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FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE

DPOV

With fire in my eyes and my fists clinched in rage, I rushed towards Ivan. Ivan was caught off guard for a moment and stumbled back into the room. The weight of my body, went it clashed with his, caused him to fall and slide on the cold floor. He quickly recovered and gotten to his feet.

With loathing written over his face, he said, "Well my boy...I thought we were going to have a nice little family reunion...But, since you are going to behave like that..." Something vicious grew in his eyes and he lunged for me.

I managed to side step most of his initial attack. My shoulder took the brunt of the hit. When he hit my shoulder, a sharp shooting pain stung me in the shoulder.

I didn't let this faze me. I whipped around and grabbed the back of Ivan's shirt, body slamming him into the wall face first. His head swung back and ricocheted off the wall. His eyes went dizzy, but just for a moment.

Ivan's right fist came up to hit me in the jaw,but I blocked it. I then, while I still had him pinned, started to make rapid jabs to his ribs. I managed to do this for about 30 seconds before he was able to shove me off.

I lost my balance and was stumbling off to the side. Taking his chance, he came up and his left foot kicked me in my stomach. That knocked the wind out of me and I dropped to my knees. This gave Ivan the opportunity to land some right and left hooks to my face.

Ivan had me pinned on the floor. I was losing my breath because he had one arm pinned against my an older man, he was strong. With his free hand he grabbed me by the shirt and whispered into my ear, "I know now why you have such an interest in Rose...She feels soooo good on the inside...I know, because I felt her..."

That was all I needed, a serge of adrenaline coursed through my body. I managed to land a right hook to the left of Ivan's face. This caught him off guard and he rolled off of me.

We both rapidly jumped to our feet and started to circle each other, each of us waiting for an opening.

"Ivan, I'm going to make you pay for hurting Roza and the rest of my family. You have always been dead to us, and tonight I'm going to make sure you are unable to ever hurt us again."

"Is that a threat Dimitri?" Ivan said with a smirk across his face, cocking his head to the side.

"No...It's a promise..." I replied, with a smirk of my own.

We continued to circle each other for a few moments. With each circle we made, we kept getting closer and closer to each other.

Neither of us was watching where our feet were going, this was a mistake on both of our parts, but more so for Ivan. While concentrating on my moves, he didn't notice that he had gotten closer to the broken end-table that had happened earlier in our fight. I noticed it a millisecond before his foot stepped down on it, causing him to lose his balance.

He took his eyes off me to look at what he had stepped on, that laps of judgment gave me the opening that I needed to end this standoff.

I spearheaded Ivan back into the wall. His head hit the wall with such force this time that it knocked him out.

His body slid down the wall and slumped to the ground. I braced both of my hands against the wall and started booting my foot to his ribs. With the force that I was kicking and how many times that I did, it would be a miracle if I didn't break any of them.

I put all my anger that I had for him into those kicks. After I was satisfied of the beating I just gave him, I stepped away from my position and surveyed that damaged I just inflicted .He was battered and bruised and blood was coming from the cuts and gashes over the different areas of his face and hands.

I was standing there, my was breath ragged and the adrenaline was still pumping through my body.

I don't know how long I was standing there before I heard the whimper. It was low and I could barely hear it. "Roza!" I thought. My gaze immediately left Ivan's unconscious body and searched the room for Roza.

I started to panic, My eyes couldn't find her. Tears started to fall from my eyes.

I screamed, "ROZA!"

After I yelled her name, I began to hear some banging coming from under the bed. I race over to the bed and dropped my body flat to the floor. I looked under the bed and found Roza.

Rage, directed to Ivan, surged through me at the site of Roza. She was lying under the bed with nothing but her sports bra and her panties eyes were red and puffy from crying. Her hands and feet were bound together with ropes and she was gagged by a scarf. There were cuts and bruises all over her almost naked body.

I got up on one knee and flipped the bed over on its side. While still on my knees, I scooted over to Roza and untied her hands, feet and ungagged her. I cradled her onto my lap and embraced her body to mine, rocking her gently. Her arms flew around my neck and hugged me. She buried her face in my chest and her tears started falling uncontrollably.

"Shh Roza, it's ok...I'm here now..You're going to be alright." I was gently brushing her hair with my free hand. "I'm so so sorry that this has happened to you.. I hope that you can forgive me someday..."

It took her several minutes to stop crying and to find her voice. "Don't...*sniff*...Blame your..*sniff*..self...You...saved me."

I pulled back to be able to look into Roza's eyes. I gave her a small smile, and with my thumb; I wiped the tears from her cheeks and lightly kissed her lips.

In that brief moment, Yeva's conversation clicked. Without another thought I said, "Marry me Roza."

Her eyes widened in shock and new tears threatened to spill over. The look in her eyes told me exactly what my feelings for her were. Her eyes held all my hopes, dreams and all my love.

At first when she answered, I could barely hear her. Then I heard her say louder, "Yes..Yes, I will marry you.." I cupped the side of her face and brought my lips down to meet hers.

Our lips moved in sync, until I heard someone clear their throat. My lips left Roza's and I turned my head to see Mikhail standing in the doorway. With a smile, he said "I hate to interrupt. But... I don't know about you but I want to get out of this hell hole."

I stood up, took my hoddie off and put it on Roza to cover her up a bit. I took one last look at Ivan's still unconscious body and walked out the door.

Roza took a few steps and stumbled from weakness. I picked her up bridal style and carried her outside.

On the walk out, Mikhail looked at me and said with a chuckle, "You look like crap."

"You do too.." I replied with a small chuckle of my own.

Silence came between us. I looked over at Mikhail and said very small, "Thanks Mik..." Was all I could choke out without starting to cry again. Mikhail just put a knowing hand on my shoulder and we both walked out the door, with Roza silent in my arms.

It was a tight fit, but all six of us climbed into the car to drive back to the house. When we got there, I lifted a now sleeping Roza out of the car and carried her to our room. Viktoria had followed us to the room and while I was holding Roza, Viktoria pulled back the blankets then left the room.

I gently laid Roza on the bed, being careful not to wake her. I removed my sneakers and crawled into bed beside her, wrapping my arms around her. Without opening her eyes, she snuggled closer to me,burying her head my chest. I kissed her forehead and soon found sleep myself.

I was surprised that I wasn't awakened by nightmares of the nights I awoke, Roza was not in bed beside me. I could hear laughter coming from down stairs, a smile came across my face from hearing the laughter.

I tossed the blankets off of me and jumped out of bed. I was too absorbed with the laughter from down stairs and was startled when I heard, "It's about time!"

I jumped back in surprise. "Yeva! You almost scared the living day lights out of me...How long have you been watching me sleep?"

She rolled her eyes and said, "Too long..It is mid afternoon.."

My thoughts then went straight to Roza. I went to walk out of the room to go to her, but Yeva put her hand on my chest to stop me.

Without saying anything else to me, she put something in my hand, stood up on her toes to give me a kiss on the cheek and walked out the door with that knowing smirk of hers.

I watched her walk out the door before looking at what she placed in my hands. She had placed a red worn out velvet box in my hands. I opened it up to reveal a small elegant tear drop diamond ring inside. It was beautiful. It was the same ring that my grandfather had given to Yeva when he asked her to marry him over 60 years ago.

I let out a slight laugh and shook my head. "Yeva.." I said amused. "You did say that you had what I needed when I needed it.."

I clutched my fist around the tiny red worn out velvet box and with a whole heart, I walked out the bedroom door to be with my family.

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