A/N: Sorry for the time between posts yet again. I'm really trying to get them to you quicker. I hope you enjoy this one! Remember this story has an 'M' rating for a reason. ;-)

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Chapter 25

EPOV

Saturday afternoon, I called Bella and told her that I was taking her out to dinner. Our first real date. I would be picking her up at 7:00 to make our reservations.

With Alice's help I was able to secure last minute reservations at Bella's favorite Italian restaurant in Montecito. We were able to get a private table on their patio in their garden. I'm not sure how Alice worked it, and honestly I really don't care how she managed it. All I knew was that I had to make sure this night went completely perfect.

Of course, Bella can't just let someone run the show. She had to ask a hundred questions about where we were going, why I was picking her up; "Why can't I just walk next door and meet you?" was her reply to me picking her up.

"Could you have given me any shorter of a notice?" She complained. "I have no idea what to wear; I need to know where we're going, what we're doing…"

"I've got it all figured out for you." I answered right as I knew Alice was walking in her front door. "See you at seven, love."

I didn't get a response from Bella. I got a response from Alice. "She'll be waiting."

And then the line went dead.

I was beginning to worry that maybe even if the date was perfect, that Bella would never forgive me for sending Alice in as reinforcements.

At 4, I took Lilly over to the McCarty's only to find Emmett, Jasper, and the kids there.

"Rose was commandeered to assist in your master plan." Jasper smiled as he took a long pull from his beer.

"I see…so she'll probably hate me even more so than when it was just Alice." I sighed.

"Nah…she'll hate you the same." Emmett laughed. "What is your plan anyways? Alice wouldn't tell us."

"Because she knows you can't keep a secret." Jasper laughed.

"I'm just taking Bella out for dinner. No big deal." I shrugged.

"The nicest Italian restaurant on their garden patio is a big deal." Jasper said smiling.

"She told you!" Emmett whined. "This is totally unfair."

"You'll get over it big guy." I said before giving Lilly a kiss on her head.

"Are you leaving now daddy?"

"Yes. I have to go and get ready for my date with Bella."

"Okay. Have fun!" She enthused as she hugged me tightly. "I'm so happy for you daddy." She finished before she took off to find Janie and Alex.

"I'll see you guys sometime tomorrow then. Have fun tonight with the kids." I waved as I walked towards the front door.

"Don't do anything that you wouldn't want to explain!" Emmett shouted as I started out the door. "Ow Jazz!"

"Kids Emmett." Jasper scolded.

I just laughed at my two best friends as I continued on back to my house to try and settle my nerves.

Tonight is not only a huge deal because it's my first official date with Bella, but it's my first date since I dated Tanya. Basically eight years out of the dating scene? Might as well be a century.

I know I shouldn't be nervous. It's Bella for crying out loud. It's not like there was that chance of awkward silences. But what if I did something to royally fuck everything up – again?

What if this restaurant thing is too over the top for a first date? What if she thinks I'm trying to hard?

What if she would have rather stayed in for the night?

For the next two hours, I busied myself with cleaning the house…I felt like I was on speed with all of my nervous energy.

The restaurant isn't formal by any means, but it's definitely nice and I had absolutely no idea what to wear. I felt like a chick standing in front of my closet trying to figure it out.

"Oh why didn't I get Alice to help me instead of Bella…?" I sighed as I went through my clothes for the hundredth time. "This fucking su…"

"Good thing I'm here then." Alice's musical laughter filled my bedroom from behind me causing me to jump. Not only had I not heard her enter through the front door, I never heard her come up the stairs. "Didn't mean to scare ya there Edward." She grinned as she laid down a clothing bag.

"Well then you should have knocked on the front door like a normal human being." I said disapprovingly.

"What fun would that be? Plus I'm in a hurry so I didn't have time to wait for you to answer the door. Its 6:30 and you're not ready yet. Wear this…try to tame your hair although I'm sure it's impossible…and grab your black dress shoes."

"Alice…" I started to berate her for buying me clothes but of course was cut off of by the pixie.

"No need to thank me! I'm out of here. Have fun and don't do anything we wouldn't approve of." She winked then as fast as she appeared, she was gone again, and before I could try again to deny the clothes.

Of course denying them would have been pointless, I knew I'd still end up with them, plus it was obvious I was absolutely helpless in the situation. Hell I hadn't even realized it was getting so late.

I took the clothes out of the bag and smiled. Alice had put together the perfect outfit, complete with black slacks, dark purple button-down shirt that might as well have been black, and a black skinny tie. I'm not sure I want to know how she knew what size to get me, but everything fit perfectly.

When they had told me that Alice had a knack for fashion and clothes, I just assumed she really liked them and shopped all the time. It was clear in only knowing her for a little more than 4 months, she truly did have an aptitude for the whole scene.

What in the world was she doing selling houses?

I shook that question out of my head, because right now I had more to worry about than why Alice wasn't some famous fashionista. I had fifteen minutes to get ready for my date with Bella.

I hurriedly got dressed, not even trying to do something with hair, and then headed over – drove over – to Bella's house.

I felt like a nervous nerdy high school student getting ready to knock on his girlfriend's door. I'd been on my fair share of dates, and I had never felt like this before. Never.

What the hell is your problem! My self-conscience yelled at me as I watched my hand shake trying to knock on her door.

Gotta pull myself together…this is ri-god-damn-diculous. Deep breaths…1 2 3…

I finally knocked and then waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

I was getting ready to knock again when the door finally slowly opened.

I was no longer nervous, but not because she put me at ease, but because my brain couldn't focus on anything except what was standing in front of me. And even that was hazy because I couldn't come up with words for that either.

My eyes started at the bottom taking in every single inch of her. The shoes were just basic black pumps, but they had to have at least a four inch spike heel on them, which led my eyes right up her seemingly never ending legs. The dress ended just above her knees and was a light purple. The dress fit her so perfectly, like it was molded for her only. Hugging every single one of her curves.

It wasn't overly revealing but with the way her chest was just peeking over the top of the squared neckline, had me all but drooling like a damned fool.

She had left her hair down but had given it slightly more curl than it typically held. And was just begging for me to run my fingers through it.

But what made my breath hitch was her face. Her eyes were wide and sparkled with mischief and yet somehow also held a slight twinge of embarrassment. She just looked beyond anything I had ever laid on eyes on before…she was a goddess. My goddess.

"Say something Edward." She whispered just barely audible.

"You're gorgeous Bella." I responded, also barely above a whisper. "That's not even good enough…what's better than gorgeous? Stunning?"

She laughed and blushed. "Thank you. You too…I see Alice got to you."

"Huh?"

"We match." She said gesturing towards my shirt and then her dress.

I hadn't even noticed that. In fact I was still trying to will my brain to start working again.

Luckily she decided to take my hand and the electric shock I received from her, jolted me back to life

"Are you ready then?"

She nodded in response so I led her to my car, completely spacing that I wasn't driving my "every day" car for the date tonight and that she probably hadn't ever seen my special car.

"What the…Edward! That car is…"

"That's my other baby." I laughed as she took in the black Bentley Continental GT. "I don't typically take it anywhere and in fact until this morning it was in storage. I had it delivered to the house and stored in the garage until tonight. I might be a little over protective of her actually."

"I would be too. I'm afraid I'm going to hurt it with these heels!" She said as I opened the door for her. "When did you buy this thing?" She asked after I get and shut my door.

"This was my gift to myself after the divorce was final." I chuckled thinking of how I had celebrated that day. I look back on it now and even though I had fun, a weekend trip to Las Vegas and purchasing a $200,000 car might have been over doing it just a little, but I was free of Tanya.

A fact that I couldn't be happier about as I sit here and admire the woman sitting next to me. I was even freer of her now; something I would be celebrating for the rest of my life.

"So where are we going?" Bella inquired as I pulled out of our neighborhood.

"It's a surprise."

"Edward, I hate surprises." She whined.

"You'll get over it and besides, you'll find out in less than ten minutes."

She narrowed her eyes, but never said another word. The short drive to the restaurant was quiet. At one point I looked over at her to see what she was doing that had her so quiet…she was exploring the interior of my car with her hands. I just laughed at her and let her continue to molest my car's interior. She glanced at me out of the corner of her eye and then blushed but never said anything.

"My favorite Italian restaurant?" Bella asked even though she could clearly see that that was where we were. I took her arm in mine and smiled as I headed in the front door.

"Dr. Cullen, welcome to the Milano Inn. Your table is ready. Please follow me." The maitre d' welcomed us as soon as we walked in the front door. He led us through the restaurant towards the back patio area. The longer we walked, the more confused Bella's face got.

As soon as we walked on the back patio which was lit by a ton of white twinkle lights, Bella's expression went from one of confusion to awe.

"Do you like it?" I whispered in her ear.

"It's perfect Edward." She answered then sweetly kissed me.

"Your waiter will be right with you. This entire area is yours for the evening. Enjoy." The maitre d' interjected before bowing slightly and disappearing back into the main restaurant.

"How'd you manage this?" Bella asked as I pulled her chair out for her.

"Well…as much as I'd like to take credit for getting this planned…." I said bashfully not really wanting to admit that I had to ask for assistance on planning the perfect first date. She already knew I had got Alice's help on getting her ready, but she didn't know that Alice all but planned the whole thing.

"You don't need to say anything else." She smiled while she laughed at my expression. "I can't say that I'm all that surprised to find out that Miss Alice assisted on this. She sold the owners' their house and was able to get them a great deal on it so she's got connections. The maitre d' is their eldest son. I'm sure he was informed of who we are before we arrived."

"Small towns. I'm still getting used to everyone knowing everyone. In L.A. no one knew you unless you were their doctor. It was kind of nice to just blend into the crowd, however; this knowing someone and saying hello to someone every time I step out my door, is definitely growing on me."

"I'm glad you feel that way about it." She grinned.

Why I was nervous for this date, I'll never know for sure. It was just totally pointless to be nervous. I was with Bella. Everything was perfect. We mainly spent the time catching each other up on the personal details of our lives during the ten years we weren't in each other lives.

She told me about losing her grandmother, she told me about what her life was like right after graduating med school. Her residency and all the people she met. She told me what it was like when she first met Rose and Alice and how they changed her life. I got more detail on those two. I found out that Rose quit modeling to be with Emmett and that Alice wasn't in fashion because she fell in love with Jasper and unexpectedly got pregnant with twins. She is currently in the process of trying to get back in it.

I learned that the dress Bella was wearing was in fact made by Alice and that she had actually had it for awhile waiting for the right time to give it to her.

I apparently was the right time and I have to say considering how I reacted to her, I'm certainly thrilled to know that no other guy has had the privilege to see her in the amazing piece of fabric.

I found out that I would probably be punching a cocky disc jockey if Tyler Crowly didn't stay away from my woman. Although Emmett and Jasper were already hot on his trail for hitting on their wives numerous times.

Bella shared that she could relate with Lilly more than she had previously told anymore. It seems Renee had remarried without telling Bella as well. In fact she had a step brother that she refused to acknowledge even though he seemed like a halfway decent boy.

I shared mostly my career highlights. I didn't feel the need to rehash my doomed from the start marriage. She knew it all pretty much anyways. I caught her up on what my parents had been doing but mainly I listened to her.

I listened and watch as she would get a little more excited when talking about the time spent with Rose and Alice before the guys. I watched the sadness seep in when she would talk about her dad and how much she missed him. And even though she bitched about some of the things her friends forced her to do, I could tell she enjoyed the time spent with all of them.

I saw how much she glowed when she talked about how much she enjoyed spending time with Lilly.

"I love you Isabella Swan." I said randomly as we sat and finished off our last glasses of wine for the evening.

I had caught her off guard that much was obvious, but she smiled lovingly in my direction before taking my hand in hers.

"I love you too Edward. Are you ready to leave?"

"If you are…" I said but trailed off at the end as she stood up.

The ride home started out just as quiet as the ride to the restaurant until I caught her grinning about something but without any words spoken, I knew it had to be in her head only.

"What are you thinking about?" I inquired and then watched her blush when she realized she had been caught. I had just pulled into her driveway to drop her off – not wanting to presume she would want to go home with me. After all, this was technically our first date.

She didn't respond to my question immediately, instead she seemed to be thinking about something. I was getting ready to press her for an answer when she slowly turned her body to face me from the passenger seat.

"I was just thinking how hot it would be to get royally fucked in the back seat of this car." She said with no facial expression; just like she was reading a patient's chart.

My mouth popped open and I dropped the keys from my fingers. She just laughed.

"You asked." She shrugged as she started to get out of the car. I couldn't stop her and by the time I came to my senses she was standing at the front of the car looking at me expectantly.

I fumbled for my keys, readjusted myself because I was enormously turned on, and got out of my car.

"You can't something like then walk away." I mumbled as I locked the doors.

"I can when I know it won't ever happen." She said as she intertwined our fingers and walked towards her front door. "Stay with me." She said as she opened her door.

"Of course." Was my instant response and I closed the door behind me.

"Good because I have a surprise for you too…birthday boy." She whispered in my ear before turning away and walking up the stairs towards her bedroom.

I stood there at the foot of the stairs like an idiot watching her hips sway as she walked away from me. All I could do was stand there and watch. As she walked, her arms came around her back and she started unzipping her dress. When she got to the top of the stairs she turned around and instantly found my eyes.

"Aren't you coming?" She asked and before the whole sentence was even out of her mouth, she dropped her dress to the floor allowing it to pool at her feet.

I'm sure I looked like a cartoon. My eyes bugged out of my head, my tongue fell out of my mouth, and my heart felt like it was beating out of chest.

Yeah I'm coming. I thought to myself as I took her in.

Under her dress she had been wearing what could only be describe as the sexiest piece of lingerie I had ever seen.

It was a lacey corset with matching g-string – both in the same color as her dress. The corset had garter belts that weren't attached to anything since she hadn't been wearing any stockings. The corset was why her chest kept distracting me all evening.

She cocked her finger towards me and motioned for me to follow her as she stepped out of the dress at her feet, showing me that she still in fact had her heels on.

I followed like I was on a string and she was pulling it. There was nothing else for me to do. If I had known what she was wearing under that dress all evening, we never would have made it to dinner…and in fact that car fantasy of hers might have actually happened. Damn-it-all to hell how much the car costs. If it's going have a chance of getting ruined at least I would have had a story like that to go with it.

By the time my ass made it up the stairs, she was already in her bedroom. I walked in and found her in the middle of her bed, propped up on her elbows, legs crossed at her ankles. Waiting for me.

"I thought about putting a bow on myself but it kind of interfered with the dress." She said as she got up on her knees. She beckoned me closer to her and like a helpless man I did as I was commanded. When I was close enough for her to touch me, she grabbed my tie and pulled me as close as possible to the bed without falling onto it.

She pressed her body against mine and started placing open mouth kisses on my neck, working her way up to my ear.

"Fuck me Edward." She whispered huskily as I felt my tie loosen and fall from my neck and she lightly bit my earlobe.

That shredded my last hope of restraint.

I gripped her waist and lightly shoved her backwards telling her where I wanted her to go. She did exactly what I needed her to and I followed hovering over her. I kissed her mouth feverishly before starting my descent down her body

"Now Edward." She moaned as she arched her back. "Undress me."

I didn't want to sound like a dumbass, but how was I supposed to take a corset off? I'd never actually had a girl wear something like for me. Not even Tanya did stuff like this for me. I had absolutely no idea how women even got in corsets let alone how to get a woman out of one.

Bella chuckled lightly and then arched her back a little more. "It's a zippered one."

"Thanks." I laughed lightly before slipping my hand under her and continued my kissing along her shoulders and exposed collarbone. As slowly as I could manage I unzipped her corset.

Apparently it was too slow.

"Too fucking slow Edward." She growled causing me stop completely. "I want you to fuck me Edward. I want it fast and hard. I don't want to be quiet tonight. I want the neighbors to hear us." She finished as she ripped my shirt off.

We're talking full on ripped my shirt off of me. I heard buttons hit the floor.

But when I felt her warm little mouth start sucking on my right nipple, I was done. The corset was off in half a second and her g-string ripped right off of her.

"I liked that one." She pouted.

"Well I liked the shirt." I said then shut her up with another kiss as her hands worked at getting my pants unfastened. I knew she had gotten them when I felt her high heels snake up the sides of my body to assist her in the removal of my pants.

It was taking too long though so I took my lips away from her skin long enough to rid my body of my pants and underwear.

I slowly let my fingers trace up her legs and draw circles around her core. She was withering with need and whimpering for release, so I gave it to her. I had wanted to taste her and tonight I let myself finally do it. I watched as she came undone at the seams for me.

Watching her climax pushed me even closer to my own release. And there was no way I was going like that.

"Are you ready for me, love?" I asked as I positioned myself at her entrance. She moaned and nodded her answer so I started to gradually enter her not wanting to set myself off too quickly.

"Edward…too slow…" She said and she pushed her hips forward effectively causing me to fully penetrate her.

I lost all control to the animal side of me. I pulled her legs up and put them on my shoulders so I could leverage against them. My thrusts were forceful and fast.

It would be quick for me but I couldn't help my reactions her sounds and actions. I watched as her breasts bounced with each of my thrusts, her hands bracing herself against the headboard.

I was lost. Her hair was matted against her face and neck. Her eyes watching my every move, begging me for another release.

"So close Edward." She moaned.

I pushed her legs down so that they were closer to her making her tighter for me and allowing me a deeper angle.

"Shit Bella…damn…you're so tight." I groaned out not even sure it was understandable.

I was quickly approaching my peak but I wanted to make sure she hit hers first so I tried to go deeper for her.

"FUCK!" She screamed out as she gripped my biceps and dug her fingernails in. "Ugh…so good…so close…"

"I can't…come with me baby. Please come with me." I begged as I felt my orgasm start to build.

Right when I knew I couldn't keep going, I felt her walls clench down on me and the moan that I would be able to remember a hundred years down the road echoed in the room.

Watching her hit her climax sent me over the edge as well. I tried to hold myself up but as soon as her legs dropped from my shoulder, I collapsed over her. I could feel her heart beat against my chest as well as my own.

We were both out of breath, hot, and sweaty, but we both just laid exactly where we were. I was brushing her hair off of her face while she did the same for me. I couldn't take my eyes off of her. And I'm pretty sure I could have stayed like that all night, but I needed to make sure I hadn't hurt her with my roughness.

"Are you okay?" I asked her finally still not taking my eyes away from hers.

"More than okay." She smiled.

"I wasn't too rough?" I asked and just shook her head no still smiling. "I will be making love to you tonight though."

"As long as you promise to do that again at some point…I'll even keep my heels close by for you." She said as she kissed me deeply and ran her nails down my back while running her heels up my legs.

With no effort on my part, I was instantly ready for round two.

"Hmm…it's gonna be a fun night." She said then kissed me again.

The woman was going to kill me on my birthday.