CHAPTER 8
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Previously
After a while, I heard that he was snoring softly and I know that, this is the queue for me to leave this hellhole. I grabbed my bag and left.
When I looked the time on my phone, it was around 3:00 A.M, I also saw around thirty missed call and the same amount of messages, I guess from my family. I am leaving for home so I do not reply any messages. I was about to exit the main door when suddenly someone said.
"Aren't you forgetting something child."
Presently
RPOV
I turned around and find it was just Yeva and calmed myself.
Flashback
Suddenly an old woman stands up and said: "I want to talk to the girl alone."
"But I don't want to talk to anybody; I just want to go from here."- I said.
"This is for your own benefit girl. Come with me."- She said and I walked with her in hope that maybe she will help me running from here.
She took me to an empty room and I asked her: "so tell me how you are going to help me in running from here."
Instead of replying she laughed.
"I didn't bring you here to help you in the run; I bring you here to talk to you about something."- She said.
"If you are not helping me in the running from here than I think talking to you is no use to me."- I said and started leaving.
"Maybe it is no use to you but it can be useful to the certain bakery."- When she said that I stopped instantly and looked at her.
"I know why you are here, you are here for your bakery and I can help you getting the papers of the bakery."- She said.
"Who are you? And how do you know all of these things?"- I asked her.
"Well, I am Yeva Belikova and I know things people usually don't know."- She said.
"If you are a Belikov than why you want to help me."- I asked her.
"I can't answer that but I have a proposition for you." – Yeva said.
"And what is that?"- I asked her.
"If you marry my grandson 'Dimitri Belikov' than I will give you the papers of your bakery."- She said calmly.
"What? Do you think I am crazy? I will never marry him."- I said.
"I thought you will do anything for your bakery."- Yeva said.
"Yes, I will but-"- I started.
"I am not saying to marry him for real, I mean it is considered as real marriage for all of them but not in front of the law until the marriage is registered and my grandson is so religious that he will not bother to do that and I will you give you papers when we reach home and then you can leave and if my grandson try to bring you back here, you can go to America where my stupid grandson will not be able to prove this marriage and no one sitting in the church is taking any photograph, so it will benefit you."- She said and I remained silent for a while thinking about it.
"Decide quickly child, we do not have much time."- Yeva said.
"I think I will do it"- I said and she is right, there is no proof of this marriage legally.
Flashback Over
"You forget the papers child, here take them."- She said giving me the paper; I took the papers from her hand.
"Thank you."- I said.
"No need to thank me, child and I called a cab for you and don't worry that cab driver won't tell anyone where he dropped you. See you soon child."- She said and left.
After that I left and as Yeva said the cab is waiting for me not far away from the house. I grabbed the cab and left for the home.
MPOV
Rose is missing from the time we reached home, she wasn't in her room and we searched everywhere but we are not able to find her even we called her so many times but there is no reply, everyone is so freaked out, aunt is thinking that something bad might happened to her. It's been 3 'o' clock and she is still missing, none of us get a blink of sleep. Suddenly the doorbell rang and we rushed towards the door and when we opened the door there she was standing.
RPOV
When the door opened everybody lashed at me and hugged me tightly.
"Where the fuck you were, Rose?"- Mason yelled at me.
"Mason, let her explain."- Aunt said.
"Well, I was getting bored so I went to the cabin and stayed there for a while but I do not remember when I fell asleep there but when I got up I realized that it's late, so I grabbed a cab and came home."- I said.
"But you should have called us."- Jill said.
"Yeah, well I kind of forget."- I said.
"I am letting you off this time, Rose, because I know you are a very responsible girl but don't repeat it."- Aunt said. "C'mon lets go to sleep, it's already late."
"Rose, we need to 'talk'."- Eddie whispered to me.
"Not here, meet me in my room in five minutes." – I replied.
I reached my room and changed into my PJs when I heard a knock at my door.
"Come in."- I replied.
Eddie, Mason, and Mia entered my room. Eddie started to say something but suddenly Mia said little loudly but my room is upstairs so her voice didn't reach downstairs.
"Rose, what is that?"- She said gesturing towards my ring finger, and then I remembered that I am still wearing the ring.
"Rose why are you wearing a wedding ring?"- Mason said
"Guys, please sit down. I will explain you everything."- I replied and they all settle down but I remained quiet for a moment to gather myself to speak.
"Rose, please say something, you are scaring us."- Mason said.
"Please listen to the whole story before yelling or stopping me in between."- I said and they nodded their head.
I explained them everything from the start, their expression changed from shocked to anger but they remained quiet letting me complete my story.
"That fucking Belikov, how dare he to marry my princess forcefully."- Eddie said.
"You were right Rose, he is a no good man."- Mia said.
"I am going to kill him."- Mason said balling his hand into a fist.
"Guys, everything is over and good thing is that I got the papers and he is going to get shocked when he found that his wife is left him. I am telling you his ego is going to get crushed. So we should leave this thing here to not get any attention and we all know how much influence he has here."- I said.
"I think Rose is right, Rose can we see the papers."- Eddie said but I know three of them are still angry inside. "Mason can you show the papers to your friend."
"Yeah, I will email him right away."- Mason said.
"Isn't it too late?"- I asked him.
"No he is not in Russia right now, so it's no problem."- Mason said and mailed the papers to his friend and we waited for his reply. After an hour he replied and Mason's face fell.
"What happen Mase?"- Mia asked him.
"He said that even we have papers we can't-do anything because the bakery is registered on his name until he registered the bakery on our name. The bakery is lost cause now."- He said and we all fell silent.
"I have an idea."- I said.
"No Rose, you have done enough, we are not putting you in any danger."- Eddie said.
"Please listen to the idea first, and then make a decision."- I said and they looked at me. "Please."- I begged.
"Okay."- They said.
"If we can make him sign the papers, then the bakery will belong to us."- I said.
"And how you are planning to do that?"- Mia asked.
"I will go back there and make him do that and-" – I started.
"No no no, that's not going to happen."- They said together.
"Listen to the plan first. I think I can make him do that, he is so want to make the things work between us, so I can take this as an advantage." – I said.
"Rose, this is not going to happen. Leave it."- Eddie said.
"Please, this is the only way to get the bakery back."- I said.
"Rose what if he hurt you or try to do something, you know you are married to him. You know what I mean."- Mia said.
"I know what you are trying to say but he is not going to do anything. Firstly two members of his family are already is on my side. Second, if he wants to work this relationship he will not do anything. Third, we all know he can be a cheater but not a person who abuses a woman. Fourth, if he wants to do anything he had already done it while I was there."- I said.
"I think Rose is right, at least we should try this."- Mia said.
"How could you favor her Mia, you want to push her in danger. I know now, why you would care after all she is not your sister."- Mason said angrily.
"How can you say that Mason, she is my sister too?"- Mia said.
"If you considered her as your sister then you wouldn't favor her."- Mason argued back.
"Enough."- Eddie said cutting their argument. "I think Mia is right."
"Eddie, I didn't expect this from you."- Mason said.
"Mase, think calmly if he can trick us so that we can trick him too and Rose has us if something happens we will be there for her."- Eddie said.
"Please Mason."- I begged.
"Okay, but how did you plan on getting back to him after you left him."- Mason said.
"I will tell them I went to my hotel to bring my clothes because they think I am a tourist."- I replied.
"Okay, but if you think something is wrong then you will call us right away."- Mason said.
"I promise, I will."- I replied.
"So you are getting back there but you have to be prepared. We will tell you about the Community and all its members."- Eddie said and I agreed.
"Okay then let's start with the six families. I will tell you about the council members and their family members."- He said and started explaining to me.
"First Family: The Dashkov's
Head: Victor Dashkov
His wife died three years ago and he has a daughter, his one, and only child Natalie Dashkov.
Second Family: The Ozera's
Head: Michael Ozera
Wife: Moira Ozera
Children: Elder daughter Natasha Ozera and a son Christian Ozera.
Third Family: The Dragomir's
Head: Eric Dragomir
Wife: Rhea Dragomir
Children: Elder son Andre Dragomir who is engaged to Avery Lazar, Lazars are not on the council but they are the important part of the community.
And a daughter Vasilisa Dragomir who is engaged to Christian Ozera.
Fourth Family: The Zeklos
Head: Valentin Zeklos
Wife: Galina Zeklos
Children: Eldest son Ivan Zeklos who is the best friend of Dimitri Belikov, second son Jesse Zeklos and a daughter Sydney Zeklos who is engaged to Adrian Ivashkov.
Well one more interesting fact, Jesse Zeklos the second child of Valentin Zeklos is no longer part of the Community and he just disappeared from Russia, no one has seen him from one and half year.
Fifth Family: The Ivashkov's
Head: Nathan Ivashkov
Wife: Daniella Ivashkov
He has only one child Adrian Ivashkov who is engaged to Sydney Zeklos, sister of Ivan Zeklos, but there is another important member of the Ivashkov family Tatiana Ivashkov who is the sister of Nathan Ivashkov and has a say in the decision of the family.
Sixth Family: The Belikov's
Head: Dimitri Belikov
His father died a year ago and now he is the head of the family as well as The Head of the community. His grandmother is Yeva Belikova, who sees things that going to happen in the future and everyone in the Community believes that God tells her about the future and no one question her not even Dimitri Belikov.
His mother is Olena Belikova, well you already met her and he has three sisters. The eldest sister, Karolina Belikova and she is a widow, she has one son Paul and one daughter Zoya. The second sister is Sonya Belikova; she is totally like her brother a keen follower of the rules. The younger sister of Dimitri Belikov is Victoria Belikova, it is heard that she is quite a rebellion." – Eddie said explaining me about the Community.
"The rules they follow are more like no drinking except some special occasion, no sex before marriage and a lot of others. You will know them when you live there. Well, that's all about 'The Community'."
"You forget to tell the important fact about the Belikov family."- Mia said and Eddie, Mason looked at her confused.
"What fact you are talking about Mia?"- Eddie said.
"That there is an addition to the Belikov family, who is supposed to be the wife of Dimitri Belikov, our dear Rose."- She said and chuckled and we glared at her.
"Well, I am trying to lighten the mood by making jokes."- Mia said.
"That's not funny."- We all said together to Mia.
"I have a question."- Mia said.
"What?"- I asked.
"What we are going to say to aunt and Jill?"- She said.
"Good question."- I said and we were all thinking when Mason said.
"We can say that Rose got an internship in America and she has to go there for a while."- Mason said and we all looked at him.
"I didn't know that you have a brain to think good ideas, Mase."- Mia said and we all chuckled.
"Well then everything is settled and we will break the news to the aunt in the morning, now everybody just gets rest."- Eddie said.
They all left and I slept the instant I hit the pillow. I wake up around eight and took a shower and get ready and headed towards downstairs.
"Good morning everyone."- I said.
"Good morning Rose."- Aunt replied. "So you are coming to the bakery with me today."- She asked.
"Aunt I have to tell you something."- I said.
"What is it dear?"- She asked.
"Well, the thing is I can't come to the bakery with you for a while because I got an internship in States and it's a great opportunity and I want your permission for that."- I said.
"You know that Rose I never stopped you from doing anything related to your career and I am not stopping you this time but please be careful and when are you leaving?"- She said.
"I am leaving in few hours."- I said.
"Ohh."- She said sadly, of course, she is supposed to be sad because I just get here.
"Well then, good luck dear and take care and keep calling me."- She said and hugged me and left for the bakery after breakfast with Jill because Jill has an early shift.
"Mia, will you help me with packing?"- I asked her.
"Yes, sure."- She replied.
We remained silent during packing and I packed all of my clothes, shoes, makeup, and toiletries and we head downstairs with my two bags and then I called a cab and put my bags in it, I turned around to say bye to my brothers and Mia.
"Take care, Rose."- Mia said hugging me.
"Call us if you feel something is not right and be careful."- Mason said.
"Always."- I replied and hugged them and went inside the cab and waved them bye. "I am coming Belikov."- Now I know why Yeva said 'See you soon.'
DPOV
I woke up and saw Rose is not in the room, I looked around the house and she was nowhere. I think she left, after all, she is against the marriage but she shouldn't have left. I left to my room to take shower and after that, I am going to ask Mama, maybe she knows where she is.
I went downstairs after taking shower and asked my mother: "Mama, have you seen Rose?"- I asked panicked, maybe I am paranoid and my mother know where she is.
"No, I think that I should ask you that. She hasn't eaten anything from tomorrow so you should bring her here for the breakfast."- She said. My sister Karolina came from her room and asked me.
"How was the night Dimka?" – She said wiggling her eyebrows.
"What happen Dimka, you seem tense."- Karo said seeing my face.
"Where is your wife Dimka?"- Sonya said sitting on the table.
"I don't know, I can't find her anywhere."- I replied.
"What?"- My mother said.
"Dimka, you are supposed to look after her, it's not been 24 hours after you get married and you don't even know where she is right now."- My mother scolded me.
"Mama, I think I should go and look in the town."- I said.
"Yeah, you should."- Mama said glaring at me and I left to look for her.
After searching for two hours and no sign of her, I left for home. When I reached home, mama jumped at me asking questions.
"Where is she?"- She asked me annoyingly and I shook my head.
"Well, what you expect from a low life, except running."- Sonya said.
"Watch your tongue, Sonya."- I said to her angrily, how she can say that about Rose.
"Sonya, the girl you are talking about is your sister-in-law."- Mama scolds her.
"If you want to blame anybody then you should blame our brother who married her forcefully, running is the last resort to her."- Vika said.
"What is the trouble here?"- Yeva said coming from her room.
"We can't find Rose."- Mama said to babushka and she laughed.
"What's so funny about it mama."- My mother said to babushka.
"The funny thing is you are getting tense for no reason. She is a big girl she will be back soon; she needs some time to think about all of this so she went to think of all this in peace."- Babushka said casually.
"If you know about this all time, why didn't you know tell us before?"- Mama said.
"Firstly I just came here from my room and secondly its fun watching you all gets all worked up."- Yeva said smirking.
"Now let's have some breakfast, she will be back soon."- Yeva said.
We have done breakfast in silence and after one more hour she still didn't arrive, I started pacing in the living room.
"Dimka, she will be back soon just sit down, your pacing is making my head spin."- Yeva said to me.
Yeva said and doorbell ringed and I run towards the door and opened the door and she was standing there and I noticed she has two bags with her. She came inside and I called mama.
"Мама, Роза здесь."- I said and everyone came running in the living room.
"Rose, where have you left?"- Mama asked her.
"I left to bring my stuff from my hotel room."- Rose replied.
"Okay Rose but please tell us before you left somewhere, you scared the hell out of us."- Mama said and I remained silent.
"But Yeva said that you need time to think that why you left."- Sonya said.
"Yeah, I left because of that, cause I need some time alone to think and after
That, I left to get my stuff from my hotel room."- Rose said.
"Well let's forget this and allow me to introduce you to the family."- Mama said.
"This is Karolina, and this is Sonya and this is Victoria."- Mama said gesturing towards my sister.
"And well you know me, Yeva and Dimka and Paul. And Zoya daughter of Karolina is sleeping."- Mama said.
"Welcome to the family."- Karolina and Victoria said together.
"You didn't need to bring your clothes; we already stuffed your closet with best clothes, shoes and with all the necessities."- Mama said.
She started to say something but suddenly she gets fainted and I caught her. I picked her up and lay her down on the couch and called her name few times.
"Dimka pick her up and take her to your room, I am calling the doctor."- Mama said and I picked her up and take her to the room. When I reached our room I lay her down on the bed.
Mom entered the room with our family doctor Dr. Olendzski.
"Hello, Dimitri. Congratulations, I heard that you got married."- Doc said.
"Thank you. Well, I guess mom already told you why we called you."- I said.
"Yes, she did. Will you please step aside so that I can check her."- She said and I stepped away from the bed so that she can check her. She checked Rose for ten minutes and said.
"Her blood pressure and blood sugar levels are low that why she gets faint, I think she hadn't eaten anything from past day. I am giving her an injection and when she will wake up make sure she eats and rest properly. She will wake up soon."- Doc said and gave Rose an injection and left.
"Dimka, you stay here and call me when she wakes up."- Mama said and left the room.
I sat on the couch reading my novel, waiting for Rose to wake up. I try to read but my concentration is on Rose, thinking when she will wake up.
RPOV
I woke up at a different place and at a very comfy bed than I remember the entire event from past two days.
"Finally you wake up after an hour."- Someone with a heavy accent said. I looked around and saw Dimitri is putting some book aside.
"What I am doing in your bed?"- I asked him.
"You got fainted; I bring you here so that you can rest."- He said getting up from the couch and walking towards the bed.
"Fainted?"- I asked him confused.
"Yes, you got fainted. The Doctor said that your blood pressure and blood sugar levels are low that why you get fainted."- He said.
"When was the last time you ate?"- He asked me. Then I remember the last time I ate is when I had dinner the day before yesterday, I skipped the breakfast yesterday thinking that I will have lunch after talking to Belikov but after all of the events from yesterday, I didn't eat anything and I forget to eat breakfast today too. This is the longest record for me to stay without any food.
"How are you feeling Rose?"- Olena's voice brings me back from my thoughts.
"I'm fine."- I replied.
"You didn't answer my question."- Belikov said.
"The day before Yesterday."- I replied.
"What?"- He said.
"The. Day. Before. Yesterday."- I said again, little slow this time.
"I know what you said Rose, you didn't need to repeat what you had said and you should improve your eating habits, it's not good for your health and-" – He said but I cut him in middle.
"Well for you information my eating habits are good but some asshole has done something very bad yesterday that I lost my appetite."- I said harshly.
"Rose it's not good for a lady to swear."- He said.
"First of all, I am not a lady and second I don't care."- I replied.
"Enough you two, Dimka did you forget that doctor said to make her eat when she wakes up and Rose you should eat something first then you can argue with him as much you want, I will not stop you after all he is your husband now."- Olena said and I flinched at the word husband.
Then a woman came with a tray of food and set the tray in front of me. The tray contains something like pancakes, orange juice, dark-colored bread and jam and butter to spread on bread.
"This is blini and that is black bread."- Olena said gesturing towards the food.
I ate all the food within seconds; after all, I didn't eat from past thirty-six hours.
"You have quite an appetite."- Someone said and I looked up and saw no one is in the room, maybe they think its best to let me eat alone and in peace without that asshole near me. Victoria walked into the room and sat at the end of the bed.
"Well, you have no idea. My bro- my friends say that I eat like a horse."- I said and we both chuckled.
"How are you now?"- She asked me.
"I am good after eating the food."- I said and patted my belly.
"I heard that you called my brother an asshole."- She said with light mood.
"Yeah, he deserves that."- I said.
"I totally agree with you."- She said and we both laughed.
"I think we are going to be good friends." - I said.
"I already know that we are going to be best friends from the time you used the word 'fuck' in the church. You know some people are going to be in shock for months after you used the word 'fuck' in the church."- She said and laughed.
"I didn't know Dimitri's sister can use the 'f' word."- I said.
"They didn't call me a rebel for no reason. And you should have some rest now, I will see you soon."- She said and started leaving the room.
"Victoria wait, did you know where my bags are?"- I asked her.
"Yeah, they are in your closet."- She said. I get up from the bed.
"Where are you going?"- She asked me.
"I am setting my clothes in the closet, as I am living here I do not want to open my bags every day to get my clothes."- I replied.
"You should rest Rose."- She said.
"I am fine Victoria and if you think that this is too much work for me than you can help me."- I said.
"Okay, I will help you but you have to call me Vika, all of my friends call me that and where you are going to put all of the clothes, your closet is already stocked with clothes."- She said
"We will find a way. C'mon Vika."- I said walking towards the closet.
"So which one is mine?"- I asked standing in front of two closets.
"The one in your right."- She said and we walked into the closet. It was filled with all the expensive clothes, shoes, makeup and accessories and my jaw dropped.
"You should close your mouth Rose or you might catch a fly or not because there are no flies in our house."- She said and chuckled and I closed my jaw.
"Look there is an empty part; you can put your clothes here."- She said.
"So tell me about the dislikes of your brother."- I said to her.
"Planning to be the good wife Rose."- She said.
"Actually quite the opposite, I am trying to piss him off."- I said that trusting her and she laughed.
"We are definitely going to be the best friend."- She said.
"Aren't you angry that I am trying to piss off your brother?"- I asked her.
"No after what he had done, he deserves that. And I liked when he gets pissed."- She said and we both laughed.
She is telling me about the things Dimitri don't like while we are setting my clothes and other things. I put my toiletries in the bathroom and his bathroom is huge, I thought his room was huge but I was wrong his bathroom is bigger than my room at home.
Well did I forget to tell you about his room, his room has the balcony, a personal swimming pool and Vika told me that sometimes he meditates near the swimming pool but mostly he meditates in the garden. The room has a king size bed, a 72 inch full HD 3D TV and there is a beautiful chandelier hanging on the roof.
After setting my things Vika and I hang out in the garden for a while, Dimitri was with Olena in the living room. I get to know her better, she is in college with Business Management major and she wants to work after that but Dimitri is against it. After that, we went for dinner. Dinner was uneventful and I went to his room to sleep.
I change into PJ's and grabbed a pillow and lay down on the couch. I must be really tired because I slept the instant my head touched the pillow.
DPOV
When I reached my room I saw that Rose is sleeping soundly on the couch, I do not how many days she is going to sleep on that couch. I took a shower and changed into my night clothes but before going to bed, I pulled an extra duvet from my closet and covered Rose with it because at night Russia can be cold and she is from America, she is not addicted to the weather of Russia.
"Good night my Roza."- I said kissing her forehead, she stirred a bit by my action but didn't wake up. I went to bed and lie down under the cover. I decided that I will win her heart. My first step is to make her agree to sleep on the bed and not on the couch.
Author's Note: That's it for today. Rose is planning on pissing off Dimitri and Dimitri is planning to make Rose fall in love with him, what do you think that Rose will piss off Dimitri first or he will make her agree to sleep on the bed with him. I also put the photos of Dimitri's house on my profile you can check if you guys like.
Translation of "Мама, Роза здесь."- Mama, Roza is here.
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