Author: Calito

Title: Fumbling towards Ecstasy

]Author's notes: Hey everybody! Chapter 3 is finally out!!  Took me awhile to write this because this is my first story where the characters don't immediately reject the bond so I had a lot of deleting and then retyping going on. Any who this chapter is a little bit shorter than normal but after this is when the story really starts to take off. I think this will actually be the first story I finish and hopefully that will be sometime this summer which is in exactly 9 days!! WOO-HOO!! So enjoy and please review!!

Hey Terriah, thanks for reviewing and most likely you'll probably be seeing more updates on this story then my other two so enjoy!! lol

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Chapter 3

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An explosion went off all around Emma as every possible color known to man started to swirl around her, no them, she could see Edmond. Emma grasped onto Edmond to steady herself from falling. Pulling out of the kiss, Emma looked around, the hallway was no longer there, and the house had melted away.

  "What is this?" she said with wonder as Edmond looked down at her. He looked up and his eyes traced what was around them, "It's my dream coming true," he said.

  Emma looked up at him, "what do you mean," she asked, as she leaned into his tight embrace, unsure of what was going on.

 "Emma do you believe in vampires and witches," Edmond asked?

 Emma pulled back a little, "what are you talking about? What is this?" she said as she looked around her surroundings again.

 "Emma please," Edmond whispered. "Don't be frightened, but do you believe in vampires?" he asked more serious.

 "Of course not, no," she said as she looked in his green eyes but something in her head was telling her otherwise.

 "I'm going to tell you something and you're going to have to believe me," he muttered.

 "What is it," Emma asked as an uneasy feeling crept up her spine.

  "I'm a vampire and your husband is a witch," he stated.

  Emma was instantly taken back, pulling out of their embrace. The colors drained bringing back the dark hallway and the feeling of warmth disappeared. It happened so fast that Emma instantly became dizzy.

   "Is this some kind of joke?" she asked as she leaned on the wall, her breath coming short.

  Edmond stood there, his eyes holding so much emotion. "No, of course not but it's the truth."

 Emma watched him, his eyes held no mischief like they usually did and somewhere; in the back of her head she knew he was telling her the truth. Emma dropped her gaze and she could hear Edmond walk up to her. His fingers lightly went under her chin making her look him in the eyes.

  "Don't be afraid, but it's what I am," he said as his finger lightly swept over her lips.

 "I-I don't understand. What do you mean you're a vampire?" she barely got out.

 Edmond smiled down at her, "it just means I have more advantages than you do," he said as he leaned down and tried to kiss her again.

 Emma pushed against him. She wasn't going to do this when she was so confused over what was going on. By right she shouldn't even be having this conversation. She was married, and in the past five minutes betrayed everything she had made a vow of.

 "Wait," she said, clearly seeing Edmonds disappointment. "What did you mean my husbands a witch?"

 Edmond sighed, "Fernando comes from a long line of witches. He is one of the few male witches that exist in his family because for some odd reason witches are mostly girls."

 "Why is that?" Emma asked.

 Edmond shrugged as he leaned in closer to Emma, pushing her up against the wall. His hand lightly traced the side of her cheek and Emma had to hold all her emotions in so she wouldn't give in to him.

  "What was that we just went through then?" Emma asked as Edmond started leaving light pecks on her swollen lips.

  This time Edmond got serious and pulled back from her, "it's called a soul mate bond. It means that there is someone out there who perfectly matches you in everyway. They are your one true love and what you just felt is what happens when you find that person."

  Emma stared at Edmond, everything has just been thrown at her in the past five minutes and it was taking her a few seconds to grasp it all.

"If you don't believe me think back to the first time we met. You do remember the wedding," Edmond said as he took Emma's hand and kissed it lightly.

Emma watched helplessly but she did remember that she had felt something when she walked down that aisle and saw Edmond next to Fernando. It was almost as if she had recognized him even though she had never met him before.

 Emma looked into Edmond's eyes, "how come it just now happened? We've been around each other numerous times and nothings happened."

  Edmond smiled, "well according to legend it requires skin to skin contact and every time we've touched," as he ran his hand down her cheek, "we've had some type of garment on."

 "Oh," Emma muttered. She was starting to believe everything Edmond had told her, she always had known there was something off about the people her husbands had dealings with.  I wonder if they were witches to, Emma thought.

  "Mostly vampires, some shape shifters, and a few witches," Said Edmond.

 Emma snapped her head up, "what? How did you?"

Edmond laced his arm around her waist and pulled her closer, "your thoughts are very loud," as he lowered his head to kiss her.

Emma pulled back, "you can hear my thoughts?"

 Edmond smiled, "yes, it's a gift we vampires have and I have to say you have some very interesting thoughts."

Emma lowered her head; she could feel the heat creeping up her neck. She could hear Edmond chuckling softly as he continued to look at her.

  "Does that mean you could hear everything I've been thinking; even before we touched," as she lifted her head up and looked at Edmond?

He nodded softly.

 "What about other vampires," she said uneasily? 

"Only if they look hard enough," he paused as Emma's eyes grew a little bigger. "But you have some very cryptic thoughts though or you've been taking a certain infamous herb."

Emma knew what he meant, the herbs she had been taking to prevent pregnancies, "how did you know about that," she asked?

 "There are only a handful of herbs that can conceal a human's thoughts from a vampire and that happens to be one of them and the fact that I know Fernando has been expecting a child ever since you two got married."

Emma looked up into Edmond's eyes, "this is still so strange to me Edmond."

 "I know it is but you have to promise me Emma that you won't tell anyone about what I've just told you. Not about the soul mate bond, your husband, me, and most definitely not about the night world. They'll kill you for that Emma," he said with no sign of amusement.

  Emma nodded her head as she leaned into him, she could feel his embrace grow tighter. She understood that now her life was forever changed, just by touching him she knew she could never love another man. That he was truly the one for her but she was already taken. She made a vow to Fernando that she knew deep down inside she couldn't deny, not to her and not to Edmond. Squeezing her eyes shut Emma tried to shut out the nagging voice in her head telling her to stop this now and walk away but she knew she already made her choice when she first kissed him. She made it before she knew she belonged to him.

 "I don't know if I can do this Edmond," she whispered.

"Leave the worrying to me," was all he said as he cupped her chin and looked into her eyes. Emma smiled and leaned into him; his mouth was on hers and she kissed him back. Wrapping her arms around him, Emma clung to him desperately. This was forbidden yet she couldn't stop she could never stop because for once in her life she knew what it was like to be truly loved.

To be continued……