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Alice insisted on taking Bella home after we'd finished with the last of the wedding favors, citing that she still had some last minute work to do on Bella's dress and I was to come no where near the house tonight.

Normally, that would have ticked me off, but something else occupied my mind and I could barely contain my excitement.

Three days, twenty-three hours and thirty-four minutes from this very moment, I thought to myself, counting down the time until I could whisk Bella away.

I quietly whistled a tune as I cleaned up the remnants of ribbon and other bits of favor fodder off of the dining room table.

"Someone's in a good mood," Emmett sang as he plopped into one of the chairs, slinging his arms behind his head. "Did you finally get you some?" he asked, grinning like an idiot.

"No, you ass," I spat at him, "I have some control."

He laughed outright and I flipped him the bird. Emmett suddenly went silent and he just stared at me.

"What?" I asked, with a chuckle.

Emmett started shaking his head at me and smiled, his dimples sinking deep into his face.

"Nothing man, it's just that in the seventy odd years I've known you, I don't think I've ever seen you give anyone the finger. It's just nice to see you finally loosen up and have a little fun."

I cringed at the word 'finally.' God, was I that much of a jerk before?

"Was I that bad?" I asked, not all that sure I wanted to know the answer.

"I just figured you were born with a stick up your ass, who knew all you needed was to get semi laid," he said, winking playfully at me before he slapped me on the back, laughing. "Nah man," he shrugged, "you're my brother and I love you no matter what, stick up your ass and all."

Later, up in my room I decided to call Bella, hoping she was in her dress. For some reason, the idea of talking to her while she was wearing her wedding dress excited me to no end.

The phone rang twice before I heard Rose answer.

"She's busy," she said, without even saying hello.

I could hear Bella complaining in the background.

"Crap Alice, I can barely get into this get up, how am I supposed to get out of the damned thing?"

"Don't worry; once he sees it, getting it off of you won't even be an issue."

"What are they talking about," I inquired quietly.

"Nosey much?" Rose asked with a giggle.

"Is that Edward?" Alice and Bella both said at the same time.

"Yeah, he wants to know what you two are talking about." Rosalie ratted me out.

"Damn it Rose, shhhh," I hissed.

"Don't shush me, Edward," she snapped. "Or…"

I rolled my eyes, I didn't need to hear the or. "I'm sorry, Rosalie," I begrudgingly apologized. "Can I please talk to Bella?"

She sighed, the annoyance practically oozed through the receiver. "Hang on," she said and I could hear the phone being whipped from her hand.

"So, what are you wearing?" I asked quietly.

"Nice try Edward," Alice quipped on the other end.

Damn it.

"Oh, hey Alice," I said, trying to sound enthusiastic, "how is the dress fitting going, need an extra pair of hands?"

"You just keep your hands and all the rest of your parts away from this house tonight, Edward," Alice growled into the phone, clearly annoyed with me as she flipped the phone to Bella.

"Hellooooo?" Bella's sweet voice trilled over the line.

"There you are," I sighed, into the receiver. "I miss you."

"Edward, you saw me an hour ago," she laughed.

"True, but you were ridiculously clothed," I complained. "Which reminds me, what are you wearing?" I whispered.

"Isabella Marie Swan, don't you dare tell him," Alice screeched in the background.

"Don't worry," she laughed, "I couldn't tell him, even if I wanted to, I have no idea what this thing even is."

"Well, what color is it?" I asked, thoroughly intrigued now.

"It's…hey…Alice…"

"Oh no you don't, say goodnight Bella," Alice said having extricated the phone out of Bella's hands.

"Goodnight Bella," Bella said sarcastically before the line went silent.

I was still chuckling to myself as I lay back on the 'perv couch' and dug around under the cushions for the pictures I'd stashed there.

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

One day, thirteen hours and twelve minutes.

Alice had Bella hopping from one task to the other, exhausting the hell out of her and I finally put my foot down.

Bella needed some rest, she was completely frazzled and about ready to snap.

Her naked sleeping form pressed against mine as she lay beside me. I couldn't seem to bear to have clothes on with her whenever we were alone anymore.

It was the intimacy of it, I think, the vulnerability that there was nothing between us but air. At this rate, we'd have to get our own house after we got married because I highly doubted we'd be clothed at all for at least the first decade.

If I had my way about it anyway.

She rolled toward me in her sleep and groaned, her knee sliding ever so gently between my legs, unconsciously pressing the top of her thigh to the ultra sensitive skin there and I hissed with pleasure.

"Mmmm," she moaned, her arms gripping me tighter, her nipples tightening as they came in contact with my ice cold chest, her right leg slung across my body and her hot wet sex rubbed against my hip bone.

I knew I shouldn't, but before I could stop myself, my hand was crawling down her back, my fingers tracing over the soft contours of her bottom before I spread them over the expanse of her right cheek and palmed it.

God, I loved her ass. Firm, yet pliable and carved as if to fit my hands and my hands alone.

I could feel the heat against my fingertips as they slowly dipped between her legs, lightly caressing the delicate flesh.

She whimpered and pressed harder against me, her delicious heat felt so amazing on my icy skin and I bit my lip, trying to restrain myself.

Wasn't I the one that said she needed rest and here I was, contemplating waking her up just so I could get a hit? Jesus, I was a Bella junkie.

I slapped my free hand over my eyes and trying to focus and will myself away from her sleeping body.

But she moved again, rolling her lower half against me. "Oh yes Edward…that's it…" she panted against my neck.

That was it, indeed.

"Bella," I whispered, stroking the backs of my fingers along the exposed side of her breast. "Belll-laaa," I sang as I started to slide my hand a little father between her legs.

What is wrong with me? I shouldn't be doing this.

She sighed and arched her back, pushing and wiggling her bottom against my hand. My breath stopped in my chest as her fingers trailed down my stomach and wrapped around my length.

"Baby, please…" she begged, her voice was so quiet and so desperate. At this point I wasn't sure if she was still asleep or if she was awake. She'd never called me baby before and I liked it more than I cared to admit. I could feel my head swimming already.

I should let her sleep. I should keep my hands to myself. I should get up off of this bed right now. I should…

Her heartbeat spiked and her breath caught.

"Don't stop," she gasped, tightening the grip she had on my erection.

"Bella you need your sleep," I whispered, my conscience got the better of me, damn it.

"Screw sleep," she mumbled, still slightly groggy as she kissed and nibbled along my neck.

She was so combative when she woke up and that stirred something inside of me when she was like that, it made me want to push her even more just to see how far I could go.

"Bella, its five o'clock in the morning you should…"

She reached up with her free hand and gripped my face roughly and I felt my cock twitch in her grasp. Damn.

"Edward, I have no idea what time Alice thinks she's going to separate us so you better fucking well take advantage of this time with me god damn it," she growled at me.

I was shocked. Bella never spoke to me like that. Ever. I nearly lost it and right then and there.

I hitched her leg higher over my hip and with two fingers; I delved deep between her creamy thighs, feeling the slick moisture of her arousal.

"Oh God…Edward…" she moaned.

"Bella, will you count to five for me?" I asked. I rotated my fingers before she could answer, pressing the heel of my palm against her as I reached deeper, hitting that spot that made her curse.

"Shit," she gasped; her eyes fluttering back as she nodded.

She was already on the verge, I could tell, having woken up in an extremely high state of arousal.

"Please," I murmured, licking the side of her neck as I gently rolled her onto her back, hovering over her and started to pulse my fingers.

"Jesus…one."

"One Bella, one is for one more night until I get to have you all to myself, for the rest of eternity," I whispered, sliding my thumb down around her hot little button, circling it.

"T…two."

"Two is for two perfectly pink nipples that rise so easily at my slightest touch and taste so sweet under my tongue." I swirled my fingers around one pert little peak, feeling it tighten even more under my ministrations, then I drug my mouth down and pulled the flat of my tongue across the taut pebble of flesh with a quiet, "Mmmm."

Her body arched up into the feeling and she moaned.

"Shit…" she breathed, "three."

"Three is for three weeks on our honeymoon, just you and me…naked for three whole glorious weeks making loud, hot, mind blowing love anywhere and anytime we want," I whispered, as I stroked inside of her.

Her entire body was starting to quiver.

"Fff…fou…four."

"Mmmm, four, four is for this," I murmured against her as I slid my nose down her body, moving my thumb and placing a soft kiss to her pulsing clit as her body gripped my fingers, ready to explode. "I am going to taste this sweet little spot, right here, at least four times a day." I flicked my tongue over her nub once, twice, three times…on the fourth one her body clenched and she started to shudder beneath me, her hands twisted in the sheets biting her lip to keep from crying out.

"And five Bella," I purred, brushing my lips against the inside of her thigh as I held my fingers inside of her, feeling her pulses tighten and release. I started to slowly move up her body, kissing and licking every bit of her hot flesh as I could. "Five o'clock tonight is when Alice plans on taking you away from me for twenty-five hours," I whispered against into her ear. "You want me to make the most out of the time I have with you, well, I don't plan on letting you get dressed. Hell, I may not even let you out of this bed until then."

Bella shuddered again and I felt another rapid succession of muscle spasms ripple through her and I inhaled deeply, filling my lungs to capacity with her post orgasmic scent.

"How do you do that?" she asked breathlessly.

"How do I do what, love?" I fisted my hand in her hair, tilting her head to the side so I could lavish her neck with kisses.

"That," she moaned. "Edward…I…I need to breathe…"

I started to pull back, intent on letting her catch her breath, when she moved with me, laying my body back with hers. Her blazing hot lips moved over the solid planes of my chest and her hand started to slip down the contours of my abdomen.

"I thought you needed to breathe," I murmured, my own ability to take in air was steadily becoming more difficult.

"I am," she sighed, exhaling slowly.

Hot, moist air blew across my nipple and I my body tensed. She knew how much I loved it when she did that.

Her warm hand wrapped around me once again and I shuddered with pleasure. She scraped her nails along my entire length and over my stomach, between my pecks, around my right shoulder and up my arm. She took my hand and raised it over my head, opening my clenched fist and wrapping it around the wrought iron headboard.

Working at a measured pace, trying to keep me calm I assume, she repeated the process to the other hand.

The tip of her nose skimmed along the underside of my arm, sending delicious shivers over the surface of my skin.

"Bella…please…."

She turned her head, her soft hair cascading over my belly and fanning down, tickling the tip of my straining erection. Her brown eyes were so wide and she looked so impossibly innocent I almost felt bad for all of the ways I wanted to take her right now.

"Edward, can I touch you?" she asked quietly, her index finger so close to my skin that I could feel the heat radiating off of the lone digit as it hovered over my body.

"Yes," I whispered, lightly gripping the iron, bracing myself for her touch.

I hissed through my teeth when Bella started tracing down the center of my chest, her searing hot flesh burned against mine.

"Can I tell you how you feel to me?"

Every inch of me was literally trembling and I wasn't sure if I could handle it, I wanted her so badly.

My eyes darted to the door, half expecting Alice to come flying through it. I listened to the sounds inside the house, searching for a thought that would tell me what I should do but I heard nothing. When I settled my gaze back on Bella, her brow was puckered with worry and she pulled her hand from my body and sat on her knees by my side.

"Edward, if you are uncomfortable with this…honestly, I don't even know if I can express, in words, what your body feels like to me," she said. "But I have to try."

The air stopped moving in my lungs and I was completely still.

She needed this. I had, on more than one occasion, conveyed to Bella how sacred her body was to me in words and in actions. Three nights ago, in the shower with me, she told me how she felt with her actions, tonight; she needed to express her feelings with words.

I released one hand and softly cradled her delicate as porcelain face. "Tell me," I said, gently rubbing the pad of my thumb across her cheek.

Taking a deep, cleansing breath, I secured my hand to the metal again. Granted, it wouldn't do anything to keep my hands in place if I wanted to move them, but it was a reminder that I would stay in control, in this moment, for Bella.

Her fingers brushed through my hair and it amazed me how something so small, such a mundane act as this could ignite me from the inside out the way it did when it was Bella's fingers.

"Your hair," she started, "it's so soft and…" she giggled lightly to herself, "I know how much you like it when I tug on it, so I do it a lot, because you like it so much."

Her touch moved down my face and I closed my eyes and felt her thumbs move over my lids. "Your eyes, the warm butterscotch when you're content and the smoldering black fire they become when you are so wracked with desire…for me."

She slid to my lips and I could feel her sweet breath as she leaned forward. Her soft breasts resting against my chest as she bent over me.

"Bella," I murmured as she lowered her lips to mine, opening it, not even attempting to move tongue into the dangerous cavern of my mouth like she had in the past. She waited for me to dip into her mouth as we succumbed to the passion inside this one kiss.

Her breathing was ragged when we finally stopped and her body was trembling again, but not from the cold of mine.

She pressed her forehead to mine. "Your lips," she panted, still trying desperately to gain some control of herself, "the way the move against mine, the way they feel when you are kissing all over my body and your tongue…oh God Edward, the way your cool tongue tastes, the way it feels when you…when you…lick me."

She breathed out the last two words and my head started to spin. The hard iron of the headboard groaned and twisted in my grasp as I struggled to remain calm.

As if she knew I was teetering, her tiny hand wrapped around mine, silently reassuring me that I could do this.

"Your hands, they know just what to do with my body, how to touch me, to love me, to bring me the sweetest pleasure I've ever known."

Her words were becoming more strained and the air around us thickened with the scent of her growing arousal.

I couldn't keep the sound in any longer and a low rumble bubbled out the back of my throat.

Two hot hands scorched against my chest, feeling the sound that rattled deep within it. "Oh, the sounds you make. The growls and the snarls and the soft purrs…"

She rocked back and forth on her heels, pressing her thighs together and trying to create some kind of friction.

My entire body was trembling with desire for this woman, this human woman, this most magnificent creature that I was somehow granted the honor of protecting and loving. I must have done something right in the century I'd walked this earth to be blessed with such.

Her gently fingers brushed the tip of my near bursting erection and a piece of the bed frame broke off in my hand. I tossed it to the floor and gripped a sturdier piece.

"Bella…please…" I begged, despondent beyond all reason.

Her palm skidded down my length, bathing it in her innate warmth. Every muscle within me contracted and the sound of heavy metal squealing in protest echoed through the room as I moaned at the feeling of her hand on my flesh.

Bella paused for a moment and looked up at the now bent iron frame twisted in my grasp.

"Do you want me to st…"

I shook my head vehemently. "Don't stop…" I panted, "please, don't stop."

Her fingers closed around the base of my aching cock as she started to drag her fist along my entire length and I arched my head back against the mattress, gritting my teeth to stave off the desire to come and then she started to speak again.

"The way you feel, in my hand," she said softly, "and in my mouth," she whispered, sliding her lips over the end, relaxing the back of her throat and driving me deeper than I'd ever been before.

My head snapped up and I panted rapidly through my open mouth. She pulled her mouth from me, leaving a good amount of saliva as she once again gripped my length, pumping her hand up and down, the movement exponentially smoother than before and my legs started to shake.

Her lips moved up to my ear, the scent of my flesh on her breath was almost too much to bear.

"And soon my love," she crooned to me, "soon I will have you inside me, filling me with your cool body."

I wrenched the headboard loose as I came, spilling over her fingers. She continued to stroke me until I was whimpering for her to stop and my hands were so tightly woven around the metal I wasn't sure if I could remove them without causing more damage.

Using my vampire speed, I scooped her up and plopped her in the shower, rinsing our bodies quickly before wrapping a soft fluffy towel around each of us and settling onto the broken sofa that was now my favorite piece of furniture.

"I think you broke the bed," she giggled as the sofa creaked beneath us and she gave the back of it a shove and the wood groaned, "and the couch."

"We can buy a new bed, but be careful with the couch, I love this couch."

The family returned shortly after that but we stayed in my room for the remainder of the day. Alice was an angel and brought food up for Bella before Bella realized she was even hungry.

I watched the clock tick by the hours and heard Alice climbing the stairs to my room.

Having allowed ourselves to get dressed a few moments ago stretched out along the couch and dragged Bella down with me, hugging her close to my body.

"I don't wanna go," she complained, latching her arms around my neck.

"I know you don't, but it's tradition," Alice said as she barged in without knocking.

"Come in Alice," I said sarcastically, glaring at her.

"Don't stink-eye me Edward," she retorted. "Besides, Emmett and Jazz are coming to take you on your bachelor adventure."

Oh great, if it included the word 'adventure,' I was slightly frightened.

"And don't even think about bailing because you agreed to all of this and you are going to have fun," she grinned.

I narrowed my eyes at her, trying to get a glimpse of what was in store for me but all I got was a head full of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven.

"Fine," I grumbled, kissing Bella one last time before letting her go. "Try not to torture her too much okay?"

Alice rolled her eyes at me as Bella mouthed, "Thank you."

"I love you," she said, stretching up on her toes to kiss me again. "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Tomorrow." I smiled as she walked out of the door and I looked at the clock again.

Twenty-five hours and fifty-one minutes.

I grinned to myself as I thought about what Bella was counting down to.

Twenty-nine hours and fifty-one minutes.

Chapter End Notes:

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Okay, now for your treat...so your sitting there, reading your smut like a good little reader when you feel cool breath blowing down the back of your neck and a voice murmurs in your ear, "That looks like fun, we should try that."

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