CHAPTER 9
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Previously
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.
Presently
RPOV
"Rose wake up, It's already eight." – Someone said.
"Five more minutes."- I replied, still sleepy.
"Okay but if you didn't wake up in five minutes, then don't blame me."- Same voice said and I went to my sleep.
"Rose, why you are still sleeping, you asked for five minutes and it's already fifteen minutes have passed."- That voice said but I didn't reply.
"Rose wake up there is a lizard on the couch."- the same voice said in a little scared tone and that instant I wake up instantly and fell on the floor straight on my ass, that hurts.
"Where is the lizard?"- I asked, looking on the couch with a pillow in my hand to put it on the lizard, so the lizard doesn't harm me but instead of reply, I heard someone laughing and then saw Belikov is laughing.
"Rose, there is no lizard. I just said that just to wake you up."- Dimitri said.
"This is no way of waking someone."- I said standing up and rubbing my ass.
"Well, I tried but you won't budge."- Dimitri said.
"That doesn't mean you scare the hell out of the other person and because of your stupid way of waking up, I fell from the couch and now my ass hurts."- I said loudly and angrily.
"Well, I didn't force you to sleep on the couch."- Dimitri said buttoning up his shirt.
"Like, I will sleep in the same bed with you."- I replied crossing my arms.
"Why not, what is the problem sleeping on the same bed with me, after all, I am your husband."- He said.
"What if you have cooties, all boys have cooties."- I said before I can stop my tongue and he chuckled.
"What are you, six, Rose."- He said.
"If I am six then you should be in jail for marrying an underage girl and don't forget the fact forcefully."- I said and that shut him up.
"Get ready and come downstairs for the breakfast."- He said and went into his closet.
I walked into the bathroom and brushed my teeth; I grabbed my towel, undergarments and put it on the counter. I grabbed my shampoo and body wash from the cabinet and walked into the shower to put my things on the floor of the shower when suddenly water started and I get all soaked in water because I was standing exactly below the shower and I yelled because water was cold. Suddenly bathroom door opened and Dimitri walked into the bathroom and asked: "Rose, what happened."
I walked out of the shower and stand in front of him; he looked at me for few seconds.
"Your shower sucks."- I said shivering from the cold water and wrapping my arms around me.
"Rose, you must have tapped on the screen accidentally."- He said and I can see that he was hiding the smile.
"Screen?"- I asked confused.
"There is a screen for setting the shower."- He said and walked into the shower.
"I set the shower on hot water, go take a bath otherwise you will catch a cold."- He said walking out of the shower and standing in front of me.
"Yeah, I should."- I said and he nodded and left the bathroom murmuring "I hope this time with hot water."
I walked into the shower and saw that he was right; there is indeed a screen in the shower. Who put a tablet in the shower just to set the temperature? I removed my clothes and my body stops shivering when the hot water hit my body. After taking shower, I walked into the room and saw that the room was empty. I changed into sweats and a baggy t-shirt and left for breakfast.
When I reached downstairs I looked for the dining room but I can't find it, why Belikov has to own a palace, I think I need a GPS to find room around this place. Suddenly I bumped into a very soft wall and fell straight to my ass, when I looked up and I saw Belikov standing.
"What is your problem? Did you like me falling?"- I said standing up.
"You should watch where you are going, Rose."- He said.
"Whatever."- I said rolling my eyes.
"Rose, may I ask why you are here and not in the dining hall."- He asked.
"Let me think. Yeah right because I do not know the way around and you didn't give me a map so I lost."- I said annoyingly.
"Let's go."- He said.
"Why you have that much big house, I mean it is a very big house for eight people."- I said.
"Well Rose, there are nine people live in this house."- He said and I looked at him confused.
"You forget to count yourself and about the size of the house, it is this big from the day I born even it is that big from many decades, the house is rebuilt by my grandfather to gave it a modern look, after that only renovation is done."- He said and I yawned at his boring story. He opened the door of the dining hall and it is also big just as I expected.
"Rose what about I give you a tour of the house?"- He asked but I ignored him and walked into the hall and sat at next to Vika and mumbled a quick greeting to everyone.
"Rose you have to sit here in a chair opposite to Dimka."- Olena said.
"But Olena I am fine here."- I said.
"Rose it's a rule you have to sit opposite to your husband."- Belikov said.
I was about to say something but Vika stopped me from saying anything.
"Rose, he doesn't like messing with food on the table."- Vika whispered in my ear and gave me a wink and I understand what she is trying to say. I stand up and sat in the chair opposite to him.
Olena was sitting at the head of the table and Yeva was sitting at the other end of the table. Karolina was sitting next to Dimitri and Paul was sitting next to her. Sonya was sitting next to me and Vika next to her.
Everyone prayed before breakfast.
While everyone was eating peacefully, I asked Vika: "Vika what about you give me a tour of the house after breakfast."
"Yeah, sure."- She replied happily. I asked Vika that because a few minutes ago Dimitri asked me and I didn't reply and asking his sister is kind of making him feel that I trust his sister but not him.
"Rose, I need the phone number of your parents, we need to call them for the reception which is in four days."- She asked and I didn't say anything for a minute.
"Rose, what happen, did I say something wrong."- She said.
"No, it's just my parents died in an accident when I was six. I am raised by the school as my guardian."- I said and it is the truth, my parents did died when I was six and aunt didn't raised us but the private school we studied in raised us because aunt has to be in Russia for the bakery and we studied in private school so they have our guardianship temporarily.
"I'm so sorry dear."- She said rubbing my arm in a soothing way.
"It's okay."- I replied and started eating my food quietly.
"Do you have any sibling Rose? Or anyone you want to invite to reception."- Olena asked.
"I am the only daughter of my parents and I had no relative in states."- I said and this is true too because I am the only daughter and we have no relative in states and I don't want to invite my family cause which will spoil my plan of getting bakery back.
"It's okay Rose, we are your family now."- Olena said.
"Vika, will you please pass the salad?"- I asked her gesturing towards the jug of juice.
"Yeah, sure."- she said catching my drift and passing me a bowl of salad near the jug of the juice and when I was about to hold the bowl from her hand but she suddenly dropped the bowl when she dropped the bowl, all the salad spread on the table and I pushed the jug pretending that it just happen accidentally. Unfortunately, the jug was in between Dimitri and I and I pushed the jug in a way that it spills all over the table and on Dimitri's pants. I had to hold my laughter when I saw Dimitri's face.
"Oh my god, I didn't mean to, it's just that I panicked when the bowl fell."- I said in my oh so innocent voice.
"It's okay Rose, accident happens."- Olena said.
"This is definitely not an accident."- Sonya said.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, it's just-" – I was saying but Olena cut me off.
"Rose, you don't need to give an explanation to anyone, I trust you."- Olena said.
Sonya was about to say something but innocent Paul asked something that stopped her.
"Mama did uncle Dimka pee in his pants and why his pee is orange in color. I think he needs my diapers but he is a big boy, so we have to join at least ten of my diapers."- Paul said and we all burst into a fit of laughter, which I and Vika were holding from the time of the "accident".
After the breakfast Yeva said: "", which I don't understand because she said in another language which I guess as Russian.
"Rose, Dimitri's friends are coming with their fiancés to meet you in person and help us with the reception because time is less and lots to do and I don't think we should delay the reception any longer."- She said standing up from her chair and leaving.
"Rose."- Dimitri called me from behind, when I was leaving with Vika for the tour of the house.
"What?"- I said.
"You should change your clothes before my friends come."- He said.
"What is the problem with this outfit?"- I said looking down at my outfit.
"There is nothing wrong with your outfit if you are going to sleep in that and don't argue just wear something which you will wear when you go outside."- He said and left.
After that Vika showed me the whole house and let me tell you I wasn't wrong when I said that this is not a house but a freaking palace.
"Rose I showed you around, now you should go and get ready because I have to and get ready too." – Vika said.
"What is wrong with your clothes?"- I said looking down at her she was wearing a skinny jeans and peach color blouse and she was looking good.
"Because I want to get out of these clothes. Now stop asking questions and go get ready."- She said.
When I reached his room, he was standing there with bare chest and dark jeans. And that man got muscles, I looked down and found he has six-pack abs and lots of muscles and don't let me start with his biceps and chest. If he wasn't my enemy then I will definitely say that he is hot and a god. I came out of my thoughts from Dimitri's throat clearing.
"Do you have no shame? You call yourself a religious person and here you are standing shirtless in front of a woman."- I said to avoid the conversation that I was staring at him.
"Well, to change your clothes you have to remove your clothes first and the woman who saw me shirtless is supposed to be my wife."- He said walking towards me and standing in front of me.
"Are you getting distracted with me standing here shirtless?"- He asked me and tilting his face to one side.
"Dimitri are you sick, I mean you are daydreaming that I will be affected by your shirtless state."- I replied.
"I know what you did on the table."- He whispered in my ear. And left in his closet leaving me there shocked "and one more thing do not pull that kind of prank in front of my friends and be a good wife."- He said from his closet.
I went to my closet to get ready. When I was searching my clothes, I found the papers of the bakery. I have to return these papers to Yeva if Belikov found out that I have these papers, I won't be able to answer him, why I had these papers. I will return these papers today to Yeva. I got my clothes and started getting ready. When I was finalizing my look, Vika came into the room.
"Dimka is going to have a heart attack."- She said looking me up and down.
"Well, that is the plan."- I said.
"Why did you wear these clothes, you have lots of other to wear."- She said.
"He said I should wear clothes which I wear when I go outside so these are the clothes I wear when I go outside."- I said and she laughed.
"It's going to be fun. C'mon lets go."- Vika said.
"Uhh Vika, you go first. I need to use the washroom, I will meet you downstairs."- I said to her.
"okay." With that, she left and I grabbed the papers and went to Yeva's room. After returning the papers to Yeva I went to the living room where all of his friends have arrived, when I entered the room Dimitri was shocked, was an understatement. His jaw dropped when I entered the living room.
DPOV
I woke up and do my normal routine. It was 8 'o' clock and Rose was still sleeping and when she asks me for five minutes when I try to wake her up, she is looking so cute and carefree in her sleep so I let her sleep for five minutes and went to the bathroom to take the shower. When I returned after fifteen minutes she was still sleeping. I try to make her up but that is of no use, so I used the trick I used on Vika when she didn't wake up and I think all girls are afraid of lizard because the way she wake up and fell from the couch proves that. That moment was quite hilarious and when she said "what if you have cooties" she was looking so cute that I want to kiss her right there but I can't-do that if I want to win her over.
And then the second time she fell when she bumped into me when she was coming to the dining hall or trying to because she was kind of lost. Then she pulled the stunt at the dining table, I bet Vika was involved too in that and unbelievable thing is that mama favored her and doesn't want to hear anything against her. But I feel bad for her when I found out about her family; she must have gone through a lot at a very young age. She was just six when that incident happens it must be hard for her to manage everything alone. I feel pain in my chest when she told us about her family, I do not know but it's like I can feel her pain.
Let's not start with the bathroom incident, she was standing there wet, I mean drenched in water and her wet clothes was stick to her body, showing her curves, she is an exotic beauty, I do not how I got lucky to have her. But she has a bad mouth but I will change that with time.
I, my friends and their fiancés were sitting in the living room talking about the reception plan when the living room door open and Rose entered the room and my jaw dropped, not because she was looking beautiful (sexy) but for the types of clothes, she was wearing. She was wearing an orange crop top and a very, very short shorts and I don't think that the shorts are capable of covering her back (her ass) and oh my god she has piercing on her belly button. I notice all of my friends are seeing or should I say staring at her with wide eyes, I gathered myself from my shocked state and walked towards her.
"Rose, what is the meaning of this?" – I said gesturing towards her clothes.
"What do you think, am I not looking pretty Dimitri?"- She said twirling around and showing me that I was right about that the shorts barely covered her ass.
"I told you to wear clothes that you wear when you go outside."- I said annoyingly.
"Yeah I do heard you before, that why I was wearing these clothes."- She said and I was totally wrong that I can't get more shocked when she entered the room but now I am more shocked.
"You wear these clothes when you go outside?"- I asked her in need to confirm the fact.
"Yup."- She simply said. I was about to say something but somebody pushed me aside and I saw it was Adrian.
"Hello little firecracker, allow me to introduce myself. I am Adrian Ivashkov."- He said with a slight bow.
"Well, hello Mr. Ivashkov but my name is not little firecracker, my name is Rose Hathaway."- She said.
"Belikov."- I said correcting her.
"After the stunt you pulled in the church I am going to call you little firecracker whether you like it or not."- Adrian said. It's like for both of them I wasn't even standing there.
"You can call me whatever you want to call me Mr. Ivashkov but when you call me by that stupid name which you have given me, I choose not to listen to you and will definitely going to ignore you."- She said smirking and everyone laughed.
"Well, it's about time that Adrian got his match."- Ivan said.
"Let me introduce you to everybody."- I said.
"Well, Dimitri I bet we can all introduce ourselves."- Andre said.
"I bet they can."- Rose said.
"I am Ivan Zeklos. Dimitri's best friend."- Ivan said. "Hello Ivan." Rose replied.
"I am André Dragomir. It's good to meet you."- Andre said and kissed her knuckles. "Nice to meet you too, Mr. Dragomir." Rose replied.
"I am Christian Ozera, Mrs. Belikov and this is my fiancé, Vasilisa Dragomir."- He said pulling Lissa closer to him.
"But I prefer Lissa."- Lissa said.
"And I prefer Rose."- Rose said.
"This is my beautiful fiancée Sydney Zeklos and our Ivan's sister."- Adrian said pulling Sydney to his side copying Christian's move.
"Hi, I am Avery Lazar and-" – Avery started but André cut her off.
"And my fiancé."- Andre said.
"Well now introductions are done, we should settle down."- I said and everyone gets settled and the girls sat down next down to their fiancés except Ivan and Vika.
"I hope my hubby has welcomed you properly and offered you drinks."- Rose said and everyone chuckled at her nickname for me.
"What's with the nickname?"- I asked her, whispering in her ear.
"Well, you said to wear clothes which I wear outside and you also told me to behave, so I am doing what you asked me to do, hubby."- She whispered to me with a smirk.
"Well, lovebirds you have all the time to talk to each other dirty but we are sitting here so will you guys please give us some of your attention."- Adrian said and everyone chuckled and I glared at him.
"It seems you are deprived of attention, Mr. Ivashkov but I bet that people give you less attention because of your uncanny ability to interfere in the matter of others and don't forget about the stupid nicknames you give to the people."- Rose said and everyone laughed. 'That's my girl'
"She is your match."- Sydney said.
"But fiancé darling you are supposed to favor me."- Adrian said.
"Yeah but you deserve that."- Sydney said to him and everyone said "exactly" together.
I was going to put my hand on Rose's shoulder but she looked at me and said: "Hubby dear, did you forget what I told you in the car on our way to home from the wedding."- She said and I put my hand on the back of the sofa where she and I were sitting.
"What did she tell you Dimka?"- Ivan said wiggling her eyebrows.
"Yeah, tell them hubby dear."- Rose said with humor in her eyes.
"Uhh, she said, umm… that she wants a tour of Baia and Rose we will go for the tour after the reception which we still need to plan." – I replied and I saw from the corner of my eyes that she was holding her laugh; I am telling you that girl is going to be the death of me.
"let's leave of all of this and I think we should plan the reception, our designers are coming, so you girls can take the designer to my room for designing the Rose's dress and in that time we will plan the reception, the caterers, the florist and the decorators are coming too so we will handle that and Rose please tell me what kind of flowers you want in the reception."- I said.
"Well, there is nothing to ask she is Rose so she definitely likes roses."- Andre said.
"Yeah I like roses and I do want them for the reception but I want them with Calla Lilies in crimson color, Stephanotis, Lily of the Valley and Fressia."- Rose said.
"Don't you think that is too much, Rose."- Lissa said.
"Yeah that is maybe too much for others but if it is upon me I want every flower that exists in this world in the reception."- Rose said.
"It looks like you want to convert your reception into a garden."- Avery said and everyone chuckled.
"It looks like little firecracker is a great fan of flowers."- Adrian said.
"You have no idea, Mr. Ivashkov."- Rose said.
"And what about the cake?"- Vika said.
"Definitely chocolate and so dark that it makes your mouth little bitter."- Rose said.
From this conversation at least I know two favorites things about Rose, first that she loves flowers and when she was talking about flowers, there was so much glow and peace on her face and secondly, she likes dark chocolate.
"Mr. Belikov, Mrs. Kirova is here."- A maid came and said, I nodded my head and dismissed her.
"You ladies can go to my room as the designer is here."- I said.
"Now the fun parts begin."- Lissa said excitedly. And all of the ladies left for the dress.
"Dimitri, please listen to me carefully, I want to talk about you an important thing."- Christian said in a very serious tone that everyone looked at him.
"What is it Christian?"- I said to him.
"Rose likes the chocolate flavor; you should keep that in mind."- He said in his serious voice and winked at me and when I glared at him everybody laughed.
"She is my wife you are talking about."- I said glaring at him.
"She is your wife that why I said that because we know that you are a new-comer to these things."- He said and high fived Adrian.
"Keep your dirty mind for your fiancés to find their favorite flavor."- I said.
"Oooohhhh."- Everyone said together.
"Looks like our Dimka just made an "unreligious" comment, the season is changing."- Ivan said and everyone laughed.
"Don't worry Dimitri I already know Lissa's favorite flavor and it is strawberry."- Christian said.
"Sydney's is butterscotch."- Adrian said.
"Guys they are our sisters you are talking about but Avery's favorite flavor is vanilla."Andre said and everyone chuckled well except me.
"Guys, you are talking about these things, did you guys break the rule?"- I said little angrily.
"Dimitri we are talking about ice cream flavor."- Adrian said.
"Now who have a dirty mind, huh?"- Christian said and high fived Adrian again.
"Uhh."- I said frustrated.
"Guys that's enough with this, we have a reception to plan."- Ivan said rescuing me.
"You always save him, Ivan, that's cheating."- Andre said.
After that, we only concentrate on the reception but with one or two jokes here and there.
RPOV
Today was interesting I pissed off Dimitri in every chance I get but that designer piss me off, she was trying to force her choices on me but I put her in her place and now is the time to sleep, like every night I grabbed my pillow and duvet and put it on the couch.
"Rose, if you don't want to sleep on the bed with me then I will sleep on the couch and you take the bed."- Dimitri said coming out from the bathroom.
"I do not trust you, what if you sometime at night came to bed to sleep."- I said.
"Rose I promise, I won't do that."- He said.
"I do not care about your promises, I am sleeping on the couch and that is final."- I said and lay down on the couch showing him my back.
Next three days spent uneventfully in the preparation of the reception. Well not totally uneventfully, when the first day I reached his room, the couch was destroyed and I was so pissed, I almost punched him. He said that I should sleep on the bed, he already ordered the new couch and it will come by tomorrow but instead of that I made my sleeping arrangements on the floor and at last, he slept in the guest room and next day the couch was back. So I slept peacefully on the couch.
The days of planning reception was too hectic, I was always tired at the end of the day and in these days I came closer to the girls- Lissa, Sydney, Avery, Karolina, Vika and I also came close with Olena and Paul too but that was not my intention because when they know why I am here that will cause pain to them and I am not here to hurt them, they didn't do anything bad with me. I do not how I am going to spend the days without getting too much attached to them until I got the bakery and all of this is because of the Belikov, I hate him so much. It is his entire mistake, if he hadn't tricked us then I will not be here and these people won't get hurt. All I can do is ask for their forgiveness but let's not put myself in guilt for now. I also realized that all people of the community are not all bad; at least the people I met are not all bad.
Today is the day of the reception and everyone is running from here and there except me, they said that I should not work and pampered myself so that there will be no sign of stress on my face and they even arranged a spa for me at home. And I have to attend the dance classes with him from past three days and I get to know him, he doesn't seem a bad guy but he still tricked us with the bakery and I can't change my thinking about him, he is still an enemy. Dimitri also requested for me to behave today because Olena will feel bad if anything bad happens today. So I am going to behave today, at least I can do that much for her and it's just a matter of few hours. And I have all the time to piss off Dimitri.
Author's Note: So it's party time and Dimitri is still unable to make her sleep in the bed. Rose is affected by the people around her and Dimitri too. Is she going to change her thinking about Dimitri when she is going to left after the completion of her plan? And don't forget to tell me about the chapter.
One more important thing, I want your help in finding the song on which Dimitri and Rose is going to dance, so please tell me about your suggestions
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