Longish A/N…but please read it.

Firstly, I want to thank everyone for all the love you all have shown this sequel. I can't believe HD hit 800 faves and well over 1,000 follows. You all rock…seriously, I would have most likely given up trying to complete this story if it wasn't for all the love I've been shown. As it stands, I only have through chapter twenty completed but beta and editing is still on going, and although I keep getting asked about questions about Alice and I don't want to respond simply because I will give away key points to the story if I do, so be patient...please.

I also find it funny that so many are judging Eddie for not truly giving Alice another chance…did we all forget she has already physically hurt Bella once? How is he wrong for not wanting to risk his PREGNANT wife again? IDK, Eddie may seem perfect, but at the end of it all he is human and will make mistakes too.

Also, at this point I don't know how many more chapters I have left to write—original outline was 25 chapters but I threw that out the window with the last chapter I wrote. lol.

Anyway, I hope the words continue to come back to me so there is no delay in the future.

Thank you to Brie and kitchmill as always for their mad beta skills...even if I fuck it up by getting wordy after the fact.

Chapter Ten

Confession #10: Some holidays are overrated...then again, maybe I never truly appreciated them the way they that I should have before.

Valentine's Day was a manufacturer's holiday...or at least that was what I believed before Bella came into my life. Sure, I still got things for my parents and siblings, but I now had a whole new outlook about the day all because of coffee girl and her sexy lingerie.

While I showered her with tulips, roses, and orchids, her numerous ensembles of red, pink, black, and white always seemed more generous than my own. Ultimately it didn't matter what color it was, just that it looked sexy on her and I couldn't wait to take it off of her every holiday.

Even at over seven months pregnant, it still was sexy as hell when coffee girl walked into our bedroom that night. Her baby belly was on full display when she opened the bathroom door in nothing more than a glorified pale pink ruffled bra and matching panty set. Her hair had been piled on top of her head and her face was completely free of makeup...just the way I liked it. The flush of her skin was only slightly darker than her outfit—if I could even call what she was wearing an outfit.

She simply took my breath away.

"You're gorgeous, love." It was too obtuse of a description, but my brain had already lost all blood flow as it had moved straight to my cock.

Bella rolled her eyes before for she spoke. "You have to say that."

I growled and closed the distance between us. "I don't have to say anything. I only speak the complete and utter truth. You're beauty is undefinable. Merriam-Webster doesn't even have a word that could sum up how breathtaking you are to me. I want to ravage you."

Coffee girl's breath hitched as I continued. "I plan to worship every inch of your body tonight before I even enter you with my rock...hard...cock."

Bella shivered and moaned at my words and then begged. "Please, Eddie. Now. I need you."

I scooped her up into my arms and gently set her down onto the bed, and I began to torture my wife.

My path began at her feet as I placed wet kisses on the tops before I moved upward, leaving teasing bites and more kisses on her calves, behind her knees, and every other part of her seemingly never-ending legs.

I inhaled the honeyed scent of her sex, wanting desperately to end my own game and dive in, but I couldn't. I wanted her to beg for more.

With one last deep inhale, I continued up to Bella's hips. I ran my nose along the waist of her panties, exhaling warm puffs of air into the still cover skin. She squirmed and sighed.

I knew she needed more even before she voiced it.

"More." Yeah, I could read her body, her every reaction to my seduction.

"Patience, love." I couldn't resist teasing her with my words. "It is a virtue, after all."

I sunk my teeth into the fleshy part of her hip and she arched into her pillows, panting out, "I'm not feeling very virtuous right now, Eddie."

I chuckled at that. "Too bad. I still have so many more spots to kiss and nibble."

Coffee girl sighed as I placed sweet pecks against our son. He may have her feeling less sexy, but I loved all of the extras he gave her body: her bigger breasts, her slightly wider hips, and her fuller ass.

Heaven.

I loved every changing inch of her body.

It wasn't long before I reached those lovely melons. I cursed the alluring contraption that hid her skin from me.

"Off," I growled, and she complied by reaching under her back and unhooking the offending material.

I flung the bra across the room but my eyes never left her heaving chest.

Glorious.

I placed one last gentle kiss upon the skin above her beating heart before sucking the hard peak of her breast into my mouth. I rotated between sucking and nibbling.

I'd missed being able to do this during the early stages of her pregnancy because her nipples had been too tender then. Once I'd read that stimulating and preparing her breast prior to the baby's arrival would help Bella once it came time to breastfeed, I found ways to add more breast play to our foreplay—after all, I was all about making her pregnancy easier on her. I knew I couldn't do it too much because I didn't want to send her into early labor; she still had about six weeks to go before the baby was due, but keeping my mouth off of her tantalizing tits was proving troublesome.

With a mental sigh, I release the first breast and latched onto the second. Bella's hand made its way into my hair, pressing my face further into her chest.

I continued my assault for a few more minutes before I let go with a loud 'pop,' which made coffee girl giggle.

I couldn't have that, so I quickly headed up to the junction where her collarbone met her neck and bit down. Bella cried out through the pleasurable pain. I let go with my teeth and then licked my way up to her cute ears.

My warm breath glided against the skin. "I need to taste those sweet lips of yours."

I turned to see her bite down on her lower lip, a coy look playing across her face before she said, "Which lips?"

She really was my naughty girl.

"Both…" I let the word hang for a moment before I continued. "But I'm going to start with the ones closest to my own."

She released her lower lip with a pout, and I quickly sucked that sucker into my mouth. The kiss was pleading on her end and I enjoyed the teasing nature of my side.

My torture continued for almost another hour before I finally slid her panties off. With a strength I didn't know a seven-month pregnant woman could still possess, Bella managed to maneuver me onto my back. I was shocked, but even more so when she quickly crawled on top of me.

She pinned my hands to my chest, and though I knew I could easily escape, I was too stunned to do anything but stare up at her in awe.

A fire burned in her eyes as she stared down at me. "I'm finished with the teasing. I need your cock in me, and I need it now."

She released my hands and used her own to guide me inside herself; I had never been more relieved to have not put any boxers on when I got out of the shower. I groaned at the warmth and tightness of her center.

Her pussy was my fucking Promise Land.

Once I was fully engulfed in her heat, Bella began moving ever so slowly.

I wondered if she was just getting used to the intrusion or if she was teasing me now.

I watched as her eyes rolled back in her head, her body writhing as she took her pleasure from me.

Her pleasure was my pleasure, so letting her set the pace was more than fine with me.

Bella began mewling and panting; her nails found purchase in my thighs as she leaned slightly back, rocking forcefully at she chased her orgasm.

I felt every flutter as it began before she locked down and cried out. "Fuck yes! Oh fuck. So good."

I tried to fight off coming, but between the grip she had on my cock, the look of her lost in her climax, and the cursing, I was done for.

I grabbed onto her hips and held on as I rode out my release with a few curse words of my own.

Valentine's Day was definitely one of my favorite holidays now, for sure.

~o~o~o~

Two days later we were at Dr. Dora's again. According to the ultrasound, our yet-to-be-named bean looked good and weighed over four and a half pounds. I couldn't believe he'd grown from a speck of sand into a little human being in only seven short months.

I knew Bella didn't feel the same way, since it was her body changing, but it was miraculous to me.

Before we left, Dr. Dora informed us we would be seeing her every two weeks until week thirty-six and then it would be once a week. It really was hard to believe we were in countdown mode.

As I drove toward the Dolby Theatre for our Oscar rehearsal, we began discussing names.

"What do you think of switching up your names? You know, like, Anthony Edward Cullen?" Bella asked as she looked through the tablet.

I cringed. "No way. I don't mind the idea of him carrying part of my name, like Anthony, but I really want him to be his own person."

"Okay...what about Brayden?"

I tested it out loud. "Brayden Anthony Cullen. Brayden Cullen." Without the middle name it didn't roll right of the tongue, so I nixed that too.

"How about Cooper?"

I shook my head. "Mini Cooper, or even worse, Cooper Pooper. No way. Next."

Bella continued on listing names, and by the time we arrived, we had a possible list of five names: Lucas, Caleb, Matthew, Thomas, and Spencer.

Each of those we felt flowed nicely with or without using his middle name of Anthony that we'd obviously decided on.

Who knew naming a child could be so difficult?

When we entered the building, Bella asked for directions to the restroom and waddled off to relieve herself while I checked in with the assistant director and sound technicians who would attach our in-ear monitors to their mics.

Bella soon found us and got wired up as well. Although it was only a rehearsal, I could tell she was nervous and a bit green.

"Relax, love. You can do this."

She took a couple deep breaths before she began showing me how to do vocal warm ups. Most were utterly ridiculous and I had a hard time not laughing, but soon it was time for us to take the stage.

With our IEMs in place, the orchestra's pianist began playing Bella's haunting melody. I began first and the words flowed out. The cat and mouse game played out for the first part of the song before we sang together.

Though Bella wasn't a classically trained actor, she was able to draw from the pain she'd written for the film. Every inflection in her voice made me anxious; I wanted to pull her into my arms and soothe the ache that the song created. It tugged at our heartstrings, made us fight every instinct within our bodies that begged for the other, for the distance and pain to end.

It was the saying goodbye line that always pushed us over the edge. A single tear slid down her cheek as we turned toward each other for the first time. We belted out the chorus, the emotion of it all hitting its climax before we slowly finished the final lyrics barely above a whisper.

Our chests heaved as we turned away from each other and took staggering steps toward the wings of the stage.

Everyone who wasn't involved with our set up had apparently stopped what they were doing while we sang and just sat and watched us. They were all frozen, and I honestly didn't know what to make of it until the director came on the overhead speakers and said, "Great job. Let's take it from the top once more to make sure the timing is set, and then you'll be free to go."

We nodded and took our places once more for the second run through. Thankfully the spell had been broken and everyone that had been watching us, returned to their duties. We were able to leave after we were relieved of our mics.

With only just over two weeks until the big show, I knew we were more than ready. I just had to keep Bella focused on me and everything would go off without a hitch.

I had wondered if coffee girl had chosen a dress yet because if she had, she hadn't mentioned it to me.

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Thanks for reading, reviewing when you don't have to, and for all the love and support. See you next Friday. xx Dee