Chapter 13
EPOV:
We got Bella to the hotel room that we had reserved online. We needed to get out of here before Aro came looking for us, but Carlisle wanted to look Bella over first. She was bleeding, I could smell her sweet tempting blood. I laid her on the bed as gently as I could and sat down next to her holding her small hand in mine while Carlisle inspected her injuries.
"Well Edward, she has a lot of bumps and bruises, the only injury that needs medical attention is this laceration in her thigh," he said standing to retrieve the medical bag he took with him everywhere. I looked down and sure enough, there was a gash in her thigh about four inches long. Blood was seeping out of it at an alarming rate.
"Carlisle, is she going to be okay?" I asked.
"Of course Edward she will be fine. The Sidhe people may not be as durable as us, but they can loose twice as much blood as a human and still survive, her vampire heritage added to that makes it even better for her," Carlisle said then began to stitch her leg up.
It only took him about two minutes in all to close the cut in her leg and after that we left Italy. We didn't go back to Forks, we went to France instead. We wanted to be far enough away from Aro that he couldn't find us, but we didn't want to be where he would expect us to be. Alice called Angela and told her to take Ben to a hotel and proceeded to tell her the code to the safe so she could get some cash.
I was sitting in Bella's bed holding her head in my lap when she started to stir in her sleep. I looked down just in time to watch her beautiful eyes open. She looked around the room at first and then looked up at me. Confusion fleeted across her face at first, but finally she settled into looking content laying on my lap.
"Hey, how do you feel?" I asked her. She sat up and stretched her body, bowing her back and putting her arms behind her to hold her weight. I watched her move her body and was thoroughly awed by how sexy she looked after just waking up. She relaxed back onto the bed and smiled at me, taking my unnecessary breath away.
"I cant really complain, I feel a little sore, but so refreshed at the same time. How long have I been unconscious?" she asked me.
"Two days. I was scared that you weren't going to wake up after the first full twenty-four hours, so I wanted to keep an eye on you," I said, smiling sheepishly at her.
"I am sorry for worrying you," she said reaching up to run her fingers across my face. "Causing an earthquake took more energy then I figured it would," she continued. I shot my eyes up to hers. Did she just say that she caused the earthquake? I asked her and she blushed.
"Yeah, well, I had to get out of there, so I did it with the power I have over the elements," she said, taking her hand back and looking at the wall behind me.
"Wow Bella, that was a really powerful earthquake, you could have killed yourself," I said scooting closer to her and hugging her to me, where she was safe.
"Yeah, I thought about that, but decided I would rather be crushed then raped and beaten so I took my chances," she said into my chest. I opened my mouth to argue but closed it instead. She was right, it was a for sure thing that Aro would have beaten and raped her, but only a chance that the building would have caved on her. She used the power that she did have and escaped from that vile vampire. I hugged her closer to me and kissed the top of her head.
"I love you Bella, I know that we really haven't gotten to know each other, but I know that I love you. I never got to tell you before Aro took you and that thought killed me, I was so scared of what might have been happening to you. All I could think about was that I wanted you safe, in my arms, and that I would do anything in my power to get you there," I said in one quick breath, suddenly terrified of what she would say to that. She looked up at me, wrapped her fingers in my hair and pulled my face to hers.
At first the kiss was hesitant, but it grew into something fierce and hot with passion. I broke away first wanting to see her face. Her blush colored her cheeks a fiery red, her lips were plump, wet and swollen from the strength of our kiss, and her eyes were dark and hooded with lust. She looked at me and whispered, " I love you to Edward, so much," and with that I leaned down and kissed her again.
BPOV:
Edwards lips were strong and sure against mine. I held the back of his head and he reached up and cupped my face in his hands. I wanted him, I could feel the need starting to ache in my most intimate of parts. He brushed his tongue across my lower lip and I immediately granted him access to my mouth. He invaded my mouth and I invaded his. Our kiss turned into all tongue and teeth as we fed at each other. I was about to beg him for more when he broke our kiss and laid sweet little kisses all over my face.
"I want you Bella, I want you so bad," he said with his lips against my forehead.
"Then take me Edward, I need to feel you," I said reaching up and pulling his hand to my breasts. "Please Edward, please," I begged him.
"I cant Bella, I want to wait until marriage," he said with as much certainty as he could and failing miserably. I was confused at first, and told him so. He pulled away and looked me in the eyes.
"I want to be married to you before we do this, didn't your people have marriages?" He asked.
"Yes, of course we did, but by our law we are already married Edward," I said. His eyes widened. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well, when a Sidhe finds their soul mate, the minute the two understand, they are legally and spiritually bound to each other, that is the way of my people. The two are already married, they just have to find each other and figure it out when they meet," I explained to him.
"I don't really understand Bella," he said.
"My people believe that when we are created, we are one, and then our soul is split between two bodies, a man and a woman, so when we find our soul mates, it completes us. Our souls are one and the same Edward," I explained further.
"So technically, by your peoples standards we are already married," he asked. I just nodded to him. He smiled his dazzling crooked smile and pulled me closer to him.
"Well, I wouldn't want to question another's beliefs," he said and pulled me in for another searing kiss. I placed my hand in his hair and tugged earning a grunt from him. He laid us down gently, holding himself up by his right elbow. He ran his left hand down my body, starting at my neck and going down, just to the side of my breasts and stopping at my belly. He tried to get my shirt undone, but ended up tearing it down the middle and throwing it to the floor along with my bra. He sat up and ran his eyes across my chest.
"Perfect," I heard him whisper before he descended on me again. He licked my neck and stopped to suck at the place where my shoulder met my collar bone, after he left a mark he trailed hot, wet kisses down onto my left breast. He licked and sucked at my nipple, and pinched my right nipple in-between his thumb and pointer finger. He switched places and began to lick and bite at my right nipple. I could feel a string leading from my nipple to my aching pussy, every time he sucked or bit down it would pull, sending me into oblivion.
He stopped his ministrations on my breasts and started to lick and suck his way down my stomach and stopping where my skirt started at my hipbones. He hooked his fingers in the waistband and slowly pulled off the skirt and my panties, leaving me bare to his eyes. I decided he was wearing to many clothes and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled, ripping the buttons off and pulling it over his shoulders. He got the point and pulled his pants off in one fluid motion. I about had an orgasm by just looking at him.
His body was lean and toned. I ran my fingers down his six pack and licked and bit at the skin around the V that led into his boxers. He pulled away and laid me back on the bed, pulling my legs over his shoulders and he lowered his head to my hot and aching core. First I felt his fingers run from the top of my slit down to my center. He gathered up my juices and slowly pushed a finger inside of me and curving it to hit that sweet spot just on the inside. He dipped his head in and I felt his tongue lick a hot line on the inside of my thigh before he attacked my clit.
He bit, sucked and licked my clit while he pumped his finger inside of me. I threw my head back and moaned. He ravished my pussy with his mouth as he added another finger. I grabbed him by his hair and started to thrust my hips in time with his fingers and tongue. The pleasure started to build in the pit of my stomach. It built until it exploded causing a white hot light to cloud my vision. I pulled at his hair as I screamed my orgasm. He continued to lick and suck as I rode out the rest of my orgasm.
I pulled him up by his hair and kissed him, tasting myself on his tongue and moaned.
"Edward, please I want you inside of me," I begged. He just grunted and lost his boxers. He grabbed me by the back of my knees and wrapped my legs around his hips. He rubbed his hot, pulsing cock up and down my slit, teasing me. I bucked my hips and he moaned. He positioned himself at my entrance and pushed just the tip of himself inside. I thrust my hips and sheathed him inside of me completely. The pain was immediate and sharp, I was after all a virgin, and he was in no way small, or even average. He was big!
He stilled, allowing me time to adjust to his size, the effort it took him was visible, and after a few short minutes I bucked my hips again to let him know that I was ready.
He started to move in and out of me, slow at first, but he gradually picked up the pace. "God Bella, you feel so good," he hissed between his teeth.
"Oh, Edward, yes, there, please don't stop," I moaned.
The pressure started to build again. It grew with each thrust of Edwards hips, like a bubble being blown, bigger and bigger until suddenly it popped. The orgasm burned trough my body, and tore out of my throat with a series of screams and moans. He started to lose his pace and soon after he followed, throwing his head back and moaning out an orgasm of his own. I felt both of our auras fall and our energies rushed out to smash into each other. His energy swept through my body like a cool calming wind only to rejoin him and mine to rejoin me, but of piece of me stayed with him, and a piece of him stayed with me. He collapsed on top of me and laid his head on my shoulder, both of us sweating and panting, trying to learn how to breath again.
It took us a while to calm ourselves, Edward managed to roll to his side and I rolled to look at him. We just laid there, staring at each other for a while.
"What is this?" Edward asked running his fingers softly over the oak tree birthmark on my right hip.
"That is the mark of the Earth Mother, I was born with it," I said then turned over so he could see the crescent moon on my left shoulder blade. "That is the mark of the Goddess of the Moon, I was born with both,' I said turning back over to him.
"So what was that, at the end, I felt something warm, and alive breath through my body, and it didn't leave completely either, I can still feel it," he asked me.
"It was me, we connected Edward, we are soul mates, our energies are now bound to each other," I explained.
"So does that mean that your power has doubled?" he asked.
"Yes," I nodded, "and so has yours, you should be able to have more control over your mind reading, though we need to practice more, to know just how much power we both gained." He just nodded and laid his head down next to mine. Both of us lost in our own thoughts.
Now that I have found my soul mate, defeating Aro will not be as hard, however, we do not know how much power we both gained. Before we face him we need to figure out just how much has changed with our abilities. I just shook the thoughts away for another day. Right now I just want to be with Edward, I cuddled up into his side and fell asleep being held by the love of my life.