Rose's POV

"Oh my god! Look at that!" I screamed. Excitement is filling in my head.

"What?" Christian asked me.

"Those two treeeeeeeees!" I told him. He looked at me like I was crazy.

"What about them?" He asked me. I giggled at him and jumped from the car.

"Hey, Rose wait! Where are you going?" I was jumping and running towards those amazing trees. There were three men nearby. Two of them I've seen somewhere but I couldn't recognize and the other one he looked like a man who has ballooned in his arms. I smiled brightly at them.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Misterrs! Canyou movvvve please?" I asked them giving my puppy eyes and pouting.

Christian's POV

God! How many drinks did she have? She's screaming, giggling, laughing and talking like a madwoman.

"Rose wait up!" I ran towards her. Great! Now she's talking to strangers.

"Hey! Come here." I told her by tugging her hand.

"Sorry if she told you something inappropriate. She's drunk." I told those three men.

"No, it's okay. She didn't talk much." One of them told me smiling. He's eye raping her. I acted cool and tugged her again.

"WAIT!" She screamed.

I looked at her shocked. She never yelled at me.

"Chloe come on!" I told her again. "Or else I'll carry you," I added knowing how much she hated being carried on one shoulder.

"Noooooooooooooooo. You still didn't see these trees!" She whined, tears filling in her eyes. I sighed. Those three people were staring at her.

"what about them?" I asked her trying to pull her. She smiled brightly.

"They look identical! Just like you two. Do you what that means?" She asked me.

"No what?" I asked her holding her waist trying to pull her.

"They are TWINS! Just like you! Ha got it?" I smiled a little.

"Very funny! Now come on!" I told her this time she let me.

"Okayyyy!" She told me and turned to those three. Still walking with me she called them.

"Bye misterrs! Don't forget to talk toChristree and Raytree." She told them. They were holding back their laughs.

"Rose!" I called her.

"Shh! do you hear that?" She asked me suddenly becoming serious. For a minute I thought she really heard something that I didn't so I stopped for a minute trying to figure out what she heard.

"What?" I asked her.

"There's that voice again!" She told me. I groaned. God! I'm never going to do this ever again!

"Chloe it's me!" I told her. She looked at me with YOU- IDIOT! face.

"Why didn't you say so?" She told throwing her hands up.

"God come on. Why do you have to be this drunk?" I asked her. Suddenly she stopped. She looked at me. This time tears filled in her eyes. Her lips wobbled.

"Because he didn't publish my book!" Okay, what?

"what?" I asked her. She sniffed.

"He told me that he won't publish my book. I really wanted to publish it."

OH!

"Oh baby look it's okay there are so many publishers in this world you can find a better one," I told her cupping her face. She sniffed and looked at me.

"Why does it keep happening to me? Why do people want to take advantage of me? Use me?" She asked me. What the hell is she talking about?

"It won't happen again," I told her. She leaned to my chest. I carried her. This way we can go quickly.

"I hope so," she told me.

I've known this girl for three years. We became best friends on the first day we met. She has helped me so many times. Yet I hardly know her. I don't know anything about her past. But I know one thing. She had a broken past. It is obvious. She only dated one person after that she didn't. She hides he face inside a book. She is perfect in so many things yet she hardly talks about it. She's an introvert. She rarely comes to a club. The bar is always her place.

But no matter what she's my best friend. The only person who knows about my crush on Lissa. I will always protect her. No matter what.

Dimitri's POV

"Damn that was funny!" Ivan clutched his stomach to hold his laughter. I smirked too.

"Yeah, that was. Damn the way she whined!" I told him.

"Yeah. She a chit-chat when she's drunk! She didn't even recognize us. The way she named those trees." He laughed harder.

"I know. That was funny. She's so stubborn." I told him. That malen kaya tigirissa ! (Little Tigress) I think she drank too much. She was screaming and laughing. She looked so so ... peaceful and beautiful like that.

"I think you hit her nerve, Dimitri!" Leonid told me. I nodded. Maybe I shouldn't have asked her to have sex with me.

"What do you think she meant by 'everyone's trying to use her.'? He asked me.

"I don't know. But this proved one thing." I told him.

"What?"

"She does have a history! And I don't think that it's a good one." I told him.

She surprise me the moment I read her book! It was a mesmerizing story. I wanted to meet her personally after that. And when she came inside and talked to me, I was again mesmerized by her beauty. She's beautiful. And she was the first girl who rejected me. I rarely make offers. Usually, they come to me. But when I asked her, the way she rejected me? At that moment I knew that she's special. Not every girl thinks about their reputation and put it first.

God, I need to find more about her.

Unknown POV

"Boss we found her." One of my men told me. I assigned him to find her.

"Where?" I asked him.

"At a club. We saw her today." A club? What heck is she doing in a club with all those men around her?

"WHERE?"I asked him. He looked scared. I smirked inwardly. This is something I love seeing. 'Fear'

"Here. In Los Angeles!"

WHAT THE FUCK?

"WHAT?" I screamed at him. He flinched.

"Yes. ! W..we" I don't have time for this. I took out my gun hold it right in front of his forehead.

"Stop stuttering, "I told him.

"Si sir. We saw her at one of your new clubs." I looked at him. I can feel my blood boiling.

"I assigned you to find about her three years ago, didn't I?" I asked him, too calmly.

"Yes.. yes sir." I looked at him. I know right now I look like a monster by now.

"You searched all over the world but not in Los Angeles?"I asked him.

"I'm s. sorry sir," he told me.

"You son of a bitch!" I screamed. He backed away.

"30 minutes. I'm only giving you 30 minutes to find about her. No more, no less. If you don't you better get ready to say hi to lucifer. Got it?" I asked him. He nodded.

"What you waiting for you inutile figilo di puttana? GO" I screamed. He bowed and left. I dismissed all the others who were in the room.

Fuck! I murmured underneath my breath. I ran my hand through my hair.

I sat down on my chair and opened my secret drawer. I took the very first thing inside it. It's her photo.

"Rose,"

I murmured looking at it. It was a photo one of my men took of her. It was the first time she went fishing. She was so proud that day because she managed to catch only one small fish!

"You are heartless!"

"You don't trust me but him? How could you?"

"I gave everything for you!"

"You used me!"

I remembered her last words before she left me. She told more actually. She cried! That was the first time I ever saw her crying. She always smiled. I was searching for her since the day she left.

If she's here I have to get her back to me.

No!

I MUST get her back!

Even if there's only one way I will do it.

Whether she likes it or not!

And if I want something I will have it!

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