Inheritance 28:
JPOV:
"I swear to you Bella if I learn that Aidan is letting you ride the bikes I will personally kick his ass. You will never ride one of these without me." I warned her as I tried to teach her how to drive my bike. She had nearly fallen over six times since I placed her on it. I knew she was trying but it was too funny to watch her mess up each time.
"I know." Bella exhaled deeply blowing a loose piece of hair out of her face.
"Let's take a break and rest." I suggested as I caught the annoyance in her eyes.
It was hilarious. She was trying so hard to learn how to drive this bike when it was clear that she was not the "bike" chick she had hoped to be.
I sat down on the blanket next to her. We had driven up to the hills where a small park laid a little off of the highway. I picked it because I knew this area offered a lot of privacy this time of the year. I wanted to be able to spend some quality time making out with my wife without worrying about someone walking up on us.
"Did you bring any grapes?" I asked as I chewed on my lower lip watching her pull out a couple of Ziploc bags full of food and a couple of containers.
"Yea." She handed me the bag with the grapes. I plucked a few and threw them in my mouth.
"Are you ready to go back to work tomorrow?" She asked as she pulled out a strawberry and began to suck on the tip before she bit into it.
I gulped hard as I watched the juice slide down her chin.
"Not really." I admitted.
"How about you? Are you anxious to spend your days with Aidan?" I teased her. I knew that she didn't feel anything toward my best friend other than friendship now. After our week together I had no doubts that Bella's heart belonged to me. I also knew that I had her full attention and loyalties in the bedroom. She often made the comment how no other man could make her feel like I did. So yeah, my ego was pretty stoked up.
"A little." She admitted as she licked her lips.
"What?" I looked at her with a fake look of hurt on my face.
"I mean, I am happy to see him. I love spending time with you baby but I know you have work to do and I would be just a distraction if I stayed up in that office with you ALL day." She teased as she leaned over and placed a tender kiss on my neck.
I felt myself harden instantly. She was right. I would never get any work done if her beautiful body was anywhere near me.
"You have a valid point." I chuckled softly as I rolled onto my side and leaned my head on my hand and watched as she continued to eat more of the strawberries.
"You're so beautiful." I found myself saying as I thought the words. Her head whipped around. Her eyes were frowning at me but her lips were curled into a smile.
"So are you." She giggled as she sat the container back in her bag and then copied my position across from me.
"Whatever!" I rolled my eyes.
"You are a wonderful guy Jake." Bella replied as her voice grew deep.
I stared into her eyes wondering what she was thinking about. She was still holding back on me. I couldn't explain it but I had felt something shift between us. I knew that she cared about me but further than that I was still clueless.
Was this the right place and time to tell her that I was falling madly in love with her? Would it scare her away? Would she put distance between us? God, it would kill me if she withdrew from me and told me she did not feel the same. I was in love with her. I was dreading the thought of our challenge ending regardless of how it ended. I just wanted her in my life. I didn't want to let her go.
"Bella you are more than wonderful. Words can't describe how I feel about you." I decided to step a little off the edge to see how she would respond.
She sat there staring deep into my eyes for several minutes before she finally broke the silence.
"Really?" She gulped hard.
"Really, I can't stop thinking about you. I want to touch you and hold you all the time." I confessed. I saw her eyes mist over. I felt my chest tighten in fear. Was it possible that she was about to cry because she didn't share the same feelings toward me? This wasn't the way I had planned our day together. I wanted to just have some fun with her. I didn't intend on confessing how deep my feelings were for her. I hadn't planned on making her feel uncomfortable. What do I do now? How do I fix this without causing her anymore discomfort?
"I know how you feel." She replied as she sucked in her lower lip.
"Seriously." I exhaled with relief clearly on my face.
"Yeah, "She nodded her head as she laughed softly at the relief I was showing at her reply.
"Bella I know this was supposed to be a fake marriage but it doesn't feel quite so…..fake." I reached over cupping her face with my hand as I stared deep into her eyes.
I felt so nervous. It was almost like the first time you have sex with a girl. That uncertainty and fear that you will totally fuck it all up and she will hate you or mock you the rest of your life type of fear. I knew that in my heart I was totally and irrevocably in love with Bella Black. This whole thing might have started out as a farce but now it was more real to me than anything I had ever known.
"Yeah." She agreed as she released her lip and leaned into the palm of my hand.
"I am so scared Bella. I want to tell you something so badly." I began as I pulled myself closer to her our faces a mere inch apart.
I watched as Bella's eyes filled up with tears again. I said a quick prayer to God that my instincts were not wrong about her and I.
"I love you Bella." I whispered the words as I stared into her eyes waiting for her response. I held my breath. I braced myself for the rejection that I feared might follow my declaration of love to her.
"I love you too, Jake." She whispered as tears began to spill out of her blue eyes and down her cheeks.
"Really." I gasped.
She nodded her head and smiled at me.
"Thank you God." I looked up at the sky and then back into her face as I pressed my lips against hers.
Our kiss began slow and tender and then gradually turned into hot passion that consumed us both as our hands grasped at one another until I found myself leaning over her slipping my hands underneath her blouse. I had to touch her flesh. I had to feel her body naked against mine.
I lifted her blouse my eyes soaked in her beauty as my mouth clamped onto a taunt pink nipple. I heard her cry out as I nipped it before sucking it slow and hard.
Her hands were wrapped around my neck as she held me against her.
I pressed my hardened member against her core as we both groaned and grinded against one another. I sat up and pulled my t-shirt off throwing it to the side. I saw her cheeks turn bright pink.
"What's wrong?" I wondered why she seemed suddenly so shy.
"I hope no one walks up on us." She explained as she chewed on her lower lip.
"Who cares?" I shrug as I dipped my head back down to savor more of her breasts.
I felt a wet droplet of water hit my lower back. I ignored it thinking it was probably just me sweating when suddenly I felt several more hit me. I looked up at Bella who started laughing as water began to splash on her face.
"What the hell?" I look up at the sky and saw a sudden gray cloud was hovering over us and no doubt about to drench us.
"Come on." We yanked up our stuff and began to run a little further down the path until we came to a picnic table area that had coverage over it. I covered the top of the concrete table top with the blanket. Sitting the food underneath it I turned to find Bella shivering. She was pretty drenched from our short run. The sky was still spilling like crazy.
"Come on lets finish what we started." I smiled wickedly at her as I patted the top of the table. She looked stunned for a second and then her smile matched mine.
She pulled off the damp blouse and bra. I watch as she slipped out of the shorts and her cute little thongs. Then very slowly she crawled up on the table and sat on the very edge directly in front of me. I pulled the rest of my clothes off and stood before her bare as the day I was born. The rain was coming down so hard around us that it actually made a shield. If anyone was watching they would not be able to make out much underneath here.
She curled her legs around my waist, feeling the ridge of my hard cock rub against her slick warm center. The scent of her mixed with the rain around us was intoxicating. The smell of warm vanilla on her skin and the sweet taste of strawberry in her mouth drove my senses wild. The brush of her hair over my skin raised goose bumps along my flesh.
"I truly love you Bella." I whispered into her ear as I sucked on the tender spot that I knew drove her crazy.
"I love you too Jake." She moaned as her hands slid up and down my backside.
I slid the palms of my hands down her outer thigh and under her to cup her bottom and grinded myself against her. We both groaned as the contact caused friction between our private parts. I continued to kiss her sweet tasting mouth while her hands roamed from my back to my chest. My mouth released her tender lips as I dipped down to with a soft swipe of my tongue on her breast. Her hand slid down between my legs stroking my hardness until I thought I would explode in her smooth dainty hands.
My fingers found her swollen, sensitive clit and petted it while my lips went back and forth between her perky nipples with exquisite care.
"God you taste so damn good." I groaned into her chest.
"You feel so damn good." Bella replied running her palms up my biceps and over my shoulders to return to the satiny hardness of me, it felt like silk poured over metal.
She threaded her fingers through my hair on the back of my neck.
"Show me how much you love me." She stated firmly as her eyes stared at me with such need and desire toward me that I thought it was impossible to show her how far and deep my love truly was for her.
I drug my fingers up her legs and parted her thighs and for a moment I just looked down at her, amazed that she was all mine and that her heart belonged only to me now.
I rubbed her sweet spot with my fingers a few times while she cried out. I knew she needed me and it made me want to roar like a lion.
I slipped my fingers inside of her feeling the soft moist texture of her walls. Bella rode my fingers, fisting the blanket on either side of her, and tossed her head as the climax consumed her.
I slipped tiny kisses over her breast, slowly going in a downward path across her abdomen until it reached the point where my fingers were still buried within her walls. I heard her groaning as she reached another peak of pleasure.
I slipped my fingers out of her and heard her whimper until I replaced my fingers with my tongue. I teased her with gentle strokes. I was so rock hard that I wanted to just thrust myself into her but I held back. I wanted to please my wife. I wanted to show her just how much I loved her and that her pleasure was more important than my own needs.
I waited until I knew that pleasure burst through her tiny bud. Once the ripples of pleasure had subsided, Bella pulled me up to her and began to kiss me with all her heart. It was incredible. Her kisses always blew my mind.
I grabbed her hips pulling her all the way to the edge of the table. She gave a squeal of surprise as I spread her thighs apart roughly and guided my hardness into her. I pushed into her wet heat slowly. My eyes locked with hers.
"Open your eyes Bella. Look at me. Watch me love you baby." I ordered as she forced her eyes wide open.
I withdrew and thrust back in, steadily increasing the pace of my thrusts, setting a rhythm I knew that would allow her to climax over and over again until she begged me to stop. Pleasure shot up through my sex and up my spine, signaling my oncoming climax. I wanted to wait. I was fighting against my own needs as I continue thrusting in and out of her listening to her cries of pleasure. I pulled her legs up over my shoulders my hands followed the curves of her waist and hips until it slid under her buttocks to cup her against me as I rode her so slowly. Her name slid out of my lips as my own climax hit me with such force that I swore I was seeing stars and firecrackers in my head as my seed shot out and poured deep in her core.
Leaning my head against her chest I fought to catch my breath. It had literally taken my breath away. This woman had away of making sex feel like a drug. It was powerful, amazing and addicting as hell. I knew that as long as I had Bella in my life I would never want another woman in my bed.
EPOV:
I was trying so hard to be reasonable with Tara but I just didn't have it in me. I was still hurt by her betrayal. She had shown no remorse since I exposed her to the truth I now knew about.
"Look Tara, I will give you a chance to bond with your daughter until we learn more about who is her real father. In the meantime you can stay at my place but I won't. I can't be under the same roof with you right now. "I tried to keep my voice as calm as possible. Elyssa was asleep in the crib next to Tara.
"Edward I will admit I screwed up. Okay. I honestly thought you were going to leave me and run to Bella. I was scared. I know I hurt you. I'm sorry. You have been so good to me this whole pregnancy. I didn't deserve it." Tara spoke softly as she placed her hands in her lap.
"You know if you would have told me your fears in the beginning we could have worked all of this out." I snapped at her. I did not want to hear her tell me more lies. How was I supposed to believe a woman like Tara had any fears at all? Tara in my mind had always been fearless. Now staring at her pale face and sunken eyes it was hard not to imagine her as weak. Her body was obviously frail. I wanted so badly to comfort her but let's face it if I did that then I would just fall back in the same trap as before.
"I'm not Bella Edward. I don't talk about my feelings. I …just don't." Tara turned away as tears slid down her face.
I hated hearing her even mention Bella's name to me. She had no right to try and bring her up to me. It wouldn't work this time. I wouldn't let her try to make me feel guilty.
"Your absolutely right you're not being Bella. Bella knows how to keep her pants up. She doesn't jump on anything with a dick. She would have known without any doubt who the father of her baby was." I flung at her. I knew it was low but Tara had broken all the rules when it came to fighting fair.
"Your right she would." Tara nodded her head continuing to look away from me.
"Mom will come by later to make sure you and the baby are fine. She wants to spend some time with her. You better behave politely to my mother." I warn as I pointed at her.
Her head slowly turned to face me.
"Don't worry Edward I know my place." Tara replied.
"Good, I got some things to do and will be back later to check on you both." I grabbed my overnight bag. Leaning over the tiny crib I placed a tender kiss on the tiny little baby that was sleeping soundly. The baby was oblivious to the crazy world she had been born into. I just prayed that she was mine so I could protect her from Tara. If it was Mike's or Jaspers no doubt Tara would keep full custody of her and lord only knows what would happen to her at that point.
I seriously doubted that Tara would suddenly grow a maternal instinct and raise her daughter properly. No, I feared this baby would be stuck with nannies and live at Tara's parents' house where no one would actually raise her. All I could do now was wait and see what the results were. Carlisle had pulled a few strings so we could get the results sooner than normal.
I pulled into my parents' house and went straight to my old room. I found myself staring around at all the familiar things. Then I saw it on my dresser. The picture of Bella and me for our engagement article in the paper. We looked so good together. She was smiling and her eyes even seem to be shining. She had truly loved me and I had wasted it. I had thrown it all away for nothing.
I walked over to my computer and turned it on. I began to look up flight times and cost. Once I learn who the father of this baby was I was going to go to Vegas. I needed to see Bella face to face. I had to warn her that someone was stirring up some serious shit for her. If she was in danger then I would do whatever it took to protect her. I owed her this and so fucking much more. I knew in my heart that we would never go back to who we once were. I knew that the love I had shared with Bella was a memory. I knew that even Bella who was the closest thing I knew to a saint would never take me back.
Still, I had to go to her. I had to warn her. I had to be there if she needed me. After all we were once friends before we were lovers. Friends help other friends.
LPOV:
"I'm telling you Alice if you saw Tara you would be shocked. Poor Edward. He looked like hell." I sighed heavily as I began to unpack my stuff.
Alice sat on the edge of my bed watching me.
"I can't believe I just heard you use the word "poor" and "Edward" together." Alice frowned up at me.
"Alice he is a shit okay but the man looked broken when he discovered that she had cheated on him and this baby might not be his at all." I gulped hard as I watched her process this information. Edward was her cousin. Although they had not been as close since his and Bella's breakup I knew she was protective of her loved ones.
"How did he learn about this?" Alice continued to look totally shocked.
"That is the fucked up part Alice. He told me that some "friend" of Bella's going by the name of Jane Wood was asked by Bella to investigate Tara. She told him that Bella wanted to help Edward out. She also told Edward that Bella was in a bad marriage. That Jake was beating her. Now who the hell would go and do such a fucked up thing? What has been going on while I've been gone?" I shouted as I put my hands on my hips.
I was starting to wonder if my girls were holding something back from me. If Bella had done such an investigation then she would have asked one of us first. Since I knew she did not talk to me about it, it had to be Alice.
"Look, I never heard about any investigation. I don't know of any Jane Wood." Alice gave me a solemn look.
"Well, someone is trying to hurt Bella. I can't believe this stupid challenge made its way up to Forks. I mean hell when I first ran into Edward I just told him she had moved on because I didn't want to risk him telling the Swans. I don't think Bella has even told her own parents about this marriage." I reminded Alice that we needed to warn Bella about that. If she did not tell her parents soon someone else would. Someone was playing dirty and they had no fears to go to our hometown and dig up dirt on her.
"No she hasn't. They just got back from their honeymoon yesterday." Alice replied and then squealed.
"What the hell Alice." I laughed as I rolled my eyes at her.
"Bella is in love with Jake." Alice explained with excitement all over her face.
"No shit. She finally admitted she loves him. Wow, what are we going to do now." I shook my head in disbelief. I loved Bella and I wanted her happy but it was a bit sad to think she would no longer live with us. She would no doubt stay in the fancy mansion of hers with her yummy as hell husband.
"So did he tell her he loved her?" I asked as it suddenly occurred to me that I did not know where Jake stood with our Bella.
"Oh trust me he does. Even Quil says that Jake is totally smitten by her." Alice clapped her hands happily.
"So what's up with you and Quil?" I asked preparing myself for some major sex details.
What came out of Alice's mouth next made me seriously wonder if all my girlfriends were losing their minds? It sounded like I was about to become a lone wolf. I didn't like that thought one bit.
