Illegal business

Chapter five: So Much For Being Discharged

*Rose POV

I woke up I find Dimitri sitting by my hospital bed.

"Rose." He says softly and lightly takes my hand. I was so confused why was he being so affectionate towards me?

"Di...Dimitri? what are you doing here." I say, my voice hoarse and raspy but laced with confusion. He leans over and grab a cup of water from beside my bed and hands it to me.

"Thank you." I say grateful that he noticed my hoarse voice, I take the cup and drinks it all.

"So what are you doing here?" I say my voice still a bit raspy.

"What do you mean? I haven't left since you came here." He says confused and hurt, that I came to the assumption that he wouldn't be by my side.

"Really?" I asked confused.

"What?" He asks confusion lacing his intoxicatingly velvet voice.

"Well, I'd expect that from Eddie or vika, your the last person I expected to see when I woke up." I say explaining myself.

"Why is that?"

"I don't know. It just seems like we don't get along." I say nonchalantly.

"Well, we are going to be married soon." He states the obvious.

"So?" I ask in confusion, it never seemed to matter to him before so why now.

"So, I think I love you." To say I was shocked would be the understatement of the century.

"What?! Did I wake up in some parallel universe." I asks trying to make a joke out of it.

"No, I just didn't realize that until you died." He said painfully slow.

"I died?" I asked slowly.

"Yeah for about three minutes. I kept telling the nurse you were my wife." He said chuckling to himself. I just stared at him. unable to say anything.

"Wh-what about Tasha?" I ask stuttering slightly.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you guys are in a relationship. I'd really prefer if her brains stayed in her head. So Christian doesn't get pissed at me for blowing his sisters head off." I say chuckling slightly.

"Oh yeah, I was planning on breaking it off. So do you remember what happened and how you got here?" he asks.

"Yeah. Every heartbreakingly painful second." I say feeling the sting in the corner of my eyes. I was trying so hard to keep them from coming out. I was a Mazur, and Mazur's don't cry. Because crying shows weakness.

He rubs the top of my hands slowly. "Rose... Do you want to talk about it?" He asks concern flows through his words.

I shake my head. I rubbed my eyes and look up at him. I was staring into his eyes. God! His eyes were beautiful. I could get lost in them. Then glass breaking broke me from my trance and I stared down at my hands. I look up to see vika rushing to my side.

"OH Rose! Thank God your okay!" She exclaims.

"Yeah Vika, I'm fine." I say faking my voice. Hiding the pain that was in my heart.

"When you get out we're going to talk about you and the Ivashkov boy, okay?" I just nod.

"Hey Vika. Can I borrow your phone?" She nods and hands it to me.

I dial the number I know by heart. It rings twice then I heard his voice.

"Hey." I say smiling. Only he has this effect on me.