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"Roza!" Dimitri cried.
I never thought I'd be more happy to see Dimitri ever. I had no clue what happened, but I was 100% sure that he had been by my side and refused to leave.
"W-what happened?" I asked weakly. I looked around, my eyes still blurry. I was in a white room with wooden furniture, plastic chairs, and an IV bag hung on a metallic post.
"You had a miscarriage." Dimitri said softly, his eyes scanning my face for any sign of expression. "Remember those pains you had? Well, that was it. You had a dangerous surgery a couple of hours ago, but don't worry, the baby's okay."
I sighed in relief. "Where's CC?"
He jerked his chin to the chair a few feet away from the bed. There she was, snuggled up against a teddy bear that said 'Get Well Soon!' Her eyes were closed and she looked to be at peace.
"I was so worried, Roza." he whispered. I slowly lifted my hand and cupped it around his cringed face.
"I'm fine now, Dimitri. I don't know what happened, but I do know that I was thinking about you the whole entire time."
A ghostly smile crept upon his face. I gently pulled his face down so his lips met mine. They were warm and soft as our lips moved in synch to a passionate kiss.
"I thought I heard Lissa…?" I said against his lips.
He pulled away slowly with a slight smile. "Lissa's in the cafeteria, I think. She was freaking out so…"
I grinned then rolled my eyes. "When am I getting out of this place?"
"I'm not sure. But I'll call the nurse." He pushed a grey button on the side and said calmly, "She's awake."
A couple of minutes later, a petit nurse with loads of makeup came into the room with a clipboard. She looked up briefly at me then wrote something down in pen. "Good, your awake." she muttered. Then, she did a couple of check-ups, am ultra-sound, and told me I could leave tomorrow morning.
"Thank you." Dimitri consoled as the nurse left the room.
"What's taking Lissa so long?" I groaned. Then I remembered that the choosing of the queen or king was today. Shit, I had probably already missed it.
"Is Lissa queen?" I asked quickly.
He shrugged. "She never said anything about it. We'll ask her when she comes."
"As me what?" A voice interrupted.
My head swiveled to the door, where a very confused Lissa was.
"Liss!" I cried. She walked over to my bed and gave me a hug.
"I'm so glad your okay." she quivered.
I pulled back but held her shoulders. "Well how about you? How'd everything go this morning?"
She smiled brightly. Good news. "I won. I'm Queen."
I shrieked then gave her another hug. "Oh congratulations, Liss!"
"I have more good news." she announced, turning to Dimitri. "First, I'll need a head of the Royal guards. I've been thinking, and Dimitri, I so think you deserve it."
Dimitri smiled warmly. "Thank you, Lissa. I won't let you down, I promise."
Then, she turned back to me. "And you. You and Eddie will still be my guardians but my private guardians."
"Someone's a little too over-the-top with their new Queen privileges." I said sarcastically.
"Sorry." she apologized. "Oh shit! Did I tell you? Adrian and Aleyna are back!"
"What the hell happened to them?" I wearied.
"They got married!" she answered.
I wasn't that surprised. It seemed like something Adrian would do. But I was kinda surprised with Aleyna because she was like an angel that would never, ever, hurt a fly.
"Huh." I alleged. "That's peculiar."
Just then, I hear a stifled sniff as CC shifted from the chair she was sitting on an opened her eyes.
"Hi, angel." I said softly.
She was quick. In one motion, she jumped off her chair, and in the next, she was hugging me like a teddy-bear.
"Mommy!" she babbled. "I missed you! Is the baby okay?"
I nodded then kissed the top of her head. "He's okay, CC. I missed you too."
The next day, I was finally discharged from the hospital and was now at home, drinking a strawberry-banana smoothie Dimitri had bought (What can I say? I have my cravings.), and listening to the talking of Lissa, Christian, Adrian, Aleyna, Mia, and Eddie.
"We have great news." Mia announced, clasping her hands in Eddie's.
I took a big sip of my smoothie then said, "Lemme guess, your either, pregnant or engaged, or both."
"How did you know that?" Eddie asked curiously.
Lissa snickered. "Join the club. So, which is it?"
Mia pursed her lips then grinned. "Both! I found out I was pregnant the morning he proposed."
"Congrats." I affirmed happily. "I so knew this was coming."
"How?" Eddie said, still dumbfounded.
"Well all us girls are pregnant and married except for Aleyna so-
Aleyna interrupted me. "Actually, me and Adrian were thinking of adopting."
"Really?" Christian asked, not surprised.
She nodded then looked down. "I went to the doctor and asked her if I can have children and she said something about how my womb is not the right size or shape, or something like that. But we've always wanted children so I figured that we should adopt."
"How many kids?" I questioned.
Adrian answered. "Three. Two are twin-boys. They're one and a half and they're names are Aaron and Damon. And there's a little girl, she's just three months, and her name's Vanessa Allison."
I lifted my eyebrows. "Wow. Have you met them?"
Aleyna shook her head. "We've only seen them in pictures. But we're going to meet them next week."
Lissa smacked Christian. "In fact, don't swear around our children either.
Mia smiled. "Well good luck."
Dimitri walked in a minute later with a sleeping CC in his arms.
"Hey, comrade." I said, standing up and taking CC from him, cradling her in my arms.
"You know, Rose, your so innocent when it comes to children, but when your not, you're a bitch." Christian pointed out.
I glared at him. "Don't swear around CC or else your gonna wish you were never born."
Do you want they're first words to be swear words?"
Christian chuckled. "That would be kinda cool."
I rolled my eyes and sat back down next to Dimitri.
"When's she gonna start at St. Vlads?" Adrian asked.
I shrugged. "She's not even one, Adrian. Probably when she's four or five."
"She's gonna be one hell of a guardian." Lissa mentioned.
"She is the daughter of Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway." I said proudly.
An hour or so later, we decided to go out and eat at this Chinese restaurant a couple of blocks away. I had never brought CC to a restaurant before, so this was a first.
"Where are we?" she asked, looking around. I placed her on one of the highchairs sat her at the head of the table, Dimitri and I right next to her.
"A restaurant, CC. This is where you order food and they bring it to you so you could eat it."
She looked so fascinated I was about to laugh.
After we ordered, I gave CC one of the bottles of milk I brought. There was a tv right in front of our table and we all looked up when someone announced BREAKING NEWS and the text flashed in red. A moment later, a man wearing a suit and spectacles holding a mic came on.
"One of the prisoners of the highly secured prison, Tarasov, has escaped without a trace. Guardians all over the world are encouraged to keep a keen eye and watch out for her. She has been arrested because of work with Strigoi and has attacked with them. Her name is Tasha Ozera."
Everyone at the table froze. Tasha had escaped. And I think I knew where she was heading.
The man continued quietly. "If found, you are immediately to turn her in. This is Michael Freskov, signing off."
We didn't say anything. But I knew we all had the same thing in our minds. Tasha had escaped, and she's coming after us. I placed a hand on top of my round belly and rubbed it. Tasha had almost killed my baby.
"What do we do now?" Lissa asked softly.
Dimitri looked up slowly. "We wait until she comes. If we could get her to the guards, we're good. But if she gets too dangerous, we kill her."
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