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"Roza."
The voice that I hadn't heard in months was filling my head. I looked around and found myself standing in the middle of the room that Dimitri had keep me in. I closed my eyes and tried to will myself to wake up, but it didn't seem to be working. I thought about calling for Adrian he seemed to respond the last time, we were not sure why he felt my fear and calling the last time I had a nightmare. We had discussed the possibilities that it had something to do with him being so in tuned with my mind when I was asleep. I decided that I would call for him once I figured out what Dimitri wanted. I needed to get past these nightmares because eventually there will be a time where I would have to sleep and Adrian couldn't. So I took a deep breath and turned toward the voice.
He looked the same as the last time I saw him, only this time my heart didn't race and there was no part of me that wanted to go to him. His hair was tired behind his head like he had done so many times before, his eyes were the same red, and his skin was still pale white.
"I have been waiting for you for a long time, it seems you have found a way to avoid me" he said staring at me from the couch.
"I figured you would get the hint that I wanted nothing to do with you since the last time I saw you, you attempted to rape and kill me" I hissed at him letting him know that there was no residing feelings for him. I still loved the old Dimitri he was my first love and I would never forget that but he died long ago. What was left was not him and never would be.
"Oh Roza how I have missed you spunky attitude. You know I would never actually kill you, maybe bring you to the edge but I wouldn't let you fall over" he said laughing then shifted his body so he was leaning forward. I shifted backward a few steps until my back was against the wall.
"Some how I don't believe you since you were determined to make me one of the living dead. Now why are you here?" I asked getting annoyed that I was actually engaging in a conversation with him instead of just calling for Adrian.
"You seem different, there is something different about your smell" he said lunging off of the couch. He had me pinned to the wall his nose running up and down my neck. My body tensed up from his closeness there was no excitement from his touch or when his fangs scrapped lightly down my neck. I was repulsed the thought that I actually enjoyed it when he had bite me before. He moved his nose and started to smell my chest, I had a small tank top on that I had worn under my workout shirt. Adrian never said anything about my smell in our dreams together I just assumed that it wasn't something that followed me into my dreams.
Adrian and I slept together every night I assumed that the new smell would have to be him. I didn't think Dimitri would be able to recognize it as Adrian's since he had stopped smoking and drinking when I moved in with him. When I got back I had given Adrian and Lissa Oksana's number after I called her and made sure it was ok so they could talk to her about spirit and dealing with the negative effects it left on them. She had given him a few exercises and tips that have been working wonderfully.
"Are you done sniffing me?" I asked trying to shift my body out of his hold.
"Once you tell me what I am smelling I will be glad to let you go" he said pulling his head away from my body to he could look at me.
"I don't know what you are smelling" I said not wanting to remind him of Adrian after what happened last time I said his name.
"I think you do and you are hiding it from me, you know I can use compulsion on you but it would be a lot easier if you just told me" he said his frustration growing.
"It is a dream, compulsion won't work" I said staring him down. I wasn't sure if that was true, Adrian and I had done plenty of things in our dreams that definitely seemed and felt real.
"Rose tell me what the smell is" he said grabbing my face so our eyes were locked and there was no way I could turn away from him. He started to repeat himself when my voice and mouth betrayed me.
"Adrian, I smell like Adrian because I sleep with him every night" I said realizing that there was no way to stop the words from coming out of my mouth.
The grip on my face tightened I felt myself start to panic and I started to call out for Adrian like Lissa would call out for me.
"He is using you, he will take what he wants and leave you when he is done. Everything you have worked for will go down the drain, all so you can become some royal's blood whore" he hissed the words at me. His eyes glowing red.
"You have got to be kidding me, you keep me high off of endorphins so I wouldn't leave you, you feed off of me like I was a blood whore. You pretended to love me but you still did it knowing how much I was against it, Adrian has never tried to feed from me like you did. He loves me, and you know what I love him too" I yelled no longer scared of what he could do to me.
"You are mine, and I will be coming for what is mine soon enough. Now you have given me another task when I arrive" he said letting go of my face. The dream faded and I found myself laying in out large bed. My body was covered in sweat and there were tears running down my face. I heard the door open and leaped from the bed.
"Adrian" I screamed leaping from the bed. I needed him more than I needed anything else right now. I didn't worry about the lack of clothing I was wearing. I had stripped off my workout shirt and shorts before I got in the bed so I was wearing a small black tank top and a pair of boy shorts.
When I made it into the living room I quickly realized that it was definitely not Adrian. Queen Tatan was standing in our living room. "What are you doing here?" I asked not caring that I sounded less than friendly. I couldn't stand her and never made an effort to pretend that I did.
"Well I was told this was my nephews apartment, but clearly I was given the wrong information because I am pretty sure I warned you to stay away from him" she said turning to leave the room. I felt my anger building not only did I have Dimitri in my dreams but I had the Queen Witch in our room telling me I wasn't good enough for Adrian.
"Did you want me to tell your nephew you stopped by when he gets home?" I asked pretending to be helpful knowing she would realize that I was not visiting Adrian's room but we were living together. I saw her cringe and turn back to me. She was about to say something when my cell phone started to ring, the ring tone let me know it was Adrian.
"Will you excuse me for one second" I said grabbing my cell phone off of the table in front of her. I was sure she saw the name and picture flash on the phone before I answered because the scowl on her face was growing. I had to laugh that it was killing her that Adrian had chosen me.
"Hey baby" I said walking back into our room to grab a pair of shorts. Adrian's shorts were laying on the end of the bed so I grabbed them pulling them on letting them hang off of my hips since they were definitely to big. I knew she was going to have a fit when she saw me wearing his clothes and I had to laugh internally.
"Rose are you ok? I am on my way back to the room but I thought I would try to call and see if I could get you to wake up. I have been calling for the last five minutes" he said in one breath I could tell he was running now.
"It is ok, I feel asleep and had a nightmare" I said trying to reassure him.
"I will be there in a couple of minutes. I love you" he said before hanging up. I was going to warn him about is aunt being here but it was to late now.
I walked back into the living room. Tatia had moved from her spot by the door to take a seat on one of the couches. When she saw me enter she looked up.
"You think you are smart, you actually think he will fall in love with you and that you guys will get married and have babies. I hope that is not your intention because I will not allow it" she snarled at me.
"You will not allow it, we are both adults he gets to choose who he loves and lucky for me he chose me" I said smiling realizing that I was already assigned to be Lissa's guardian and that couldn't change unless Lissa requested it.
"He might think he loves you now but will he love you when he loses his title, his inheritance, and his family" she said watching the smile fall from my face.
"You wouldn't do that to him" I said trying to keep my voice level. I was fuming and I was trying to hold myself back from leaping over the couch and hitting her.
"Don't test me girl, he is royal and he will not settle for a nasty little dhampir like you" she said now smiling.
"Is that how you see the people that risk their lives for you and protect you daily? We dhampirs can risk our lives for you but God forbid we have a relationship that is based off of love and not just about producing more dhampirs to protect you" I yelled. I was gripping the back of the couch squeezing it to keep myself in place.
Before she could say anything else the door flew open. Adrian was in front of me his arms wrapped around me before I could even say hi or point our his evil aunt.
"Are you ok?" he asked pulling his body away from mine to look me over.
"Yeah, I should have waited or stayed awake but I have been so tired lately" I said leaning forward to give him a small kiss. Adrian's wrapped his arms around me again pulling me further into the kiss.
Someone clearing their voice broke off the kiss. Adrian looked over to realize his aunt was now standing in front of the couch not looking to happy.
"Aunt Tatan, how are you?" he asked unwrapping his arms from around me to give her a small hug.
"I am well, I came to see how my favorite nephew was doing. Clearly your parents didn't bother passing on the news that you were living with a female" she said glancing over to me.
"Well I wasn't aware that it was anybody's business who I was in love with, dating or living with" he said walking back to me to grab my hand.
"Well that is were you are confused young man" the Queen said her voice radiating anger.
"Oh please enlighten me" Adrian said his eyes fixed on the old lady standing in front of us.
"We have let you run around and do whatever you wanted. You have caused this family enough embarrassment with your behavior I will not allow you to bring your family more shame by having a relationship with this girl" she said her hands waving at me like I was yesterdays garbage.
The anger that I had felt was still there but the sadness that was filling my heart and chest was overwhelming. I wouldn't let this old hag see me cry, I turned letting go of Adrian's hand to walk back to our room. I was surprised by my reaction and I think Adrian was to. A few months ago he would have been holding me back from punching her and now I was running back to my room to cry.
"Rose" he called after me, but I just waved him off and continued to our room and shut the door.
I heard Adrian start to yell, I was shocked that he was yelling at the queen but it made me happy that he would stick up to me. I couldn't make out what they were saying and right now I didn't care. I curled up on the bed and sobbed. His family would never accept me. Maybe she had a point, he was in line to become king and I was a guardian.
No, I pushed the thoughts out of my head, we were happy and in love I would not let her ruin what we have. I heard the front door slam and a few seconds later the bedroom door opened. The bed shifted and Adrian put his arms around my waist pulling me toward his body.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"No" is all I could say before I started to cry again. The morning had started off so well besides feeling sick and then I had the awful nightmare about Dimitri and had a visit from the Queen Witch. I rolled my body to face him burying my head into his chest.
"I am sorry she said that, I told her I don't want anything from her if that means giving you up. She has nothing as valuable as you" he said kissing my forehead.
"I need to get back to my class, Eddy is going to kill me" I said pulling out of his hold. His arms tightened around me. "Adrian I need to clean up my face up and go" I figured all the tears that I had cried had not done anything good to my face.
"I called him and told him you wouldn't be able to make it back, he asked if you were still not feeling well. You didn't tell me you were not feeling well" he said brushing the hair from my face.
"Thank you for calling him, and it is nothing I just felt a little sick to my stomach but after I came back and ate during lunch I started to feel a little better and thought I would take a nap. We both know how that turned out" I said burring my head back into his chest.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked.
"Not right now, I just want you to hold me" I said closing my eyes and drifting off to Adrian's grandmothers garden. I was surrounded by flowers, I found myself sniffing the air.
"Adrian do I smell?" I asked when I felt his arms come around my waist.
"Of course you don't smell, I wouldn't not be dating a stinky Little Dhampir" he said chuckling to himself.
"I didn't mean it like that, when we are in these dreams do I bring my smell with me?" I asked after I stopped laughing.
He moved his face and nose to my neck and I felt him taking my smell in. Unlike Dimitri I felt myself react, I wanted him and felt my excitement grow.
"Yes, you smell like your normal self with a small hint of me, which I quiet enjoy knowing you are walking around with my smell. Why do you ask?" he asked turning my body around to look at him.
"Dimitri in the dream said I smelled differently, but right now lets forget about him" I said putting my arms around his neck to pull him closer to kiss me.
"Can you make a blanket appear? I don't want to do what I plan on doing in the grass" I asked moving my hands under his shirt and pushing it up. Adrian laughed and then pulled me down onto the blanket that was now there.
We spent the next couple of hours making love and laying in each other's arms.
"We should go back, I am sure Lissa will want to talk to you sometime today" Adrian said rolling over on his elbow to look at me.
"A few more minutes and then we can go" I said smiling up at him. I loved our dreams together, no scratch that I loved all of the time we spent together even when we had our disagreements. They never lasted long and most of the time he gave in. He gave me another kiss "I love you Little Dhampir" he said before the dream started to fade.
When we woke up my head was still buried in his chest. I sat up and gave him a quick kiss before climbing out of the bed.
"Nice shorts" Adrian called after me as I walked out of the room toward the kitchen. I was starving and my stomach was protesting from the lack of food in it.
"Do you want something to eat" I called out opening the fridge to grabbing hamburger to cook for tacos. Adrian walked into the kitchen and pulled out a head of lettuce and started to cut it.
"Thanks baby" I said kissing his shoulder before grabbing the tortillas and cheese and tomato. I handed Adrian the tomato I hated them so I refused to cut them. I grabbed my phone and called Lissa to see if her and Christian wanted to come over to eat with us. She agreed and told me they would be over in ten minutes. Then I called Eddy to invite him over he also agreed.
I finished cooking the food while Adrian grabbed plates and forks to set the table. Once we was done he came to grab the food to put it on the table while I ran to our room to change. I heard someone knocking on the door as I pulled my shirt on. I walked out of the bedroom to see Lissa standing in the living room with her hand extended out showing Adrian her ring. I didn't want her to know I knew so I put my best game face on.
"Hey" I said walking into the living room giving her a hug. "How are your classes going?" I asked Christian. We had become a lot closer after I came back and now we had a few things in common one being bratty students that didn't like to listen.
"Good, but man they can be brats sometimes. They all want to use their powers but don't want to take the time to learn how to control them" he said letting out a deep breath. I had to laugh I knew how he felt, we had a few students that were stronger so they beat the other students but they lacked discipline and talent when it came to fighting. I took them down within thirty seconds because they went in arms flying and didn't pay attention to what they hit as long as they hit something.
"I know trust me, we were not that annoying when we were students right?" I asked. It felt funny to be the teacher now I am sure all of my teachers complained about me because the students I have now had nothing on me besides there lack of commitment to learning new moves and using them correctly.
"Who would have thought we would become so boring. Getting married and settling down" Adrian said. I saw the look on Lissa's face, I thought she was about to attack him. Adrian saw his mistake and quickly looked at me with a pleading look. Before I could say anything there was a knock on the door. Adrian walked over to answer in wanting to get away from Lissa.
"Hey" Eddy said walking into the living room.
"Hey" everyone hollered back.
"How are you feeling? You didn't look to well this morning" he said coming to stand beside me. Adrian shot me a look probably thinking I had downplayed how sick I felt during class. Lissa was looking me over for any injuries.
"I am fine I just had an upset stomach this morning" I said feeling uncomfortable with everyone staring at me. "Lets go eat before the food gets cold" I said walking toward the dinning room.
After Adrian asked me to move in with him and I agreed he had requested a larger dorm, so now we had a pretty large apartment. With a large master bathroom, a huge bathroom with a Jacuzzi tub, a dinning room and large kitchen. Lissa and Christians had the same set up, poor Eddy was stuck in the guardian dorms so he pretty much had a small upgrade from our student dorms to what he has now. He had no kitchen, he split his time between Lissa and my apartment eating but would always grab breakfast at the cafeteria after Adrian forgot to lock the door and Eddy thought that meant come in and walked in on something that left a permanent blush on my face for a week. Now he knocked and wouldn't sit on our couch.
We all sat down, but Lissa remained standing he gave Christian a look and he stood up too.
"Ok so Christian and I have some good news to tell you guys" she said, I could not only see the excitement on her face but I could feel it through the bond.
"We are getting married" she squealed holding out her hand to show us the ring. I got up as did Eddy and Adrian to tell them congratulations and gave them a hug. I had my arms wrapped around her "Lissa I am so happy for you, you definitely deserved to be happy" I said kissing her check and then taking her hand to look at the ring. It was even prettier seeing it on her in person.
"So do you Rose, and I think you have got yourself a pretty great guy" she said looking over where Christian was standing.
"I do, don't I?" I said looking away from the ring to look at Adrian. He was standing next to Christian and Eddy. He looked up giving me a smile before returning to his conversation with the boys.
"We are going to wait a little while before we get married, but there is nobody else that I would want as my maid of honor. You will do it right?" she asked almost sounding worried.
"Of course I will do it, but if you try and put me in a hot pink fluffy dress with sleeves it is over" I said smiling at her but also letting her know I was not joking.
"We should eat" Adrian said taking his seat. The next three hours we hung out talking about our classes and students, when and where Lissa thought would be a good place to get married. After a while I was trying to fight back yawning but I was not doing a good job at it. I think everyone noticed as I laid my head on Adrian's shoulder.
"Well it is late and we have class tomorrow so we are going to head out" Christian said grabbing Lissa's hand. Eddy was right behind them.
"I don't know why I have been so tired" I said pulling my shirt off and grabbing a pajama shirt, then slipped my jeans off and crawled into bed. Adrian stripped off all of his clothes except his boxers and climbed in beside me.
"You push yourself to hard" he said nuzzling into my neck placing small kisses down my neck and collarbone.
"Baby that feels so good, but I am exhausted and I have training with Alberta in the morning" I said yawing again. Even after I graduated I had continued training with Alberta two days a week she said she enjoyed it and there were still a few things that she wanted to teach me. I generally enjoyed them but lately I have been so tired that I started to dread them.
"You never told me what happened earlier" he said pulling my body toward his.
"I promise I will tell you all about it tomorrow, I just want to go to sleep right now" I said snuggling into the covers and his arms.
"Alright, I love you" he said kissing me before I feel into sleep.
The alarm was blaring. I was tempted to throw it against the wall just to shut it up. Adrian turned his body and hit the button to stop the annoying repetitive beeping.
"Are you awake?" he asked sleep filling his voice.
"Yeah" I said forcing my body to get up.
"How much more does she have to teach you?" he asked rubbing his eyes so he could focus on me.
"I don't know but I hope it is not a lot, I enjoy my sleep" I said grabbing a pair of workout shorts and pulled them on then slipped a clean shirt on. I walked out of the room grabbed a water slipped my shoes on and was off to the gym.
"Hey" I called to Alberta that was already sitting on the floor stretching I wasn't sure what was wrong with her but every morning she looked like she had been up for a few hours and was happy about it, me on the other hand was a wreck.
"Hey heard you were sick, how are you feeling?" she asked.
I considered lying and going back to our apartment and climbing back into bed with Adrian but I knew she enjoyed our sessions. "Just an upset stomach nothing to bad" I said taking my spot on the floor and started to stretch.
The next two hours we went through different offensive and defensive moves then fought for over a hour putting them to use. If I wasn't tired before I was now definitely running on empty. I told her I was heading out and pushed through the doors letting the cool air wake me up. I was half way back to our apartment when a wave of nausea hit me almost knocking me over.
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