Headed for the kitchen thinking of different ways I could tell him what happened, without telling him everything. I searched the kitchen for all the ingredients I was going to need. Once the meatloaf was mixed, I put it in the oven.

As soon as I cleaned up the mess, put everything away, and washed my hands. I turned around to find Edward was standing in the kitchen. I had no idea how long he was there, but he looked awed by me.

"You move very gracefully around the kitchen," he said as I walked to him.

"I have been cooking my own food for years, I know a thing or two," I wrapped my arms around his waist and lay my head on his chest. He was my new security, my comfort, and I loved that.

"For years?"

"Yeah, my mother never made me anything but coffee and toast," I said as he rubbed my back.

"Well, I'm here to take care of you now," he told me, lifting my chin upward. He smiled at me before our lips met. Everything I felt that day melted away with one little kiss. He had already made my day so much better. I thought it was too soon, but I really did love him. Or maybe I loved the idea of love so much that I was going to take whatever I could get.

"I'm pretty sure I'm taking care of you as well," I said as he softly kissed my lips.

"How about we just take care of each other," he offered as I nodded in agreement. "Now, since we are in agreement, I have a problem that needs to be taken care of," he said pulling down his shorts, allowing the monster to spring free.

I melted to my knees with a big smile on my face. He gathered my hair in one of his large hands and I started on my appetizer. His cock seemed larger this time and it took everything I had in me to not gag. I knew I did something right when he exploded in my mouth in less than five minutes. He came more than he did the first time but I was still able to drink all of him.

"Good job, Baby," he said with a smile helping me up. "I love you." I closed my eyes and smiled. I loved to hear him say that.

"I love you, too, Daddy."

"Feeling better?" he asked me as I shook my head yes. "How long before dinner is done?"

"Maybe twenty minutes or so."

"Good, let's start talking," he said as I looked at my feet. "I don't want to see you like that ever again. I need to know what happened."

"I get it, it's just...I really don't want to tell you," I told him being honest. "My mom just said some really nasty things to me and crying seemed to be the only thing to do," I said with a shrug.

"I don't care if you don't want to tell me, I need to know. It broke my heart to see you fall apart like that. She must have said something pretty bad to make you cry like that," he said holding my hand.

"I don't want to tell you because I don't want you to think I could be anything like my mother," I was still trying to stall.

"I'm trying to be patient and sensitive, but you are pushing my buttons," he warned me as we sat close to one another.

"Okay, but promise me that you won't believe I think like her," I said as he nodded his head. "It all started Monday, when she found out I was with you, she got crazy excited. She said she was happy I wasn't on birth control and I needed to get pregnant. When I told her that wasn't my plan, she called me stupid and said she raised me better than that. Then today, she basically told me the only reason she had me was for a paycheck," I told him as he stared at me. I could tell he was getting mad, but I didn't know if his anger was toward me or my mother.

"What were her exact words?" he asked.

"Does it matter?"

"Yes," he hissed through his teeth.

"She said, 'do you think I had you because I wanted kids'," I admitted with a big sigh.

"You have got to be kidding me!" he yelled standing up. "Is she always so nasty?"

"It started when I turned eighteen."

"That fucking bitch," he said more to himself than to me. "What else has she been saying to you?"

"That was the worse."

"Don't care, just tell me. I want to know what she has been saying to you."

I took a deep breath before I started to talk. I was going to have to tell him everything.

"Just that she isn't going to support me and I was stupid for not wanting kids. She doesn't understand how I will be able to live my life without one. She sees it as without a kid, I will have no money. She has also told me several times that once I was over thirty; no one will ever want me. Whoever my father is has never sent me a birthday card, called me on the phone or even fought for me, but I had to have his last name...I don't get it.

I feel like you are the only person that has ever cared about me and I can't stand it. Don't take that the wrong way, I'm very glad I found you, but I just feel so unwanted. She has even asked me when I was moving out!" I said as I fought back the tears.

Edward just stared at me with pity in his eyes, I hated that look. "I don't want your pity," I told him as I got up and started to move around the kitchen.

I put three potatoes in the microwave after roughly poking holes in them. Turning around Edward was still staring at me.

"What?" I asked.

"I truly love you," he said as the tears I was holding back split over.

"I know," I said in a whisper.

"Your mother is messed up. Baby, I hope you and I are together forever. You are making me feel like a teenager again and I love that. I love being around you and I love taking care of you," he said holding my face in his hands.

"You will never know how much those words mean to me. Even if we don't work out, you are giving me hope that love is real," I told him honestly as he smiled softly at me.

"Thank you," I said as he kissed me.

Again his kisses made everything better. This kiss was full of love, passion, and tenderness. He showed me how much he loved me through his kiss. I tried to give the same back, but knew a kiss would never tell him how much I was grateful for him finding me.

We broke our kiss with no more words. I finished up dinner and he sat two place settings at the bar in the kitchen. We talked about our day, things we liked and disliked. We were getting to know each other, but I felt like I already knew him. We liked a lot of the same kinds of food, music, and movies. Our conversation flowed and it was so easy to talk to him. He wanted to get to know me just as I wanted to get to know him.

"Do you have any homework?" he asked me as we finished cleaning up the kitchen. I shook my head no and he said he had some work to do, so we were going to his office. He told me I could watch television and that is what I did. I lay on the couch and he was at his desk typing away.

I was watching some celebrity gossip show and started thinking about how I wanted that life once. Now, when I watched it, I felt sorry for them. To have your life picked to pieces... it's just horrible. I always thought my life would make a great movie, but I wouldn't ever want someone to know everything about me.

"Bella, shut off the TV, it's time for bed," Edward said as I giggled.

"It's only nine thirty," I argued trying not to laugh in his face.

"I'm letting your spanking that you so greatly deserved slide because your day was pretty bad, but if you want we can do thirty of them right now. Your choice," he said as I rolled my eyes and turned off the TV. Who would argue with that! Bed or spanking...hhmm, yeah tough one.

"Are you coming too?" I asked.

"No, I will probably be another hour or so," he said turning to his computer.

"So, I have to go to bed all by myself?" I asked looking sad.

"Yes, I will be in as quickly as I can," he offered.

I pouted as he motioned me to come to him. I dragged my feet to him with the pout still on my face. "Why did you have me come over if you aren't going to sleep with me?"

"I am, Baby. You just need to go lay down. If you are still awake when I come in, depending on the time, maybe I'll make it worth your while," he said rubbing my ass.

I was so going to be awake! "Okay," biting my lip trying not to smile.

"I love you, little girl."

"I love you too, Daddy," I said to him as I leaned down and kissed him as best I could.

His hold tightened on me, so I knew I was doing something right. I sucked and nibbled on his bottom lip, and he moaned into my mouth. That was sexy as hell, but he broke off the kiss.

"I know what you are trying to do," he said as I gave him a sly smile. That earned me a crack on the ass. "Go to bed."

"Yes, Daddy," I said as I left his office rubbing my ass cheek. That one smack really hurt!

Just as I lay down, my phone started to ring scaring the shit out of me.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Oh good! I didn't know what time you had to go to bed, but I was hoping to catch you." It was Alice and she sounded so hyper. She was a very fast talker too.

"What do you mean about a bed time?" I asked wanting to know how her and Jasper did things.

"Well, when I was in school, Jazzy made me go to bed between nine and now, but I didn't know how Edward ran his house," she said as if our relationships were every day relationships.

"I see. I am at Edward's, but I'm usually home, so I don't really have a bed time," I told to her.

"So, he hasn't told you to go to bed yet?"

"Well, he has..."

"See there you go!" now she was laughing. "I won't keep you long. I don't want to get you in trouble, but I'm not allowed to talk to Jazzy after nine unless spoken to. And I'm so bored but excited about tomorrow! We are still on, right?" she asked.

"Yeah, I still want to go. But wait, you can't talk to your boyfriend after nine?!" I asked blown away by the facts she was giving me.

"Nope. Well, you see, Jazzy and I have lived together since I was sixteen. I don't know if I have enough time to explain it to you now, but I will soon. Anyway, yes Jasper made that rule the first week we lived together, he says I talk too much. He says I talk when he is trying to get things done and blah, blah, blah," she said all that in one breath and I laughed at her. She really did talk a lot.

"You can call me any time after nine if you want to talk," I told her.

"Really?! That is so great. Sometimes I call and talk to Esme, but Carlisle doesn't let her on the phone after ten. Rose isn't the best person to talk to either, so it will be nice to have someone to talk to."

"I would love very much to talk to you. Edward is different from my other boyfriends, so it will be good to talk to someone that knows what's going on," I told her as she squealed.

"Well, then tell me, what is so different?"

She had to be joking, right? "I have never had anyone that wanted to take complete care of me. He wants to know where I am at all times. The punishments and groundings are new as well."

"Oh, don't worry about that! They just like to make sure we are taken care of. He won't beat you or anything. Just do your best," she said to me. "Edward and Jazzy have been friends for a long time. They are almost like the same person. They like having someone to take care of, that is who they are," she said as I smiled into the phone.

I had lost track of time while Alice and I talked about our upcoming shopping trip, and not about much of anything else. I found out she had the mall memorized and told me of all the stores we were going to. I felt the bed dip and flinched back. Edward had scared me and I didn't even know he had walked into the room.

"Who are you talking to?" he asked as Alice became so silent I thought she hung up.

"Alice," I said getting nervous.

Edward was mad and it was clear to see. He stuck his hand out for my phone and I gave it to him. "Alice, what time are you supposed to go to bed," he asked her as I brought my knees to my chest, I knew I was in trouble. "Mmhmm, so why are you still on the phone? Did Bella tell you that I told her to go to bed forty five minutes ago?" Alice said something else, but I couldn't hear. "I will be informing Jasper of this, go to bed. Good night," he said to her hanging up the phone. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell. "Jas, I just caught our girls on the phone together," he told him. "I just wanted to let you know."

That ended the phone call and Edward turned to me and pointed to his knee. I debated for a second and then uncovered my legs and climbed to his knees. Edward pulled down my shorts and I lay on his lap. I clenched my ass cheeks together not wanting a spanking.

"Why are you getting a spanking?" he asked me as the tears came to my eyes.

"Because I didn't listen," I said as my voice broke.

"From now, until further notice, I will be taking your phone at bed time. Do you understand?" he asked as I blinked out a few tears.

"Yes, Daddy," I said in a whispered voice.

I only got five swats, but they were the worse yet! Each hit lit my ass on fire and I wanted to sit on something cold. Every smack I could feel it from head to toe.

"You are lucky that you are only getting five, so I had to make them count," he told me.

Edward didn't even rub the sting out. As I went to rub the sting out and he told me no, not this time. That made me cry harder. He told me to get back to my knees and I did as he said. He pulled up my shorts and then tucked me into bed.

"I love you," he said as he wiped some of my tears off my face. I rolled over on my side putting my back to him. All he did was sigh and kiss my head, asshole.

As soon as I heard the door shut, I rubbed my hands up and down my ass. It started to feel better, but I could tell without looking that my ass was probably beet red. I wasn't mad I got myself in trouble, but I was mad because I knew I wasn't going to get any loving.

I fell asleep before Edward came to bed, but did wake up to him holding me. I loved the feeling of his big arms wrapped around me. The clock read five in the morning. I wiggled out of his arms to use the bathroom and then got back into bed. I wanted more sleep, but I really wanted to get some. He was sleeping and I knew that I couldn't control when we had sex. I could turn him on yes, but he had all say in when and where. That was another thing my mother drilled into my head when I learned about the birds and the bees. Worst conversation of my life.

Trough my experience with dating older men, I have found they do date younger girls for one of three reasons:

One; they just want to take care of someone the way they weren't.

Two; in Edward's case, he can't have children and I can fill that void. He is seventeen years older than I am, why else would he want such a younger girl.

Reason three is they just love control.

The feeling of dominance makes a man's ego powerful. Also in a lot of cases, it's all of the above. Some just like to prove to people they can get a younger girlfriend, too.

With the little bit of time I have been with Edward, some of his behavior, I think was in the way he was brought up. His father, to me, seemed to be a very controlling and dominant person. So, some would say it was a 'like father like son' situation. Emmett and Rose seemed to be closer in age, you could tell by just looking at them. Now, I also knew Alice and Jasper have been together for a while. Even though they had a sexual relationship, Jasper was still the father figure to Alice. I wanted to pick her brain and get to know her. I was hoping this shopping trip would make it possible.

"Bella, baby, it's time to get up," I heard Edward say. I didn't even know I had fallen asleep.

"What time is it?"

"Six thirty," he said kissing my shoulder. "Come on, we will take a shower together," he said getting out of bed.

I was very dramatic at times and I let my body flop on the bed face down.

"Princess, I told you to go to bed at nine thirty, you didn't, so it is your own fault you're still tired. Now, let's go," he said as he gave me a quick tap on the ass.

"Ow, that hurt," I told him while rubbing the sting out.

"It hurts? Here let me see," he said pulling down my shorts.

"Well, it didn't hurt till you just hit me," I said as he rubbed my bottom.

"You'll live."

"I'm sure I will," I said as I got out of bed.

Stumbling my way around the bedroom and then into the bathroom. The shower was already going and as soon as the hot water hit my skin I felt more awake. I stood under one shower head as he stood in front of another. I wasn't moving, still tired and I was trying to wake up more. Edward moved closer to me and he started to rub my shoulders.

"That feels good," I said as I hung my head and let the water cascade down my head.

"What are your plans today?" he asked me.

"Shopping," I said as he ran his fingers down my back. "Is it okay with you if I get dropped off here so I can put the stuff away that I buy? I mean it is all going to be for here, so it would make sense, but you would need to bring me home, or I could ask your mother to wait...never mind it's too much trouble. I'm babbling, I'm sorry, I'm just tired," I said giving off a nervous giggle.

"Baby, that would be fine. I can bring you home or you can stay here, whatever you want," he said as we both washed our hair.

"I don't want to put you out or bother you."

"That would never happen," he said to me shaking his head. "You are welcome here without an invitation."

"Thanks, you don't know how much that means to me," I said with a smile. It was the truth. If he would have said anything along the lines of call first, I would have packed my shit and left.

"What time do you think you will be back?" he asked me.

"I have no clue. The way they were talking it sounds like it could be an all-day thing," I said a little nervous to spend the whole afternoon with them.

"Well, yeah. My father, Jasper, and Emmett all bitch about these outings. Jasper had to punish Alice one time because she spent close to fifteen thousand on a shopping trip. I told him she has a problem, but he keeps letting her go. Then again, it has been the same for the last...oh I don't know, three or four years. He spanks her, grounds her, but she just keeps doing it," he said with a shrug.

"Well, that is just insane. I can honestly say I have never, in my life, spent fifteen grand in one shopping trip. I'm sure I will spend close to five today, but I don't have a car payment this month so I will be okay money wise," I said with a shrug as we got out of the shower.

"Princess, I pay your bills. I should have asked you before, but I forgot. Anyway, you will go on my cell bill, I will just need your car payment, insurance, and anything else you need paid and I will take care of that each month. The money you get is for you to do whatever with. Just so you know, if you were to go over the amount given, all you have to do is call me. That is where Alice gets herself in trouble. Don't try to hide it either because I will find out with in a half hour of you going over the amount," he said.

"Good to know," I said with a giggle.

Getting ready for the day with him was awesome. We worked so well together. We drank our coffees, but didn't really talk and it was still nice. We parted ways at our respective cars with many kisses and I love yous.

"If your mother has anything nasty to say to you today, just leave and we will just move you in here, okay?" he asked.

I wanted to cry at his thoughtfulness, but was able to hold off the tears. "That's really great of you, but I would never ask that of you, though."

"I know you wouldn't, that's why the offer is on the table."

Have I mentioned how much I love this man?

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