Hello everyone! UD is up (well duh, ) got some amazing reviews and all from the last chapter and hoping for more in this one!

Chaeck out also my templates and banner I've made in my T.u.m.b.l.r. profile (Link in my page-ALL ABOUT IVASHKOV) I still can't get over the fact that Rose chose Dimitri, tsk tsk.

SOoo. Hoping for your amazing reviews before I post the next chapter! And please excuse the grammatical errors, I haven't gotten around proofing it as flawlessly as possible.!

Lovelots!

AudenPaige0.o

Follow me in any way you can (Links in the profile! Thanks)

Chapter 21

Before the mark of the second week of our stay in the Royal Court, Adrian was dragged away from me.

Even before that, it was obvious that the Queen and the rest of his family were doing everything to keep him from seeing me as much as possible. Keeping him as late as possible in their mansion and insisting he stay with them for the night. During the days, he told me he would look for me in my quarters, but since I have my schedule and trainings keeping me away from my room, we wouldn't catch a glimpse of each other.

We mostly stayed together by means of dreams, were upon seeing him, I would run to his arms.

"Missed you." He murmured into my hair.

"Missed you more." I would reply in his chest.

"Everyone's just acting crazy and neurotic, it'll pass." He reassured me while rubbing my arms and back.

I groaned, feeling his warmth even if it is just in this dream.

"Liss? Lissa?" I cried in my phone, while I heard some groaning and shuffling from the other end of the line.

"Rose? Rose, tell me what's wrong." She sounded groggy and at the same time worried.

"Come here please." My voiced cracked while I was trying my best to hold my escaping sob. "Quickly" I squeaked.

I never saw my best friend as wild and worried in my whole life. Almost ten minutes after I put the phone down, I heard frantic knocks on my door and my best friend's voice.

"Rose? Rose!" She called and pounded the door. "Are you here? Open the door!" She yelled.

I quickly got up from my spot on my bed and unlocked my door.

Before I could completely see her, I was enveloped in a relieved hug.

"Are you okay? What's wrong?" She pulled back and scanned me from head to phone. She took my red rimmed eyes and red nose and deep breathes with worry and escorted me back to my bed after closing and locking the door behind her.

"Tell me Rose." She called softly behind me.

I grabbed a note on my coffee table and handed it to her.

When I got to my room after today's session with the guardians, I saw it lying there, thinking it was a quick love note from Adrian- which he usually leaves everywhere, I enthusiastically read it.

But it was far from any of his other love notes.

Rose,

I could not tell you how much pain writing this letter made me feel.

You might hate me after reading this, but please know how much I love you and how nothing would ever change that and I completely understand if you hate me.

I need to leave you right now. I can't tell you exactly why, but this is something I have to do between me and my family. And with this, I'm really really really sorry, but this would be probably my only communication to you. And I'm not sure when I'll come back- or if I ever will.

And in the dreams? In this moment, I can't. Not yet.

This letter may seem like a vague explanation or something…but…

I'm really truly sorry Rose.

Always remember; I love you, always.

Adrian

No address or number to call, just plain bitter, tear streaked and pathetic letter with petty words.

I sit silently in my bed, while my best friend beside me read the letter. I closed my eyes and felt the first tears I was holding back for hours. I was reading with her, I could imagine Lissa's expression while she reads the sentences, whilst I recall the letter by heard- as if I was reading it along with her.

I leaned back with the heels of my hand supporting me.

After a moment, I felt her head in my shoulder, the tears where uncontrollable by then.

I lay down in the bed and curled up in fetal position.

I felt the bed shift and Lissa encircled me in her arms and let me sob in her chest while she patted silently.

These where one of my vulnerable moments. The moments where I needed Lissa as my guardian. These where rare moments that it troubled Lissa much more.

Why did Adrian do this to me? I sobbed.

For the rest of the week, I didn't let anyone see how devastated I was in Adrian's absence. Lissa, Christian and Eddie were constantly watching and scrutinizing my every move-as if waiting for me to crack or something.

Every night I wait in my dreams for Adrian, but never once he came. But there is always a deep and glimmer feeling that somehow he was trying to reach out to me, but he couldn't quite grasp it. It made it all frustrating that I would usually wake in the middle of my sleep and feel cold and lonely without him to cuddle and snuggle into, so nights were mostly spent sleepless.

It didn't help much though in my trainings and duties. I would usually be so passionate in training, then the thought of Adrian leaving me would crash back into my head then I wouldn't be able to lift any more than a finger.

Everyone was getting worried, especially Dimitri.

After everything, I still couldn't break my daily musings and meetings with him. We would talk about anything and everything- but he'd usually look at me worriedly as if I would start bawling out any second.

"He loves you, you know." He would say to me from his place in the bed. I would always look up then smile at him.

"I know." I always replied dutifully. But after a few days of him not showing up, I'm starting to doubt Dimitri's belief.

"He'll come back. He knows you're not something to let go of easily." He said. There was always a tone of regret in his voice.

"He better." I would usually banter back to him.

I don't know though how long this face could take all the fake smiles and enthusiasm- I know it will tire in a while.

Before the end of the week, someone hurriedly knocked into my door. I didn't bother getting my hopes up, it usually just ended up plummeting down.

I opened the door to my best friend and her boyfriend who both have a different look in their eyes.

"What's going on?" I asked them worriedly.

"Let's talk in the couch Rose, we need to tell you something." Lissa piped excitedly.

Once we were seated, I saw Christian nudged Lissa and point his head in my direction, where I was seated across from them.

"Oh, uhmm, you better not get your hopes up though Rosie." She said mournfully.

I stared at my hands in my lap and nodded dully.

"So we kinda heard Camille talking to her mother a few hours ago after lessons, and it was about Adrian." She told me hurriedly. I suddenly looked up with the mention of Adrian's name.

"You see, apparently, Camille's mom is practically Daniella Ivashkov's bestfriend, and Camille was wondering why Adrian hasn't been showing up in the gatherings, so she asked her mom." She drowned on. My ears perked up, I wasn't aware that Daniella would confide to someone else beside the Queen.

"Apparently, the Ivashkov's sent Adrian half way across the globe, to one of their relatives somewhere out there. There, he will study our protocols instead of here, the family where getting worried about your relationship."

"You're on different time zones so your sleep won't be in synch with his and it was also rumored that they made him wear one of those charmed things to control his spirit powers-or they made him take something to control it, no one knows which one is true."

My eyes widened with the newly acquired facts. This was too much. I felt relieved and at the same time worried- his family was going through such measures to rip us apart.

I wanted to sob and laugh at the same time with the circumstance we were placed at. I started hyperventilating, and then all turned black.