CHAPTER NINE
(BPOV)
Charlie wasn't thrilled with the idea of having to take a medical leave from the station, nor was he keen on the idea of being laid up at the house for the next few weeks, but he did so knowing it was best for him.
"I don't expect you to do everything around here, kiddo." He huffed, taking a spoonful of the soup I'd heated for him.
"I know, but you'd do the same for me if I was healing from surgery." I softly reminded him, as the oven timer went off in the kitchen.
"Okay, you win that one. But I'm supposed to be caring for you when it's needed. That's the role of a father."
"-as much as it is my role, too." I countered, with a chuckle and a shake of my head. "Don't be stubborn, dad."
"I'll try not to. That lasagna sure smells good! What time is Billy and Jacob coming over for dinner again?"
"They should be here anytime."
Charlie nodded at this, the corners of his mouth turning up into a small smile now.
"You know, heart attack aside, I think your wedding day went just the way it was supposed to." He hedged.
I gave him a look and he raised his hands then in mock surrender.
"I didn't even make it down the aisle."
"Nor should you have. So, since it's been a few days that I've been home and resting, why don't you tell your dear old dad just what's been happening between you and Jacob now that the wedding is called off."
I blushed sightly at his question, seeing this made his eyes widen some.
"Dad-..."
"Okay on second thought, don't tell me too much and please leave out the details but-"
"You weren't wrong. I do love him. I love him very much." I interjected. "He's part of me."
"How did Eddie take this news? I assume you've told him considering he hasn't shown his face around here lately."
"He took it about as good as I expected."
"Did he leave town?"
"No, not yet. Carlisle told Jake and I that they are planning to relocate soon though." I admitted.
"Can't be soon enough if you ask me."
I soon returned to the kitchen and pulled the bubbling lasagna out of the oven just as a knock came to our front door.
I rushed to open it and a wide smile spread across my face at the sight of Jacob there with Billy.
"Are we right on time?" Billy asked, with his amused grin in place.
"Actually- yes you are. I just took the lasagna out." I informed him.
"See, I told you that we would be just fine. Jake here was worried we were gonna be late."
"That's cause you insisted on taking the scenic route which took us longer." Jacob added, as he wheeled Billy in through the doorway and kissed me on the cheek. "I'm glad we didn't have you waiting."
"You'd be worth waiting for." I whispered in his ear, while taking their coats from him to hang in the hall closet.
Charlie beckoned Billy over to him then and the two of them began their usual banter back and forth.
"It's good to see you looking more like yourself, old friend." Billy began.
"It's good to be seen at all I suppose."
"Yeah, sure is."
I set the table and Jacob followed me, his arms wrapping around my waist from behind while I tried to finish with the silverware.
"Anything I can help with?" He offered, his breathy words against my ear making it hard for me to stay focused.
"N-No...- but thank you. How did your meeting go with Sam? Is he gonna step up the security more with the Cullens still being here?"
"It went good and yes he is. We're in the middle of scheduling shifts right now. Soon as that gets figured out, we'll have a larger pack meeting about the Volturi and what that means for our lands going forward. May have to get the elders involved."
"Is that a good thing or-"
"Depends...-" He chuckled, turning me in his arms and lowering his head to mine. "Whatever it takes honey. We'll do it."
I kissed him softly on the lips with my reply.
"I've missed you these last few days. Enough to dream about you last night." I admitted.
"What kind of dream?" Jacob implored, his lips lingering dangerously close to mine.
"The good kind. The kind that leaves you sweating when it's over."
His eyes darkened some at this.
"I've had many dreams like that about you, but nothing compares to the real thing. That's for sure." He huskily stated.
It had only been three days since the hospital and already my skin heated and yearned for his hands. His mouth. His tongue. All of him.
He'd ignited something in me I couldn't switch off.
"Think we can walk the beach later before it gets dark?"
"I'd like that, Bells."
Dinner went off without a hitch, and it felt good to have Billy and Jacob in our home again like this. It had been months since we'd all enjoyed a nice meal and conversation together. My heart was full at the laughter going around the table.
"You're looking better day by day, Charlie."
"Thanks Billy. Bella here has been taking such good care of me. Don't know where I'd be without her." Charlie huffed, patting my hand from across the table. "She's one of a kind."
"Sure is." Jacob added, with a sincere gaze my way.
We headed outside after the dishes were washed, our hands intertwined in Billy's truck while Jacob made the short trek back to the reservation.
The clouds were rolling in and the wind had picked up some since the sun had begun to set.
There was an evident chill in the air that raised goosebumps on my arms while we headed toward the familiar trail out back of his house.
"You wanna wait till tomorrow instead?" Jacob offered, noting the cold setting in around us and giving me his jacket.
"No, I wanna go. I'll be okay. Besides, I have you to keep me warm."
"Always."
The beach was empty when we arrived and it was refreshing to take in the sound of the waves among the otherwise silent atmosphere.
I gestured toward our trusty bleached out driftwood and we headed that way, soon hunkering down there in front of it.
With my back pressed tightly to his chest, I could feel the pounding of Jacobs heartbeat with every crashing wave and it was a sound I never wanted to be away from.
"Your dad seems like he's getting around a bit more."
"He's trying to lay low, but it's hard for him to do that though for too long. Not in him to be so sedentary." I countered, glancing up toward the darkening sky above us.
"I hope he follows the doctors orders."
"Me too."
Jacob slid his fingers down along my wrist, his hand catching hold of the wolf charm bracelet adorned there. Only now, there was no diamond next to it.
"You took it off...-"
"Right after I removed the engagement ring. I met Alice yesterday, just long enough to give it to her. It's not mine anymore and I wouldn't want to carelessly dispose of it in case it held meaning in the family somewhere."
"Did she mention anything else of when they are leaving?" He questioned, as I tilted my head back and drew in a steading breath.
"No, I'm sure they won't send word. They will just go. That's usually how they do things."
There was a long silence from him then, the two of us content to simply watch the ocean there in all it's majesty and beauty.
"Seeing you there in that dress all ready to walk down the aisle to him...-I couldn't breathe. It was suffocating for me to be there." He admitted, his tone low and husky.
"I didn't think you'd come- after everything. I really thought when I left that night, that was it. That I wouldn't ever see you again as just me. That the next time we laid eyes on each other, we'd be enemies."
Jacob tightened his arms around me there in the sand, and I turned my face into the groove of his neck, placing a kiss there.
"It would've killed me, Bells. I would've never been the same again. Not ever."
The sound of the anguish in his voice made me lift my head to meet his gaze.
"I know what you mean. I'm sorry...- so sorry-... for everything, Jake."
His lips grazed mine with another gust of wind and in the next second, I was straddling him in his lap as he claimed my mouth with his.
Slow and languid kisses turned into a desperate desire that left every part of me wanting more of him.
His hands went into my hair, tilting my head as his mouth trailed the hollow groove of my neck, evoking a soft moan to leave my parted lips in response.
"Jake...-"
He paused, his breathing heavy and his words quick.
"Come with me? I have somewhere we can go...-"
He lifted me off his lap with ease and took my hand, pointing to the far row of small cabin like houses tucked into the back side of First Beach.
They all looked vacant and I raised an eyebrow at his mischievous grin.
"Surely you're not thinking of breaking and entering are you?" I suspiciously questioned.
"No, this is more like borrowing." He assured me with a wink before we ran toward the light blue cabin a ways ahead.
Jacob hurriedly felt over the door frame for a spare key and handed it to me.
"Whose cabin is this?"
"It's Sams. He and Emily rented it out last Summer and then bought it this year for themselves. He told us pack members where the key was, just in case we ever wanted to stay for a nite. Emily doesn't mind. Trust me."
I unlocked the door and handed the key back so he could tuck it above the door frame again, my eyes widening at the entrance.
"Wow- this is nice." I admired, noticing how warm it felt and knowing Emily had played a big part in that for sure. She had a talent for home making like no one else I knew.
I watched as Jacob lit the candles left out around the cabin, his dark eyes meeting mine when he blew out the match.
I bit down on my bottom lip and took off his jacket, then my shirt, my words to him breathy and uneven.
"You make me feel things...- carnal things I've never dared to feel before."
He pulled his shirt over his head, leaving his sculpted chest and abs bare and on display for me.
He was breathtaking and everything south of my waist tightened when he slowly walked toward me, his low slung jeans, dipping far down enough for me to see the prominent V shape that diverted my attention to his zipper.
"What kind of things...-" He whispered to me in question, his breath ghosting against my mouth there in the dimly lit cabin.
"Things that make me ache to think about ... with you."
Jacob ran his warm hands up my sides, reaching around to my back and unclasping my flimsy cotton bra with little effort.
He kissed me deeply then, his tongue tasting and caressing mine until I felt my legs go weak.
His lips dipped down to my neck and collar bone, trailing warm kisses along the center of my chest and soon ducking his head low enough to swirl his tongue around my pert nipples. He reached for the button and zipper of my jeans and undid them slowly, his fingertips grazing the lace hem of my underwear as he went on with removing them. My knees gave out and I moaned, sinking down to the bed there behind me as Jacob got on his knees in front of me and pulled my bottoms the rest of the way off.
His mouth found mine again with a low groan as he parted my thighs and touched me, his fingers gliding with ease as he broke our kiss and held my stare. I felt bound by his dark orbs. The hunger in them holding me captive with his piercing gaze that promised of the pleasure to come.
"I want to make you feel everything-..."
His seductive words penetrated me long before his fingers could, and I can't form a single response as he parts my thighs further and inches me forward so I am hovering on the edge of the bed with his mouth dipping low to taste me.
One long flick of his wet tongue and I felt my whole body shudder from head to toe.
I gasped and my back arched, letting my head fall back in utter carnal bliss as he slid his fingers in and out of me, his tongue not straying from that sensitive pearl that left me aching for him in ways I couldn't put words to.
"Oh-...oh-..."
I gripped the bedding as Jacobs free hand roamed up the center of my stomach and kneaded one breast firmly, sending a shock wave through me that made every nerve feel electrified.
My arms were shaking and my body tensed more with every stroke of his fingers and swirl of his warm tongue.
When I thought I would surely explode, he stopped just long enough to lift his head and gently push me down so I was flat on my back.
He kept me anchored in place then, my moans louder and turning into whimpers when I felt as if it was too much, the burn too fiery to endure. My hips rocked in rhythm with his fingers and my hands tugged at his hair, pulling him in more and more.
His warm wet tongue wrote languid poetry against my soft silken flesh until my body started to weep with desire, my lust now dripping down his throat as he devoured my soul.
I felt the burn spread through me, leaving a trail of vivid flushed heat in its wake, and evoking passion to spill from my mouth in the form of desperate whimpers for this kind of pleasure that only he can provide.
I wanted him to claim me in every way there was.
Explore me.
All of me
Devour and consume me, savoring every last drop of my lust until it becomes like gold on his tongue.
My legs trembled then with a release that stole the very breath from my lungs.
I rode the waves of my erotic high with his name tumbling from my mouth.
"Jacob- oh- oh- Jacob."
My mind doesn't have time to recover or process the feeling of his mouth leaving my sensitive flesh, as he moves up my body and lifts me just enough to inch me back on the mattress, his sculpted body now fully naked and parting my thighs with a needy and low groan.
"Oh, God- Bells...-"
His voice is hoarse and almost choked, his eyes locking with mine as he pauses there above me.
"I want you... in me-" I practically beg him. "Please, Jake-"
"Shit-..." He breathes, pressing his forehead to mine.
"What?" I managed.
"I don't have a condom. We were careless last time-"
"I'm on the pill." I whispered in reply, seeing the relief there in his face, as he hitches my leg around his hip and presses against me.
I can't stand the anticipation any longer, as I reached down between us, taking his solid length in my hand with a firm stroke that makes him growl from somewhere deep in his chest.
"Bella-" He grounds out, the sound of my name like that sending chills down to my toes.
He pushed into me roughly then, the fullness making me cry out as he sheaths himself to the hilt.
I can feel nothing but him and I swear his body was made for mine and mine alone.
I bit down on my bottom lip hard enough that I'm certain I'll be bleeding from the force when his hands take hold of mine, lacing our fingers together and pressing them over my head while his pace picks up.
I am at his mercy, every thrust going harder and deeper until my body is pushed yet again over the edge and I cry out once more.
In a move so fast my mind can't fully grasp it, he releases my hands and withdraws himself from me, his chest heaving and his eyes as dark as midnight when he hauls me up into his arms and kisses me deeply, before flipping me over so that I'm on all fours now in front of him.
He covers my body with his, sweeping my hair over to one shoulder, as he draws me back against him.
I suck in a sharp breath at the feel of his firmness pressing against me, and a shiver reaches my spine with his whispered words into my ear then.
"I love you, Bells."
I can't respond, all words fail me as he kisses a steady trail down my spine and re-enters me from behind.
I grip the headboard for support, and Jacobs hand covers mine there, his other arm reaching down to circle the sensitive bead of flesh that leaves me crying out over and over.
The combination is so intense, so mind blowing, that I struggle to catch my breath, as his pace changes from slow to punishing in a matter of seconds.
"Oh- God...-"
"Bella-..."
The bed moves with us, hitting against the wall as he nears his release with every thrust.
My head whirls and my heart hammers so fast I am convinced it will explode now at any moment and I'll die from this feeling.
Jacob kissed my shoulder then, his confession in the dark reaching me just as his release crashes over him, pushing me into a body shaking orgasm that takes my legs out from under me.
"You're everything to me. Everything, honey."
Pain and immense pleasure all mixed into one send me helplessly falling, unsure of when I'll resurface again.
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