Hope is a Four Letter Word - Complete

Chapter Four

Tasha had been tossing and turning all night. No matter how much she wished otherwise, her thoughts kept returning to Dimitri, and by extension Rose. By 5 pm she knew sleep was going to elude her, so she made the decision to speak with Dimitri. To tell him what she knew and encourage him to cool things off, at least until Rose had graduated. She and Dimka had been friends a long time; she didn't want to see him fired, or worse, over an infatuation.

Showering, and putting on her nicest pair of workout clothes, she walked purposefully towards the gym. She'd heard him joke so many times about Rose being tardy, so she was confident she'd get the opportunity to speak with him privately. But that wasn't the way it worked out. Walking through the open doors to the gym, she found Rose was already there, and already well involved with Dimitri!

He had her pressed back against the side wall of the gym; her sports crop top yanked up, her full breasts on display. Well nearly on display. Dimitri was bending down, his lips attached to the nipple of one, one of his large hands toying with the other. Rose's eyes were closed, and she was groaning as he mouthed her, one of his long legs pushed hard in between hers.

Staring at the couple in disbelief, Tasha started when she heard Rose grumble as Dimitri transferred his mouth from one breast to the other before her excited gasps resumed with his renewed oral assault. Watching the man she loved pleasure another woman, his student, nearly broke her. Knowing Dimitri loved another woman was entirely different to seeing it. And as Tasha silently lifted her phone and started to record the travesty she was witnessing she felt her heart shatter within her chest. She was angry at Rose, but more than anything it was Dimitri Tasha was furious with. He should want that sort of action with her, not his teenaged student.

Watching almost transfixed, Tasha could taste bile in her mouth as Rose wrapped her arms around Dimitri's neck, the tall guardian hoisting the smaller Novice up until she wrapped her legs around his hips. She could see him grinding himself against Rose, pushing her hard against the wall as the curvy Dhampir groaned with want. And as she observed, so did the video camera of her phone.

"Please Dimitri? I know we shouldn't, but I need you to make love to me again," Rose begged softly, her eyes still closed as Dimitri kissed the slender column of her neck. Tasha had seen enough. It was pretty clear the sort of training Rose wanted Dimitri to lead her in this morning. She understood. It was the same thing she'd fantasized about for months as she'd worked up the courage to make her suggestion to Dimka. A proposal that had apparently come too late. Pocketing her phone, Tasha turned, slinking away from the gym unseen. She'd had no sleep, and didn't want to act rashly, so she returned to her room in guest quarters. She refused to believe this is the way things were meant to work out – she just needed to think about it.

Back in the gym, Dimitri pulled himself away from Rose panting, carefully setting her back onto her feet before adjusting himself.

"Milaya! We can't do that. Not here. Anyone could walk in and see us. We have to be careful. It's not that I don't want to make love to you right here and now. But we can't."

"I know," Rose grumbled, her nipples still wet from her lover's lips and tongue. Pulling her crop top back over her breasts, she let out a long sigh. "Come on, Comrade. I think it's finally warm enough to do laps. Care to join me?"

Dimitri looked at his love, blessing her with a tender smile. "Let's go, milaya. We need to keep your endurance up."

"Ha!" Rose laughed, slapping him on his ass as she sprinted out the gym doors. "I think it's you who's going to need their endurance, grandpa!"

Chuckling Dimitri followed his irreverent woman from the gym, his long legs easily closing the distance her sprint had created between them. They ran companionably side-by-side as they completed the first of their many laps. Things weren't perfect, far from it. But they were together, in love and happy. And right now that was enough for both of them.