Damian's rose
Chapter 65: 65) Unwanted crown

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Damian's cheeks were stinging in pain by the hard slaps he received from his newly wed wife. She slapped him so hard that her own hands started stinging. But even after she hit him he didn't felt angry, he knew he deserved this because she was going through worst than this.

"How dare you?..."

She banged her fists on his chest furiously but tears kept rolling down from her cheeks.

"Why didn't you tell me before... why? why? why?..."

Damian grabbed her hands in his and jerked her making her look at him.

"Because I wanted to protect you baby. I know you are angry and you should be but I don't regret whatever I did. The only thing I am regretting is it made you suffer, I didn't thought that it will hurt you this much..."

He confessed and she looked at him in disbelief.

"Hurt?... It was killing me from inside, you won't understand it..."

She spat madly.

Damian sighed and tried to hug her but she didn't let him.

"Rose I am sorry, please forgive me..."

He pleaded.

"You drugged me to get married..."

She accused.

"Because I had no other way. I didn't had time to tell you everything..."

He defended himself.

"You could have told me before..."

She replied wiping her tears, her head was already hammering due to the drug and those unbearable emotions were adding fuel to it.

"Yes I could have, if you would have told me that you are bella. How can you just give your place to someone else..."

He frowned.

"Because I didn't knew the truth okay, don't blame me for whatever my family did to us..."

She glared.

"I thought you loved isabella..."

Damian sighed and grabbed her arm to pull her closer. He had never seen rose this mad, like her inner self has broke down all those cages in which she used to bottle up her emotions. He always wanted to see her full of emotions but now he was regretting wishing for that because it was hard to control her.

"I didn't loved isabella rose, neither I loved Arabella. They are just names. I loved the girl who was behind it, the girl who was strong and brave, the girl who grabbed my attention by her angelic behaviour. Names never mattered to me because I was attracted to the personality. The first time fell in love was with bella and second time was with rose, you know why... Because the personalities were same..." He said softly and she listened to him carefully.

"You think I was in love with your beautiful face?... No I wasn't rose, I have seen many beautiful girls. I have been with many but never loved them because personality matters more than beauty. I love you rose, I love how you stand up for people you love, I love how you show that you don't care about anyone but you, I love how you subtly help people without them even realizing it. So it doesn't matter that you had a twin because I don't care, you are the only one for me baby..."

He looked at her wet eyes and carefully stroked her cheek while rose closed her eyes and tried to control her shaky breathing. Damian caressed her head and pulled her in a hug, rose wrapped her hands around him tired from all this drama and hugged him back.

"I am sorry for making you cry baby, I am so sorry..."

He apologized again and again.

"I hate you..."

She replied snuggling in his chest which made him chuckle.

"I love you too..."

He replied kissing his forehead.

"Who told you I love you..."

She complained.

"You..."

He said and she looked at him breaking the hug.

"Me, when?..."

She asked confused.

He chuckled and trailed his fingers on her neck which had a hickey from last night. She cocked her face and looked at herself in the mirror. She was in so much hurry in the morning that she didn't noticed the red marks on her neck.

Her mouth hung open and she looked at him with wide eyes.

"It was not a dream..."

She face palmed herself embarrassed as she remembered how desperate she was behaving.

Damian chuckled and removed her hands away from her face.

"You think only you can create illusions?..."

He cocked his eyebrow remembering how she made him feel like this when he was dealing with Roy's betrayal.

She was about to reply but suddenly she felt like vomiting, she lifted her heavy gown up with one hand placing placing another on her mouth and ran inside the bathroom emptying her stomach in the toilet. Damian followed her quickly and held her hair back rubbing her back gently.

When she was done he flushed it and helped her to brush her teeth without asking anything.

"Are you okay now baby?... What happened suddenly?..."

He asked in worry.

"I don't know maybe because I drank too much yesterday and was constantly under the effect of drugs from last few days due to my injury..."

She answered tiredly.

He checked her temperature and it was normal.

"Headache?..."

He asked and she nodded.

Damian helped her to get out of her gown and gave her a relaxing bath while massaging her head.

He dressed her in his loose comfortable shirt.

Her eyes were already closing with exhaustion.

"Rose you need to eat something, don't sleep..."

He said and she shook her head.

"I don't feel like eating anything, please..."

He noticed how tired she sounded so he didn't forced her.

Instead damian ordered a juice for her and made her drink it. After finishing it he pulled her closer and placed her on his lap. She placed her head in his chest while he kept caressing her. "When was the first time you saw me again...?"

He questioned curiously.

"Italy... Father told me about you were being attacked so I was making sure you were safe. You were in Italy at that time but I didn't saw you properly. When I came here as your bodyguard was the first time I saw you closely, otherwise it was just in magzines and newspapers..."

She answered.

"So, that's why you became my bodyguard?..."

He questioned and she nodded.

"Before that I knew that Ashton was your bodyguard so I was relieved because he is good at his work but then I got scared when he got injured. I understood that this is the time I should come out because it was getting hard to protect you by staying away from you and to my luck Renzo offered me this job. Thankfully he didn't knew about us at that time but he was too mad when he found out and it took me so long to make him understand..."

She replied and yawned tiredly.

Damian hummed in response and his lips curled up into smile with the thought of her protecting him like a shield and now it was his time to save her from her psycho sister.

"Your father wants to meet you..."

He said but didn't got any reply from her.

He looked at her but she was already asleep, he pecked her forehead and layed her down on the bed tucking her in the bedsheet.

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Rose woke up in the morning and ran towards the bathroom as she again felt like vomiting. Damian woke up when she got out of his hold and followed her behind. "Rose, what's happening?..."

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"I don't know."

She breathed out.

Damian carried her to the bed and called the doctor.

The doctor checked her and took her blood for blood test. He gave her some medicines for now and left.

"Take rest okay?..."

Damian kissed her forehead and she nodded.

"I can't believe this... You are my wife now..."

He said grinning and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"I am not your wife Mister. This marriage is legally null and void as I didn't gave my consent to it, neither I signed the marriage certificate..."

She replied mocking.

"As if we mafia follow the laws..."

He mocked back and chuckled.

They heard a knock on the door and damian gave the person the permission to come in.

Rose quickly averted her face away from the person, avoiding any eye contact.

"You don't have to behave so cold with me angel, I don't have many days left anyway..."

Vincent said and sat in front of her.

Rose didn't looked at him, she was scared that she will look at him and will start crying again. She was beyond happy to see him alive but was toscared to show it in front of him after suppressing her emotions for so long.

Vincent kissed her forehead and pulled her in a hug.

"I am sorry angel, I couldn't protect you. Please forgive me. Punish me if you want but please talk to me..."

Vincent pleaded with tears in his

eyes. Rose didn't liked her father

pleading like this, she always saw him as a tough man and she was proud of that. So seeing her father vulnerable didn't set well with her. She reluctantly hugged him back and Vincent smiled at her gesture.

"Don't punish me for your mother's doing Arie."

He said breaking their hug.

"I am not Arie dad. My name is rose now..."

She mumbled looking down.

He placed a finger under her chin and gently lifted her face up making her look at him.

"Say it again..."

He said smiling brightly.

"Dad..."

She said again and Vincent's heart filled with happiness as he heard her calling him that.

"I am not angry on you dad, not anymore. I know it's not your fault... I should have told you everything..."

She confessed.

"Yes, you should have angel... Why didn't you tell me anything when I asked you how you got there and what happened when Stella lost you. I kept asking again and again but you didn't tell me anything..."

Vincent scolded.

"I am sorry... I was too angry, I wasn't thinking straight..."

She replied.

"It's ok... Everything is in the past now. Forget about it..."

Damian said and they both nodded.

"Where is Isabella?..."

Rose asked and Vincent and damian both clenched their jaw in anger.

"She is hiding in Roy's mansion, our men are keeping an eye on her. We are waiting for her to meet that person who is helping her so we could catch them both and we need to find out where they are keeping

leo..."

Vincent told her.

Emily knocked on the door and entered the room with her breakfast.

"What you are planning to do with isabella?..."

Rose asked in concern.

"She will get punished for whatever she did to you..."

Vincent answered coldly.

"You mean you are going to kill her..."

Rose frowned.

Emily was arranging her breakfast on the table and shivered in her place when she heard Damian's voice.

"Get out... I will do it..."

She heard him and ran outside the room.

"That's what we do to betrayers my child. Haven't you seen what happened to Roy..."

Vincent replied and rose shook her head.

"I am sure she has some valid reason to do that dad..."

Rose protested and Vincent looked at her in disbelief.

"She tried to kill you and you are trying to protect her..."

He asked frowning.

"She didn't infact she saved me that day..."

Rose said and both of them looked at her confused.

"When those assassin's attacked us, I was with isabella and when that man was about to shoot me she attacked him. If she wanted to kill me then it would have been her best chance, why would she save

me..."

She explained and Vincent and damian looked at each other with confused looks.

"Maybe I am not too good in showing my emotions to people but I can understand others dad. I saw care for me in her eyes, she doesn't hate me..."

Vincent sighed at Rose's word.

"You are saying this because you

love isabella. know you very well. Since childhood you were hiding her mistakes so she won't get punished. Maybe it's because of the twin bond or whatever it is, I don't know but

she doesn't care about you angel. She never cared about anyone. She was here to take Revenge for Roy. She wanted to kill damian and you..."

Vincent tried to make her understand but rose wasn't ready to accept it. She remembered how isabella hugged her in the club. She wasn't faking it and rose knew that.

"Embrace yourself for it angel. You have two betrayers to kill..."

He said smirking and rose looked at him in shock.

"What do you mean?..."

She knew what he meant by that but still she wanted to make sure if he was serious about it.

"You know what I mean angel... A sister who betrayed you and a mother who abandoned you..."

He said coldly and rose looked at damian expecting him to say something but he was sitting there with the same cold face as Vincent which told her that he agreed with Vincent.

"You want me to kill my own family... I might be a monster who used to kill people for money dad but I won't fall this low, My humanity hasn't left me yet..."

She said sternly.

"You should because you have an empire to handle now angel. You are the queen now..."

"I never wanted to be a mafia queen. I never asked for this..."

She replied.

"Why not, I am giving you the crown that comes with such great power, bella..."

He frowned.

"A crown which also comes with great sacrifice and responsibilities, I am not ready for that..."

Rose always wanted her life peaceful and becoming a boss meant you have to sacrifice that.

"Well I think you already did as you are the queen of knights empire now. Rather you want this or not is not in your control angel, you can't change the fate now..."

Vincent sighed at her stubbornness.

"Damian aren't you going to say something..."

Rose looked at him and he sighed.

"He is right love... I am with him this time..."

He said and rose closed her eyes in frustration.

"Dad, I don't want to do this please... I can't, don't force me to do anything..."

She said and at the end of the sentence she smirked.

"Well, not like you can actually force me..."

Vincent chuckled looking at her attitude. He always liked this fire in her.

"If you don't want to do it then I have to take the matter in my own hands. Take rest for now, you need it..."

"I won't let you hurt my sister dad. Atleast not before I talk to her myself..."

She said looking at his eyes, challenging him.

"I will let you talk to her when she will be tied in our basement and it won't be too long..."

He smirked.

Vincent stood up and looked at damian with a smirk.

"Atleast give my daughter some clothes to wear, I am sure you can do that..."

He chuckled and rose looked at herself, she was in damian's shirt and thankfully her lower body was covered with sheets.

Damian smirked back.

"I like to see my wife in my clothes, father in law..."

He replied and rose threw a pillow in his direction totally embarrassed making both of them chuckle.

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