment as possible. I held the position making sure she got the photo and I looked up at him and wiped a tear off his face. "You're an angel." He said softly.

"Today, I'm the princess, your princess, dad." I smiled and he wiped a tear away from my eye now.

"Janinie, can you believe that we made this?" He looked at her and gestured to me. "Yes Ibhrahim, we made the most amazing and strongest guardian known to man. And

she looks like the most beautiful bride I've ever seen." She said and they both gave me a hug and I was so happy to have someone immortalizing these moments for the rest of our lives.

Once we had our moment mom broke the silence. "Ibrahim, we need to move, it's almost

time."

"Thanks mom, can I have a moment with dad alone?" I spoke softly.

"Of course sweetheart." She kissed my hair and I saw her walk out the door and I'm pretty sure she was going to take her spot in the front row of the church.

"Rose, you'll always be my princess." He spoke softly. "And today you become Dimitri's queen. I'm so proud of everything you've done and all that you've become. I cannot wait to see how much your life changes and be there for the rest of your is just the beginning of your journey with Dimitri. It might not be easy all the time but I know the two of you can work through everything together."

"Thank you, dad, I love you. I'm so lucky to have you in my life, I know we have a lot of time to make up for, but I'm glad I know who you are and we have a relationship." I smiled and we both took a few deep breaths and I gulped as I took a deep breath. "Please don't let me fall." I said softly as we walked up to the doors that opened to the church.

"I won't, my princess." He said softly in my ear as the doors opened.

If my dad wasn't holding onto my arm I would've bolted up the aisle to Dimitri. Instead we walked slowly and I looked around smiling as we walked past our friends and family and then I looked up at Dimitri. I could see tears starting to trickle down his beautiful face and he quickly wiped them away and he had the biggest smile on his face.

Once we were at the front the soft music stopped and the priest looked at us " Who gives this bride away."

"I do, along with her mother," He nodded to my mom who stood off to my left. Abe gave me a kiss on my cheek whispering "Good luck Rosie," My mom came over and gave me a hug and kissed my other cheek and Abe offered my hand to Dimitri.

He took it and kissed my hand softly. He only took his eyes off me to look at the priest. "We are gathered here today to witness the matrimony between Rosmarie Hathaway

and Dimitri Belikov. I believe you wrote your own vows?" He looked between us and we both nodded. Dimitri offered to speak first. "Roza, my Roza, I love you with all my heart. Nothing, not

even the impossible can keep us apart. I cannot wait to take you on this long adventure of marriage. We will have many more incredible adventures together, anything is possible with you at my side. I promise that no matter what happens, or how mad we get at each other we will get through anything. I promise to cook you breakfast as long as you let me and let you sleep on any day you don't have to actually get up. I promise to take care of you the best I can for the rest of my life." He spoke as tears sprang up in our eyes and I squeezed his hands tight before looking to Sydney and giving a quick nod.

My turn, I took a deep breath and tried to push the tears away from eyes as I spoke, "Дмитрий, я люблю тебя с тех пор, как мы впервые встретились. Я не могу представить свою жизнь без тебя. Несмотря на то, что мы пережили больше, чем большинство людей нашего возраста, я знаю, что нам суждено было быть вместе. Ты-мой рай. Мы можем делать все, что угодно, когда мы вместе. Я всегда буду бороться за нас и нашу семью. Я люблю тебя всем сердцем, мой муж." (Dimitri, I have loved you since we first met. I cannot imagine my life without you. Even though we've been through more than most people our age, I know that we were meant to be. You are my heaven. We can do anything when we are together. I will always fight for us and our family. I love you with my whole heart, my husband.)

I saw awe and wonder on Dimitri's face as he heard me speak my vows in Russian. "Roza, Когда вы выучили русский язык?(When did you learn Russian?)" I saw tears falling quickly down his cheeks.

"Я учился для своих свадебных клятв, товарищ. (I learned for my wedding vows, Comrade.)" I smiled as he squeezed my hands tightly.

"Now, time for the rings."The priest spoke and we turned to Lissa and Christian to get our wedding bands. "These rings are a symbol of your forever unbreakable bond. Dimitri, would you place this on Rosemarie's finger and say 'This ring is a token of my love. I offer you all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be.'." I smiled as Dimitri took my hand and spoke as he slipped the beautiful simple ring on my finger.

"This ring is a token of my love. I offer you all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be." He tried his best to not choke up on the words and hold back tears and the priest turned to me.

I took Dimitri's big hand in mine as I took the wedding band and slid it on his finger as I repeated the vows "This ring is a token of my love. I offer you all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be." I swallowed hard looking at Dimitri's amazingly beautiful brown eyes full of love and hope and a little awe and wonder.

"I now pronounce you as husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride." He said as he took a step off to the side.

Dimitri grabbed me one hand holding my back and the other behind my neck as he tipped me down and gave me one of the most amazing kisses of our life. I forgot about our wedding, I forgot about anyone around us. All that I knew was Dimitri and I. That's all that mattered in this moment. We were together and nothing could break us apart ever again. We did have to stop once we ran out of oxygen and Dimitri set me back on my feet as he held me close.

My forehead against his and I smiled. "Я люблю тебя, мой муж.( I love you my husband.)"

"Я люблю тебя, моя жена.( I love you my wife.)" Dimitri said softly and gave me a soft kiss before we looked at everyone cheering. More tears sprang to my eyes and I smiled. I held Dimitri's hand tightly and he walked us back down the aisle and after we were back in the front of the church I pulled him to the room that I got dressed in and he smiled.

"мой сексуальный муж (my sexy husband)" I smiled and I saw him raise an eyebrow. "моя сексуальная жена (My sexy wife)" He said as he kissed me with more fire than

before and I was so happy to have a moment with him, no photographer or friends or family. Just us. "Roza, I love you but why did you keep learning Russian a secret?" He said smiling as he kissed my forehead.

"I wanted to promise myself to you in your native language, and I wanted it to be a surprise." I smiled.

"It worked and, my god Roza, you trying to kill me with how amazingly angelic you look in that dress?"

"You like it?" I smiled and did a twirl showing him the back as well.

" I love it, it was made for you." He smiled and I heard a knock on the door. Damn I knew it would only last a moment. I kissed Dimitri again and he led me back out the door and we smiled at Lissa.

We went and got our photos done at the church after we signed the paperwork. Then the photographer wanted to take us to some other places in the town and get some photos. She took one of us in front of the church just Dimitri and I looking at each other with the biggest grins on our faces.

After our photos we met everyone at the reception hall and it was beautiful. The tables were decorated with beautiful centerpieces with navy white and pink flowers. There was a small table at the front for me and Dimitri along with Lissa and Christan. I was taken aback and I thanked Lissa again and hugged her tight and Sydney as I knew she had just as much to do with how everything was perfectly set up.

We had our toasts and thank god there was only Christian and Lissa's. I don't think I could've taken any other speeches. After we thanked everyone for coming and everyone ate I looked around the room and on our way over to the wedding cake I stopped and saw a table with a photo of Mason and a small candle.

"Lissa," I looked over at her.

"That was Eddie," She nodded over to him. "Said he would've been here if he could've." I looked at Eddie and waved him to come over and he did. "I'm sorry Rose, I just, I

thought it might've been comforting." He said softly.

"Thank you. He would be so proud of us." I said smiling. "He might be mad that I have more molinas than my neck can fit."

"He'd be so proud of you." Eddie smiled and hugged Dimitri.

After we cut the cake and fed it to each other we did our first dance. Dimitri said he would pick out the song and Abe made us go to dance lessons. The song he chose was Salvation by Gabrielle Aplin.

We danced slowly and I smiled, noticing the song.I heard Dimitri listening to a bunch of songs to find the most perfect one.

"Roza, I love you and you are my salvation. I have you to thank for every moment of my life." He said smiling as he twirled me closer.

"And you are mine, my husband." I said softly. "Oh, I have some gossip to tell you." I whispered. "Syd's pregnant." I said barely audibly.

"I noticed at the party, when you went to talk to her, I figured you caught on too." He smiled and held me as close as our bodies would let as we danced to the rest of the song. I smiled and as the song ended Abe tapped Dimitri's shoulder.

"May I dance with Mrs. Belikov?" He said smiling and Dimitri offered my hand to him. "Of course, Sir." He smiled and we danced slowly. That's when I realized this was my

first dance with my father. All sorts of history in the making here tonight. I smiled. "The bride-napping will be happening right after this dance sweetie." He said softly. "Right now all his sisters and your chosen sisters are all kissing a napkin with the same lipstick and he has to tell which print is yours. If he gets it right he gets you, if he gets it wrong, he owes me a favor."

He said softly. The song ended and Abe led me off the dance floor where I noticed Eddie and Christian followed us and someone must've distracted Dimitri. Probably Lissa, I was handed a napkin by Viktoria and she was giggling. "Do you think he'll guess right?" She asked softly.

"I hope so," I smiled and kissed the napkin, my lip print being in the middle of the napkin and I made sure to copy the shape my mouth always made as I kissed Dimitri. All I could do now was hand them the napkin and hope he got it right.

We walked back into the room and I saw relief come to Dimitri's face. However, Abe walked up to Dimitri while Eddie and Christian held me in a way that made it look like Dimitri was not to come near.

"Russian culture says you can have a bride-napping during the reception and you must do one of two things to get your bride back." Abe said, getting everyone's attention. He loved making scenes.

"One, you could offer me money or jewels or whatever you like or, two you can look at this napkin that has 7 lip prints on it, one is your wife's, the others are your sisters and Rose's chosen sisters. If you choose your wife's print correctly you will get her back, and if you get it wrong you owe me a favor." He held the napkin up and showed it off.

"I'll look at the napkin." He said coolly, narrowing his eyes on my father and I smiled and winked and blew Dimitri a kiss. Hopefully he could match the print to the way my lips moved to make the kiss.

Dimitri took the napkin and studied the prints one by one taking his time and occasionally he looked at me and when he looked at the middle one I bit my lip hoping he would get our bond knowing which one was mine.

After a few moments Dimitri spoke. "I know which one it is." He said, looking at Abe. "It's this one right here." He said but how he was holding it I couldn't see. Abe ushered for Christian and Eddie to walk me over and we all moved and Abe looked at me before looking at the napkin.

"He's right, old man," I smiled and reached my arms around Dimitri's neck and kissed him. I could never get annoyed with kissing him.

"There is one more Russian tradition," Yeva said, getting everyone's attention. Yeva held a loaf of bread and I remembered that the goal was to get a bigger bite than Dimitri to determine who was the breadwinner of our family. After she filled everyone in on the tradition Dimitri took his bite first and it was big, but as I hadn't gotten lunch my bite was even bigger than his my

mouth full of salty bread but I chewed for a moment before swallowing it down and Yeva looked at both of us clearly she was the one deciding what bite was bigger. She looked at Dimitri and spoke, "Sorry Dimka, it looks like your wife had a bigger bite than you." She spoke softly and he just hugged her and said some lovely words to her in russian.

After a little while longer Dimitri spoke loudly addressing the crowd. "Thank you all for coming. We appreciate you all for your love and support through everything. Now my wife and I must head out."

"Thank you everyone, I truly appreciate every moment and enjoy the party, and remember the bar tab is on Mr. Mazur." I said as Dimitri grabbed me by my hand and pulled me out of the room before scooping me up bridal style in his arms and carrying me to our car.

He gently set me down and kissed me lovingly before shutting my door and getting into the driver's side and he started the car.

"So, husband, am I allowed to know where we are going for our honeymoon?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, Mrs. Belikov, I thought I'd take you to the beach and we could be in the sun all day long. I know how much you miss the sun." He smiled.

"There's millions of places that could be." I sighed but that was the closest answer I was going to get until we got there. Abe must've set up the flight or Lissa did since it was a private jet and it seemed to be a long flight so I figured it wasn't anywhere in Russia or Europe.

When the plane touched down Dimitri woke me and I smiled and saw my dress was still on. I didn't even get a chance to change on the plane but I was okay with it. I loved this dress and it was so comfortable that I wouldn't mind wearing it if I didn't need the heels.

"Come my wife, welcome to our home for the next two weeks." He smiled as he scooped me up and I saw a guy grabbing our bags that Dimitri must've had ready to go. As Dimitri carried me out of the plane I saw the most beautiful sunset on the ocean. We were in Hawai'i. We were driven to a beautiful little home that looked elegant but not like a hotel chain.

Dimitri picked me up again out of the car and handed the driver some cash to bring our bags into the house behind us. "Dimitri," I said, astonished looking up at his beautiful face being lit by the slowly fading sunlight. "Hawai'i? Wait, you said we have two weeks? I thought it'd be just a few days."

"Yes, my Roza, two weeks. Don't worry about Lissa and Christian they already know and they have plenty of protection without us. Now my biggest worry is getting that dress off of you without ruining it." He smirked and grabbed our bags and showed me to the bedroom.

We were just landing back at court and my smile fell just a little. The last month was amazing, perfect. But we were back to reality. Back to boring standing at court meetings and listening to political fights about whatever was on the agenda for today. As soon as I stepped off the plane I ran to Lissa hugging her tight.

"Liss, we were in Hawaii." I smiled even though she knew this as I texted her where we were and sent her quite a few photos, only the appropriate ones. I may have snuck a photo of my husband skinny dipping in the ocean by the moonlight for myself.

"You look tan, and very happy." She smiled. "I have some news to tell you, Sydney's pregnant." She smiled and I pretended that Dimitri and I didn't know earlier. I knew they just didn't want to make a big deal about it in Baia.

"Come on Liss, let's talk. I have a lot of things I can tell, and some things I can't, about the honeymoon." I winked over to Dimitri as he smiled and I saw him grab our bags and turn towards our home as we headed towards Lissa and Christian's.

"He's amazing, but damn he cannot be in charge of packing my bag ever again." I mused rolling my eyes.

"That bad?" She looked at me trying to study me.

"Yes, most of my wardrobe was bought and delivered to the house since I couldn't really go out in public other than to the ocean for a few days. I didn't mind wearing little clothing, but a girl needs some shorts and a top." I giggled and we went back to Lissa's to talk more.