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Rescued.

Chapter 10.

Bella's POV.

I sat on my bed with my laptop on my lap, typing away furiously trying to catch up on the work I had left undone, Nessie was sleeping peacefully by my side, but my thoughts kept drifting back to Edward, and how it felt when I had kissed him, how he'd reacted, how my body reacted to feeling his cock hard and pulsing under my hand, I felt my body clenching at the mere memory of it. Why was I torturing myself this way? Even if he did feel the same way, even if he did feel for me the way I felt for him, nothing could come of it, I had promised myself to help him, but what I really should be doing is distancing myself, but even the idea of it hurt, leaving on Sunday was going to kill me.

I did my utmost to concentrate after that, and get most of my work done, Some time later I caught movement in my periphery and looked at the time on my laptop, it was half past two in the morning. I looked up to see Edward leaning deliciously against the door frame, urgh, he had no idea how much just standing there was turning me on, instantly my mind was back on how he felt and once again my damn cheeks had to light up and tell the world what I was thinking about.

"Can't sleep?" he asked, walking in and closing the door behind him, ho... ly he... ll! He was wearing sleep pants that hung low, like very low on his hips and nothing else, his chest, abs and hip bones on full display for me, he was trying to kill me, I was almost ready for cardiac arrest, damn that man was built, and so, so hot, I almost chewed off my tongue in a effort not to moan out loud.

"I... um... mmmm work, finish, needed mmmm to." I muttered then dropped my chin to my chest, shaking my head at my stupidity, trying to clear it. God damn don't look at him. But I couldn't help myself, I looked up biting hard into my lip as I did, and the bastard was smirking at me.

"Surely you could do that in the morning." he suggested, but continued to smirk, I squirmed where I sat as my inside clenched and my panties became increasingly moist and uncomfortable.

"Will have more to do by then." I managed to say but only because I closed my eyes to speak. "What are you doing up at this time?" I asked, then gasped, whimpered and moaned all at the same time when I felt his hand on my face, I hadn't realised he had moved so close.

"I couldn't sleep, so I got up and for some reason my feet brought me here. Plus I really need to talk to you." he said, so I closed the document I was working on and shut down my laptop, putting it down on the bedside table, work didn't matter, my brain couldn't function with him in the room anyway.

"What did you want to talk about?" I asked, feeling a little anxious all of a sudden.

"May I?" he asked.

"What?" I asked alarmed when he pointed at my lap.

He rolled his eyes at me, "Just shove over a bit." he said lifting the covers to climb into bed next to me. Holy hell he was so close, and I was only on boy shorts and a tank top, and he was half naked, its a wonder I wasn't drooling. I couldn't believe that I had only thought of him as very attractive, the man was actually beyond gorgeous, no wonder everywhere we went women just fell at his feet, I almost chuckled when I remembered telling the cashier at the grocery store not to believe a word he said, because he was totally gay, her moan of disappointment had put a huge smile on my face. Hey what can I say, she was pretty and eye fucking him, or at least trying to, I don't think he even looked at her once. I was just trying to ease her rejection... honest. Who was I trying to kid, I wanted to rip Lauren's head off when she touched him.

Edward made himself comfortable pulling me against him so that we were lying face to face. "Now you can start by telling me about your life in Seattle." he said quietly, his eyes burning into mine. It took everything in me to not keep looking down at his chest, if his eyes had not been so deep and expressive, I'd never have been able to stop myself looking.

"Okay, what do you want to know?"

"Everything." he said then smirked at my exasperated expression.

"Like what? Exactly."

"Well start with when you left Forks." he suggested.

"You're crazy." I told him and he just stared into my eyes waiting for me to start. I sighed. "Fine." I said and watched the grin spread across his face. "I graduated a year early, came home to... well you know what, I packed and left, drove to Seattle, slept in my truck over night."

"What the?" Edward went to interrupt but I put my hand over his mouth to stop him, he kissed my hand then moved it, placing it over his heart and holding it there, making it hard to remember where I was. I could feel the few hairs on his chest under my fingertips, and I so wanted to move my fingers through them.

"The following day I went to get breakfast at a tiny bakery, I got talking to the owner and by that afternoon, she gave me a job and the use of the small apartment upstairs. I worked full time until I started my course work, then I just worked when I could. I studied hard and majored in English with a minor in business studies and creative writing. I got my masters in two years. I helped Angela out when she started her business, and moved into a bigger apartment, though I still work at the bakery most Saturdays. I started writing my first novel, but I stayed on as Angela's PA so I could afford the rent on my new apartment... That's it." I said, when he lay there quietly waiting for more.

"What do you mean that's it? What about friends? Boyfriends?" he asked, making me blush.

"I spent most of my time either writing, working or studying, I go out on occasion with Angela and her friends, or when Alice comes to see me." I said.

"And... boyfriends?" he asked.

"I had one once... I believe you've met him, names Jake, do you really think I could allow myself to be hurt like that again?" I said, I felt a pain in my chest, I wasn't overly sure why, maybe it was the fact that I had seen Jake today, though I didn't believe that was why, I didn't want to think that it was because I had never experienced real love, and despite what had happened with Jake, I still felt some sort of need to be loved.

Edward wrapped his arms around me hugging me, and kissed the top of my head, "You won't feel that way forever Bella, you deserved to be loved by someone who will worship the ground you walk on." he said breathing into my hair, he made me feel, just for this moment that maybe that was possible for me. "Would you mind if I told you my story now?" he asked.

"Of course, please I'd love to hear more about you." I said and I felt him smile as he nuzzled in my hair.

"Okay, well growing up as part of twins, I was never alone, at least not in the sense of having anyone else with me. But Masen was always brave and confident, and I was the complete opposite. The thing is, that never changed, all through high school I couldn't speak to girls, and when I did I was never brave enough to do more than kiss them. Masen on the other hand, slept with most of them by the time he was sixteen, then he pretended to be me and slept with them all again, he never dated them, just used them and then dumped them. That was when he started getting caught by the police, being parked somewhere he shouldn't, so because everyone already knew he was the bad boy, well he told the police he was me. So I ended up getting the reputation for being the ladies man.

"So they all think..." I started to say, looking for clarification.

"The girls all think I'm sexy, hot and confident, and they want a piece of the would be doctor." he finished for me.

"Well I guess that explains why you couldn't talk to them earlier." I said.

"Believe me, if you hadn't saved me from Lauren, I'd probably have ran out of there screaming." he said making me laugh, my breath blowing across his chest as my face was pressed against him. "The thing is when all this was going on, well Rose was sleeping her own way through all the guys in school, and once she had kissed me, well she said I tasted different to Masen, and well she convinced, coerced, persuaded me to sleep with her." he said nervously.

"Are you trying to say she raped you?" I asked.

"No... no I.. uh this is difficult to explain. I just meant, I did it, but I only did it so I wouldn't be the stupid virgin boy, its just that... it didn't mean anything, and I... well its not like I enjoyed it that much and it was over so fast it was just embarrassing." he admitted.

I lifted my head and I could see the emotion on his face, I just didn't understand it. "I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say." I admitted.

"Okay, I'm sorry I don't know how to explain, you are the first, only person I have ever admitted this stuff to, and I don't really know how to explain, Anyway, as I said Rose's philosophy was, how would she know who her match was unless she'd tried everyone. Obviously I wasn't her 'the one,' but she was always protective of me after that, like keeping girls away, I mean it was like... she didn't want me, but she didn't want anyone else to have me either." he said.

"What so she was keeping you as a fall back if no one else worked out or something?" I asked.

"I'd never really thought of it like that, but something like that I suppose." he said. "It was never really a problem until I started seeing Tanya seriously in college, when Rose met her she?" he said but rudely I cut him off.

"Rose was with you in college?" I asked, had she stayed that close to him?

"Oh god no, sorry I should explain better... sorry, well when I said Rose slept with all the guys, I meant all, not just Masen, but Jasper too, then she met my cousin Emmett, and they have been together ever since, Emmett's parents died while he was in college and now he lives with us here... with Rose, I bought Tanya home to meet my family and Rose tried to warn her off, even though she's with Emmett now. I realise now that the warning she gave me about Tanya being a gold digger was actually true, but..." he stopped.

"But?" I asked, I looked into his worried eyes, I lifted my hand to try and stroke away the frown between his eyebrows. "What is it?" I asked. He sighed and lent his forehead to mine.

"At some point this week she is going to catch up with you and..."

"And what Edward, you think she's going to frighten me off?" I asked trying to not giggle at his serious face.

"Exactly." he said.

"I'm supposed to be here for work, I don't really have any other excuse to be here, so if she upsets me, she upsets me and I go back to the Webber's, end of..." I said.

"You are here as my guest, I want you to be here." he said.

"Exactly, its not like I'm staying her as your girlfriend or anything, I'm not planing on spending the next four days trying to steal you away from her, so I don't see why you think she'd have a problem." I told him.

"Probably because you are the only one who doesn't realize there is one." he muttered, or at least it was something like that, he pulled me back against his chest, he didn't speak again and it wasn't long before the days exhausting events caught up with me and I fell to sleep in his embrace, his final words running on a constant loop through my head.

A/N Hope you enjoyed that ;) Another chapter coming your way tomorrow :*