ladydelight L.D.Manning Rose Blooming Betrayal Blooming Rosetta has long ago forgiven the man she loves after he left her for dead.

The only problem now is that Kamet sees her as a child and the things she wants from him are far from innocent.

Rosetta will do anything to get him to look at her like the woman she is. Even take lessons on seduction from a man who claims he can help her not only get Kamet but have him on his knees.

Is he truly helping her or is she just a tool in a bigger game?



Kamet will stop at nothing to kill his twin brother Cobden. That is until Rosetta found him. But when he comes back from a war to find the sweet child he had once known was now a sedative woman. He has no choices but to have her . . . All of her.



But a secret will soon turn into betrayal. Forgiveness is hard but will love become unthinkable.

 
 
 
 Chapter 1 
 
   
 
 Chapter 1 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta had to be faster. 
 As hostile voices of the men behind her grow closer.  
 She didn’t know how many were still behind her, but Rosetta knew she couldn’t slow down.  
 Not here in the land of war and blood-hungry soldiers.  
 The same blood-hungry soldiers, she had just stolen a piece of roasted pig. Something she would have normally never done. But these soldiers had already taken everything from the small villages around them. Leaving not only Rosetta but everyone starving.  
 Those with money had already left. Leaving those without money or family behind. 
 Which is why she was eating and running. 
 Though it was hard to breathe past the mouth full of food, Rosett pushed down the rest of the food. 
 Her breath came faster and faster, her heart almost jumping out of her chest.  
 At this point, Rosetta knew they would catch and beat her, but for a meal, she would do so again and again.  
 "Take that." 
 They began to throw rocks at her. A pain shot up Rosetta’s back making her trip and fall at someone's feet. Slowly looking up and up and up. At the big male before her, Rosetta swallowed the last piece of meat in her mouth.  
 The powerful man who stood before her had on no shirt, showing skin that was full of war scars even his face, which was marked deeply with an X.  
 The X scarred man only glanced down at her, before he looked up at the men behind her. They stumbled to a stop at his tent not daring to get any closer.  
 “We just want the thief Kamet.” They took a step forward, but stop when Kamet growled out. “Get off ‘my’ land, all of you.” The men took off a few feet away, only stopping at what had to be the end of Kamet’s land.  
 Rosetta’s heart started to beat rapidly. This man was dead. It was in the air around him, in the intense look he now gave her, making her slowly look back at him until their gazes locked. His eyes were cold, freezing her bones in fear. Did this man have a heart, a soul to call his own? 
 “This is my land, do you hear me ‘mine’, now leave my land or die.” 
 “No please. They'll kill me if I leave.” Rosetta moved in front of him and took one of his pants legs, her voice going shaky, her eyes filling with tears, as she begged for his mercy. Kamet didn’t look at her just turned his back to walk back into his tent. “Please, help me please.” 
 “Go away or ‘I’ll’ kill you, and trust me . . . You don’t want that.” Kamet walked back into his tent then, uncaring of what would become of the little thief. 
 
 
   
 
 
 ~*~ 
 
 
   
 
 
 Kamet was at home, the only place he could ever call home, the battlefield. Where the smell of blood was like an aphrodisiac to the blood lust in them all.  
 Kamet cut off a man’s head and then kicking another man to the ground. Not caring if he was on his side or not.  
 This was war, everyone was the enemy in his eyes. 
 Then he saw him the man he hated more than life itself. The one he should have killed in their mother's belly. . . Cobden his twin brother. Once they had looked alike, that is until his brother had carved his face open.  
 He watched as his brother looked up at him and smiled. 
 With a rage-filled bellow, Kamet ran at his brother knocking away anyone in his way. 
 When they finally clashed, they fought for hours. Taking any opening they could to injure the other. Kamet couldn’t lie to himself, not now anyway. His brother had the upper hand. He had always had the upper hand from birth. Cobden had been chosen, as the strongest of their family. Cobden had been given everything he had ever wanted, even if it hadn’t belonged to him.  
 Well, Kamet had been given nothing, but a second thought in his parent's mind. Every chance Cobden got to take away something of Kamet's, he had taken it. No matter how hard Kamet had fought for it, cried for it, pleaded. Cobden had always come out on top. 
 But never again would Kamet let Cobden take what was his, never again would Kamet share what was his. Kamet would never give up or let what he saw as his be taken. Not by Cobden . . . Not by anybody. Kamet struck his brother in the arm, then went for his leg. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chapter 2 
 Chapter 2 
 
 
   
 
 
 Cobden made that final connection with his brother’s chest. Watching as his brother Kamet fell to the red ground. 
 He felt nothing. 
 His heart long ago cold from Kamet betrayal. A brother Cobden had once been raised to look after, but now wanted to kill with everything inside of him. Not because Kamet had been selfish from birth or the fact that anything, Cobden wanted Kamet had wanted. No, it had been when Kamet had taken way the woman he loved.  
 For what reason Cobden didn’t know, but from then on Cobden had desired to give his brother a reason to want him dead. 
 So here Cobden was standing over a man who had once looked like him.  
 That is until Cobden had decided to make sure his outside looked just as ugly as his inside. Here, he was watching his brother slowly die. It was like looking at himself die. The anger that had once filled him was no longer there, nor did he have the strength to keep watching. So Cobden did the only thing he could do, he walked away. Not caring that his brother threw insults at his back. Or that he screamed for him to end. . . it didn't matter now. At the end of the day, Kamet would die for the choices he made.  
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 3 
   
 Chapter 3 
 
 
   
 
 
 Damn it all!  
 Was this where it would end, miles away from the battlefield.  
 His people had lost, not that it mattered to him. Nothing mattered anymore, now that Kamet knew he was going to die in a small village alleyway, like trash.  
 Deep down, Kamet somehow knew he would die like this . . . In waste. He had only hoped that his brother would have died first. At least that would have given him some small form of peace.  
 But like everything in his life Cobden had taken that away from him. Leaving him in a state of anger and regret. 
 Pain danced on his skin, making Kamet suck in a hollow breath. Clenching his teeth Kamet moved himself up against the wall. 
 A body appeared at the end of the alleyway, Kamet watched as the small form dug through one of the trash bins. It was a small skinny body, one that really needed more food, if it wasn’t for the long hair on her head, Kamet would have never known it was a girl.  
 For the longest time, Kamet didn't think she saw him. It was only when he noticed her pacing back and forth, that he realized she was building up the courage to come closer. 
 It was then he noticed what she had in her arms. 
 A rolled-up cloth and a bowl.  
 She had on an old oversized dress, and a head full of wild and unkempt hair that covered her face.  
 She quickly walked past him, her eyes watchful. She must have thought he was going to attack. But if that was the case why come down this way at all? 
 When she finally reached the other side of the alley, she stopped. Kamet watched as she stood there as if she were once again building up her courage.  
 Turning around the small girl came to stand before him. Kamet's hand moved to his side to grip his sword.  
 Knowing that this girl could easily try to take and sell his armor. It wasn't much but he knew it could easily get her enough to eat.  
 Sadly, he didn’t have enough energy to stop her if she tried. All he had was intimidation and right now his face wasn’t agreeing with him enough to even frown.  
 “You're bleeding all over ‘my’ home,” She said. The ‘my’ was said with anger and mockery yet somehow she kept her voice light, though it was deeper than what he thought someone her age should have.  
 Not that he could talk, he could only look at her, waiting for her to kick him while he was down, like everyone else had done.  
 But all she did was sit down her cloth then walked out the alley. She returned a moment later bowl of water in hand. She sat down next to him, then ripping some of her dresses, so she could use it to clean his injuries. 
 Shock went through Kamet, at what was happening and what he now realized.  
 He knew her, she had been that girl from that night. The night he had been preparing to face his brother. So determined to kill him, he hadn’t cared what happened to the Strange intruder who had dared to step a foot on his land. 
 “Let me see your face child.”  
 She put more force on his injuries making him suck in a breath of pain, as she continued to bandage him. “I am not a child.”  
 “Why are you helping me, when I had turned my back on you?” Kamet asked in a whisper, but she only shrugged it off, as if she did that kind of thing all the time. 
 “Maybe one day you won’t turn your back on someone in need if someone gave you help when you needed it most.” 
 Kamet would have snorted if he wasn’t in all this pain and afraid she would stop helping him. When she finally did stop, his wounds covered and less painful, she got to her feet then sat across from him. That’s when he saw her face, the swollen eye, the fat busted lip that looked to be purple, but before he could say anything about it she got to her feet and left as quickly as she had come. 
 An eerie feeling of shame filled him, as he watched her leave. An emotion he wasn't sure what to do with. 
 She had been coming back every day now. Helping him with his wounds and feeding him with whatever she could steal or find, at this point, he wasn’t being picky.  
 But this day, this day was different she looked skinnier than before, weaker. 
 Kamet grabbed the bowl she had given him and started eating. God knows he was starving from that half a loaf of bread she had given him to eat yesterday. But thinking back on it now, he hadn’t once seen her eat, he had only assumed that she had eaten.  
 The thought put a bad taste in his mouth all of a sudden, making him stop and look at her again. 
 She sat with hungry eyes, knees up to her chest. “You need to eat . . . Here . . . Take this.” Kamet looked away from her as he gave away his chicken soup. Not that he had a choice, she was the only person who could get food for him in this weak state. That was the only reason he fed her now. He didn't care if she lived or died and his chest didn’t fill with happiness when he saw her eat. 
 “What is your name girl.” 
 The girl half froze, as she looked into her soup bowl. Her gaze slowly moved up to him, as if to see if she could trust him. 
 “Rosetta.”  
 Rosette, what a perfect name to describe her, she was beautiful under all that grime, she always had on her face. Grime he knew she intentionally put on her face, so no one would look at her. But he could see her, he would always see her. 
 "Nice to meet you, Rosetta, I am Kamet." 
 She didn't say anything just kept eating. 
 The days in the alley turned into weeks and the weeks seem to go by faster and faster. Kamet found the more time he spent with Rosetta the more he liked her, not only that but she started to open up to him in her own little way. She could make him laugh, something he never really did, she would even ask him to tell war stories which end up being funnier than he once thought they were . . . At less with Rosetta they were.  
 “Come over here you look like you're freezing,” Kamet said opening the cover she had given him earlier to keep him warm. He could see her hesitation before she made up her mind and came over. When he folded his arms around her protecting her from the cold, Kamet felt like he was holding the world in his arms. She was so important, so fragile and when she rubbed her face into his chest . . . God, there was nothing like it. 
 “Thank you.” 
 “No thank you, Rose.” He said loving the way her arms eased around his waist, how she would move her face and her lips would gently brush his nipple, making him shivers.  
 That was the night he knew she was his, he could feel it down to his chest, or maybe it was deeper. He would never look close enough to really know.  
 She was so full of life which seems to make him full of life too.  
 At times he would find his-self afraid when she went off to get something they needed, afraid she would never come back or that someone would try to take his Rose away. Which could never happen and as soon as he got better he was going to give her a better life one she deserved. 
 But tonight like most nights, now a days, she slept in his arms. Their body curled up on the ground as he lied behind her. From the way she was playing in her hair, Kamet knew she wasn’t sleeping yet. So he asked a question that had been bothering him for weeks now. “Why are you on the streets sweet Rose?” His lips moved across the back of her neck, making her shiver in his arms and move closer. Kamet froze for a moment a little shocked, then he brushed it off, she must have been cold. 
 “It’s not a long story Kamet. It just happened, my mother and I were walking and she told me to stay right here. That she would be right back, but she never did come back.” Her voice held no bitterness just knowing as if, as a young girl she had seen it coming. 
 Not understanding Kamet rose up onto his hand and looked down at her. Her eyes held lost, pain, and so much more, all Kamet wanted to do was take it all away. “Do you know why she did it?”  
 “Aye,” She whispered her eyes drifting away. But Kamet needed to know, he needed to know her. With gentle fingers, Kamet rubbed her cheek, then moved her face, so she looked at him. A small gaped escaped her as she looked up at him. Kamet wonders if his face scared her if she did not like his touch, but she stopped that thought with the soft creak of her smile. 
 “She had grown tired of her husband sleeping in the bed of her 6-year-old and not hers.” Tears filled Rosetta’s eyes, as she looked over at a spot at the end of the alleyway. Were her mother must have left her.  
 A cold burning feeling started up in his chest. What father touched his daughter in such a way, and what mother left the child and not the husband. Kamet couldn’t understand that and the rage that was building up from her story was almost unstoppable. 
 “Please don’t be angry with me Kamet I begged him not to touch me, I didn’t want him to. But she didn’t believe me, no one believed me.” She cried in his arms then. Kamet held her and told her everything would be fine. He knew she didn’t want that, he could see it on her face, as she told him.  
 If Kamet ever came upon the man who touched her so wrongly at such an innocent time, the man would find himself without skin.  
 Every day Kamet grows stronger and stronger, and everyday Rosetta moved away from him. It was then he realized that Rosetta would fear him when he was all healed up. She would run, to where he didn’t know, but if she did he knew he would follow her, he would protect her. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 4 
   
 Chapter 4 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta would have never guessed she would feel this way, or that she would open up to Kamet so fast. A man who had left her for dead once, now hated to have her out of his sight for more than two hours.  
 She was head over heels in love and she never wanted to leave that alleyway again. She wanted time to freeze.  
 Yes, it was wrong to want him to stay dependent on her but she couldn't help it, she wanted him to stay with her forever.  
 Walking down the hill from where she got her water. Rosetta instantly put her head down so she could become as small as she could.  
 Something that she often did so not to draw attention to herself.  
 Most days she got by with just being invisible but today was different. She knew it the moment she spotted the two men coming up the hill. They didn’t seem to see her or even care to look her way. That gave her a little relief but still walked faster. 
 “Hey girl come here.” One of the men called out to her. Rosetta knew where that leads to and she would never go back to that day not now, not ever.  
 Dropping the bowl of water she had been holding, Rosetta ran.  
 The men yelled after her, as they followed behind. But Rosetta knew that if she ran long enough they would give up. Then she could circle back to Kamet. Heart racing Rosetta could feel her legs getting weak, starting to give out. No, no please not yet.  
 She knew they would give up soon she just had to go a little longer. 
 One of the men behind her grabbed her hair making her scream out in shock and pain. They throw her against a wall before the other man started to touch on her small form.  
 Then they all froze at the raging roar that sounded off beside them, Kamet stood tall and strong. His sword in hand and eyes as deadly as the day she had first seen him at the war camp.  
 “Let go of my Rose, 'Now'.” His words were not to be taken lightly in any way, shape, or form. Rosetta wasn’t surprised that the men all took note of this.  
 They quickly let her fall to the ground as they ran off. Rosetta heart filled with dread at the realization that Kamet no longer needed her, that he would be leaving her behind...like her mother. 
 Everything they had, was now gone.  
 Kamet walked over to her, as she sat on the ground not able to look up at the man she had somehow fallen in love with. 
 “Come, Rose, it’s time for me to take care of you now.” Kamet reached out his hand to her, but fear held her back.  
 “Rose sweetheart, it's my turn to help you. Like you have done for me.” He was asking to take care of her, she had never been taken care of, and that in itself was terrified her. But she loved him, to be apart from him now was unthinkable. So Rosetta did the only thing she could. She took his hand, and let her heart lead the way.  
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 5 
 Chapter 5 
 
 
   
 
 
 Years later 
 Cobden was in the middle of nowhere hungry for the three things every man needed.  
 Food, sex, and sleep.  
 If it came in that order he’d be a happy man. Walking into a bar Cobden found a table next to four chatting men, he wasn’t really happy about that, but it was nothing he could do about it. Being that it was the only open table in the place. 
 “Uh,” Cobden said as he pushed his hand into his eyes, trying to wake himself up. Now wasn't the time to sleep, at least not in this place. How easy it would be for someone to kill him. Like Kamet, the crazy bastard who is somehow still alive.  
 Sadly Cobden knew he would just have to kill Kamet again, only this time he would take his head off.  
 The soft voice of a lady moved passed his sleepy mind, pulling back his attention.  
 “What can I get you, stranger?” 
 “You with a side of ale. That is if you’re not too sweet?” Cobden said as he looked up at the beautiful woman standing before him, she was a curvy woman, with nice big breast. Her head of brown hair was short in the front and long in the back. Showing off a face so bright and jolly one would think she was just as sweet as his pickup line suggested. 
 But out of all that, the blush that flashed on her face alone made him really smile at her, and not his fake 'I just want to fuck you in the dark from behind' smiles. 
 A look of surprise hit her face as her blush slowly grow deeper. That happened a lot when women see how handsome he was, which made it a lot easier to get in their bed furs.  
 “But for now ale will do.” He said as she started to move away, Cobden gave her a wink for the road.  
 “Aye right away,” Off she went. 
 “I wouldn’t have done that stranger.” One of the men from behind him said. “Not with the man’s mark she has.”  
 “Damn, she’s married, just my luck.” He was never one to bed a married winch, at least knowingly.  
 He should have known, she was too beautiful not to be spoken for. 
 “No she’s not married to Kamet, but she may as well be with the way he guards over her when he's here.” 
 Cobden froze at the sound of his brother’s name. Cobden knew Kamet was alive he just hadn’t known that Kamet would have found a woman and not one that lovely. 
 “Kamet is here now?” 
 “No his off fighting some war, why do you know him.” The woman said as she sat his drink down in front of him, she had a big smile on her face now as if the thought of Kamet was . . . ‘Pleasant’. 
 “Yes, Kamet and I went to war together.” True if you look at it from his point of view.  
 “Wow it’s so nice to meet you, I’m Rosetta, but everyone just calls me Rose.” She put her hand out so they could shake. When he took her hand Cobden saw it then her top had moved down from her neck revealing a tattoo of his brother’s name across her chest. It was a clamming of her, for all to see. 
 It was one of the most barbaric things Cobden had ever seen.  
 Yeah, this was Kamet's woman. He couldn't imagine any other way his brother would clam someone. 
 Not wanting to tell her his name in an open place like this, Cobden started to talk about his brother. “Kamet and I were like brothers in arms at one point . . . He saved my life really, it would be my honor to make sure you get home safely.” 
 “I’ve never seen a friend of Kamet." She said somehow smiling even brighter. "No one would ever think of hurting me, but you are welcome to come over for tea, I would love to hear how he saved your life?" 
 Cobden couldn’t hold back his smile at her words. He had never met a woman willing to lesson to tales of war and bloodshed. He wonders what she saw in a selfish murderer like Kamet, was she mad. 
 “That would be nice.” He watched as she went back to work, wondering what he was going to do next. 
 Thoughts of his the love of his life coming out of his brother’s room, pulling up her dress. Not even stopping to look his way, as she rushed out of his house, popped into his head. The anger of that day came back like it had just started all over again. 
 Aye, Cobden knew what he would do, not only would he fuck her, he would also convene her to run away. It was for her own good, better to get away now before Kamet started hurting her. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 6 
 Chapter 6 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta gave Cobden a cup of tea, happy to find one of Kamet’s friends in arms. Not only that, but he was beautiful to the eyes, with a light sense of humor.  
 “So how long have you known Kamet?” Cobden asked looking her over for the hundred time.  
 Aye, she was blushing from ear to ear he had such a fire in him. 
 “Ever since I was nineteen.” A look shock crossed Cobden’s face before he covered it up. 
 “So you’re your twenty now.”  
 Rosetta shook her head not able to stop the smile that bloomed on her face. “I am twenty-four.” 
 Something crossed his face again, but she couldn’t make out what it was. All she knew was his eyes glowed with a new respect for her, respect she didn’t deserve.  
 He must think of her as someone who tamed the warrior, but she wasn’t, more or less . . . More 'less' than more if anything.  
 Kamet thought of her as a sister and that was the last thing she wanted to be in his eye. 
 She wanted to be a lover, his lover, the one he came to when he wanted to calm down from war. The one he would come to when he was ready to have children, to make her his wife. However, he only saw her as a sister even though he never said so she knew. 
 “You’re in love with my brother.” 
 “What.” Rosetta's eyes grow big with shock. 
 “In arms, we are brothers in arms.”  
 Frowning Rosetta sat in the chair beside him. “It was my face wasn’t it?” Taking her hand in his Cobden smiled at her. “Aye . . . But is he . . . Is he in love with you?” 
 “I truly don’t know.” That was a lie, he did love her just not in the way she loved him. She was not a woman to him just a child. 
 “I could help you with him you know.” 
 “Really,” She said putting both of her hands in his now. Hoping against hope that what he said was true. “You would do this for me.” 
 He smiles at her softly and touching her face. “One thing you need to know before I can help you.” 
 “What’s that?” 
 “Well—tell me what does he see you as . . . A nun, a little girl.” 
 Biting her lip Rosetta nodded her head at his words. 
 “That’s what I thought . . . You see men, we need sex, if there’s no sex then there’s no love and with Kamet being a warrior, he doesn’t have time to teach a woman how to please him and baby you have the look of a woman who doesn’t know how to please a man.” Cobden looked her up and down, his hunger clear in his eyes as he slowly licked his lips. “All I’m saying is if you want to get and keep him, you’re going to have to please him. And you don’t know how to do that, now do you.”  
 Rosetta slowly removed her hand from his, as his words got through her head. He didn’t want to help her.  
 He wanted to have sex with her, to use her. 
 “Just think about it, who’s the first person he sees before coming back to you?” 
 Rosetta got up then, not wanting to think about that, but Cobden just got up too, not stopping until he was in her face. “ ’TIS a woman from the bar and do you want to know what he does to them.” Rosetta turned away then covering her ears, hoping that his words would go away, that 'he' would go away. 
 He didn’t, he turned her around until her chest was ageist his chest as he moved her hands into his. “He beds them, he beds them because he doesn’t have time to teach a little girl how to please him. Baby if you let me, you won’t have to worry about him going anywhere else . . . Isn’t that what you want, to have him all to yourself.” He was right she wanted Kamet all to herself, she wanted him to look at her as if she was the sexiest woman in the world. 
 “Y-you can help me . . .” 
 “Baby, I’ll teach you how to talk, walk and bed like a dream. Like the woman of his dreams.” 
 Cobden moved his head next to her ear. “I’m only in town for three days we can start now and have him on his knees in two.” 
 How far would she go for him, what would she do just to be held by Kamet? This was the questions that came with only one answer . . . ‘Anything’. What Cobden offered was a chance to become what Kamet wanted. 
 She just had to be that, “But Kamet.” 
 “He’ll never have to know.” he pulled back to watch her mind work. Her logic telling her how crazy and foolish it would be to trust a man she just met. But her despited and lonely side, the side that had been ignored and needed. Push her forward. No longer satisfied with just having part of him... .no she needed everything. 
 “How do we do this?" 
 Cobden looked at her face his eyes stopping only at her lips. “We kiss, have you ever kissed a lover.” 
 A lover . . . No, a man who wanted to take what she had without thought of her, yes. 
 “Everything I do you repeat.” Moving slowly Cobden kissed Rosetta, moving her lips up and down once, then letting Rosetta do the same. Soon she became a little more comfortable. Cobden added his tongue licking her bottom lip, then pushed inside her mouth. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 7 
 Chapter 7 
 
 
   
 
 
 Something was wrong, Kamet could feel it in his gut, there was this . . . This . . . Feeling of loss, as if he had lost something that he could never get back. 
 His first thought when to Rosetta, his sweet innocent Rose, had someone killed her, was she hurt or sick. No, that couldn’t be she wore his mark, no one would dare touch what was his . . . So what could it be? 
 Taking another slow look around the room Kamet decided to let it go, it would pass soon. 
 “Hmm, K-Kamet y-you have mail.” A small voice said from outside his tent. Not even caring enough to give the little man a second look Kamet took the mail. Still not that use to getting mail, yet always a little happy when he read it. 
 Ever since he went off to war, his sweet little Rose had started sending him mail. Most of them telling of her days, of what they should do when he got back. At first, Kamet hadn’t known what to write to her, so he didn’t, but then after her letters slowly start expressing fear that something had happened to him that Kamet found himself starting to write her back. If there was one thing he couldn't stand it was her fear. Setting on his bed Kamet opened his letter. 
 
 
   
 
 
 Dearest Kamet 
 I have a job at the bar ‘ 'tis great, and I am missing you dearly. 
 I have also cut my hair a little and hope you like it.  
 Hoping to see you soon 
 
 
   
 
 
 Forever you’re: Rosetta 
 
 
   
 
 
 This letter was shorter than any she had ever given him . . . The job at the bar must be working her too hard, yet still, Kamet felt as if something was off.  
 . . . 
 That’s it he was heading back, not like his brother was here anyway. So there was really no reason for fighting in this war and the pay wasn’t that good.  
 Yes, he would head home tomorrow find out if Rose was fine, then he would go look for Cobden again.  
 Cobden the little bastard was running scared, knowing he should have killed him when he had the chance. But now Cobden would never get that chance again, Kamet had too much to live for. He had Rose to live for, who would take care of her when he was gone . . ., No one that was why he had to find Cobden and kill him so he could never have the chance to take her from him. 
 Like everything else Cobden had taken, but not Rose, never his Rose. He would always have her. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 8 
 Chapter 8 
 
 
   
 
 
 Kamet was going to love her, she just knew he was going to love her, he had to. With all these lessons she had been getting, there was no way he could not love her.  
 Moving over to one side of the door Rosetta let Cobden into her home. He gave her a winning smile right before he kissed her long and deep. “Ready for today’s lessons, it’s in dirty talk.” He said walking over to her bedroom door then stopped to look back at her.  
 “Wait I have some mail, from Kamet that I want to read.”  
 An odd look crossed Cobden’s face, a look that came and went as if his face could blink away moods like people blink their eyes.  
 “That’s great,” Cobden said. 
 Rose headed back to her room. Cobden grabbed the letter out of her hand. 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rose 
 I’ve killed a lot of men today but will be headed home in the morning. 
 So I’ll be home soon as tomorrow.  
 Stay safe 
 
 
   
 
 
 Kamet. 
 
 
   
 
 
 Smiling with joy Rosetta jumped up and down with excitement, he would be home by tomorrow night if this letter held true.  
 She would be able to finally please Kamet like she only could.  
 Turning to Cobden, Rosetta gave him a big kiss on the lips but stopped when he didn’t kiss back. His face was blank, but from the feeling, he gave off, she knew something was wrong. 
 It was a feeling Rosetta only knew from years of walking the streets as a child, danger.  
 And now Cobden was giving danger away like candy. 
 “Are you alright Cobden?” She asked slowly and carefully, trying hard not to set him off on a rampage of rage. Was he mad that he didn’t have more time to teach her or did he think she would not learn fast enough 
 “Aye, everything is fine, now let’s start.”  
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter  9 
 Chapter 9 
 
 
   
 
 
 Cobden couldn’t believe this, he had been having so much fun with Rose. more fun than he could remember having had with a woman in a long time.  
 Yet his selfish brother had to come along and roughen it. There was no way Cobden could make Rose leave Kamet, he had seen the love in her eyes, the need to be with his ‘brother’. It was madding knowing Kamet didn’t deserve her. She needed someone who could take her places, show her thing, have fun with here, something Kamet could never do. 
 Taking the rage that made his stomach knot and teeth ache. Cobden gave Rosetta another smile. They had just got done with another one of his ‘lesson’ and know he didn’t have much time to get her to leave town. “Rosetta, have you ever wanted to see the world?” Cobden asked as if he were just trying to start meaningless conversation. 
 She seems to stop and think hard about it, right before she answered with a simple Aye and a nod of her head. “Good, then you should come with me.” He said setting up in bed he put on another look of happiness even if the inside was begging her to come with him. 
 “I can’t,” Rosetta said looking away.  
 Not ready to take no for an answer Cobden rolled over on top of her, He gave a light kiss to her beautiful puffy lips. “Think of all the things I can do for you. The places we could go,” Another kiss, this one deeper than the last. 
 Putting her hands to his chest, Rosetta gently pushed. “You’re a great teacher Cobden maybe one day we’ll meet again.” 
 This was her good-bye, when Kamet came back it would be like Cobden was never there. Like he had never touched, licked, or bedded her.  
 Wait, what was he thinking, this was Kamet he was talking about. Whatever pedestal she was holding him on, she would soon find out it wasn’t mad for Kamet, Cobden just felt bad she didn’t see it yet. 
 But she would. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 10 
 Chapter 10 
 
 
   
 
 
 Kamet had to come back home first, it had been a need that he couldn’t stop or control. When he got to the door, Kamet was shocked to see it fly open.  
 In a beautiful light stood his sweet and innocent Rose . . . She looked . . . Different.  
 She had on a thin cotton rod, but no that was not what had changed, her eyes no longer sparkled with little girl delight, but now the fiery eyes of a woman who knew what she wanted and how to get it. 
 “Kamet your back,” Rosetta's eyes lit like stars in the night sky, as she jumped into his arms for a hug. Her face rubbed against his neck sending little shivers up his body, it took him back to the days in the alley when he use to hold her close to him, just for the pleasure of it. The hug was long and soul-deep. Making him kick aside the foolish old thoughts he had once had. His Rose would never change.  
 When Rosetta finally let go long enough to pull him into her house. . . their house. Kamet looked down at the food she had laid out, all of it was his favorite. Not needing much more than that, Kamet sat down and ate. Rosetta sat across from him eating here and there, but every now and then she would stop and look at him as if she was waiting for him to finish. 
 “Wait you have a little something on your lip. . . On the other side, no here let Me.” Reaching across the table, Rosetta rubbed her finger across his bottom lip.  
 At that moment a sizzling started in his body, and their gazes locked. His tongue came out then and licked her finger, then sucked it into his mouth, making Rosetta suck in a breath of shock.  
 Wow, what the hell was he doing, Kamet thought as he moved his face away from her finger . . . Her delectable finger.  
 As if nothing had happened Rosetta move out of her seat and stood up. “You smell like death and blood, I’ll go fix you a bath.” Before he could tell her there was no need, that he would be headed to the bar, so he could let out his needs, which was clearly too high to stay. But Rosetta was already gone. 
 Something was wrong, why was he so . . . nervus. 
 It was just Rose. 
 “Come, the bath is ready.” Rosetta said her voice soft as cherry pie, the kind she made him on his birthday. A day he normally hated was now (thanks to her), a day to look forward to.  
 Knowing he couldn’t keep her waiting for long Kamet walked into the bathing room. Taking off his clothing as he went.  
 Kamet eased into the hot water, the heat relaxing his body and making his eyes close. 
 War had made him paranoid. And his lack of a woman has made him overly sensitive.  
 But when he was here, with Rose, Kamet could let down his guard and let himself drift off to sleep. 
 As if from a dream soft fingers eased over his shoulders and down his chest. Slowly heating his body as they moved lower and lower until they touched the water. Making his think that this dream woman would touch his manhood. But as if to tease him the slender fingers moved back up into his neckline, making water slowly descended back down his chest and into the tub. This felt good, ‘real’ almost.  
 Even the light kisses to his neck and down to his shoulder blades, the feeling of a wet tongue running up his spine to the tip of his ear.  
 Kamet grow hard then, this dream was something he had never had before, one that begged to ‘give’ pleasure and Owe did he want it, this was just what he needed something . . . New.  
 Soft fingers once again moved down his chest, only this time they didn’t stop at the water, but went deeper until she was at the base of his manhood. He felt so ready to ram his-self into the hottest, wettest and tightest, thing he could find. Unable to hold back his grown any longer, Kamet let his lips release the sound like a climax. Only this was far from the end. “I want you Kamet.” 
 Kamet froze, not believing the voice that came from behind him. No, it couldn’t be his sweet  
  Rose . . . Yet here she was her voice nice and deep.  
 It was full of her sexual need. Her slender fingers gently moved on his manhood, making him hiss from the pleasure shooting up, his body and his mouth slowly opened. 
 Kamet shakes his head, what was he thinking . . . This was his Rosetta his sweet little Rose. He had sworn to protect her, to never let anything happen to her. But here he was thinking of how he could ‘bed’ her, take advantage of her. She must not know what she was doing to him that had to be it . . . Had to. 
 “Rose, you don’t know what you’re doing.” He said standing up now in the tub. He was out of breath and shaking from the need to touch her. Standing up turned out to be a bad idea, which Kamet found out a little too late.  
 Because what he found was Rosetta had on a thin gown and looking at his swollen manhood with longing in her eyes. Her lips were poking out for a kiss, even her nipples grow hard under her thin dress.  
 This was not right, he knew he shouldn’t want to take her . . . But he did, he knew he shouldn’t want to take that nipple into his mouth and suck them until she screamed. No, no hold her down and enter her so deep and hard that her eyes roll to the back of her head.  
 “No!” She was the sweetest of gifts not to be tainted with him or anybody. 
 “Aye, all I want to do is please you, give you all of Me.” Her hands were back on him again, rubbing and caressing him. She kissed the middle of his chest as if it was a gold coin. Heat filled him, regret slowly faded away as a new emotion, a new thought came to him. She wanted only to love him with her body, was that really so bad . . . Aye, it was she shouldn’t be feeling this way, ‘He’ shouldn’t be feeling this way. 
 Kamet’s breath came faster and deeper, uncontrollable in his lungs. His hands aching to grab her, to hold her, skin to skin. . .  
 Unable to stop himself any longer, Kamet had Rosetta pushed against him, her smooth skin up against his scared one. The smell of rainforest filled his nose, as he gripped her waist tighter. Then sliding his hand down her bottom just to see how round it was in his hand.  
 Rosetta’s lips opened in what could only be called a slow deep moan for more.  
 God, did he want to give it to her, give her satisfaction in every way.  
 “Kamet. . .” 
 His lips met hers in hot sin, taking and tasting everything she had to give. Yet afraid to give her everything.  
 In this one kiss, she opened herself to him completely. A rise of peace and a sense of belonging ate its way underneath his skin. This was something that couldn’t be compared to any others, it was special, unshakeable, it was Rosetta 
 No longer was he going to let thoughts affect action.  
 Kamet gathered Rose tighter into his arms, loving the way her legs pulled him into her warm embraces. Rosetta’s entire upper body melted into his as if it had always belonged there. Kamet needed them to become one, wanted it with all his being.  
 This . . . This right here, right now was how one started off making love. It was real and true, in every kiss and course they gave each other. Settling back on the edge of the tube, Kamet tucked Rosetta closer, so that she sat on his lap. Her dress began to rise showing that she had nothing underneath, just hot skin.  
 With all the power she had Rosetta dug her nails into his back, hoping he wouldn’t stop . . . praying that he could tame the burning desire that bloomed within her.  
 She was already so wet that he could feel the heat of it from outside her body. As her sweet body called out and his body answered Rosetta. Gently Rosetta whispered into his ear like melting chocolate in his watering mouth, “Yours.”  
 He snapped, snapped with a roar of power and need.  
 Rocking his body right into her tender sex. Rosetta gave a cry like moan as her hands ate at his back. Kamet stopped afraid he had hurt her in some way . . . was she not ready, was he too big.  
 “Did I hurt you?” He moved her upper body back so he could look into her face, but couldn’t bring himself to move from inside her. Not when it was so natural and right.  
 “No please don’t stop!” She gasped out, her head moving side to side as she asked him to keep going.  
 Something he would be happy to do. Taking her lips Kamet mad love to Rosetta like only two people who loved each other could, fighting his way through her soft pussy as it push him out then welcomed him back in.  
 The hot wet heat of her body sent waves of pleasure up his body, making him lightheaded. 
 More, she needed more from him, licking his neck Rosetta bit the bottom of his ear, making him groan. Tightening his hands on her hips Kamet moved harder inside her. As if he were trying to touch her very soul. Rosetta’s head fell back with ecstasy, the sensitive nerves dancing inside her body, as her muscles tightened and released him.  
 "Fuck, this is mine." 
 He thrust inside her wet pussy completely dominating her, demanding and controlling her every feeling of pleasure. Right now he held everything that was Rosetta in his arms, her heart, body and soul. Something she had thought she had given to him a long time ago, but only now knew it to be true, with all her being. 
 Rubbing her nipple Kamet rocked harder and deeper, trying to reach a place that not even he knew. Only knowing that when they got there it would be incredible. He moved inside her faster, moving both of them to that one point. His strokes became shorter, his hammering inside her and her low short moans in his ears slowed down. 
 They climaxed long and hard, her body collapsing into his arms like a soft doll, they shattered into a million little pieces. Kamet closed his eyes as he tried to stay on the ground, as he completely gave himself over to his ecstasy and just as will enjoying hers.  
 God, she was so beautiful when she came, her eyes glossed over, as she still stared into his. It was as if he had found everything that the world had to give. 
 Moving her head to rest against him. Kamet could hear her saying something against his chest. “I love you Kamet.” Kamet gasped for air as his chest grows tighter and a wave of vulnerability came over him.  
 He felt open to the world, as if someone—no not someone Rosetta, as if Rosetta could reach inside his chest and pull his heart right out. Taking her into his bedroom Kamet laid her on his bed.  
 The dress she had on was now ripped and wet from the tube, taking it off Kamet gaped at what he saw all over her body.  
 Scars, some by animals others from humans. Instantly Kamet remembered how she had begged for him to save her from the blood-hungry worries, and how he had turned away. His heart hurting, with a light easy motion, Kamet kissed every one of her scars, wishing he could take away every memory that came with them. Rosetta gave a slight moan as she arched into his every touch and kiss, but she was sleepy and they both needed to get some rest. wrapping himself around Rose's soft foam, Kamet drifted off to sleep. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 11 
 Chapter 11 
 
 
   
 
 
 Awaking in Kamet’s arms, made a feeling of peace and safety come over her.  
 A feeling that hadn't come over her since the time they had spent in the alley.  
 Getting out of the bed Rosetta headed to the kitchen and started to cook Kamet’s favorite meal. 
 As she begins putting the food on the table Kamet ran into the room, not stopping until he was in front of Rosetta. “You scared me.” He said kissing her hard on the lips, knocking the breath from her lungs. His hands moved around her waist pulling her closer. 
 “If we keep doing this the food will be cold.” Rosetta muttered against his lips not trying to really stop the kiss. Under his breath, Rosetta thought she heard him say, “damn the food.” Laughing lightly Rosetta pulled away and pushed Kamet to his chair so he could eat. Giving an even deeper laugh, Kamet took Rosetta in his arms and sat her on his lap. 
 “I’m not ready to let you go yet.” With her back close to his chest Kamet tucked his face in her neck, breathing her in. This was the greatest feeling that Rosetta had ever felt. Having the man she loved holding her like she was life itself. God knows he was her life, and if he would have died in that war Rosetta know she would have died too.  
 Sitting there feeding each other was like the sweetest of magic, it made her shiver and ache. It opened up her heart to a man who already had so much of her. Rosetta knew she loved Kamet that she wanted to spend every moment of their lives together.  
 “I have to go to work now.” Kamet didn’t say anything to this just lightly kissed her neck and held her even closer. Rosetta had no objection to this, loving this change in him. Loving this need he had to be clingy to her.  
 “Come back to me quickly.” He said letting her go, and she would come back to him every night and day they were together holding kissing making love together, Rosetta could only pray it wasn’t a dream. 
 ~~ 
 Five days later 
 Walking home from the bar, Rosetta spotted Cobden in the shadows of an alley. Smiling Rosetta walked over, her own bubbly air lighting her steps.  
 That is until she got closer and noticed something off about him. He looked a little dizzy as if he couldn’t keep his feet firmly on the ground. Rosetta moved onward not use to seeing him like this. He had always kept himself looking clean and nice. “Cobden, are you alright.”  
 His head tipped up a little at her voice. “Rose . . .?” His hand lifted to wave her over.  
 Thinking he was hurt Rosetta moved closer, until Cobden pulled her into the alley with him, he had her against the alley wall. “Rose you came back to me . . . I knew you would.” 
 “What no I-.” His lips were on hers, forcefully  stopping her from speaking. His hard hand held her in places as he tried to grind himself against her. Rosetta finally broke away, when he had to stop kissing her to throw up.  
 “God Cobden your drunk.” 
 Cobden didn’t reply just started rambling to himself about his brother sleeping with the woman he loved, how the last thing he'd heard about her was that she had killed herself. That it was all his damn brothers felt.  
 Rosetta could do nothing but stand there and hear him, knowing he most likely needed it.  
 “Whoever your brother is Cobden, I’m sure he deserves everything you think he does.”  
 Rosetta said hoping it would get him to relieve her quicker. 
 A big laugh escaped him then, making him look up at her. “You really believe that.” He asked his laughter dying down.  
 “Aye,” ,  
 Cobden walked away then he stopped talking as he disappeared deeper into the alleyway.  
 Knowing she couldn’t help him any more Rosetta walked home. Right in the middle of the bedroom was Kamet naked with the sexiest smile on his face. 
 “Come.” 
 
 
   
 
 
 This Feeling that came over Kamet possessing his every cell, was the scariest feeling that had ever came over him.  
 Cleaning Rosetta off Kamet gently, took her to her room and laid her on her bed. Knowing this would be the last time he would have her. Aye, he had said this to himself after the first time he had her, but she had kept drawing him in. Something in him just couldn’t stay away for too long, couldn’t go without touching her. That’s why Kamet had taken her this night, so that he could get it all out of his system and move on. It was better that way, for both of them and he knew she would see it someday. 
 But even with all that Kamet knew he had messed up the first time he had taken her. It wasn’t what was supposed to happen, not with Rosetta, she was like his little . . . Damn, he couldn’t even think of her like that anymore. Not with what they had just done on his mine, not when her words rang so clearly in his ears, the look on her face when she finally came in his arms. 
 Running his hand down his face Kamet walked out of the house, that seems so different, so unknown to him. Kamet took a deep breath before he walked to the bar. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 12 
 Chapter 12 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta wasn’t happy, wasn’t happy at all, after a night of mind-blowing sex, only to awake alone in her bedroom, Looking at the wall. Even though her heart had been darkened by this, it did not stop her from going to work at the town bar. Where surprise, surprise she found Kamet drinking with women all around him.  
 The asshole.  
 How she wished she could cut off their heads. Right before his eyes . . . No, she was a woman and women don’t cut off the heads of other women, no matter how bad they wanted to. The day went by fast, fueled by her ignoring him and him doing the same intern. She knew the others in the bar could see something was going on between them. That is until a drunk man pulled her into his lap with heavy arms. “So are ye finally up for grabs, sweet Rose.” 
 Before she could tell him to let her go, a big fist kissed the man’s face, making both of them fall back. Rose looked up in astonishment standing over her was Kamet, his face red with rage as he pulled her to her feet. “You will no longer work here.” He ordered as he moved both of them out of the bar. The hold on her hand was somewhat painful.  
 “But I like working at the bar,” Rosetta said trying to slow him down by leaning on her heels. What was going on, why was he, all of a sudden controlling to her when he usually just asked her. “Rose you will obey me on this a bar is no place for you.” 
 “Say who, you, I like working at the bar and I know how to handle myself.” She said dragging her feet even more.  
 “No, you don’t.” Kamet said done with trying to get her to walk and chucked her over his shoulder and walked back to their home. Outrage beyond belief, Rosetta hammered at his back. That is until an all too familiar voice stepped in. “Let her go Kamet .” 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 13 
 Chapter 13 
 
 
   
 
 
 There standing right before him was Kamet’s greatest enemy.  
 Cobden was standing across from him, sword in hand, a look in his eyes . . . Kamet knew that look. It was a look Kamet had on all too often. when it came to his brother. Now he was getting in the way of him and his woman, something he couldn’t allow. Letting Rose down softly, Kamet never took his eyes off Cobden. Knowing his brother would stab him in the back of Kamet ever gave him the chance.  
 “Cobden,” Kamet said his anger strong and determined.  
 “Been a long time hasn’t it brother.” Cobden smiled at him, the evilness in his eyes gleaming. Making Kamet wonder what Cobden had done this time?  
 No, no, no, don’t do this please.” Rosetta was trying to put herself in the middle of them, but Kamet couldn't put her in that kind of danger. 
 “Move Rosetta I don’t want you to get hurt, you’re already having a bad day already.” Cobden said obviously knowing what had happened in the bar earlier. 
 Kamet froze than wondering how the hell Cobden was worried about his woman. Something wasn’t right here something he wasn’t seeing. 
 “Yes but I can’t just let you two fight over something so small like that, you two are brothers in arms, you fight side by side at one time.” As the last words lifter her mouth both men paused. The air around them seem to change . . . Rage, rage, and anger were flying around them.  
 “What did you do Cobden?” Kamet asked softly, there was fear inside him now . . . Something was wrong . . . Everything seems wrong now. 
 “Only what you did to me ‘brother’.” The last word was said with so much hatred that Rosetta sucked in a breath of shock, her eyes wide as if she was surprised. She hadn’t seen anything earlier.  
 “You said you were trying to help me.” 
 “ I am . . . Helping you realize what a fool you were being for loving him, he will never love you like you need to be loved.” 
 Kamet said nothing just let the pieces fall into place. Rosetta took a step back her breath stopping in her lungs as realization hit her. “Who are you really, “she said. 
 “He is my brother and enemy, the one who did this to my face.” Kamet didn’t need to point it was already so clear. 
 “No . . . No that’s not how this goes, he said you were brother in arms, that you saved his life.” 
 Without looking Kamet knew she was close to tears. 
 “No Rosetta he was the one who almost took it.” Kamet’s voice was tired now, his sadness and anger seem to burn him alive. Yet he no longer felt like fighting, for some reason he felt like he had lost, that not only was he cut opened inside but he was empty . . . Sweet, sweet emptiness. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 14 
 Chapter 14 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta couldn't believe what she was hearing, he had lied to her, he had used her. How could she have been so stupid to think this man, who stood before her wasn’t trying to get revenge on his true brother? “You bastard, how could you?” 
 “How could I, how could I not Rose look at you, you deserve better than this greedy bastard.” 
 “No, no don’t you make this about ‘me’, this was never about me, this had all been about you and your revenge.” She rubbed her hand over her hair then. “Damn anyone who gets in your way, or who gets hurt.” Rosetta tried not to cry but she was, she couldn’t stop it, damn him. Why was it so hard to stop her chest from caving in on her, stop this sickness?  
 She had not only thought of him as kind and sweet but also as her friend.  
 Kamet opened his mouth and let out a bitter laugh. Making Rosetta go completely stiff as she turned back around. Before he even spoke Rosetta know what he was going to say,. “Well, you win Cobden . . . She’s all yours. I’m done fighting you; I’m done with all of this.” 
 Kamet walked away then, turning his back on her.  
 Rosetta sucked in a shocked breath before grabbing his arm. “Wait what . . . You just can’t give me away.”  
 “I just did . . . I should have known you were nothing but a whore.” With that he snatched his arm away from her and walked away. Only to have a sharp pain, make him stumble forward. Before hands walled on his back. 
 "I am no one's whore, not yours, or your brothers." Looking back Kamet found himself I more pain from the hot red of her wet cheeks. Then the wild hits she was cascading down his back. "I am a woman damn it, a woman who only willingly gave herself over to two men. One asshole and one laying asshole. And I'll be damned if I let you or anyone else judge me for that." 
 Fuck he shouldn't have said that. 
 "I may have let you tattoo your name on me but that doesn't mean you own me."  
 Even hearing it . . . her pain and anger, as she screamed at him Kamet walked away never once stopping to look back at the woman he left heartbroken and alone. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 15 
 Chapter 15 
 
 
   
 
 
 Cobden won, he had finally beaten his brother for good. . . 
 Why wasn’t he happy, why wasn’t his brother back walking away not filling him with joy. Maybe it was the sound of Rosetta crying. That was it, it had to be.  
 But Cobden knew she would get over it. Not like Kamet was worth anything, all he ever did was hurt people, and that’s all he would ever do. 
 Cobden didn’t know if he should say something, if he should hold her in his arms or if she would even let him get that close again. “Rose-.” 
 “No don’t.” She took deep breaths. “I-If I ever see your face again Cobden I’ll kill you.” When she looked back up at him with rage filled eyes. her need for revenge something he couldn’t be angry at her for. Not with the damage he had just done to her. So Cobden did the only thing he could he lift her. 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 16 
 Chapter 16 
 
 
   
 
 
 Three weeks later 
 Kamet hated women, he hated his brother and most of all he hated himself. Kamet took another wing of his ale, not caring if his eyes were bloodshot, or that his hair was covering his face. He hated pretty boys too, every time he saw them he bet them ugly.  
 Yes, those were the things he hated. . .  
 Rosetta. 
 Damn it, no she was not to be thought about.  
 Her tear filled face should not hunt his mind, neither should her words. If anything her sorrow should fill him with pride.  
 But it didn’t.  
 It only immersed him deeper into his own regrets. 
 What right did he have to say that to her? His brother had been right, he didn't deserve her. if anything his brother was sweeping her off her feet. Showing her what a man, not broken by his own insecurities was capable of.  
  Why. . .Why did he want to beg for her forgiveness?  
 “Get lost whore.” He couldn’t believe he had said that to her, pushed her away before she could choose his brother.  
 Yes, simple self preservation, but it didn't stop the ache in his chest at seeing the look of pain and betrayal that had so darkly clouded her face.  
 She hadn’t come back then and he had never looked for her . . . So stupid. 
 “Give me another.” Kamet slurred as he finished another ale. Number ten give or take three. 
 “Kamet we need to talk.” Cobden voice said from beside Kamet. 
  Instant rage erupted into Kamet before he could even think, Kamet smashed his glass into Cobden’s face knocking him off his feet. blood was everywhere, from his hand to Cobden’s face. 
 But Kamet didn’t care, not now, not ever. Kamet jumped up from his seat and on to his brother punching and choking him. Kamet was only half aware of his brother doing the same to him, the red hisses of pain meant nothing to him. Only the need to kill, destroy and mutilate the man who fucked up his life.  
 “Why, out of everything . . . did you have to take her, why.” Kamet smashed Cobden head into the floor as he spoke. “You could have any woman, yet you decide to take the one I love.” 
 Cobden sent Kamet rolling off him and proceeded to bash Kamet head into the floor.  
 “Why! You did the same thing to me . . . You took what I loved and you made her kill herself.” Kamet hit Cobden with an uppercut, knocking him off, but Cobden still didn’t give. “You didn’t even have the balls to tell me.” 
 Kamet kicked Cobden off, making Cobden hit his head on the bar table. They both got to their feet waiting for the other to act.  
 When neither did Kamet was the first to grab a chair and table to sit in. “I didn’t tell you, because it had been a mistake.” 
 Breathing hard Cobden sat across from Kamet. “How the hell could Sleeping with the woman I loved and not telling me, be a mistake? God Kamet you hated me since we’re children.” 
 “As true as that maybe, I liked Amylin . . . She had always been nice to me even when I was not to her, and I would never do anything to hurt her.” Kamet didn’t look at Cobden than. 
 “I don’t understand, why did she run, why had she walked into your room!” 
 Taking a deep breath himself, Kamet got ready to tell his brother how it all happened. “That night father had just told you that they were sending you off to train in a war camp, I had been pissed and I wanted to fight too. I wanted to show them that I was just as strong. But again they deprived me of what I wanted.”  
 “Do you honestly think I wanted to go? That I wanted to leave the woman I loved and wanted to marry someday.” Cobden gave Kamet a ‘you just don’t get it’ look. “Everything I did was for you. Or rather everything they made me do, and do you want to know why because, as a baby you were always sick, the frugal one, the one mom and dad worried over the most. So much so, that they made their other son, who they saw as stronger vow to take care of ‘you’.” Cobden shook his head. 
 “I didn’t know that Cobden, I just thought it was another thing you got and I didn’t . . .” Kamet took a deep breath then. “. . . Anyway later on that night, I did what I thought would prove my strength, I got drunk off ale in my room. As I laid there in half sleep she came in . . . Calling me Cobden saying how happy she was that we were going to have a baby.” Kamet stopped letting his words sink in.  
 Cobden sat there frozen, his skin growing pale. “Are you telling me she thought you were me that night . . . and that you got her with child?” 
 “No you fool, she was already with child when she came into my room that night, your child. She thought I was you and I thought it was a wet dream, it was only until we had sex that she had seen my face enough to know it was me.” A sad smile hit Kamet’s lips. “She had been so pissed at me. She cried about how you would never believe it was your child now. So I told her if you didn’t know then everything would be fine . . . She had said nothing and left.” 
 Kamet had hated himself for that night, sure he had feelings for Amylin back then. But he knew she loved Cobden, and no matter how much he hated his brother he would have never done anything to hurt her on purpose. . . Unlike this bastard. 
 “Wait . . .she  killed herself because she thought I wouldn't believe her?” Kanet could hear the pain in his brother's voice then.  
 "I forgot I told you that lie. . .no . . . no, she didn't kill herself." Kamet smile at his brother then. “Amylin is a very strong woman. She has moved on. Has a husband and lives in the village up the river from here.” 
 Cobden said nothing to that, just sat there and looked at his brother. A dance of hot rage at his brothers lie and tearful joy at the possibility of her and their child being alive, played over his face in a quarter of an instant.“Is . . . is she happy?” 
 “That’s something you’ll have to find out yourself.” Again Cobden said nothing in reply. He couldn’t, not when he had no right to know.  
 “So now that we talked I have a drink waiting for me.” Kamet got to his feet ready to drown his sorrows.  
 “You know brother the sad part about it all is I would have believed her about that night . . .” He gave a slight laugh. “Every day I thought about why I didn't try to make things work with her. Every day I thought it was too late. I was too caught up in my sorrows. That it was easy to blame you, so I wouldn't have to blame myself." 
 Spitting blood to the ground Cobden pulled a shot from a random empty table before speaking again. I wonder how long it will take you to suck it up and find Rose . . . When she’s just like Amylin happy without you or happier with you?” Cobden straightened himself out and headed for the door. “Last I heard she was headed out of town. . .Good luck brother.” 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 17 
 Chapter 17 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta was leaving. 
 This place just brought back too many bad memories. Lucky for Rosetta the money she had saved up from the bars was enough to get her out of town. 
 Not enough to get her around the world yet but it was a start. But for now, she would have to trust this man she was riding with, he seems nice enough.  
 Setting in the carriage Rosetta put a smile on her face. Knowing this was not the end for her adventure. Yes, her heart hurt but no matter how bad her heart hurt, she would move forward with a smile. Turning her head to look out at the open road ahead. It looked bumpy and filled with potholes but it was her road, and she would enjoy the beautiful scenery. 
 Rosetta let out a breath of surprise as another horse rushed by. Making the carriage come to a quick stop. 
 Rosetta sucked in another breath, good lord were they being robbed. What would they do when they found out she had no money to give? 
 The heavy sound of boots hitting ground made her jump. Rosetta moved as far from the door as she could, her fear taking over. That is until the door opened to show Kamet. Relief and anger filled her all at once. “What are you doing?” 
 “What I should have done in the first place.” 
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 Chapter 18 
 Chapter 18 
 
 
   
 
 
 (An hour later) 
 “Damn it Kamet what in the hell do you think you’re doing?” Rosetta screamed at Kamet as he came into their home after riding her back to little to no words. Rosetta bet at his back, called him names and still nothing stopped him. As he tied her to the bed hands and feet. Then he started to kiss her.  
 “Good lord Kamet, are you drunk?”  
 “Aye and no, I’ll never let you go, not until I forgive you.” Kamet said moving away just to take his clothing off, Kamet climbed slowly into the bed with her. Rosetta had never seen anything sexier than this big worrier easing his way up her body. It gave her shivers and it made her heart quicken.  
 Damn it all she didn’t want him not after what he had said. 
 “And what if, I don’t want your forgiveness.” Kamet kissed his way up her body not caring she still had a dress on. He kissed his way up her body until he got to her lips. “You want my forgiveness just as I want yours. We love each other too much not to.”  
 His face was in her neck, his breath gently blowing against her hair, making her arch her back just to get closer to him. Kamet’s body slowly becoming relaxed now. It wasn’t until a snore hit her ears, that she realized he had fallen asleep on top of her. 
 "You are so fucking stupid." 
 Rosetta found that sleeping with the heat of Kamet’s body against hers was the most natural thing she could ever do. Something he had deprived her of last time.  
 When she finally awoke Rosetta found Kamet pacing in front of the bed. His hair a mess from him running his hand through it. He was even talking to himself, not yet realizing that she was up watching him do so. 
 “What did I do, what did I do, remember damn it?” Kamet looked back at the bed and froze when he saw Rosetta looking back at him. “Rose . . . I’m so—sorry for last night. If I hurt you in any way—?”  
 “If you mean falling asleep on me naked then you’re forgiven as long as you let me go." She said lifting one finger.  
 "If you mean stopping me from leaving town after I already gave the man my money. Then pay me back." Another left of her finger, though this time her face seem to grow dark.  
 "But if you’re talking about calling me a whore, then you can just go to hell you bastard.” Rosetta’s eyes were shooting fire at him.  
 “Rose I only said that so you would hurt like I was hurting, I don’t really think you were a whore Rose, I could never think that of you.”  
 Rosetta raised her chin then her eyes showing strength he never knew she had. “Well, it worked! Are you happy now? Did you need to know before I left?” 
 “No,” Kamet said rubbing his head as he looked up at the heavens as if they could give him the answers. “I can’t let you go Rose . . . I love you too much for that.”  
 “Stop Kamet, you . . . You won, ok you don't have to string me along anymore.”  
 Kamet moved closer to her bed then untied one of her hands and pushed it to his chest. Rosetta could feel his heart racing beneath her fingertips. “But I do love you and I will spin every day of our lives showing you, Rose just let me.”  
 “You can’t say that, not after what you called me. . .not after how you made me feel." Rosetta was on the verge of tears. Her hands shaking as she turned her head away.  
 Only to have his fingers turn her face so she could look deep into his eyes. 
 “Baby I know I hurt you, and I will spend every day of my life trying to make it up to you. I will do anything to get you back.” Tears slowly slid down her face now, at his words. Her heart ached with longing and disbelief. Kamet kissed her tears away.  
 “No, I'm tired of a possessive and controlling man.”  
 His face slowly descended to hers not stopping until his lips touch hers with soft gentle need. “Then I will stop being controlling, but when it comes to possessiveness I'm sorry but that is going to take some time. But for you, I will do anything and everything I can, if it means you will stay.” 
 Kamet slowly took her lips in possessive need. Heating her body and making her come alive. “If you ever belittle me again . . . then I'm leaving and you have to promise me you will never get in my way again.” 
 “Ok, I do that, even now. If you want me to untie you just say 'I don't like this game and I let you go.' " Kamet stopped and waited for her to say the words. When she didn't Kamet continued.  
 “I don't need to know the whole story, I just need to know . . . do you love my brother . . .do you want me to be more like him?” His face moved away from hers then. She knew that Kamet needed to look into her eyes, knew that was the only way he would truly know if what she said was the truth.  
 “Do I want you to lie to me . . . to use me for revenge . . . no, you big dummy. Kamet I have loved you since the days we were in that alleyway. But when I told you of my past you stopped looking at me like I was a woman. You started looking at me more like a little sister, and I wanted to be, so much more than that.” Rosetta rubbed her face on the back of his cheek as she continued. “Then a man came, telling me that you would never look at me like a little girl again, if I knew how to give you pleasure. . . for some it may have been out of the question but for me.” Tears started forming in her eyes shielding Kamet’s face from her vision. “I would do anything to have you Kamet.” 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 Chapter 19 
   
 Chapter 19 
 
 
   
 
 
 Rosetta took his breath away, knowing every word she spoke to be true. He could feel it in his heart and soul. Knowing what her father had done to her, Kamet had wanted her to feel comfortable around him. To have no fear that he would hurt her in any way.  
 But he had. 
 One of her fingers moved across his bottom lip, making them both smile.  
 “I want you to forget all of that. Because I'm going to teach you how to please Me.” With that said Kamet tied Rosetta back to the bed. Her eyes grow wide with astonishment as she looked up at him. With quick fingers Kamet ripped Rosetta dress open, making her cry out in surprise.  
 “Let’s start with how to kiss me.” He said his lips lightly touching hers. 
 “But I already know how to kiss you.” She moaned against his mouth, and then bit his lower lip, licking and sucking on it as if she were saying sorry. Kamet grown long and hard, moving his face away, so he could get control. But Rosetta followed with a moan of pleasure, that made her bite his lip again, surprising him by making his body vibrate with excitement. His big hands slid across her belly. Not able to hold his-self back any longer Kamet kissed her deeper, hotter, making everything more intense. 
 Gripping her breast Kamet lifts himself on to her, yet not letting his body completely touch hers. “Tell me what you want me to do to you baby, tell me your pleasure.” 
 Sucking in a deep breath and letting out a moan, Rosetta tried to think of something to say, but nothing came to her. 
 “Come on baby say something.” 
 “I don’t know what to say.” 
 Kamet stopped then as he thought about what he should do. His breath across her soft skin Kamet said. “Fine, it looks like we’re going to work on being submissive. So you’re going to do everything that I say all right.” His tongue licked at her neck making her wet and aching. She could feel Kamet smiling against her skin now, knowing he had her under his full control. 
 “It’s all about trust, you have to be able to trust that your man will give you pleasure, in the process of taking his own.” Not that Kamet did that with all his lovers, but for Rose, he would do it over and over again.  
 With dark brown eyes, that looked deep inside him, Rose nodded her head. Kamet knew he had to hide the smile that so badly wanted to work its way to the suffuse. 
 “You ready to learn how to give your man pleasure.” He said, moving his hand on her beautiful face, watching how her face lit up with joy at his words. Man he loved this woman! 
 “First I like to play with my woman make sure she ready for me.” Kamet kissed his name on her hot flesh. The first time he had seen it on her had angered him, but now he loved it, loved that everyone would know that she was his and no others. Kamet’s tongue moved down to her nipples, and his hand keeps playing with her breast. Licking and sucking on her now heavy breast Kamet tried not to get too rough with her, at least not yet.  
 “Tell me how you want it baby hard or soft, just say it.” Taking his hair into her hand Rosetta pushed him closer. Kamet took that as a yes to going hard, biting her nipple Kamet took his free hand and pushed it inside her. Kamet rumbles in the back of his throat, when he found her wet heat welcoming him in.  
 Moving up her body until his dick was in her face, Kamet smiled down at her, as he rubbed his self in front of her. Rosetta licked her lips hungrily, her eyes on him, as she waits for him to give the order. Kamet couldn’t help how manly he felt then, usually, the women just take him in but here Rose was waiting for him to say when. 
 “Take me into your mouth.” He said running his fingers through her hair, letting him see her puffy lips and her pink tongue come out and lick the head right before devouring him. Shock waves of pleasure filled his brain, her hot wet mouth trying to suck every last bit of him into her. With every movement of her head, tightening of her lips and movement of her tongue, Light shot into his vision, his balls grow tight and heavy ready to explode. 
 “Stop,” Kamet had somehow been able to pull out of her hot mouth, but not before she licked off the pre-come. This woman! How had he stopped himself from taking her for so long, too long? 
 “Have I told you how much I loved your body yet?”  
 “I think so, but I’m not sure.” Rosetta teased, as she licked her lips once again loving the taste of him on her tongue. Watching as he slowly moved down her body, only stopping when he was on his knees at the end of the bed and the only reason she knew that was because she was looking at him, as his eyes glowed with lust and need. 
 “Open your legs wider . . . Aye like that, baby you have such a pretty opening, made for me, only me.” 
 Rosetta’s breath grows hard and deep as if she had just come from a run. The sound of her heart played heavily in her ears, Kamet’s cool breath brushed past her wet heat, making her shiver and bit her lip. 
 Do it, do it damn you. Rosetta wanted so badly to say but held herself back. This was not her game, this was Kamet and she would obey him, at least until it was her turn to play. 
 Kamet’s tongue eased out and slid across her wet heat making it flexes, as she tried to stop herself from erupting too soon. Rosetta moaned low and hard, as he licked her harder, making wave after wave of pleasure push through her body. Kamet added two of his finger’s pushing it in deep then out taking his head away so he could look at the pleasure play on her face. Well, he nibbled and kissed at her clit, Rose shoved his head back to her core needing him more than ever. 
 “Please, Kamet make love to me now.” She cried out no longer able to control herself, her head fell back as her legs began to shake and her toes started to curl. Kamet started a little longer before he quickly moved up her body.  
 His lips came back to hers taking and giving pleasure like nothing he had ever had before. He entered her hard and fast not stopping until he could go no further, her hot heat welcoming and pushing at him. 
 Rosetta’s back arched with the intensity of her pleasure her hands digging into his shoulders, just so she could stay grounded. 
 “You feel so good . . . right, right.” Kamet took strong short strokes that left her in a breathless moan. Making her wonder how she ever went without this man’s touch, the touch of the man she loved. Rosetta could feel her inner muscles tightening around him, the hard pleasure rocking through her with every stroke he took. Higher and higher Kamet took her into ecstasy; the unforgiving sensation of the body.  
 “Mine” 
 Not able to take his time Kamet pushed and pulled, in and out of her like a mad man, loving every little sound of pleasure she made. Her sweet moans were enough to get drunk off of, deep and full, she made Kamet want more, want to give her more. Kamet was so close to coming he could feel his balls tighten, he could even feel Rosetta’s walls squeezing at his cock, until she gave her last scream, a scream of satisfaction and release. Kamet let go then no longer holding his-self back from his own release.  
 Kamet kissed her face, her neck and her chest running his tongue over the tattoo of his name loving it all the more, he knew then that he would get her name on his chest as well.  
 “I love you, Rose.” 
 “And I love you Kamet.” 
 
 
 Text: Ladydelight All rights reserved. Publication Date: December 9th 2020 https://www.bookrix.com/-ladydeligh