To say Dimitri was surprised would be the understatement of the year. He'd seen her, even met her before, about two times.

Adrian Ivashkov was his cousin, their mothers were sisters, and once upon a time they'd been close. Dimitri had gone to Adrian's funeral and even said hi to Rose. But the Rose from back then was completely different.

Rose had used make up her hair always curled, and she always wore expensive clothes, bu tnow, she looked normal.

"My mother died 6 months before I turned 18, I had to go into foster care, since I'd never known my father. I was in 10 different homes, I was physically abused in the last three," she said, looking away from him. She was suprised she was telling him. He was slightly pissed off about her getting physically abused but then he remembered it was in the past.

She cleared her throat and went on.

"A week after being on the streets, Adrian found me. He took me under his wing, making sure I had everything I wanted. A month later I met Cherry, she said I was who 'they' were looking for; soon enough I was modeling left and right. And I... fell in love with Adrian."

She didn't know how to go on from there, but she did.

"At the age of 20 I was engaged to one of the richest man, Adrian Ivashkov. As you know Nathan and Daniella did not approve," she said looking at him.

He did remember, he'd heard his parents, aunt, and uncle talk about this. Rose and Adrian had eloped, Adrian's parents had almost disinherited him.

"We eloped... At first we were fine, we started living in France, I did my modeling, but by our second year of marriage, he became jealous. He wouldn't even let me go out of the house, then the hitting began."

Dimitri grew incredulous, his cousin would never do that! He knew him.

"He would always come home drunk, hickeys all over, and he would hit me," she took in a dragged breath, blinking back tears.

"He would apologize the next day and I would forgive him, I loved him, and I did not have a back-up plan. Then, I had my first miscarriage," her voice was low.

"First?" Dimitri still couldn't believe this.

"I had two others."

"From?"

"Adrian."

There were a few moments of silence.

"I couldn't take it anymore," her voice broke a little.

"Then he had the car accident, I was already 6 weeks pregnant, but he didn't know that," she wiped away a few tears, and Dimitri put a comforting arm around her, lending her strength.

"He was on life support, and...and-" she broke into sobs, she couldn't handle it anymore.

And just like Dimitri knew, Rose broke, she was a fragile woman.

"His lover was in the car Dimitri, he never loved me."

She was wrong though, Adrian had loved her, he was just influenced too much by his parents.

He knew her next words before she even said them.

"I pulled the plug," she sobbed.