Chapter 4...

"…Christian Ozera." Stan finished. For the second time during the ceremony, I breathed a sigh of relief. I walked up to the front, and took my stake and packet. After everyone had received there assignments Alberta came up to me.

"You seem rather okay about the situation, I would have thought that you would have argued until you got Lissa for your assignment. Don't you, urm, not see eye to eye with Mr. Ozera.?" She had a puzzled look on her face. She obviously didn't know about Lissa and Adrian's 'get-togethers'.

"Well ever since Lissa cheated on Christian, with my boyfriend Adrian, we haven't exactly been the best of friends. Me and Christian have become friends after she did that to us." I could feel myself shaking slightly as I finished. I hadn't really talked about it to anyone apart from Christian, and kind of Eddie as well.

"I'm genuinely sorry to hear that Rose," she said gently, and she did look like she meant it. "After everything that happened with Guardian Belikov…" she trailed off and avoided my eyes.

"You knew!" I exclaimed. I was shocked! I couldn't believe that Alberta knew and hadn't said anything. She simply nodded in response to my outburst. "But for how long?" I asked.

"Well I had suspected for a while, ever since Victor Dashkov really. But when he left, that's when I really knew. Just by the way you acted afterwards. You could tell that you really had loved him." She looked at me sympathetically. I realised I now had tears running down my face.

Before she had time to walk away I asked "Why didn't you say anything?"

She looked slightly conflicted as to whether to tell me the truth or not. "Because, it was real, and I didn't have the right to interrupt true love." Then turned briskly and walked away. I just stood there. I couldn't bring myself to move. I just stood and let the tears fall down my face, until I saw Christian walking up to me.

"Wow. I didn't realise guarding me was that bad." he said sarcastically.

I laughed gently, just like he had wanted me too and he smiled back at me. Then his face turned serious. "Seriously though Rose, what's wrong?"

I considered lying, then I realised that I needed someone to talk about this to as well, and I had trusted him so far. Why should that change now? "She knew." I said simply.

"Who knew what?" he asked confused.

"Alberta. She knew about me and Dimitri." I answered. He just stared. It took him a while to recover. Even longer than when I first told him about me and Dimitri.

"What? But how? And why didn't she say anything?"

"God, one question at a time." I said jokingly, he gave me a stern look, so I continued anyway. "Well apparently she suspected it since the thing with Victor Dashkov, she didn't know about the lust charm though, and I didn't tell her. She said she knew for certain when he left because I looked heartbroken." I paused thinking about how I was going to answer the last question. "She said she didn't tell anyone… she said because, because it was real and she didn't have the right to interrupt true love." With that I broke down again, and Christian held me up so I didn't collapse to the ground.

"Wow. Rose, I am so sorry. I didn't know, otherwise I wouldn't have asked." He said apologetically.

"It's okay. It's probably best that I told someone, keeping it bottled up never works, right?"

"Right." he confirmed.

I wiped my eyes dry and fixed my hair. "Well then assignment, I've got some protecting to do." I said. "Where to first?"

"Well… I have culinary science…" he said unsurely.

"You elected Culinary Science!" I asked astounded.

"Urr… yeah, otherwise we wouldn't be going there now, would we?" He said with his classic Christian smirk.

"Ugh," I groaned. "Guarding you might be worse than I thought." He laughed gently, and we made our way to Culinary Science.