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I felt like banging my head against a rock. No joke. Why did they bring me into these meetings? All there was were old people talking, discussing magic fights or whatever nonsense they were talking about. The youngest person in the room was probably Adrian or me because I was younger than. Ha. My baby's old. Who cared? I loved him the same. Age did not matter on spec with him.

I waited till Adrian looked my way so that I could show the face he couldn't resist. "Let's go somewhere else?"

That rogue smile of his appeared on his face. "Where do you want to go?"

"I saw an ice cream parlor down the road. Let's go there." I stood up as quiet as possible and Adrian followed me to the door. Nobody noticed our absence because they were so caught up in their discussions.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the setting sun. Nature . . . always a comfort. It was night for humans but it was day for us. People always argued about why not going with the human schedule? Well, here was the answer. The Moroi could not stand the sunlight and I don't think they would want to be cooped up inside all day. God . . . such retards.

Adrian's arms went around my waist. He pressed my back against his chest. It was so comforting to feel his arms around me. I titled my head back and the back of my head rested on his shoulder. He leaned down and kissed my lips quickly. "Do you really want to go buy ice cream?" His lips began to slither down to my neck. He kissed my throat. "There is a hotel like two minutes away. We could get a room, get room service, and you can be my woman for the night. What do you say?" His lips moved back to mine and he began kissing.

For the past few nights, the sexual tension between us had been too high. My hormones, when I was around him, had been so out of control. I didn't blame them. I could not see a woman who would not get turned on by Adrian. "Why the hotel?" I turned in his arms. "Why not the backseat of your car?"

He turned on a bright, mischievous smile. "Because Dimitri sits there and we don't want him to get jealous when he notices that the seat smells like you and I having fun." He pressed his lips to mine and our tongues did a little dirty dancing.

It felt like Déjà vu when I heard someone clear their throat. It was Adrian who broke the kiss because I did not feel like separating from Adrian just one bit. Adrian smiled when he saw my look of annoyance.

He leaned down and whispered in my ear, "We'll get back to this later." He winked and turned me so that we could face Dimitri.

"Dimitri, what do you want?" I asked, very annoyed.

Dimitri always being Dimitri answered without getting any emotion on his face. "I need to be protecting Moroi at all times. And it is not safe to be out here when Strigoi could be lurking around."

Awesome excuse. My being negative must have caused the weather to go from being semi-sunny to being cloudy in like a nanosecond. The weather changing made me hungry and it was not attractive when my stomach grumbled in front of the men. It made Adrian laugh.

He put his hand to my stomach. "My baby needs to be fed." I swear Dimitri's eyes almost popped out.

I rolled my eyes and pushed Adrian's hand away. "Just because I've gained five pounds and can't fit in some of my jeans, does not mean I am pregnant. You are so delusional."

I saw Dimitri take a huge breath. "A mall is nearby. I am sure your they sell your favorite kind of food there."

I looked at Adrian. He shrugged. "The mall it is," I said.

Dimitri had been wrong. My favorite food was nowhere in sight. I was satisfied when Adrian and I shared a foot long that was so delicious I had to get another one. Adrian just smiled and it his other half in silence.

I raised an eyebrow when is aw Adrian rise from his seat. I did not like that. He was supposed to stay at my side throughout the whole day. My nerves went over the edge when I thought about what he had said earlier about me being his woman.

"Do you want me to go with you?" I was not interested in the slightest. I wanted to stay sitting down with him by my side instead of walking around.

"No, love. It's a surprise for you."

He leaned down to peck me on the lips and left me alone with Dimitri. It was not awkward at all. Rose, remember—sarcasm gets you nowhere.

"Soo . . . uh, comrade? How's it going?" I had absolutely no idea on what to say.

He didn't bother answering my question. He stood up and sat himself on the chair Adrian had been sitting on. I hope Adrian didn't come back soon and found me in a compromising situation. That would be bad and not cool.

"Rose . . ." There was so much emotion in his voice it was not even funny. It was like every emotion he had ever held back was in his voice in that moment. "I love you."

I raised an eyebrow. "Uh . . . thank you?"

I had no idea what to say.

"You probably don't believe me, but I love you." He even smiled while he said that. "I was wrong with Tasha. I never loved her. I was just attracted to her. And I know you found me with someone else. But every moment I was with her, I imagined it was you." He put his hand on my arm. "I love you, Rose. I can't deny it any longer."

I got mad. After all this time he finally says what I wanted to hear some time ago. Didn't he realize that right now I did not care about how he felt towards me? I had Adrian. And that's all I would ever need.

I straight out told him what I was thinking. "You don't know how much I have waited for you to say those things. But now they don't mean anything; I don't give a damn if you love me or not. Adrian is my whole life now."

"Rose . . . you don't mean that." For the first time in my life, I saw pain on Dimitri's face.

I shrugged. "You are just not worth it, Dimitri. Love doesn't always have to be expressed with words; it could be expressed with actions. Did not ever see it? I loved you, you know. I was ready to take on the world for you."

He seemed ashamed, but the expression faded. "I am going to prove that I am worthy for you. I am going to prove that I really do love you."

"Well . . . you can try" was all I could say.

Before, I wanted to bang my head against the table; now, I wanted to hurl myself out of a window of the two story mall. Adrian and Dimitri were fighting over who bought Rose the best things. It was fun at first because Adrian bought me an awesome diamond necklace and then Dimitri bought me an awesome Channel purse. But later, it was getting overrated. They gave me everything I wanted. It was natural for Adrian because he had money, but Dimitri. Where had he gotten all this money?

My smile was so huge as Adrian put this awesome black coat on me. "Babe, take it. It looks hot on you."

Oh, the coat was so soft. I never wanted to take it off. The coat was a Gucci one. I fell in love with it.

The fighting over who bought Rose the best thing game continued as we toured through the huge mall. Dimitri bought me a huge pretzel and shared it with me. Adrian bought me a large mango smoothie and a pretzel and shared it with me. It was delicious. Dimitri bought me awesome lips gloss; Adrian bought me a whole package of MAC makeup, which I am sure cost at least five hundred dollars. At last I said I was tired and they walked me to the car. But before we could go into the car, Adrian dragged me to a dealer nearby. I didn't know what the car company was; it was in some other language.

"What are we doing here?" I asked him.

"Buying you your car." He said simply.

Oh . . . my . . . God. "What?!"

"You heard me." He blew kisses me, which was so weird.

"Uh, no, Adrian. What is your dad going to say when he sees the bill for his credit cards?"

"That's his problem. Why did he bang my mother without permission?"

"Eww . . . parent sex is seriously disgusting. And I so did not want to know about your mother and father getting it on."

"I can't wait till we have our kids, lil' love."

"I don't plan on having kids."

He turned his mischievous smile on me. "Oh, you will." Some dude with a language I did not recognize came up to Adrian. Adrian pointed to me at times. After a couple of minutes he nodded. "I'll be right back, angel."

That left me standing with Dimitri. After today, I had grown gentle towards him. He was quiet right now. Maybe a lot was on his mind. I hated when people were quiet.

"Any wrong, comrade?"

He looked sad. "If something ever happens to me, Rose. I want you to save me."

I was confused. "Why do you say that, Dimitri?"

"Rose, please, no words. Just promises." He shut his eyes and looked at me seriously. "I want you to promise to save me."

"Okay."

The minutes passed by and soon Adrian was back. He smiled at me and wrapped both his arms around me.

"What took you so long?"

"I was buying your car. I had to do some paperwork, sign some shit, and pick out your car."

"Um, thanks for the gifts, but why a car?" I didn't like Adrian spending on me! It made me mad when he did. Sure, his gifts were awesome, but it made me feel like I was using Adrian for his money. "He loves spending money . . . so it's all good" Jade had once said. Her assurances didn't make me calm, though; they made me more upset that he had to waste all his money on me.

I was sick of it. I just wanted to go home. I didn't let him reply. "I want to go home."

"As you wish, my lovely."

Great, just great. When we wanted to leave, a massive thunder storm had to hit. Awesome.

I opened the door and almost got blown away by the strong wind blowing. There was hail falling as well. Wonderful. How were we going to get home now? Good thing Adrian had brought his Hummer, which was for off road, which was good for bad weather conditions as well.

"Are you serious? Can't you see the lady wants to get home?" Adrian yelled to the sky.

I chuckled and ran to his car. When I sat down, I was all wet from head to toe.

"I can't take you home looking like this, little dhampir. People are going to think I tried drowning you in the lake."

"Please. People know you would go down first." We continued arguing as Dimitri lounged quietly in the back.

Adrian convinced me to stay at a hotel because everywhere we drove, there was a sign that read "Slipper roads" and crap like that. Adrian drove into a Holiday Inn and got off to check for available rooms. He came back some minutes later with the news that there was only one room. Since nobody can leave the town, there was only ONE room at the hotel. Great. Now we had to share a room with Dimitri. That was going to be fun.

I followed Adrian to the room 312. He sighed and slid the key card into the door knob whatever you called those things. With the corner of my eye, I saw the he was struggling to hold back a smile. God, only Adrian would find this funny.

"What's so funny, babe?" I was getting a little mad because here I was about to spend the night with both of my boys. This called for some Jade talking time. But, no; my phone had decided to get no service up in here.

"Nothing," he said.

I hated when people answered my questions with "nothing." I swear it just made me want to slap the shit out of them.

The door finally opened and room was pretty, I supposed. There was only ONE bed. I could already see where this would go. I got and evil idea.

I pretended like I was really tired and I yawned hugely. "Well, I am tired. Who is going to share the bed with me?"

"I will." Adrian said so confident.

"No, let it be me." Dimitri said. I could predict another argument coming.

They argued for a few minutes and I let them. Finally, though, I stopped them. "How about I take the couch and you two can take the bed? No more arguing that way. And it looks like you will get nowhere with that arguing."

Paybacks a bitch, huh boys?

I held back a smile. "This is another test on who loves me the most. If you love me, you'll do it. But if you don't, I know that you don't love me." Ha. I walked to the bathroom and I let it all out. I laughed so evilly, hoping that Adrian and Dimitri didn't hear. I brushed my teeth. (I always carried my toothbrush no matter what in my purse.) I slipped out of my wet jeans and just stayed in my shorts that I always wore under my jeans during winter because they kept your butt warm.

When I got out of the bathroom, I saw that Dimitri and Adrian were already in the bed. I held back a million laughs. I didn't say anything I was walked over to the couch where one of my men had put blankets. I slipped in and wrapped a soft blanket around me.

A few minutes passed—they probably thought I was asleep—they began speaking.

"I just want her to be happy," Adrian says.

A smile formed on my face, but vanished when Dimitri spoke. Dimitri says, "With me?"

Adrian sighed dramatically. "I want her to be happy with whoever makes her happy."

I didn't hear the rest because as expected, the couch kind of took me over and made me fall asleep.

It was the middle of the night, when I felt someone slipping next to me in the couch. "What the hell?"

"It's me, babe. You didn't tell me Dimitri liked to snuggle in bed." I giggled, softly, because I didn't want to wake up Dimitri.

"I rather snuggle with you, than with Dimitri." A gave a little soft whimper when he put his hands around my waist and put himself under me so that I was lying on his chest. "You're heavy, babe." He said in a teasing tone and tucked my head under his chin.

"Your mom, bitch." He chuckled silently.

"Sleep, my amor. Tomorrow we got the whole day together." Before I knew it, I was out and practically dead asleep—not, knowing that tomorrow was definitely the day we would be together, emotionally and physically.

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