WHEN LOVE BECKONS

Distress

Dimitri's POV

The ring crashed to the floor, shattering the stillness of the entire hall. The soft sound of its hitting the floor, rang loud in me, breaking my heart into a million pieces.

“It’s all over between us…”

Those five words turned my world upside down in the flick of a second. The words of doom, spoken by Rose.

The thing most disgusting about all this was her silence. She just sat on the floor, inert and passive.

I wanted her to scream, to cry to blame me, but she had just frozen. She had turned to a stone and at that moment I realized, exactly how much I had hurt her.

My heart knew that I was going soft for Tasha, in spite of everything she had done. But I had done it out of the feeling that she was broken, just like I had been one day.

And Lissa was missing. That was the breaking point for Rose’s limit. She had wanted answers from Tasha and maybe had gone to an extreme.

Seeing her pick up a gun to threaten Tasha, and finally her ultimatum to Tasha had made me all panicky.

I acted without any second thought or reason.

I had thrown myself before the gun as I knew only it could stop Rose from shooting Tasha. She would have regretted, suffered and withered away due to guilt later, if she had committed that mistake.

I knew that she had lost her cool at the moment but I wanted to protect her from the consequences of her act later.

“It’s not my fault. Rose, I never meant to pick sides…” I tried to explain, looking around at the unbelieving stares.

“You didn’t trust her or me,” I could hear the ice in Sonya’s words, “You are the sole cause of this disaster.”

“You are right,” Rose finally got up from her place on the ground. She seemed a bit unsteady as she faltered in her steps.

“Where are you going?” Adrian asked my unspoken question.

“I need to find Lissa. I will gather the guardians who are loyal to the queen,” said Rose, particularly stressing on the word ‘loyal’.

I flinched.

“You guys coming? I don’t need that bitch for answers. I will find Lissa without the help of her or ‘her’ Dimka,” sarcasm flooded her tone.

“We’re in,” said Adrian, as he and Sydney moved past me.

“You are an idiot, Belikov,” Adrian whispered to me.

Soon the other guardians, Eddie and Jill, Mikhail and Sonya, and everyone else was around her.
As they left the hall one by one, there was only Rose left.

She let out a sigh, which seemed to rise straight from the core of her heart. Then she started exiting the hall.

“Roza…” I tried to stop her, one last try.

“Is dead, Roza is dead for you,” she snapped.

“Rose, please try to understand. I didn’t want you to regret your decisions later…”

“Who is more important to you?”

“Rose you know it is always you and Lissa…”

“Why did you jump before her?”

“It was an instinct…”

“If I had pressed the trigger early then…” her voice broke and I could see her lips shaking.

I realized that I had been so callous to jump. She was afraid that she could have hurt me fatally. And she never could have lived with herself ever again.

Tears spilled out of her eyes as she fiercely blinked them back.

That was my Rose. Never yielding, strong as a tree with deep roots. Her never fading love and loyalty were her greatest treasures.

What had I done? I had shaken her trust in me, the very foundation of our relationship.

“Roza I am sorry,” I tried to say anything that came to my mind.

“Don’t be,” tears rolled down her cheeks, "You made your choices clear. And I make mine. I am going to find Lissa. We may cross paths again if I come back.”

There was an unspoken ‘alive’ at the end.

With these words, she abruptly turned around and ran out of the hall, leaving me stunned and speechless.

Her wedding gown, now in tatters, reminded me of how the day had begun.

A/N Can Dimitri convince Rose? Or will he give up? What has future in store?

Sorry for the late update but I was kind of busy with my other book, FROZEN FROST... which no one cared to read unfortunately. 😭😭😭

Thanks Pipigrin teamhathaway
dodsley TwilightGirl32 mampty for reading and supporting me. LOVE YOU ALL. 😍😘😙😗