The way that it should have been

Chapter 5

"Do you want me to count it out in halves, or do you want to split it after you leave?"

"Just give it all to my Roza." I insisted.

"But Comrade!" Lyubov' moya protested. (my love)

"We can discuss the split later detka." I said to her as I lay my free hand on her knee and squeezed her other hand with mine. (baby)

"Ok. As long as you are sure and that you take at least half of it. Because it was just as much your love and sex life that they were betting on as it was mine."

I simply smiled at her because I have absolutely no intentions of taking anywhere near half of that money. I would take as very little as I could possibly get away with. Even if I had to hide it back in her wallet when she wasn't looking.

"Now, when you two get back I want you to go public. No more hiding this." She wagged her finger back and forth, like a puppy's tail, between lyubov' moya and me. (my love)

"Since Rose is over sixteen your relationship is legal. So there is really nothing that anyone can do about it, legally anyway. But I need to warn you both that some people are not going to like that you two are together. And they will make sure to be very vocal, cruel, spiteful and hateful about it. They will spread all kinds of lies gossip and vile disgusting rumors about the both of you just to try to split you up. The royals are absolutely vicious about things like this, they don't think that dhampir should be together. Most of them feel that it puts them at risk and decreases the 'breeding stock' as some of those disgusting assholes call us."

"Disgusting grebanyye pridurki." (fucking assholes)

I looked up and saw that a worried look had planted itself on my Roza's face.

"Dimitri, maybe you shouldn't be with me after all, maybe you should go be with Tasha. I don't want those hateful, cruel and vicious ass people saying the horrific things about you that they have always said about me. Even though they are wrong I don't want my terrible reputation to rub off on you and ruin your life and career."

Like I've said before, the woman is selfless. Ab-so-lute-ly selfless. 

I leaned over and gave her a small but loving and passionate kiss to silence her worries. "Roza detka, as far as I am concerned those people can all go yebat' sebya. I don't give a der'mo what anyone thinks about either one of us except for you. Yours is the only opinion that maters to me. I love you and I want to be with you. Anyone, everyone, else's opinions are nonexistent to me. And even if they didn't know that we are together, anything that they say about you then they are saying the exact same things about me anyway, because I love you. And like I said, I don't give a der'mo what anyone has to say about us. Just as long as you love me just as much as I love you, then we will get through anything and everything that they have to throw at us milaya moya." (baby, fuck themselves, shit, shit, my dearest)

Chewing on her bottom lip nervously she asked me, "are you sure?"

"There isn't even so much as a sliver of a doubt anywhere in my heart, mind, body or soul lyubov' moya. Nothing, nowhere." (my love)

Smiling at me again she said, "ok, as long as you are ab-so-lute-ly sure."

"I am." I reassured her once again.

"All right then." Her smile grew.

"Thank you, dorogaya moya." (my darling)

Again she smiled, only this time it was with a shy nod to me before lyubov' moya turned back to Alberta. "We understand what you're saying Alberta and we expect a lot of crap from other people about our being together. Especially those nasty ass disgusting royals. But we love each other, and we are both tired of having to pretend that we don't. We want to be together and everyone else can just pack up their shit, their complains and their opinions and take them and all their other bullshit straight to hell with them." My Roza told Alberta in no uncertain terms and with her voice filled with certainty, steel and conviction. (my love)