🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWENTY - ONE🌹

Seeing him stand there makes me feel the love that I've always held for him but now it seems even deeper than before and it brings me nothing but the purest joy. Even when for me it feels like a day has passed and no more, yet I do know that a year has gone by and quickly.

Alexander is the same. Except for the fact that he has grown a beard and he looks more like a man. "I thought you'd never wake up" He says as he walks over to the bed and pulls me in for a hug. I don't deny his hug and I hug him back. Just feeling him again makes me feel the love.

Though this is a bit different than it was before but it still makes me feel like then happiest woman on earth. "I love you" I whisper to him. He needs to know that I do love him and my feelings for him have now changed, as it only has been like a day for me but what I fear most are his feelings and them not being the same that they were a year ago.

"I love you" He says and breaks the hug as he looks at me and I can see it in his eyes, there is love. The love that he feels for me and will always feel for me and this moment is the happiest of my life, being with him makes me more happy than I can ever explain.

The tears are forming in my eyes but happy tears. He sits down on the bed. "I need to ask, who shot us?" I ask him. I don't think anyone has explained that to me and I really want to know. He sighs as he looks at me with sadness. "Rose, while you were in a coma, a lot of things happened" He says.

He makes it sound like something terrible happened. "While I can't be sure what your mother or Lena told you about that day but the shooter and the one responsible was found" He says to me and I take his hand, as things seemed to be hard for him to say for some reason.

"Who was it?" I ask him, wanting to know who would want to hurt us is something that I need to know. He looks down but once he looks up at me into the eyes I can see that he has tears in his ones. I hold his hand tighter. "It was my your mother's friend, the hairstylist" Alexander says and I gape at him.

What? How could she do that? She's always so sweet and kind to me but then I must remember that she is an assassin and she did once offer to shoot someone. But what I don't get is why she would shoot us. "I don't understand" I tell him confused.

I have no idea what is going on but I would like to find out. "Rose, she did not want to do it and she did turn herself in. She was forced to shoot us but she made sure that both of us made it and she shoot us in a way that would keep us alive, despite what she was ordered to do" He says and I need to know who'd want to hurt us.

The tears in my eyes fall down my cheeks as I feel sorrow as the person that I've known my whole life, she's been there with my mom and me for as long as I can remember and I don't know what to think of this thing. "Who hired her?" I ask him after a moment or two.

Alexander looks at me with shock as I don't think he knew that I knew that she was an assassin but I did know about that. "The police did question her and she told them the truth about what happened. It was your father" He then says. My jaw drops open as the tears still run down my cheeks.

"No, my father would never do something like this. He loves me and my mother and he would never want to hurt me or do something like this" I tell him. He's lying, he has to be. This can't be the truth, it just can't. He sighs as he holds my hand tighter and kisses it.

"Not the man that raised you, your biological father" He says to me and I'm in shock. I don't understand. The man that has been my father all my life is not my real father? That doesn't even make sense to me and why would he even want to hurt me? I don't even know him.

Alexander gives me a look of sympathy. "I will explain everything, but for now you need to talk to your mother about this, she can explain in ways that I will not be able to. As much as it pains me, I have to leave now but I swear to you, Rose, I'm not going to leave this hospital until you're walking out here by my side" He says and kisses my forehead.

He goes out the door and for a moment I'm left with only my thoughts and only the words that continue to echo through my mind and makes me only more confused and unsure of what to believe. This is making me feel things that I feel like I've felt before, betrayal.

Once again I feel betrayal and it seems that even after so long people are still betraying me and it breaks my heart in so many pieces that I'm not sure that I will be able to pick them up on my own and I can only hope the people that I love will be there for me to help me pick them up and mend them together in my chest but I don't think the cracks will ever be able to be fixed.

My mom then enters the room and I give her a confused look but all she gives me is one of sadness and sympathy and I can't be sure what it means but I think it means that what Alexander said to me is the truth and that makes me even sadder as I do not understand it.

"Rose, let me explain" She says as a tear rolls down her face and she sits down on the bed and I sit up as well. "Please do" I tell her, not knowing what else I could say to her after what I've heard, but it's time for me to listen because I know that what my mom has to say is important.

"Many years ago when your father and I were starting to date, we did all sorts of things, we went to festivals and concerts and carnivals on dates and things. It was rather romantic and we were head over heels" She begins but I already knew all of that.

My parents told me about how they used to go everywhere on their dates but the most romantic thing about it was the rose that my dad gave my mom. "One night we were having fun in a circus that was new in town and it was the last show and we wanted to go" She says.

"That night was so magical and it was the one that made me want to spend the rest of my life with him, I knew that he was the one and he was the only one. It was true love, and like true love it can withstand anything, even tragedies such like what happened that night" My mom continues.

I hold her hand as she has started to cry. "It was later in the evening when I had gotten home and he had left that I was in my room when my parents, your grandparents had come into my room and wanted to talk to me. I could barely hear their words as they told me that they had lost all their money and we had to move far away" She tells me.

"However, I was so angry at it. Anger at one powerful man because he was the reason for it because my father worked for him and he stole from us so I, in my anger went to confront him. I did not think rationally as I just went on and I found him in a bar, his bar" She says.

"I remember that I stormed in there and I made a scene as I started yelling at him and he was embarrassed but then he kissed me and he told me... he told me that he would give my family money and we'd be able to keep our house if I were to... to spend the night with him" She says as the tears are rolling down her face.

My heart aches for my mom as she is telling me this and it makes me so sad to think that someone would do that, to offer something like that. "My family was broke and I had no choice, I had to. I hated every moment of it and as soon as the night was over and morning came, he handed me a hundred dollar bill and thanked me for a good night. That was the last thing I saw of him" She continues.

"But I did not know that I was pregnant... with you. You must understand that even when you were conceived in such behavior that it has never stood in the way of how much I love you because Rose, you're my whole heart and soul" She finishes and I hug her.

Now knowing what else to do, I can't believe that I was a child of something like that and it makes me want to hate him, my father but I know for a fact that he will never truly be my father. "Why did he try to kill me?" I ask her and she looks up at me with tears in her eyes.

"He married an heiress and she can't have children so if a child out of that marriage were discovered then you would inherit everything that belongs to them because you are their heir" She says and that does explain it but that doesn't make murder right.

It doesn't make any of this right. I can sign away everything to someone else and to him because I don't want to be the heir to something that belongs to him. I don't want him in my life nor have I ever needed anyone else but my father, not the biological one but my real father.

The one that raised me. He's the one that I need. "I love you, mom" I tell her as I hug her tighter than I did before and it makes me feel closer to my mom, now that I know the truth. "I love you too, baby" She says and for a moment we just hug each other.

This moment is everything to me because after the things that I've been through, my mom has always been there for me and I love her so dearly and having her here with me it's everything to me. "I will protect you, now and always" She whispers to me in the hug.

A year ago I was shot but I survived, I don't know how I survived but I did after being shot and I was in a coma but I'm awake now but I'm not awake for myself, I'm awake for those around me because now more than ever we need each other.

Something tells me that there is something coming and I don't know if that is my father or not but I know that we can get through it, together. I hold my mom tighter as I make a promise to myself that I will not allow anyone else to get hurt, not because of something that I need to deal with, something that my father and I need to deal with because I need to go see him and meet the man that tried to kill me but also the man that is my biological father.