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Six months later

I danced with the music that blasted all around the house as I cleaned Adrian's house. Adrian watched, smiling with amusement as he kicked back with an ice-cold drink in his hand. He had given up writing another college essay long ago. I was very happy today because tomorrow was our wedding day. My feelings were a mixture of nervousness, excitement, happiness . . . it was all in a jumble. I was spending as much time with Adrian as I possibly could because Jade, the sister-in-law that had recently wed, had promised to take me away from Adrian in exactly one hour. ( I know! Couldn't she give us more time?) "The groom can't see the bride till it is time to say 'I do.' She had said.

I smiled back at Adrian, with slight deviousness. Slowly, dancing with the tune, I danced my way over to him. I gave him a small lap dance, which I'm sure he appreciated. Sure enough, his hands cupped my booty. They started moving up under my silk blouse that I had matched with my skinny jeans. His hands slipped out of my shirt and went to the ribbon that held the shirt together. That ribbon untied and the shirt would fall. I was left with just a bra. He turned me around in his arms and laid me on the couch, him on top.

"Oh, Rose . . . you are such a tempting person." His hand reached around my back and unhooked my bra one-handed. How could he even do that? Even I couldn't do it. He started kissing me hard and hungry, pretty much the way he always kissed me before we had sex. It was pretty hot and indecent. But I loved the way his smooth lips felt on mine. His lips started to travel down, down to my throat, down to my chest, down to the V of my stomach, and down to the button of my jeans. Throwing me a wink, he took my jeans off.

Within minutes, we both were naked and so ready to give into each other's temptations. I pulled away a little. "Babe . . ." I was so breathless that I could barely form a sentence.

"Huh?" He was already spreading my legs and going in . . .

I reached into one of the cushions that he had thrown down off the couch. We always kept condoms in there for an emergency. I mean, babies were cute and sweet, but I wanted to wait until at least Adrian and I were a year or two into our marriage. I was too young to be a mommy and Adrian was too young to be a daddy.

Like a pro, Adrian was done in a minute and sometime later we were both climaxing, my orgasm leading him to his. He rested on top of me as I wrapped my legs around his waist and did some serious making out with him.

"Rose . . ." He sighed my name into my neck. He started caressing my neck with his lips. "I love you."

I giggled. "Are you sure I don't love you more? Seems like it."

Adrian pulled back and looked at me in the eyes. "Oh, no. I love you more and I can prove it."

"Oh, yeah?"

The phone rang before we could do anything. Crap. Adrian answered it. "This is Adrian, Rose Hathaway's, soon-to-be- Ivashkov's, secretary . . . how may I help you?" He beamed when he said Rose Ivashkov. "I don't know. Let me ask her." He looked at me. "The devil wants to speak with you, do you want to speak to her?"

I rolled my eyes. I could see why he had nicknamed Jade "The Devil." She had been interrupting our love scenes for that past week and it sucked. "Tell her I know where to meet. At the Spa in twenty minutes. Tell her to leave us alone . . . we're kind of busy right now."

Adrian passed along the message. "You heard her. We're really busy right now." He chuckled one last time and hung up the phone. We were still locked in the tangled position we had been in earlier, our limbs still combined as one. He finally pulled out and put me on top of his chest. I got the brown, soft blanket and covered my backside. I snuggled onto his neck and he tightened his arms around me I sighed in happiness. "I want to stay in your arms forever . . . I want you to whisper romantic things in my ear." He put his lips to my ear and whispered "I love you." That was about the most romantic thing he could say. It was a few seconds later when I was pulling away. He sat up and set me on his lap. "You have to go now?" I nodded. "Damn, Jade."

I totally agreed with him. I wasn't this psycho of not being with your man until the wedding when it was Jade getting married. I gave them the whole day before the wedding together. Hell, it was until morning that I didn't let them see each other. Why couldn't she leave us more time alone?

I stood up and grabbed his hand so that we could take a quick shower. Jade could wait for few minutes . . . or hours, couldn't she?

The Next Day . . . Rose's and Adrian's wedding

Adrian's POV

I wonder what my darling love is doing? I hoped she didn't get cold feet. I knew I wasn't going to get cold feet. We were talking about the love of my life here! I could I not want to marry her? I had waited over four years for this day. I couldn't wait till we were husband and wife and we could start making kids at the honeymoon I had thoroughly planned. It was a major surprise where I was taking her. It was my favorite place in the world (besides Las Vegas) and only Jade knew where I was taking her.

I glanced at my watch, which was gift from my father. Three hours left till I married my love. Rose and I had chosen to get married in the sunset because well, I couldn't—and this included all Moroi as well—be a long time in the sun without feeling like I was going to pass out. There were at least a million guardians in case Strigoi tried to interlude. Three hours . . . actually seemed like a long time away. I was actually glad that I was born male as opposed to female because Rose must have at least three people working on her. Males only had to take a quick shower and do a little hygiene and just slip on their suits. Females needed to be a whole work of art. Rose, beautified with cosmetics or not, looked beautiful no matter what. She was as beautiful as a red, red rose in the middle of nowhere.

My thoughts were interrupted when my brother, Damien, who was now the only Ivashkov bachelor, walked in the door. He sat next to the chair I lounged on. "Well, little brother, guess what just happened?"

"No idea. What happened?"

"Danika is now wearing a rock on her finger."

I stood up. I gave him a manly hug, the ones where the men pat the other guy hard on the back. I sat back down. "I'm surprised she said yes."

"Yeah, me too. I was kind of expecting a no because she always talks about marriage and kids being the last thing on her mind."

"What made her change her mind? You didn't bribe her to say yes, did you?" I chuckled.

"Of course. She finally fell for Damien Charms. And your Rose made her change her mind."

"Rose?!" I was a little surprised. Rose was not Danika's biggest fan. But she tried to get along with Danika all because of me. "To my knowledge, Rose and Danika strongly dislike each other."

He laughed a little darkly. "Actually, Danika is quite scared of Rose. She doesn't want to get her ass kicked."

That made me laugh. Sometimes, even I was scared of Rose. "I assure you. Rose will never hurt Danika now that she is going to be part of the family."

He nodded. "You nervous, bro?"

"Not exactly. Excited more than nervous." I looked over at him. "What made you change your mind of marriage?"

"All these married couples we have in the family. First Krestel, Ervin, Jade, and now you. It was about time for me to get married."

"Damn right you were."

"So when are you and Rose going to have kids?"

"She has the balls here." Damien laughed. "So she decides when." It made me smile, just thought of seeing Rose pregnant with our kids and then having them, made me smile quite hugely.

"Did you finally tell Rose about Abe Mazur being her father?"

"Crap . . . it totally passed my mind. I'll tell her after the wedding, though. I don't want Rose to leave me at the altar."

"You know he's here today, right?"

"Shit!"

"And you claim to be the perfect man." He shook his head. "It's all good. If you want, I'll tell her." He stood up. "Wish me luck."

"Good luck and God be with you. Try not to get killed." I chuckled. "Oh and give Rose a huge kiss for me. Tell her I love her."

"No thanks. I have my own women now. I'll save it so that you can do that later to her."

I went to lay on the bed as I waited for the next three hours to pass . . .

Rose's POV

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I wanted to scream. But, I held it in, like a sane person would do. I was so nervous, but the kind of excited nervous, you know, the nerves that you experience when you are about to do something you really, really want? A cosmetician worked feverishly on my face while another worked quietly on my hair. These could seriously work miracles. I looked at myself in the mirror when the cosmetician finished applying foundation and all that crap on my face, I was relieved to find that the bags under my eyes were not visible as if they didn't exist at all. It was awesome because I had very baggy eyes.

The lady, Nancy, had also put this colored eye liner that made my brown eyes pop out. I would have never considered buying that color and wearing. But now, I looked pretty awesome on me. Nancy had colored my eye brows with my natural color. She colored my eyelids with dark eye shadow. She added some blush to my cheeks and then topped my lips off with some very light pink gloss. My face took an hour to be complete and my hair would probably take two hours.

Within the last thirty minutes, I heard Jade say, "This room is for woman only. And unless you are woman, which I am sure you aren't since you screwed at least half the Moroi woman, I suggest you get out."

"All I hear is barking. I came to talk to Rose, actually." Damien, the brother-in-law that I actually liked sat down next to me.

"Hey, Rose. Cold feet yet?"

"Uhh . . . you're making me nervous."

"Anyways, I wanted to ask. Do you remember the guy that was following you, that Abe Mazur?"

"Yeah . . . what about him?"

"Well, how do I say this?"

"Say what?"

"Well, his blood runs through your veins."

"Was he the one who donated blood to me when I crashed like six years ago?" I asked stupidly.

"Huh?" He blinked. "No. I'm trying to say that guy's your daddy."

I momentarily opened my eyes and stared at him. "What the fuck? How did you find out about this?"

"My father and him are good friends. And besides, Adrian did some investigating of his own."

I wasn't mad that Adrian hadn't told me. I didn't feel anything, but shock. I had had heard stories of Abe Mazur. He was supposedly very powerful and rich. Wow . . . I didn't know what to think. Should I be happy? Sad? Scared? Ashamed of having a dad so awful?

"Well, that's sure a surprise to get the day of your wedding."

"Well, life isn't always pretty." He patted my shoulder and stood up. "I'm out. By the way, Adrian sends his love."

That made me smile. "Give him a huge kiss for me."

He winked. "Sure. Can it be hotter than the ones you give him?" I chuckled. He gave me one last smile and left.

I didn't think about what he had said any longer. Just thought about what was going to happen in exactly thirty minutes. Adrian and I were going to get married! Finally, the hair stylist finished my hair. I had chosen something simple for my wedding. When she saw that I was finished getting ready, Jade came up to me with a huge smile. She reached out and hugged me. "Are you ready to get into your dress?"

I smiled. "This is all happening so fast. I can't believe it."

She hugged me again. "It's going to be fun, Rose. Don't think about it. This is your wedding day. Treasure these days because they don't come back as much as you want them too. The present is a gift, hence the reason they call it present."

I nodded. Please, don't start crying, Rose, not yet.

She went and retrieved my dress. She helped me into my garter and then she slipped on my dress. My dress was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. It was a fit and flare wedding dress. It was tight from my waist and it started to form into a mermaid above my knees. It was ivory colored and had these embroidered patterns on the waist, above my knees, and on the train.

Since my dress was an a pale ivory, Jade decided pearls best matched my dress. Adrian had wanted to buy me a 20 carat diamond necklace but I freaked out on him and said no. My earrings were pearls as well. I wore an elbow-length layered veil that was adorned by a tiara made out of pearls that matched my pearl necklace. I had ivory open toe, stiletto pumps. My hair was curled, half down, and with a bump on the back. I had a bouquet of roses that matched the color of my wedding.

All my bridesmaids, which was Jade, Lissa, Scarlet, and Johanna, and I all took professional pictures. The photographer took pictures of Adrian and I as we got ready for our wedding. He said he was going to make a video, or a slideshow, of us so that we would have it as a memory and as something we could show our kids.

Then, my time was up. I was going to get married. Adrian had taken me to visit his parents. I loved their back yard because it was all green, with gardens and whatnot, and I chose their backyard as where I wanted to get married. Adrian agree without hesitation. Adrian and I decided an outdoor wedding would be best.

We all agreed that I would walk alone down the aisle and that is why I found myself walking down the aisle as people stared at me. My eyes were only for Adrian, though. He looked very gorgeous in his cream colored suit that matched my dress. He smiled very proudly as he watched me go down the aisle. Everyone's eyes were on me, but my eyes were only for him. He had his hand stretched out and I put my hand in his. He brought it up to his lips and kissed it.

"You look beautiful." He whispered and winked.

"So do you."

The priest started the ceremony. I really didn't pay attention to that. I constantly looked at Adrian and wondered how lucky I had gotten to score myself this? Before I knew it, we were saying our vows.

"My sexy Adrian Ivashkov, where do I began? Love was nothing before you came into my life. But you changed that. You made me realize life isn't always what you think it is. If you don't have love, then what do you have? A question I find easy to answer. With no love, life is boring. The love you give me makes my life so full of wonder and joy. I love the way you smile. Love the way you come up with these witty lines . . . believe it or not, those lines make up my day. I love the way you love me. I love everything that makes up you, you Adrian Ivashkov. Adrian, you have this way of loving that puts real romantics to shame. Your love is real. I don't need flowers, diamonds, chocolates, cuddly bears from you as long as I have your love and of course, as long as I have you. So today, I give you my word that I will you be with you as long as you live, even if you don't want me there. I wanted to be the one that makes you smile every morning. I wanted to be the one that knows you like the palm of my hand. I wanted to be the one that bless you with beautiful kids.. I wanted to be the one you seek out for when you are in trouble. I wanted to be the one that is there for you no matter what. I wanted to be the one who loved you forever. I wanted to be the one that spent the rest of your life with. And now, my Adrian, I realize that I am the ONE you allowed to be all those things. I am thankful and wouldn't want it any other way. I love you for allowing me to be part of your life. And I love you, love you with all my heart."

I spoke my heart and he knew it. It was his turn.

"My lovely Rose Hathaway, how can I start with expressing my feelings and love towards you? I cannot find the right words to describe what I feel for you. I do not think that they are plenty of words to actually try and describe what I feel. But, I guess I can give it a try. I always laughed when they said that "everyone has a special someone out there, somewhere." I do remember when my mother first said that, I laughed. Turned out I was wrong, Daniella Ivashkov; mommy, you were so right! Rose, you are the simple fact of what my mother said. I love you and I know you are my special someone. There was no such thing as love at first sight before you appeared into my life. Hell, there was no such thing as love before you in my life and just like that, I was proved wrong. Again. There is a place here in this world where you just feel comfortable, right, like you belong. That place where I feel like I belong, like I was actually meant for this world, is with you. You make everything great. It took me some time to figure out where that place was. I walked through rain storms, fire, and hell to be here today and I am glad I did it because it sure paid off as I am standing next to the most beautiful woman in the world that loves me who is going to marry me and give beautiful children someday. It's amazing what I let my heart go through to get me where it got me in this moment here with you. I stand here and I am thankful for all the time it took to get me here today. I hope you stand my side forever. I'll follow you anywhere, woman! I'll be there when you need me and in tough situations. I am going to be there to hold your hand while you have our kids, even if you are scream death threats at me. I'll smile and laugh, even if you do something wrong. I'll cry with you. I'll laugh with you. I'll love with you. I'll be your everything. You name it, and I'll be that. I'll be your anchor, the person you can hold on, when you feel like you are falling off the edge. I went to spend the rest of my days in your arms, by your side forever. I'll be the husband and the father that other woman will crave. I'll love you till the end of my days. I love with a love that is never to fade, my Rose Hathaway, I love you!"

"Well, now, Mr. Ivashkov, you may now kiss your Mrs. Rose Ivashkov."

Adrian looked down at me and I looked up at him. "I love you," I said as the tears fell from my eyes. He wiped the tears off my check with his thumbs. He didn't need to speak. His eyes were expressing all the love he had for me.

He pressed his lips to mine, sealing our love with a kiss, making us husband and wife officially.

I posted pictures of earlier chapters on my profile. Check them out if you want. I probably put the pictures of this chapter later on tonight. So tell me, who's vows were cuter? Adrian's or Rose's? Tell me what you think…