Alexander was in Rose's room, standing near the window with his hands in his pockets as he stared at Brian, who was getting out of his house in a hurry, locking his door shut as he made his way to his car. Before he entered his car, Brian abruptly stopped and glanced towards her house, which alerted Alexander. He clenched his jaws and looked at the man who had been with Rose in his absence. He could feel his anger raising once again and could feel severe amount of negativity radiating from Brian. He was bad news. Brian then entered his car and stared the ignition as he drove away.

Alexander sighed and closed his eyes bending his head down and turned towards her bed. Her room was small, like this house, but it was well maintained. Everything neat and tidy, with nothing out of place. Just like when she was small. He smiled and turned as he made her way towards the bed and sat on it.

He kept his elbows on his knees and interlaced his fingers while he replayed everything that happened that morning. Brian Stephen. Alexander had an unsettling feeling about him and something did not fit right. He wanted his woman and that, was not possible until Alexander was alive. He would kill him if it was necessary but he would never let go of her now. Never ever.

Rose had removed the surgical tape and had helped him tend to his bleeding wound as soon as they came inside the house. She then cooked breakfast and he ate it without breaking his vision away from her.

So beautiful. He thought and smiled as he closed his eyes and bent his head down slightly. She had given him a chance, and he would give her all of him. He knew hat she would pull him out of the darkness he lived in. He had lost all those years, but not anymore. He loved her and he wanted her more than anything else in his life. It had always been her and it is always her. A mere thought of her would ignite his whole body. Her curves , her smile, her beauty.. everything in her was enchanting. He wanted to touch her, feel her smooth skin, taste every inch of her and drink her completely, and would try to quench his thirst for her that would never actually satisfy him.

Memories of them playing on the lawn in front of their house, the constant fights they had, the sleep overs, the feeling of jealousy that had creeped into his heart when he found her getting close to the school nerd, and everything related to her started replaying in his mind. He nerve believed in love,but she was the only reason why he started loving. She taught him what love was, in her absence. And Alexander still could not belive that fate had given him one more chance with this wonderful woman.

He had a strong urge to go and hold her tight and kiss her senseless. And so he got up from the bed to head to the kitchen where she was washing the plates. But his eyes fell on a metal box that was kept on the edge of the stand inside the wardrobe whose doors were slightly opened. He turned sideways and made his way towards it and opened the doors of the wardrobe. He scrunched his eyebrows in deep thought and picked up the old metal box that had a little rust on its sides.

The shabby letters engraved on the metal box got his heart to clench with pain, surprise and happiness. His name was engraved in a shabby handwriting on the box with a heart next to it.

Alexander brushed his thumb on the letters and pulled his lips in, wetting them as his mouth went dry. He knew the owner of this box. It could be only her. Only Rose. His Roseanne.

He opened the box and what he saw inside, clawed his heart out. Miserable. Painful. That's what he felt when he started recognising the items inside the box.

All the things that he had given her, and a few of his things that he had then found missing was neatly kept in this box.
His handkerchief was neatly folded and kept in the side of the box. His favourite pen that he had found missing when he was in school, an old square shaped photo of him and her looking at the camera with a huge smile, his cuff. . .His cuff. He picked the cuff out of the box and lifted his head eyeing it slowly. He had missed one of his cuffs on his prom night when he was at school. He gulped and kept it back inside the box and started looking at the other objects. His objects.

His heart clenched with pain and he gritted his teeth. He was torn away into shreds. She had preserved him all these years. From the beginning. No one had loved him like her. No one. . .

"Alexander?"

He was brought back from his painful state when he heard her voice.

She walked towards him and Alexander turned towards her with the box in his hand.

Rose dropped her eyes downwards towards his hand and gasped at the sight. She was shocked and her heart started bearing rapidly now that she had been caught He wasn't supposed to see any of those.

She immediately walked towards him and pulled away the box from his hand and closed it.

She couldn't look at him. She was so in love with him all those years back, or rather obsessed with him that she had kept whatever she could take that belonged to him.

He walked closer to her and slightly bent down towards her ear.

"Can you keep me in the box too?" He whispered and slowly trailed his fingers on the exposed skin of her right arm.

Rose shivered and bit down her bottom lip to control her wildly beating heart because of his close proximity and his magical fingers.

She gulped and closed her eyes as a small smile crept on her face.

"I've already kept you in me." She whispered and turned towards him.

He stiffened at what she said and brought himself closer to her. He took the box from her hand and kept it on the table. He held her waist and rested his head on her shoulder after placing a soft kiss on her neck.

She sucked in her lips and slowly brought her hands to rest them on his shoulder and his neck. She drew small invisible circles on his neck that made his heart beat wildly and he hugged her tight, plastering his body onto hers.

"I want you to tell me something you want Rose. Anything. I want you to tell me. I . .I have been such a pathetic person all throught life. I never knew that someone could love me to this extent." He said and turned his face towards her neck. He rested his face on the crook of her neck and eyed her smooth soft skin. His lips were moving against the sensitive skin on her neck when he started speaking again and Rose found it really hard to concentrate.

"I am sorry for everything. Help me set things right." He said and kissed her neck once again, making her squeeze his shoulders tighter. Her small cute Alexander who used to give bear hugs, was now a handsome well built man seducing her and making her brain into mush. Even his touch set her whole body on fire. She loved him. She loved him so much that she was ready to risk her heart once again. She somehow knew, that this time, he risked his heart for her too. He wanted her the same way she had wanted him.

He took a long deep breath, inhaling her sweet scent and smiled on her neck after placing another kiss there. He just wanted to take her. Take her then and there.

"Tell me Rose. What do you want.? I know that nothing can wipe away the pain I caused you. But tell this for me. I want to do something for you."

She slid her fingers into his thick soft hair and smiled.

"I just want you Alex. Have always wanted and will always want you."

"You already have me, love. All of me."

"Then there is nothing that I. ."

"Please."

She sighed and thought about everything for a minute.

"Would you do anything for me.?" She asked slowly, her voice sounding uncertain.

"I would close my eyes and do it."

"I want. . .I want us to go back home,to California." She whispered and closed her eyes.

He straightened himself and looked into her eyes with his hands still on her waist.

"You know that I am still. . ."

"Yes."she said cutting him before he could complete his words.

"I know that your life is different from mine. I know your a criminal." She said and looked into those deep depths of his eyes. Those eyes that she had always loved.

"That is why I want us to go there. I . .I want you to leave all of this behind once and for all. I want us to go back to our lives just like the way it was all those years back." She brought her hands to his face and cupped his cheek.

"I know nothing would ever be the same. I know nothing would be normal. But I have you Alexander. I would never change any moment that I spend with you no matter what."

He brought his hand to her shoulders and gripped them tightly.

"Rose, I cannot leave this behind. It's not easy to come out of a life that I've been living since. . ."

"Will you leave it if I can bring you out of it.?" She asked looking at him.

When she did not get an answer from him, she pulled away and brought distance between them.

"I will think about it Rose." He said and came near her once again. But she moved back again creating space in between them.

"I don't want to fear about your life being in danger. I want you to be safe. If something happens to you. . .I just. . I don't think I will be alive after that."

"Don't say that." He said and came closer to her, cupping her cheeks and rested his forehead on hers.

"I want us to start fresh. Away from all this danger."

He opened his eyes and looked at her for a few seconds.

"I will think about this. "

She nodded her head and smiled at him hoping that he would change his mind soon.

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