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Chapter 26

TWO WEEKS LATER

ROSE'S POV

They had kept me in the hospital for one week after Ethan was born, my injuries were pretty significant, and my body needed time to heal itself. I had to admit I really needed the time to recuperate. But, I was so glad to be released

and finally come home. It was good to be here; with Adrian and Ethan. It felt strange to consider myself as someone's mother. Poor kid. Of all the people to be born to, the little guy had to get me. I laugh at the thought of what

his temperament was going to be like as he get older. Seriously, because when he gets mad; all hell lets loose now, I hate to see it when he is three. Adrian has been wonderful as usual; he brings Ethan to me when he needs fed, and

he gets up with him in the middle of the night. After the cesarean section, my body is still pretty sore and I can't work out or do any lifting for six weeks. I really can't wait to get back to normal. Adrian and I had so much to discuss;

my returning as a Guardian, my fight with Caitlin, and we really haven't had the chance to talk about what happened to me when I was in the hospital. I have been getting strange glimpses of the two dark figures that attacked

me by the lake. My dad is constantly at me to remember the events of that day, but for some reason, my brain can't register it..yet. Sometimes my dad's need to get revenge frightens me; and for me to say something like that, it must

be bad. I definitely got my anger issues from him, no doubt about it.

I turned over gently to not wake Adrian and made my way to the kitchen. I decided I would surprise him and make him breakfast. He has been running in circles; helping me, taking care of Ethan, his parents are here, visiting, and

he will be going back to work soon. I felt so bad for him. He tries so hard to keep everyone happy, making things run smoothly. I was working quietly when I heard Ethan whimper. I turned to see him against Adrian's bare chest.

What a sight my fiance was; hair rumpled from sleep, bare-chested, and his flannel pajama bottoms. I never realized how sexy a man could look holding his child. He was a sight to see, I stood there gawking with a silly grin on my

face. "What?" He ask, giving me a crooked smile.

I walked over putting my hands around his waist. "You're in a lot of trouble in about 2 weeks, you know that, right?" I gave him a mischievous smile.

"SHHH! I don't want him corrupted at such a young age." He said with mock outrage on his handsome features.

I snorted. "Well, You may want to put him back to bed because I want to kiss you. I wouldn't want to disappoint either of you with my demoralizing actions." Adrian quickly turned on his heels, racing to Ethan's room.

He was out in thirty seconds flat; taking me in his arms. "Now..Where were we?" I ran my tongue against my lips and raised my eyebrows at him. He gave me a sly smirk; intertwining his fingers in my hair, slightly pulling it, while

bringing my face to his. He lightly brushed his lips against mine; teasing me. I thought to myself, 'two can play this game', as I bit his bottom lip. He growled against my mouth; slamming our lips together. We kissed like we were

searching for salvation and we were each other's savior. We haven't kissed each other like this in a while; it was heating up too fast and we had no where to go, we couldn't. We broke apart staring at each other; our eyes were

swimming with desire and lust. A lucky break came our way when there was a knock at the door.

Adrian let out a big sigh. "You've got to be shittin' me." I started laughing at his expression.

"Go answer that, Ivashkov."

He opened the door; turning to me, raising his eyebrow. There were seven people walking into our apartment.

"I am going to get dressed." Adrian said as he made his get-away. I gave him a death stare and mouthed, "Thank you."

He smiled a wide smile; waving at me as he disappeared into our bedroom.

"Where's the stinky little kid?" Christian was laughing as he ask for Ethan. He had everyone wrapped around his little finger.

"My baby is NOT stinky, Flamer." Everyone burst out laughing except Christian, who was glaring at me as usual. I gave him a cheeky smile, pissing him off more.

We had a full house; Lissa , Christian, Mom, Elizabeth, Kensi, Olivia, and Alena. I knew that Ivan was to come with the rest of Adrian's family. Although, his mom and sisters' have been here everyday to visit with us. Ivan has yet to stop

by to see Adrian or Ethan. I really didn't care if he came to visit us or not. But, I still felt bad for Adrian. I would bet anything, that Adrian's whole life his father has been disappointed in him; the cruel, pompous ass has no idea just how how

lucky he was to have Adrian as his son. I truly didn't like that man. If he ever wanted me to change my opinion of him, he would have to do some serious ass-kissing. Adrian came out of the bedroom carrying the baby in his arms; everyone

flocking around him, cooing, kissing, and whatever else they did. I shake my head at all of them, they lose all sense of reality around Ethan. It's like being around a bunch of crazy people. I noticed that my dad wasn't here with us, which

was strange. He took every opportunity to spend time with us.

I turned to Janine. "Mom? Where's Dad?" Adrian and I looked at each other. Abe was missing and so was Ivan. OH SHIT!


ABE'S POV

I was waiting for that son of a bitch to meet me here. I told him to be here at 10:00 and how dare he make me wait for him. He really was still an ass.

I saw a tall figure walking towards me, Pavel was on alert. I commanded him to relax his stance.

I knew who it was; Lord Asshole, himself. "Ivan." I said, giving him a slight nod of my head in acknowledgement.

He gave me that trademark Ivashkov smirk; you know, the one you want to slap off his face. "Mazur." Oh yeah! This was going to be fun. I do love a good fight.

"Why did you call me here? What is it that you want?" He demanded me…go figure.

"I don't know, Ivan. My need to discuss politics, the weather, and oh yeah! my daughter's attempted murder. You wouldn't know anything about that would you?" I begged him to piss me off. I've always wanted another shot at this prick.

He snorted. "Yes Abe! I would know ALL about that, considering I was in Europe on business when it happened." Answering in his typical sarcastic tone.

"Really? I was under the impression that you disliked my daughter. I would go as far to say that you hate her. Matter of fact, word traveled that you were very rude to her. You know Ivan, there is a punishment for that; you do remember,

don't you? Or do I need to remind you?" I took a step towards him.

"You know Mazur, the day is quickly approaching, when you won't be able to hold the past agreement against the Ivashkov family." Ivan spewed at me.

"HUH…I didn't know you held that kind of power. Shit Ivan, I learn something new every goddamn day. Thanks. What would I ever do without you?" I gave him a smile, pleading him to do it, say anything.

He gave me a half-smile. "You still are real prick, you do know that, Mazur?"

I nodded to show him I was endorsing his words. "Now…Back to the issue of Rose. Do you or do you not know anything about it? Think about it real hard Ivan. I wouldn't lie to me if I were you."

"Don't threaten me, Ibrahim." He glared at me.

"I am not threatening dear old friend. It's a promise, if you or family members fuck with my daughter; there will be severe consequences to deal with, you know I can do it, and how I will do it." I gave him my solemn vow of revenge and he

knew I meant it.

Ivan became very serious as he spoke. " Ibrahim, I may not like the idea of Adrian and Rose together. I may hate that my blood line is now destroyed by a dhampir carrying my family name. But, I would never go as far to have you daughter

hurt or murdered. I am many things, but I am not a monster."

"Ruin your bloodline? That's interesting, considering the fact that my daughter and her children will one day be more powerful than your family combined. You should be thanking her; for allowing your family a legitimate chance to claim the throne.

Remember that….You may want to reconsider your attitude towards my daughter and grandchild." I walked away, leaving him to think about my words.


ADRIAN'S POV

Damnit! Just what we need; Abe and my dad getting into it. You can feel the tension in the air when you mention my dad's name around Abe. Luckily, my dad hasn't decided to come here to visit us. He has been here for awhile and hasn't stopped

by as of yet. I wish he would get over his petty bullshit and try to reason the fact that Rose and I are getting married and nothing is going to change it.

Abe entered the room, pulling me from my thoughts. He walked right over to Ethan; taking him from Janine, and starting his baby talk. I had tried to suppress my laughing at him; it was hard to imagine big, bad Abe Mazur speaking baby jargon.

He glanced up at me. "What are you snickering at Ivashkov?"

I shook my head, trying to stop laughing at him and I couldn't. "Nothing, nothing at all." I quickly left the room to find Rose. She would be the only one to protect me, if her old man decided to kick my ass.


Hours had past; we had ordered in dinner, everyone sat around talking, and fighting over who got to hold Ethan next. Kid is going to be spoiled. It's was getting close to dawn and everyone had to decided to call it a day as we said our good-byes.

I put the baby to bed and made my way to the kitchen. Rose was standing at the sink, doing dishes. I stood there watching her; it was funny to see Rose Hathaway being domesticated. Man, she would look so much better in a french maid outfit.

The thought got my stirred up as I walked up behind her; wrapping my arms around her waist, kissing my way from her ear down her neck.

"What do you think you're doing?" She ask in a seductive tone.

"I am picking up where we left off this morning, before we were so rudely interrupted." I continued kissing her soft, sweet skin.

"Well, Lord Ivashkov. We can not be starting any fires we can't put out." She fore-warned me.

"Little dhampir, my fire is already lit just by watching you. How about you help me extinguish the flames you've started. I will have to make it up to you..... later." I gave her the most naughty smile I had in me.

She turned to face me straight on. "Oh, you're going to make it up to me all right. I'll race you to the bedroom." She started laughing, running past me to our room.

Jesus, I loved this woman so much. I am so thankful she came back to me. My life would have ended without her; she and Ethan were my life. I am a fortunate man; when I saw her standing there in our bedroom, in the faint glow of the candles,

I couldn't believe my luck. She grabbed my hand; pulling me towards the bed, as she kneeled on the it in front of me, she slowly started unbuttoning my shirt. She was kissing her way from my jaw, down my chest. She was driving me completely insane. I reached forward to touch her skin.

She smiled at me and smacked my hand away. "It's all about putting out your flames, remember?"

"Am I allowed to kiss you?" I ask, with pleading obvious in my voice.

She smiled that man-eating smile. "Absolutely!"

I cupped her face; bringing it to mine, softly caressing her lips, tracing my tongue along her bottom one, begging for permission. She opened her mouth to mine as our tongues touched wildly. I wanted her so bad. Then....

"You've really got to be Shittin me?" I yelled, hearing the loud knock came at our front door again.

I looked at Rose. "I swear I am going to fucking kill someone if it isn't a damn emergency." I stormed towards the door, buttoning my shirt.

I flung open the door, pissed off. "What the….Dad! What are you doing here?" I was confused as hell. It seems as if all chaos ensued with his arrival. The baby started screaming; Rose walking out of the bedroom, asking who was here,

stopping dead in her tracks at the sight of my dad. She walked into the nursery, getting Ethan and walking out to stand beside me. We stood together, staring at my dad waiting for an explanation to his unexpected visit.

My dad nodded his head. "Adrian..Rosemarie. Sorry to stop by so late. I felt it was time we had a talk."

We stared at him like he was speaking in tongues. "Are you going to invite me in son?" He ask me, while standing in the doorway.

I gave Rose a sideward glance, it was her home too. "Come in." Rose said, taking a seat on the couch.

"Thank you. You have a lovely place." He said, looking very uncomfortable.

"Thanks…What do you want Ivan?" Rose questioned his motives for being here.

My dad laughed. "Well Rosemarie, you are quite direct. You are so much like your father."

"Thank you! I will take that as a compliment." Rose smirked at him. I had a feeling this conversation was going to get ugly, fast.

He chuckled. "Please do, I meant no disrespect whatsoever."

Rose raised her eyebrows at him. "Okayyy."

My father took a deep breath, trying to gather himself. "Although I still don't agree with everything going on here and I don't have to like it. But, I don't want to lose my relationship with you, Adrian. You're my only son and with you

having a son now; I think you would understand where I am coming from."

I shook my head at my dad. "Yes, I do have a son. But, no, I don't understand where you are coming from. I would never ask my son to choose between me and his family. I couldn't do that to him. I told you dad; I love you, your my father.

But, Rose and Ethan are my future. I made it very clear the last time we saw each other; it was all of us or none of us. I am sorry. My decision is final on the subject." I walked to the front door and opened it. My dad stood up from the

couch without saying a word, walking out the door.


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