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Chapter 7:

Turning, Rose was met with a tall man, nearly as tall as Dimitri with emerald green eyes and slightly light brown messy hair. Very well build with is quite clear through the tight his shirt.

"You must be little Rose well maybe not little. I mean look at you... damn." Still not knowing who this stranger was, Rose quickly picked up her knife and started pointing at him and making him back off as she moved towards him.

"Wow the heck do you think you are?" She moves the knife fast towards him which made him jump away trying to save himself from this crazy female in front of him.

"What is wrong with you?"

With disbelief she answered him with a question, "What is wrong with you? Coming into my house,"

Without any warning he was behind her, one arm around her waist while the other around her wrist that holds the knife. Slowly he closes his mouth next to her right ear and whispers, "Like I said. Put that away before you hurt yourself. All you had to do was ask me not threaten to hurt me. Didn't't your mother teach you about guest manners?"

With a rough push she freed herself with a loud anger sigh, "I did ask you." After a few deep breath, very deep breath "You need to leave before I call the police"

"Police, I came through the front door without breaking it," he paused before continuing, "With a key". As if to prove to her, he showed her a key.

Pointing at the key, "How did you get that?"

"Your parents, I'm Adrian, Adrian Ivashkov." He put his hand out for her to shake it, but all she did was look at it as if deciding where there if was safe or not, she refused to touch him.

"Who?"

"You're new neighbor, some might even say hot"

"Well with that ego, of course you would think some would say that." Even though she said those words, some part of her could not agree about what she said as it's clear to her eyes that he is in fact 'hot' as he said.

He laughed as if guessing her thoughts. "Yeah that's what some say before they get the real taste of me."

"Get over yourself dude" Slowly still keeping her front towards him, she walked away with her eyes bearing into his, "Get out of my house."

He walked past her towards the living room as if he had not heard her and sat down, making himself at home. Disbelief of how a stranger could make himself at home without an invitation. "Who exactly invited you in this house without a brain in their heads?"

He started laughing but soon stopped as he realized that she was not joking around, Clearing his throat. He started to realize the injuries on her face and hands and cursed himself for not realizing it soon. "What happened to you?"

"What...?" Rose asked not getting his change of mood from an ego man to concerned man, "What do you mean?" She finished her sentence hoping he was able to acknowledge her confusion about his question.

"Your face and hand" He replied as he slowly gets up from his sitting position and walked towards her, stopping in front of her staying away from her personal space.

"Oh" Adrian watched the girl of his co-workers, as she realize the injuries on her body, as if they weren't there before Adrian asked about it. While waiting for her answer, he could not help himself from the obvious, her beauty. It was clear to any eyes the beauty she possess, with those beautiful chocolate like eyes to the silk looking brown hair. Her body brought a different emotion within him; he could not control some parts of him especially his lower body part.

Rose on the other hand wasn't sure what she was feeling for this man, if you asked few minutes ago, she would have wanted nothing more than to run the knife that she had dropped from her hands when he was behind her earlier through his heart but now seeing this new side of him, she didn't know what to feel.

Smiling he said, "Are you going to tell me?"

"Tell you what?" Was the only thing that she could say as he caught her by surprise as if her brain was unable to understand his question.

"Your face and hand?" Adrian was starting to wonder if the misunderstanding had anything to do with what had happened to her and he was weighting his decisions on either to take her to hospital or not.

"Just got caught in a gang thing, they attacked me." She said hoping to give the 'no worries' behavior so he could drop it, but soon got more questions and realized that she was not getting what she wished.

"What gang?" Even though he asked the question it was clear to him what had happened and what type of 'gang' she was referring to, now the story fits, on how her father was very kin on him going to stay with her while they were away on the hunt. As much as Adrian wished he was there with them, killing those unnatural things gone from the face of the earth.

"Don't worry, someone was there for me before they got whatever it was they were looking for." Your blood thought Adrian, but made sure it was only in his mind.

"Who?"

"Some guy, well not just a guy. He was sweet and all. Even took me into his apartment. He's Russian"

That last information alerted him "What Russian?"

"He's new around here but you should have seen him, they were scared of him as soon as they heard his voice." From the excitement in her voice, it was clear that she saw him more than just a man who was there for her, more like a crush. She excitedly walked and jumped onto the couch making room for him, forgetting that he was a stranger instead of a friend that she wanted to tell about the man who seems to control her heart and brain.

"What does he look like?" HE was praying as he asked he who the person was, hoping it was not who he was almost certain of.

"Dimitri" She said as if it was natural to call the name of an enemy, unnatural thing.

At that time he promised to always try to keep her away from that thing and hope it wasn't too late to rescue her from his charms. Their minds were on the same subject, Dimitri but with different reasons, hers' were on how they spent their time together whereas Adrian's' was more on how to kill him.

"What something to drink?" She wanted an excuse to move away from him as she was sensing negative thoughts and some part of her thought it was about Dimitri, to which made no sense to her as she was sure they had never met.

"Water would do" He replied with a distant voice as if his body was not in the same room as her, hoping to distract him, she pushed him down onto the couch more, to which she was thankful that it worked as he started focusing on her, as he tried to press her on the couch beneath him. With a excuse of her injuries, she was able to walk away without a fight saying, "I would prefer chocolate milk shake though"

Once again thank you Deb for the edit, naming the chapters' tittle and helping with Adrians' character