Thank you so much to the people who have added my story to one of the alerts and or published. You have no idea how much that made my day. Oh, I will warn you now, I am not a big fan of Dimitri so those of you who want this to be mainly a Rose/Adrian story you have no worries. I'd also like to say thank you to all the other authors on here who inspired me to start this.
Oh yeah, it all belongs to rm.
"Adrian," I said as we walked hand in hand to the feeders. "What are we going to do? What if he figures it out? I don't want him to think he has any right to them. They are so more yours than his…."
"Little Dhampir don't worry. He's not going to take them away from us. I won't let him tear my family apart," he said as he kissed my forehead. "Come on hun, let's get me feed then I want to take you out for lunch before we pick up the kids."
"Meet me at the gym in an hour, I need to work off some pent up anger." He nodded at me.
After I had ran by home for my gym bag I made my way to the track first. I took off my jacket revealing the sports bra underneath and then pulled down my sweats since I had on a pair of shorts on. I grabbed my Ipod and turned on my Ke$ha, Adam Lambert and Lady Gaga playlist. I pushed myself hard running twenty laps in 18 minutes. After that I went into the gym and started in on some of the dummies, throwing a lot of punches.
"Hey Rose, you want a sparing partner?" Eddie asked coming up to me. He was Lissa's other guardian.
"Of course, Eddie. You know I love giving you some good bruises."
We circled each other for a moment before he made the first move, a mistake. I had learned every guardian living in Court's fighting technique and then added to that. Over the years I had taken up gymnastics to give me an edge, plus Ellie wanted to take it. I spun around out of the way of his attack just to kick him square in the gut. While he was distracted I quickly made my way up some ropes to stalk my 'prey'. When I saw him looking around for me I quickly made my way across one of the beams so I was right over top of him. I then jumped on him knocking him to the ground just to press me teeth to his throat indicating his 'death'.
"Better luck next time," I told him helping him up.
Neither of us had noticed we were being watched until they started clapping. We both turned around to Dimitri there.
"Belikov," we said in unison and then turning around to make our way to the track. Yes, I knew I had already ran five miles but I didn't want to spend another minute in the same room as him and I knew Eddie could tell that too.
"Rose, can we talk?" Dimitri asked.
"No. I'm busy if you haven't already noticed," I said not even turning around.
I heard him following us out to the track.
"Okay Eddie, first one to 16 laps wins. If I win you have to babysit the kids one night, at your place, so Adrian and I can have some alone time."
"And if I win, you have to buy me a new sound system," he said taking my hand to shake on it.
"Deal."
I got out my Ipod and got in position.
"One. Two. Three!"
I let him think he was doing well for the first lap then I couldn't take being at a tie any longer so I put it into overdrive. By the time he was starting his second lap I was almost done with my third. I loved the way running made me feel, on top of the world, like I could do anything. I noticed that Dimitri was still here, watching and probably waiting to corner me so we could talk. I got done with my laps long before Eddie, he still had three to go, so I decided to go run by him; then I wouldn't be alone with Dimitri.
When Eddie got done, we started walking back to the locker room to get changed. Of course, he followed us.
"Roza, please can we talk? I'm sorry."
I whipped around faster than I have ever moved before.
"Don't you dare call me Roza!" I said with bitterness spewing out. "If you want to call me anything it will be either Rosemarie or Guardian Hathaway." Only people who hated me or people that I hated called me by those names.
He looked like I had just slapped him across the face with that statement.