Happy Sunday all. Sorry the post is a little late today, I slept in. Hope you like today's post, Nikky and I will be busy working on more stories for you today, Kasi~

Chapter 15

We share a cab, but I get out with her walking her to her apartment door.

"Thank you," Bella says softly before walking in.

"Isabella," I yell as she closes the door, thankfully, she opens it frowning at me. "I just wanted to say you did really well today, real fucking well."

She looks at me in surprise. "I'll see you tomorrow then," I say pulling at my hair.

She gives me a curt nod and closes the door.

"What the fuck's wrong with you, Cullen?" I say to myself as I walk away. I feel a pain in my chest and stop looking back at the door. "What the fuck do I do?"

I close my eyes breathing deep trying to think about what's the right thing to do. Before I can stop myself I'm knocking on her door.

"Edward?" Bella asks as she opens the door.

"I forgot something," I say as I look at her.

"What? What did you forget?"

"This." I move to her sliding my hand up the side of her face, and I move in closer. I stop for a split second before placing my lips onto hers. It only takes her a split second to start kissing me back and everything in me feels whole, but at the same time, it feels as if someone's setting off fireworks inside of me. I kick her front door with my foot, turn us and push her gently against it.

"I have wanted you from the first moment I saw you. This feels so fucking right," I say trying to regain my breath. The fact that she's kissing my neck isn't helping me. "I don't think I can stay away from you anymore."

"I don't want you to ever stay away," Bella says looking up at me with her doe eyes. "But what do we do, I'm still working under you?"

"I really like the idea of you being under me," I reply straight away, "but the fact that you're helping out in the narcotics department, could be a problem. We may have to wait until your tour of duty there is over," I say pulling away from her, already hating that I may not be able to spend time with her.

"Come to bed," Bella says and I look at her.

"There's no rule saying we can't be friends. Some friends share a bed." I grin and nod at her.

"That sounds good. Wait for me right here, I'll be quick." I run down and quickly pay the cabbie and give him a large tip, and send him on his way. I run back up to her door and she lets me in. I turn and lock the door and she turns off the light. I follow her and I strip down to my boxers with my back to her. We watch each other as we get into bed.

"Everything in me is screaming for me to take you, but I want to get to know you outside of work. I want to have it be known that we're seeing each other, and we're a couple before we get to that."

"Good thing I don't sleep with guys on the first date then."

I chuckle a little looking at her. "Are you okay?"

Bella shakes her head at me and I pull her into my arms. "It was the first time I had to shoot to kill, and after the first one, I was not even thinking about it at all, it just seemed to happen easier."

I kiss her head closing my eyes as her pain hits my heart. "I know, baby, but you did it to save everyone. They would've set those bombs off, killing many people; that was a part of their plan." I hug her a little closer to me.

"This is weird," Bella says and I frown and feel worried, because I find this perfect.

"How so?" I manage to ask.

"It's weird in the fact that it's not weird. It feels like we should be doing this. You know, the whole cuddling together and talking together about our day, while sharing a bed. That's odd to me, because I've never done this with anyone." Bella rolls her eyes at her own words.

"Yeah, I get what you're saying, but maybe it's our bodies' way of telling us what's been staring us in our faces. I'm sorry that it took me so long to catch up with you."

Bella bites her lip blushing. I keep looking at her seeing just how tired she is. "Come on, baby, let's get some sleep. Tomorrow is going be a big long day. Neither of us can work, but we do have to go and make official statements."

A/N: So what are your thoughts now?