The way that it should have been

Chapter 18

"I just don't understand this extreme dislike that she seems to have for you mladenets." (babe)

"You love me."

"Yes, I know that I do Roza." He laughed.

And I laughed with him for a moment. "No, I mean that is why she doesn't like me, it's why she hates me sooo much. Because she knows, or she thinks that she knows, that you love me instead of her. And she is extremely jealous about it. You should have seen the hostel, vicious and hate filled looks that she gave me when you introduced the two of us that day out by the pond and cabin. When you would look at me, she would also look at me. But her looks were ones that could kill and bury someone six feet under. I would show you how she looked at me but you're driving at the moment."

"Wait, you could do that?!!"

"Yep." I nodded.

He shook his head in shock. "Well, as I was about to say, whether she knows that I love you or not it doesn't matter. Because I do love you and I am never leaving you. And she, as well as everyone else in the world, will know that I do love you just as soon as we get back to the academy. Because we are going straight to the middle of the quad, and I am going to kiss the ever-loving ad out of you, right there in front of everyone on that campus." (hell)

I couldn't help myself I busted out laughing.

"Oh, I can't wait to see the looks on some of those people's faces at the academy when you do that."

He lifted my hand and kissed the back of it again while brushing the tip of his tongue over my skin very lightly and gently.

"Me too detka, me too." (baby)

"Tease."

"Draznit'."

"Huh?"

"Draznit' is tease in Russian."

"Ahhh, ok. Thank you. Wait, that is what you called me when we were pulling away from the academy."

"It most definitely was because that is what you were being. You were teasing me, and you were doing it on purpose. Which made you a draznit'." (tease)

"Yes well, you tease me too."

"I do so try to mladenets, I most certainly do so try to." (babe)

Now he was smirking at me as his eyes twinkled in happiness and joy just before he winked at me. Making my breath catch in my chest and his smile to grow even bigger at my reaction to his winking at me.

"Anyway, as for any look that she gives you, please just ignore it. I will try to talk to her, if we ever see her again, and try once again to get her to understand that I do not care about her in that way. And that not only are you and I together but that we are going to stay that way for the rest of our lives. Also, if we do see her again, you and I can speak in either Turkish or Romania because she doesn't speak either one of those languages. Unless something has changed in the last few years that I don't know about. She only, as far as I know, speaks English and Russian. Or at least she used to only speak English and Russian. I don't know why she would have learned to speak Turkish or Romanian either one. And for her, there would have had to be a reason to do it if she'd taken the time to learn either of them. And the reason would have had to be a man. I say that simply because she didn't speak Russian when we first met, but when she met Ivan and I she learned."

I carefully, since he was still driving, wrapped my arm around his neck and kissed his cheek.

"I love you so much detka." (baby)

He smiled a huge smile. "I love you too, mladenets. Now, tell me, did anything else happen?" (babe)

I was sooo glad that he still wanted us to go public with our relationship as soon as we got back to the academy. And doing it in such a flamboyant and obvious way would be great!!! It would set tongues to wagging, but it would also make sure that everyone knows that he is mine and that I am his. Forever. Especially Tasha if she was still at the academy when we get back.