🌹R O S E  III🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWENTY - FOUR🌹

"What?" Alexander says beside me but I can't even speak, I have no words as she said that. My aunt? That doesn't make any sense to me at all. My father is her brother. All those years she's been keeping something from my mom and myself, she is related to me by blood and never said anything.

Then again she did shoot us so I don't think she really wanted to say. Tears are rolling down her cheeks. "At first he wanted to be sure that you were really his child and when he did discover that he needed to get rid of you. But did not know how as he could not get rid of a child" She begins to explain.

I'm not sure if I want to hear this. My father cared once for me? Because I was a child? All I've been told about him is that he's been trying to get rid of me since I was born. It doesn't make sense that he grew a heart because he could not hurt a child.

He's already tried to kill his own daughter so he can be capable of things worse than that. "I don't want to hear more" I say as I stand up with the help of Alexander. I can't do this anymore. I thought that I was ready for the truth but with everything going on, I can't.

My life is going downhill again, I can feel that and it hurts me. More than I can even explain in words. Alexander doesn't say anything as we go to the car and I sit down in it. He doesn't start the car yet but he just holds my hand and we stat like that.

I let out a breath that I had been holding for some time as the tears are falling down from my eyes. "Rose..." He starts. I look up at his face for a short moment before looking down again. "Can we go home, please?" I ask him. I couldn't say anything else.

Needing nothing but being somewhere that I feel safe and where I don't have to worry about anything. I sigh as he stars the car and begins to drive off. Looking outside the window with sadness as we are driving to his mansion or our mansion now, I suppose since will be living together.

The car ride was a long one as my thoughts continued to wander everywhere and no where at the same time. But we made it there at the end and when we walked through the door I stop in my tracks. "I want to go to bed" I tell him and he nods.

This day has been a long one even when it's only about two in the afternoon but I feel tired already. Everything that happened today seems to have tired me down and it makes me want to sleep. I also think that has something to do with the shock.

"Of course" Alexander says as he begins to lead me to his bedroom. Sitting on the bed I go under the covers. "Do you think our lives will be normal someday?" I ask him as he gives me a strange look. I suppose he was not expecting me to ask that kind of a question.

"Well, our lives were never normal to begin with but once everything has been dealt with, I'm sure it will be as normal soon" He tells me but I get the feeling that he's making that up. It is true, since the moment that we met (and not the time that he met me first) our lives haven't been normal from then on.

But like him I have to believe that things will settle down and we will too. "You should get some rest, now. Calm your nerves a bit" He tells me as he sits down next to me and kisses my forehead. I truly am lucky to have him here with me and have him by my side.

Where I know he will never leave me. "Could you stay for a moment? I don't like being alone" I ask him. I never really told him but every night in the hospital my mom stayed with me so that I could be able to fall asleep. Fear had taken its hold on me and I couldn't sleep without it.

Perhaps it was because I fear that I won't wake up again or I will be in a coma again and someone needs to be there to wake me up. Being in coma for a year is hard for me to recover from even when I don't remember much about it and the doctors say that I may never truly remember.

There are times that I would get odd feelings every now and then. Like when Lena tells me things, I get a feeling that I've heard it somewhere else but I don't know where or how but I know it has something to do with the coma. "Of course I will stay here with you" He tells me as he makes himself comfortable.

"You know, I thought about you. Every day. It was you that kept me going through the days. Knowing that when you'd wake up, I could show you all the things that I accomplished, for us" He whispers to me and I feel comforted by his voice.

I was told that he came to see me every day and I know that is the truth, I can feel it. "You were always there, guiding me from afar" He then says as he takes my hand. I squeeze his one lightly as I close my eyes. I don't need words to let him know that I love him.

This moment right here is everything. We've been through so much and I know we'll have to get through something even more horrible soon but for now, we are together and that is all that matters. Having him here within me is all I care about.

Like all the problems that are against us seem to just disappear when were are here, alone and together. It's like they don't even matter anymore. Our love will take care of it and it is strong enough to beat through anything. With that I find myself sinking into the depths of the darkness but it's comforting and I want to be there.

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Waking up with Alexander sleeping soundly beside me, I take a look at the clock to see that it's about seven in the evening and it's about the right time for dinner. The smile on my face is bright and happy as I feel fully rested and I feel peace.

Sleeping beside him did do me wonders and I don't even think he knows it, he doesn't know what he does to me but soon he will know when we get married. Our marriage will soon, I don't know when but soon we will bed wed and then marriage will be stronger than anything.

We're still holding hands but I do break that off as I stand up from the bed. For a small second I just look at him. He sleeps so peacefully, like nothing could hurt him and the cruelty of the world doesn't touch him. I smile when I see him like this.

After everything I wasn't the only one that needed to rest. Everything in our lives is draining us and sometimes we just need a bit of rest. I turn around and then head outside the room to the kitchen as my stomach growls. As my body isn't used to walking that much yet I walk slower than normally and I also use the walls for support.

I sigh when I enter the kitchen. Thee are chefs running around everywhere, cooking and some even arguing with each other like never before. Everyone stops right in their tracks when they see me. "Ms. Ace. Please excuse us, it is a stressful time of the day. Would you like something to eat?" One of them asks me.

She walks over to me with a smile on her face, though I could tell that she was exhausted from working this much. "Yes, just something simple and is it possible to take it to the bedroom, for two?" I ask her and she nods. "Certainly" She says. She leaves and then she along with two other people prepare a tray with two bowls of soup.

Then she comes over to me. "Would you like me take it up to your bedroom?" She asks me but I lightly shake my head. "No, thank you. I can take it" I tell her and she nods her head, but I could tell that she was confused at that. She hands me the tray and I hold it steady even when my hands are a bit shaky.

"Thank you" I tell her before I turn around as she goes back to doing what she was doing before I came. I walk with the tray and I try to keep myself steady. No one knows about it but ever since I woke up my fingers have been a bit shaky, I always blamed that for being still for over year but I think this is going to stay all my life and I now have to live with it.

Something inside me believes this to be something going on because of my spine but that would not make any sense to me at all. Bringing those thoughts out of my mind, I walk into the room to see that Alexander is still fast asleep. As if I ever really left here at all.

A soft smile comes across my face as I see him like this. I see the tray down on the nightstand and sit down as I go to him. "Alexander, wake up. It's time for dinner" I softly speak as I shake him but he doesn't even move at all. I roll my eyes.

Just when I need him to wake up, he's in deep slumber. I try to shake him harder as he finally stirs in his sleep but he's quick to go back to sleep. This is going to be a bit harder than I thought it was going to be, but now that he has moved I get the feeling that he's awake.

"If you don't get up right now, then I won't kiss you for a month" I tell him and before I could even utter the last word he's already up and sitting up with a goofy smile on his face. His hair all over the place which makes me smile and let out a giggle.

"You're ridiculous" I tell him as he finally comes to his senses and I think he just realized that I only did that because I wanted to wake him up or at least get him up. "Eat" I tell him as I hand him one of the bowls which he takes. He gives me a confused look.

"When did you get this?" He asks me and I smile at him as I take the other bowl. "Just now when you were sleeping, I felt hungry so I went to the kitchen. And I think you should give them a raise, they work so hard down there in the kitchen" I tell him and he smiles at me.

"If that is what you want" He says and we start eating the soup. It's actually a good soup and I do like it, then again I'm sure it has been made by world star chefs. "How are you feeling?" He asks me after a short moment of time that we just eat the soup.

I look up at him. "Better" I tell him with a smile. I really do feel better than I did before and I feel like I'm not panicking as much, like the stress has just left my body and doesn't want to come. However, I'm not comparing about it, not at all.