A/N: Hello lovelies! Short chapter but that's because when I was writing it I came to a natural end on EPOV's and needed to start BPOV's because the next chapter HAS to be in BPOV. ;-)

So for anyone who cares, my trip to Vegas was AMAZING! I lost all my money but it was a trip to remember for a lifetime and managed to spawn a little story idea based on my personal experience with The Thunder From Down Under boys... (story might just have to be written now along side this one...) If you don't know Thunder From Down Under and you're of age and like hot Aussie boys then you really should check it out. LOL.

Chapter 20

It didn't take a damn genius to realize that something wasn't right with Bella. I sure as shit noticed it and that was before shit really hit the fan in the VIP room with her and Victoria almost going at it.

I almost felt like Bella was intentionally aiming to piss Victoria off, which didn't make any damn sense to me at all. But that's exactly what it seemed like. It was almost like Bella had given up and had resigned to some sort of fate.

This scared me even more, so the fact that I knew they were on their way to our hotel made me relax a little bit, but at the same time something in my gut was telling me that the visit wasn't going to be one that eased my nerves at all.

The way Jasper sprinted to the door when the girls knocked told me that he was a bit more anxious than he had seemed in the club too.

"What did Denali want at lunch today?" He asked immediately after the door was shut and locked.

Alice exchanged looks with Rose and Bella before rolling her eyes and sighing.

"Nothing. He just wanted to see how we were settling into the jobs and the city."

"Fucking bullshit." Emmett declared standing up from his position on the couch.

"What he said." I said. "I hope you've lied to Denali better than you just did to us."

"It's not a lie." Bella smiled sweetly and she casually walked my way. "He asked how we liked the shopping and if we were enjoying working for him."

"What else did he ask?" I asked through clenched teeth. I'm a fucking cop – I know how to interrogate people and I know how the clever ones clarify their sentences to technically not lie but not include everything.

"Nothing." Rose shrugged then sat down on the couch where Emmett had just vacated.

"Ok fine…what else did he want then?" Jasper asked getting frustrated with the line of questions.

They were hiding something from us. They never had been so coy with their responses nor did they ever exchange that many glances between each other when discussing the case.

My heart sunk to my stomach at the realization that Alice didn't want to keep it from us, but Rose and Bella definitely did.

Had Denali flipped Rose and Bella and threaten Alice with her life?

I wanted to vomit right there as the thought crossed my mind.

Then I remembered that the way Bella acted in VIP was angry and pissed off at Denali and Victoria. She was definitely not their friend or ally.

But then why was she keeping something from us…from me?

"Look we have to tell them!" Alice shouted.

"Well fuck, we have to now!" Rose yelled back.

"They already know something's up and if we continue to skirt around their questions they're just going to keep asking and we'll be at it all night and all I want to do is take Jasper into that room and lock the door for a couple of hours!" Alice continued to yell at her friends.

It looked like both Bella and Rose wanted to strangle the life out Alice.

"What the hell is going on?!" Emmett boomed so loud that we all flinched but the girls still said nothing. "God damn-it Rosie! Tell me what the hell is going on. NOW!"

"He's asked us to help him with a business deal." Rose sighed.

I wasn't convinced that this was what they were hiding. We had wanted them to get close to Denali and get details on how he operated so we could tie the drugs and money to him. This was sort of what we wanted to happen so why were they trying to keep it from us?

"That's it?" Jasper asked with a raised eyebrow and apparently on the same train of thought I was on.

"That's it. He's picking us up tomorrow morning so we can't stay the night here. We've only got a couple of hours together so let's not waste any more of it talking about something that really isn't a big deal." Bella said trying to obviously move us off of the subject.

"Nope. Not dropping it this that quick." I said. "You're still not telling us everything because if this was truly it, you wouldn't have tried to hide something from us."

"I told you two we should have just come out and told them from the get go – now they think we're hiding more." Alice commented which earned yet another strange look from her friends. A look of surprise if I had to categorize it.

"We didn't want to tell you because you'll follow us…" Bella said but was cut off by Jasper.

"Damn right we're going to follow you."

"See and that's what we think shouldn't be done. We think he's testing our loyalty and if he sees someone following us, not only will it blow your cover but it will put us in danger. Right now we're just assisting him with a deal but it could escalate into something much larger if he spots a tail. Just let us do what you asked us to do and don't follow us. Promise us you won't follow." Bella said with pleading eyes.

What she said made sense – in a way. And I wanted to do what she asked because it was logical and the cop side of my brain was agreeing with her argument, but the side of me that wanted to protect her and keep her safe always was telling me that it was still all very fishy and that we should follow them.

"She's right, bro." Emmett sighed clearly not happy about having to say it.

"We have no reason to suspect that he wants to harm them or that he thinks they might be undercover for us. We should let this play out. We've been keeping a close eye on all communications and people involved in his ring and nothing has given us cause to think that anything bad is going down or that they think something's going on." Jasper said.

"Fine." I huffed. "We'll stay off it." I said. I noticed Jasper's lip twitch as he fought the smile on his face. He at least noticed what I did with my statement.

"Cop's daughter here fellas." Bella said with no sense of humor in her tone. "No one is to follow…you or anyone else. No one. You get that? So don't be calling in a favor to your fellow DEA agents and have them tail us or FBI or local LEO's…NO ONE is to follow us. If anyone – even Joe Blow from the corner – is seen following us, we'll be in trouble. And you know it."

"She caught your sneaky ass." Emmett said with a grin as he took Rosalie's hand and led her down the hall to his room.

Jasper shrugged his shoulders, his way of saying 'we tried', before he and Alice too disappeared.

"Bel…" I started but she cut me off by placing her finger on my lips.

"Don't say anything more on the subject. I just want to spend some time with you right now. Just you and me. Nothing else. I need it to be just you and me right now." She said then kissed me before walking away and towards the bedroom we had shared the night before.

It took a few seconds longer than it should have for my brain to make to my feet work, but I was soon following her.

The scene in front of me when I walked into the bedroom was exquisite. She was standing with her back to me and she was in the middle of pulling her shirt off.

There she stood in only black lace boy shorts and a black lace bra. I wanted to worship her again and every night going forward.

"Edward." She sighed with nothing but lust in her voice. She still hadn't turned around but I just knew her eyes were hooded and dark with need.

Hell mine were.

We hadn't even touched each other yet except for a simple kiss, and I was already standing at attention for her so much so that my pants were incredibly uncomfortable.

I stripped those bitches off in a second. The shirt followed quickly after that and then I was directly behind her pushing the evidence of my need against her back.

"Fuck." She moaned then leaned her head back against my chest as my hands found their way to her breasts.

I sucked a breath through my teeth when she reached her hands up and into my hair as she started grinding her ass against me.

"Jesus Bella…if you're not wanting this to go any further then I need to know now so I can try to control…"

"I don't want you to make love to me tonight..." She said as she turned around to face me. I'll freely admit that I was a little disappointed at first, but then I was able to stare into her. "I want you to fuck me." She enunciated each word.

That was all I needed to hear.

I grabbed her by the waist and roughly shoved her onto the bed. I'm pretty sure I even fucking growled.

I stripped us down the rest of the way and then flipped her onto her stomach.

"On all four." I demanded and watched as she quickly and anxiously positioned herself.

I ran my hand from her right breast down to her sex and then inserted a finger to make sure she was ready for me.

She was already so worked up that it wouldn't have taken much to push her over the edge and so when I curled my finger just right she came undone for me.

"FUCK!" She said as her limbs became weak and she almost collapsed but before she could I quickly rammed into her and wrapped my arm under her to help support her weight.

I wasn't going to last long and I was making sure she was going to come at least twice for me.

It was purely selfish reasons – she was magnificent when she was coming and I wanted to see it. And as often as possible.

Luckily it didn't take but a few deep forceful thrusts on my part until I felt her walls start to clinch again so I quickly flipped her back over and tried to lay her on her back but she managed to flip us again and put herself on top of me.

I wasn't far from the edge myself and her moaning my name over and over again wasn't helping me control myself at all.

She started out slowly rocking back and forth but then out of nowhere she lifted herself up and almost completely off of me then slammed herself back down on me before riding me. "Fuck Bella…"

"So good…" She moaned and arched her back. "So close…"

"Me too baby." I grunted as I grabbed her hips and started meeting her thrust for thrust.

"There…oh…holy shit!" She exclaimed and her walls clenched down on me as my own orgasm hit.

She let her body collapse into me; I slipped out of her and let her get comfortable next to me in bed.

"I didn't know it could be like that." She said as she put her head on my chest.

"Bella…how many partners have you had?" I asked nervously and not expecting an answer at all. I knew the possibility of just pissing her off, but that comment tied to what was discovered the night before had spiked my curiosity…and jealousness.

Luckily for me she didn't seem upset by the question but she did think awhile before deciding to tell me.

"One…well two counting you I guess. Jacob wasn't exactly blessed in the size department and we were both young and didn't know what we were doing. I don't even remember the first time…we were both so tripped out on peyote and booze that neither of us remembered. We went on a date and ended up in the backseat of his car for round two. But that was the end of it, I left Forks with Rose and Ali and that was the last time I even had sex. In fact until you came along I wasn't interested in any guy…you and Jacob are the only two men to see me naked."

I was shocked at her revelation. I mean I had expected her to tell me she didn't have that much experience but the fact that it'd been basically 4 years since she had sex and that only 2 men had ever seen her naked…I was just stunned. Take her lifestyle…living in New York City, young, single, beautiful, and working at a bar, finding out she hadn't dated in the 3 years that they were there was the last thing I expected her to tell me. For some strange reason she seemed worried about what my response was going to be so I tried to ease her mind by smiling and attempting a humorous response.

"Peyote? Really Bella?" I said with a raised eyebrow and smirk, which to my relief made her laugh. "I'm surprised that you didn't date in New York, though." I added. "I'm happy don't get me wrong…just surprised."

"Boys tried…they tried so much it was obnoxious and I just lost interest in the whole game." She said as she untangled herself from me and headed towards the bathroom.

When she came back out instead of getting back into bed, she started putting her clothes back on.

"What are you doing?" I asked sitting up in bed to watch her.

"Can't stay the night tonight, remember?" She asked as she pulled her shorts up.

"I don't want you to leave. I feel so used." I pouted as she finished getting dressed.

"You feel used? I'm the one here that's a hired whore…" She said but before she could even finish the sentence I was out of bed and standing in front of her.

"Never say that again. Just because Denali thinks that's what you are…it's not at all how it is. I can't wait for this to be over so I can really show you how I feel about you. I want to scream it from the roof tops that I found you and that you're mine. I want to introduce you to Carlisle and Esme. They'll love you. Shit…I love…"

"Edward you don't know me at all…don't say that. For all we know everything will change when this is all done." She said as tears threatened to spill from her eyes. "But thank you for tonight." She whispered before standing on her toes and kissing me.

The kiss was filled with raw emotions that all but knocked me on my ass. It was desperate, needy, lustful, and sad. The kiss should have given me another hard-on but the emotions behind it did the exact opposite to me.

It felt like goodbye.

And then she said it…

"Goodbye Edward."

And just like that she was gone. By the time I got my pants on she was nowhere to be found in the hotel room. The only thing I found was two other very confused half-naked DEA agents.

What the fuck had just happened?