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Chapter 8

DPOV

"Alex, what are you doing here?" I ask.

"I have been assigned to Princess Lissa to be her guardian." he responds. "I was also hired to train one of their top novices. Rosemarie Hathaway. She is here I will have to introduce you when she gets back."

"Roza, you are training Roza?" I ask.

"Oh, you know her already. Isn't she amazing. I think I have fallen hard cousin. I feel like she is the one." he smiles as he talks about her.

Everything in my being is telling me to take him out and beat the shit out of him. That is my Roza he is talking about. Alberta is still standing next to me waiting for me to loose it, but I am great under control and fight back all of my urges and respond to his statement.

"Roza was my student before I left two weeks ago. I have been teaching her for months. I was to be Lissa's charge. I was told someone else was taking my place, you must be the substitute." I say smiling. Knowing and hoping he can only be a substitute for me in Roza's heart.

"What a coincidence. Roza never mentioned you before." He says.

Now that hurt. I felt like I was could crawl in a hole and die. Maybe she moved on, I never gave her the promise of me returning. How stupid could I have been to realize no one else would see how great she is. I could kick myself for leaving. I have to know how she feels about me and about Alex.

Does she still love me? Has she moved on? I put my guardian stoic look back on my face.

"When Roza comes back in, would you please tell her I would like a word with her?" I ask.

"Sure thing cuz, after the party maybe we can catch up. I haven't seen you in years." Alex says.

"Sure" is all I can say.

I turn to look at Alberta.

"What the hell is that about?" I ask with venom in my voice.

"What do you mean Guardian Belikov? I didn't know he was your cousin! He was available to be a guardian, and I tried to find someone that would help Rose succeed. Him being related to you is a coincidence." she says.

I dont know if I believe her

. She looks at me then and says "Dimitri I am telling you this one time, so hear me good. If you hurt her again the way you hurt her before, I will personally beat your head in, enjoy the rest of the party." she walks away. As soon as she walks away, Tasha walks up.

Rose POV

We are all three in the ladies room.

"Breathe Rose, Breathe" LIssa says.

"I tried to warn you little dhampir." Adrian says. "I must say he has excellent timing." he says jokingly.

"Shut the hell up Adrian this isn't funny." I yell.

"What now? What do I say to him now? What about Alex? They are cousins. Where the hell did that come from? This is too much to process."

"Rose, calm down. Its going to be okay. We will figure it out. What do you want to do. Do you want to continue the party. We can leave if you want?" she says.

"No Lissa, we aren't leaving. This is your party. I need to talk to Dimitri I need to see where I stand, where he stands."

We all walk out of the ladies room.

I walk into the ballroom and look for Dimitri. I see him standing there in his tux. He looks so breathtaking, and then I see who is with him. Tasha has her hand on his forearm. He doesn't notice I am even in the room again. All his attention is on Tasha. All the hurt all the anger everything I have been trying so hard to forget comes back to me. I walk over to Alex.

"Rose, I didn't know Dimitri was your previous mentor? He is my cousin. His mom and my mom are sisters. They are nothing alike, but are very close. Oh, I almost forgot he asked to speak to you." Alex says

"He looks a little too busy to speak to me right now. Alex do you want to dance?" Before he can answer, I grab him by the arm leading him to the dance floor. A little waitor man walks by and is serving champagne. I am not on duty and figure I might need a glass (or two or three) to help me this evening. I drink the whole glass in one gulp and grab another for our dance.

Alex just stares at me. He knows something is off but being the gentlement he is he just holds me close as we dance and talks to me.

I can't help but stare at Dimitri, Tasha is gone now. He is just looking at me with his calm cool collective expression. All emotions I had previously seen are gone.

I start thinking about what they could have been talking about. I think maybe he has decided to take her up on his offer and he just wanted to be a man and tell me about it himself. I feel like my chest is going to implode. It hurts so much. The dance quickly ends. Alex grabs my hand leading me to the table. I end up grabbing another glass of champagne and drink that one down too.

The party is almost over. I am feeling a little drunk to say the least. I tell Alex I am ready to leave and he has to help me stand up. He whispers something in my ear, and I smile. We walk out of the party.

Alex walks me to my door, and I am so lonely and upset, I just want to feel anything. He leans into give me a goodnight kiss. I quickly grab his neck and pull him down even closer to me. My whole body is pressed up against his. The kiss deepens. He trys to pull back, but I dont let up. I go to open my door, and he manages to get free of me.

"Rose, I think you are testing my will power here." he says flirting.

"Exactly I want to test drive it. Please come in." I say in my sexy voice.

My door is open now and I walk into it. I start unzipping my dress.

"Rose, I think you are amazing and sexy, but I can't do this with you right now in the state you are in. It's not fair to you." Alex says.

I just look at him with my big brown puppy dog eyes. I let my dress fall. Alex looks at me (and I mean he looks at me)

"Shouldn't that be my decision to make?" I tell him.

"Rose I am serious. I have to get out of here or I am going to break." he starts to back up.

I come closer to him and grab him. I kiss him. He tries to fight with me but soon gives into his desires as well. A couple of minutes later after we made it almost to the bed. He pulls back.

"Rose, I promise you. If tomorrow when you are completely sober you still want to, you know where to find me, but I can't its not right." he says.

"It feels right to me." I say.

"Oh it feels right to me too, but I coudn't live with myself knowing I took advantage of you like that." He kisses me on the cheek and walks out the door.

He is such a gentlemen. I start to find some pajamas. When I hear a knock on my door.

I run to the door and open it. Before I look up I say "I knew you would change your mind, I am hard to resist." But instead of blue eyes, I am staring into brown.

"What are you doing here?" I ask.

"What are you doing answering the door in your underwear? and who did you think it was at your door?" He just looks at me.

I just stand there in my Black strapless lace bra and thong staring at him. He starts to walk in. I back up he shuts the door and locks it.

sorry to leave you on such a cliffhanger. what is going to happen now? Please review I love getting reviews. I am new to this and love any new ideas. What do you want to happen!