I've never felt such a rage in my entire life seeing the disgusting man about to hurt Rosie. Seeing her in that scared vulnerable state made my heart ache painfully within my rib cage.

I knew my men would question me on my random and sudden outburst, but in that moment Rosie was all I could think about. An overwhelming protective urge took over my body like a powerful drug making me blind with anger.

Storming out to my car, I opened up the boot and grabbed my first aid kit sighing loudly in defeat.

What am I doing? She's got a hold on me that I can't turn down or ignore.

Slamming the boot shut, I locked my car and headed inside to tend to the woman who had captivated me from the first glance. I knew after this, Lucy would not be leaving me alone any time soon.

As I re-entered the cafe my eyes fell to Lucy and Rosie who were chattering away and laughing about something. Lucy's eyes fell to mine and smiled wildly at me.

"What is going on here? Rosie get back to work". A woman dressed in a suit stormed over to Rosie and my sister stopping before them with her hands on her hips. Judging from her displeasing gaze on Rosie, I'd imagine that was her boss. Lucy stood up and puffed up her chest ready to let loose at this woman.

Good god she needs a leash.

"Hello ma'am, my name is Dean Gray" I interjected before my foolish sister could speak.

The woman's face paled slightly as she realised who she was dealing with.

"The Dean Gray?".

"Hmm. Now Rosie here was attacked by a man who I've kicked out. You are to dismiss Rosie for the rest of her shift and pay her for the whole shift too. Am I clear?".

"Y-Yes, Understood". The woman mumbled a goodbye and hurried off to the back.

"You didn't need to do that Dean? It's only a cut" Rosie whispered softly but I shook my head silencing her straight away.

"If not treated properly Rosie, it could get infected and you could die" Lucy muttered out in a serious tone.

Lucy started to tie her hair up and grabbed everything out of my hand. I watched completely flabbergasted as she felt Rosie's head before checking her vision forcing Rosie to tell her how many fingers she was holding up. I tried to stop her, but Lucy slapped my hand away and started to assess the small cut.

"Lucy, get out the way, you're suffocating her" I growled out noticing Rosie's slightly uncomfortable expression.

"Well excuuuuuuuse me for caring. Besides, I watch Chicago Med, I think I know what I'm doing. As for you, you spend your free time watching fail videos on YouTube. So get out the way and let the real expert help".

God give me strength.

Lucy has been doing my head in ever since she was 3 years old. She was a little madam with an attitude. But I loved her with everything I had.

"I'll buy you ice cream" I tried to bargain with Lucy, desperate to get her annoying butt out of the way, but she shook her head and carried on.

"You can't persuade me"-

"I'll buy you McDonald's! Anything you want".

Lucy instantly stopped what she was doing and gave me a wicked smirk.

"Don't worry Rosie, Dean will take over. As well as watching fail videos, he also likes watching cute kitten videos, try not to laugh videos and first aid clips. You'll be fine. Sorry, priorities" Lucy giggled and to my relief, Rosie laughed with her.

"I'd be the same. Thank you Lucy" she muttered back with a beautiful smile. She was literally breathtaking. I had only seen her broken, but I was glad to have saved her to help her see that there's some good in the world. Lucy hugged Rosie tightly before running off.

"Sorry about her. She can be a little overwhelming at times".

"It's ok. It's nice to have someone care" she whispered back keeping her eyes fixed on the ground.

Grabbing the packet of alcoholic wipes I carefully dabbed around the small cut after ensuring there were no shards of china inside the wound. She winced slightly as I made sure to kill off all the bacteria around the wound before I was to wrap it up.

Unwrapping a fresh bandage, I gripped her hand gently and wrapped the bandage tightly around the cut.

"Does that feel okay?".

Rosie nodded slowly with a small smile on her face.

Oh hell, she's messing with my feelings.

"Thank you. I should get back to work now"-

Rosie went to stand up, but before she could I gripped her by her upper arm and pulled her flushed up against my chest.

"If you didn't hear clearly, your boss let you have the rest of the day off. So go home, put your feet up and relax". She was about to protest when I simply shook my head letting her know that I was not listening.

Looking to my left, I frowned realising that Lucy was holding up her phone taking pictures of us with a huge grin on her face.

She sighed in defeat and nodded shyly refusing me another glance into those beautiful green eyes of hers. Reluctantly letting go of her hand I watched as she walked off towards the kitchen, but to my surprise Lucy chased after her.

Packing away the contents of the first aid box I watched as Lucy whispered something to Rosie and handed her a small piece of paper.

What are you up to?

"Er, Boss?".

Fuck I forgot about them.

Spinning round to my men I noticed they had all finished their food and stared at me expectantly.

"Rosie wait". I ran after Rosie completely forgetting that we had not yet paid the bill of the food.

"Yes?"

"Sorry we forgot to pay for the food. How much does it all come to?".

Rosie hurried around to the till and typed in a sequence of numbers.

"Erm, that comes to £55.45 Sir". Pulling out my card, I pushed it into the card machine and typed in my pin before waiting for the payment to go through.

"Okay, that's all gone through. Thank you. Hope you enjoyed the food". I swiftly removed my card from the card machine and put it back in my wallet.

"It was lovely thank you. And this, this is for you". I opened up my wallet and handed Rosie a £50 note.

"I can't accept this, that's too much". She adorably tried pushing the money away, but she didn't stand a chance.

Grabbing her hand I gently placed the £50 note in her hand and closed her hand shut with the money inside.

"You're welcome Rosie".

Smirking at her, I slyly winked at her before heading over to my men who were now stood outside the cafe waiting for an agenda of the rest of the day.

I watched as Dean walked away to his large group of friends and directed them to each of their cars before turning to me and gesturing for me to hurry up.

I held up my hands in reassurance and turned round to Rosie who was packing up her items.

"Heyyyy, Rosie".

Come on this plan has got to work.

"Yeah?" She muttered nervously.

"So I was wondering tonight if you'd like to go out for ice cream with me?"

"Umm, sure. Where and when?".

"Do you know where the rose garden is in the LittlePort Park?" I crossed my fingers behind my back in hopes I would be able to convince her to come.

"Oh yeah, I love that spot".

Success.

"Okay. Meet me on the there at 6pm. Ok?".

"Okay". See you later Lucy". She waved goodbye to me before turning around and grabbing her stuff.

Goodbye Rosie and no, it won't be me you're seeing tonight.