Author Notes: yes, another update. I hope you don't mind. There are only 1-2 chapters left, and honestly I do not know when they'll be written. I hope to get to them as soon as I finish Yes, Master's five chapters from the FGB-Eclipse auction.


I watched Alice's lips leave red stains of her lipstick on Edward's cock as he gagged her. He showed her no restraint as he thrust forward, his hands on her head, forcing her down. He wasn't hurting her; there was that fine line in his treatment. She was beautiful like that, her hair growing out of the self-cut mess, eye makeup smudged with a few tears, sweating in the lamplight as we used her.

She'd demanded our first time be like this, her on her knees with her back arched like a cat in heat. She knew what it would do to me.

"Woman, you're askin' for trouble."

She giggled- yes, outright fucking giggled- and then pointed to her temple. "I always know what I'm asking for, Major Whitlock. No biting. It's not time yet. I want to be at my best, physically, before you turn me."

For some future that was beyond my capabilities of knowing, Edward and Alice had bonded in those moments before we left the hospital. She showed him something that gave a spark of hope to his heart that had been black since I killed Bella.

"Careful, Edward. We need her longer than just tonight," I reminded as Alice tensed with pain.

He growled and shoved her mouth away.

Petulant child. I half expected him to stick out his tongue in response. God as my witness, I was not anticipating my pet to shove me down over Alice's back and lick me.

The gentle heat of his tongue swept across my spine and down the cleft of my ass cheeks before he lapped slowly at the sensitive flesh hidden there. Edward!

The infernal tightness of Alice was too much when combined with Edward's gently probing tongue. He paused just enough to urge me on. "Keep going, Master," he purred.

Using my powers to unleash ecstasy on Alice, I did my best to focus on her pleasure and not what Edward was doing to me. Each thrust of his tongue brought me closer.

We rarely played like this. I would have to change that. He deserved better. I needed to be a better Master to him.


Weeks later...

"Tell him, Edward."

I watched as he rounded on her, his fingers twitching. Rage, hatred, and sorrow throbbed beneath his skin. "No, Alice."

"It's time," she sang. Her hair was cut into a sleek bob, and her slim body had grown gentle curves where they should have always been. No longer did she look like an orphaned waif. She was an exotic, elfin beauty. "It's better today, Eddie. My prince will understand."

Edward glared at her, reading her thoughts. Both of my lovers' emotions were all over the place.

"Fine. He won't understand, but he won't kill you or her." I watched them have a silent conversation. "That's what is important, isn't it?"

"Edward, third floor now."

"Yes, Master." Edward swallowed down his emotions and was instantly in his own quiet subspace as he left the kitchen. His footsteps were almost silent as he swiftly went to our room.

Alice's hands were fisted on her hips when I turned to her, ready to order her back to her suite of rooms. "I don't think so, Jasper. I'm watching this."

"I'm too tired for this, Alice. Tell me what is going on or be gone from my sight."

I remember Mama saying someone "smiled like the cat who caught the canary," but I had never seen it until now. Alice lips demurely parted as she smiled. Her hips swayed as she sauntered over to me.

"You love me too much already to make me leave, Jasper. And you love him even more. Poor lover thinking himself a Master. You're not even the master of your own heart." Her giggle was pure malice as she sashayed up the stairs. "You'll regret this decision, my prince. Remember that I will burn for you."

I watched her climb the stairs before me as I went up to find Edward standing by the fireplace. "You should have let me burn myself, Master."

I shrugged and stretched out on the couch, watching him through heavily-lidded eyes. "Care to enlighten your Master, Pet?"

His energy dropped down into despair before Edward picked himself back up and found his determination. "Alice, Sir. I..." Frustration was palpable in the room as Edward worked out what he wanted to say, no doubt searching my mind and Alice's for what I wanted to hear.

"She's playing with her doll and has closed her thoughts off to me." I heard the unvoiced "bitch" at the end of his statement.

"My little Alice certainly has spiced things up around here." As I spoke, I reached out to Edward with a tendril of warmth. Don't be angry with me, Edward. I hoped to cajole him into speaking, reserving a direct order as a last ditch effort. If you tell me of your own free will, I won't be angry with you, promise.

His laugh was richly frozen as it crashed over my bones. I had never heard or felt anything like it. It was...madness.

"Don't make promises you cannot keep, Master."

Not understanding, I summoned him beside me with a short mental declaration of what I wanted. As he knelt beside me, I stilled the fingers that were already unbuttoning his shirt. "No. That's not what I want at the moment. Tell me, Edward. What secret are you hiding?"

More frustration metamorphosed into resolve. "I have to make a call. It will be easier to show you than explain."


Showing me did not make it any better. "What the fuck?"

Carlisle smiled as he waved from the car. I watched as he went to the trunk and pulled out a contraption before opening the car door. Edward slid between me and the doorjamb before sprinting to the car. "Carlisle. I am pleased you could come."

Their emotions were confusing me. Expectation filled them. Fear was wrapped around the being in the car. I watched as Edward reached in, his voice soft and coaxing.

"Come now. I won't let them hurt you. Good girl."

Edward turned his back to me as he lifted someone, and a length of dark hair caught in the wind. I knew that sweet freesia scent. No! It couldn't be. Edward?

Shame and remembered pain echoed through his soul. "Master..." He trailed off, a sense of loss overwhelming him. Edward settled his burden into what looked like a wicker rocking chair suspended on wheels, then rolled it to the house before lifting the entire thing up into the house.

Golden eyes looked at me softly, a hint of anger registering deep in her soul. "Hello, Jasper."

How?

Alice skipped down the stairs in a diaphanous blouse that made her float like an angel. "Welcome home, Bella. I've set up your room upstairs. We shall become good friends. I've seen it."

How, Edward? My thoughts were screaming. He had deceived me all this time. With her. I killed her!

"No, Master. Well, yes. Her heart had stopped by the time you left and I dug her up. She did not wake up for weeks after I gave her venom and massaged her heart directly. Carlisle and I thought it was too late and her brain had been too long without oxygen. It was too late for her back and most of her memories. She remembers nothing about who she was before meeting us, and little after."

Carlisle closed up the car and walked up to where I was still standing in the foyer. "She does not remember Esme or myself most days, but always Edward. She lives for his visits."

I watched as the doctor moved behind Bella and stroked her hair. "Be a good girl for Edward, Sweetheart." Turning his attention back to me, Carlisle's tone became soft yet clinical, as if he was giving a death sentence to a patient. "Alice said Bella will be staying here now. You'll have to catch her food and bring it. Until now, she's only had my diet, but she would most likely take well enough to yours if needed. I do not recommend it though."

Bella began rocking in her chair, her hands tensing and releasing as she used her arms to begin the comforting motion. "Edward," she cooed. "I'm thirsty, Edward." It was as if Carlisle had reminded her she needed to eat.

Edward ran for the fridge where I had begun stockpiling blood for Alice's transformation. His voice was light as he called back to Alice. "I told my secret; now it is your turn."

My lover's face was radiant as she took my hand and held it to her stomach. "Did you know that humans can get pregnant from vampires?"