OMG. It's been so long since I've updated. Part of the reason was that I was on vacation and been suffering from Writer's Block. And also my laptop's charger burned so I had to wait like three weeks so that my parents would buy me a new one. It was such a depressing three weeks, you can imagine. I would look at my Laptopie and know that I couldn't use it because if I turned it on, Laptopie would die. ( Yes, I did name my laptop. Lol. I am weirdo. But I think you can all guess I am.) Omg. I almost forgot! The LA Lakers won The Finals! I was so excited! I think I cried that day when I saw Kobe Bryant crying.
Anyways, I screwed up this story majorly it wasn't supposed to go the way it is going. So as you all know, the story is getting really boring. Over my no-Laptopie period, I thought up some ideas and decided to add 2-5 more chapters to this story to add some romance between D/R that I feel so awful writing about. If the discomfortness (is that even a word—I don't think so) of writing about D/R gets too weird, I will stop writing about them and write about A/R—now that's something I love writing about. If you have any ideas for this story, I'll be more than happy to hear them. I am just sucking up lately, we all have our moments of being sucky; I think we can all agree.
So let's get down to business. Haha. I love saying that. It makes me feel like Abe Mazur for some reason. I want to make Rose and Adrian have 6 kids like they did in Sinless Heart but my BFF wants me to make them have 3 kids, 4 possibly, but no more than 4. So she convinced me to make Rose and Adrian have 4 kids. What do you think they should be named? And how many boys and how many girls? I am letting my readers decide. Oh and if you have any idea or suggestion on how they should look, how their rooms should be designed, and stuff like that, I am all ears.
Thanks a million to CityOfTheDamned.
Enjoy the chapter. . .
I was scared shitless. In truth, who wouldn't be scared of the scary Janine Hathaway? She was like the devil in disguise. A snake ready to bite when it was troubled. She was Satan personified. She was a tornado about to hit. A freaking avalanche. The point was that she was scary as hell can be.
"Young lady! What the hell do you think you are doing? Do you have any idea how many rumors being with an Ivashkov sparks?!" She said the name with bitter venom in her voice. It was scary. Was she really only worried about rumors? Or for her job? After all, Adrian's father was my mother's boss. One mistake and my mom could be out on her ass.
Like mother, like daughter. I responded with the same scariness. Except she didn't crunch in fear like I would have. "You have no right to just bust in the door and tell me what the hell I can or can't do!"
"Rosemarie Hathaway . . .—"
Adrian interrupted her outburst. "Guardian Hathaway . . ."
"Mr. Ivashkov, this is strictly a conversation between Rose and me."
Well, that shut him up good.
Adrian frowned.
My mother gripped my hand like I was a child and started leading me outside. I didn't know where she was taking me, but I just hoped she wasn't taking me to my death. Knowing her, I assumed she was because that's all that mattered to her. Death. She only cared about death. Death just overruled her life. Damn this Strigoi world.
"Where are you taking me?" My words came out harsh and rude, though I was anything but that. I was more like a little chick compared to her who seemed more like a mature, scary rooster.
"I am going to take you to an isolated place where nobody can hear your screams." That sounded really scary. I felt running the direction opposite her.
"Mom, seriously, I am not a child anymore. I know what I am doing."
Adrian's POV
Yeah. You wake up to a wonderful morning with the love of your life and then her hellish mom just interrupts everything. Great.
Not.
Guardian Hathaway was about the scariest person in this world. No joke. If Strigoi knew how she really was, I bet they would be scared of her. I knew for a damn fact that she could take down anything in a matter of seconds; she could take down Rose in a matter of seconds.
Well, Ivashkov, nothing else to do than to go help your little angel.
I grabbed my cell in case of an emergency and headed out the door.
Rose's POV
I knew my mother was mad. I just didn't want to know just how mad she was. What I didn't understand was—why was she mad? I mean, yeah, she caught me with a guy that in her opinion was probably going to dump me and humiliate my ass. I knew Adrian would never do that. Big deal.
She stopped and let me go when we were in the middle of the forest. She crossed her arms across her chest. She was at least a foot shorter than I was but she could kick major ass. It was very frightening.
"Rose Hathaway—"Mom, I am a teenager; you can stop calling me by my full name just like other moms call their toddlers when they get in trouble—"I do not like you seeing Adrian Ivashkov. I want it to stop immediately."
"Want what to stop?"
She was in my face in an instant. "I am not here to play games, Rose, I am here for business."
Business. Always business. "If you care about business so much, then why the hell are you yelling at me like I was some three-year-old that was about to draw on his older brother's homework?"
She ignored me. "I want it to end. Whatever you have with Adrian Ivashkov, I want it to end. Now."
"Why? Nobody stopped you from going with my dad, whoever he is." I paused for a breath. "Get over it, mother. I am grown person. I do my own choices and I make my own mistakes and I suffer my own consequences. You passed through all that already. Let me live my life. Let me have my own share of the dirt that life has to offer."
Ignored, again. "Dating a Royal Moroi is the stupidest mistake of your life. They just use you for blood, sex, and their pleasures, whatever it is."
Out of the shadows of the forest, Adrian stepped in and said, "I love Rose and have no intentions of breaking her heart. Ever. Just the opposite, I want her to be happy in every aspect of the world. She deserves love and happiness. But I want it to be me that delivers that to her." He said, standing his ground. His green eyes shined with love as gazed into my eyes.
My mother didn't say anything for a while. She was fuming. We watched as some of her anger vanished. She seemed to believe what Adrian had said. "Okay, but, I swear, Lord Ivashkov, I swear to whoever you believe in, that if I hear that you left Rose because she became pregnant or you don't want her anymore, I swear that you will not wake up with your tic-tac and two mini m&m's." I started laughing at my mom's version of balls and . . . you get the picture.
"You have my word, Ms. Hathaway. No harm here for Rose." Adrian said in a way that only a real man would say.
"You really can't stop love." My mother said and departed.
We stayed quiet for a while. Adrian broke the silence.
"Now, I am scared. You and your mother are so alike. It's scary at times."
I had other matters on my mind. I looked directly into Adrian's eyes. "Did you mean it?"
He came closer and wrapped his arms around my waist. "Rose, I meant every word I said to your mother. I have no plans of hurting or harming you. I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you. I want to marry you, you just have to accept and we will get married right away."
"It scares me."
"What does?" He seemed confused.
I felt a tear rolling down my cheeks. "That you love me so much. I have never, ever in my life had anyone care for me like you do. It scares me. I don't know how someone can have so much love in them."
He wiped my tear. "Don't you feel the same way for me?" He asked, sadly.
I didn't say anything. It was stupid of him to ask that question. Yes, I loved him, probably more than he loved me.
"I don't care if you don't love me like I do. I love you. That's all that matters to me. I'll be with you forever, if you allow it, of course. I don't want to be a hindrance in your life."
I put both hands behind his head and brought his beautiful face closer to mine. Just before I kissed his lips, I said, "You won't be a hindrance in my life. I want you in my life. I want you right now. I need you right now. I love so much."
I pressed my lips to his and we kissed passionately.
"Rose! Rose!"
Dimitri's yell interrupted our little love scene.
"What do you want?!" I sounded just like my mother had earlier. I saw Adrian flinch.
"You have to come with me." He was speaking to me, but he was having a showdown stare with Adrian. We ladies would never understand men. I didn't think that they even understood themselves. Men were just problematic and straight out weird. But whatever, we loved them.
"Go where?"
Another second at staring at Adrian and then he looked at me. "Alberta has requested you and I go to participate and give our vote on Moroi fighting with their magic."
I chewed on my lip. Did it really have to be me going?
"The Ivashkovs have chosen me as their representative since I have the rarest element." Adrian spoke up from behind me. I turned to look at me. "You should go. I am going to be there. I was just about to invite you as well." Adrian's words were addressed to me, but his eyes were on Dimitri.
I put my hand to my head. "Men are just headaches . . ." I whispered under my breath. "I will go because Alberta has requested me to go and I'll go with you Adrian."
"We can take my car, if you'd like, Dimitri?" Adrian asked. I looked at Adrian. I was shocked. Wouldn't he want to go alone with me, instead? Maybe he was up to something.
"Whatever is fine with me."
"Well, I have to get changed." They both nodded. I reached up to kiss Adrian and left the forest, knowing well that was to come would be a disaster.
In my room, I pulled out my phone and called Jade. As soon as she answered, I said, "I am about to go out with two hot guys. I NEED your help." I hung up as those words were said. I laid down on my bed as I waited for Jade to come. I mean, this trip was sure to be a disaster. I started chewing on my nails, which was majorly unattractive, but I was nervous. My nerves were so out of control that when Jade, I presumed, knocked on the door, I almost fell off my bed.
"Rosie Hathaway, lovely love, open the door. It's your future sister-in-law." She began pounding on the door as if she expected coconuts to fall out.
A small smile spread on my lips as I let her in. I loved this crazy girl to death.
She sat on my bed. She had the same excitement she had on the day we met and bumped into each other. In her hands were pieces of clothing. I mean, I had told her I needed help not a freaking makeover. "Tell me all about it. Who are these sexy guys?"
"Your brother and Dimitri."
"That tall Russian?" She eyed me.
"Yeah. Him."
"Russians scare me." She said very seriously.
I scrunched up my eyebrows in confusion. "Why?"
"They are tall, broody, and especially males, big."
"What do you mean by 'big?'"
"Well, from the latest Cosmo magazine, according to it, Russian males are the biggest."
I rolled my eyes when I finally realized what she was talking about. "Oh, God. Jade why are we talking about men's sizes. You know size does not matter."
"Can I ask you a question, Rose? It's kind of personal."
"Sure. Go ahead."
"Are you still a virgin?"
"Uh, yeah. Why would you want to know?"
"Well, since I am, I just wanted to ask how much it hurt."
"I don't know because I have never been that far. I just never felt right, until your brother came along." A huge smile filled my face as I talked about Adrian. "It feels right whenever I am around Adrian."
She smiled sweetly. "I understand. Logically, though, not emotionally because I have never felt that sense of rightness when I am with a guy."
"You just haven't fallen in love yet."
She rolled her eyes and turned back to her old bitchy self. "No shit, bitch? Tell me something I don't know."
"God you are such a bitch."
"Don't jinx yourself because when you and Adrian have little babies, one of your kids is going to be exactly like me. A total bitch."
"It scares me. Having little babies."
"Don't be. Babies are like the highlight of life." She sighed. "Now let's get you ready because I am sure your boys don't want to be waiting for you long."
Jade pulled out some clothes and then made me put them on. It was a pair of dark skinny jeans that I fell in love with right away. I loved every piece of clothing Jade wore. She had her own fashion sense. And it looked very good on her. Jade put me in a black tee and dark gray trench coat since it was very cold outside and you never know the weather—better to be ready than not. Since she insisted, she put some light make up on me. I don't know why she was doing this; I was just going to this dumb meeting for God's sake! She parted my hair to the side, tied it, and curled the ends of the pony tail. God, did she really have to do this? But when she finished with me, I looked pretty. Real pretty. Almost as pretty as her.
"You are all set to go," she said when she finished. I am pretty sure that Dimitri and Adrian were very happy waiting so that the princess could get ready. Not. They were probably about to rip each other's throats out.
She stayed in my room and I walked down wondering where Adrian or Dimitri could be. I decided to call my baby.
It rang three times before he answered. "Finally my loves call. What can I do for you, mi amor?"
"Hey, my sexy love, where are you?"
Strong hands wrapped around my waist. "Behind you," Adrian said. "You look hot."
I turned around and kissed him a little eagerly. Dimitri's throat clearing interrupted us.
"Ready to go?" He looked me over and he seemed appreciative at what he saw.
I sighed, not wanting to go one bit. Adrian grabbed my hand.
He pulled me along with him. "Come on. It's going to be fun."
"Hopefully." I told him, but followed to where Dimitri waited. It was going to be a disaster, I just knew it in my heart.
Wonderful.
Not.
Well, I have never rambled so much as I have today. I hope I didn't bore any of you with my weird words. Anyways, I hope you do help and lots of amor.