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Living Royal

Chapter Thirty Six

"Bella? Bella, sweetheart, look at me." Edward tried bringing Bella out of her trance, but to no avail. "Father, can I call you back later? No, I don't think we will need a physician. Hopefully not." He added the last part hesitantly while glancing at Bella who still hadn't moved an inch.

"Alright, I understand. I'll speak with you later." He said before he hung up.

He immediately knelt down in front of Bella, peering up into her eyes.

"Bella? Please, talk to me. At least shake your head to let me know you're fine."

Edward's pleading tone must've finally struck a nerve with Bella, because she suddenly snapped out of her trance.

"I'm okay." She said faintly. Her face had gone white as soon as she heard the news and she felt extremely faint.

Edward's heart constricted at how scared she looked. He got up to sit next to her and put his arms around her, hugging her close to his chest.

"Don't ever be scared, Bella. I promise I'll never allow anything to happen to you. I'll start packing right now and we'll be back in London in a few hours. I'll call the pilot and have him ready the plane…"

"Wait, what?" Bella interrupted Edward's rant. She looked up at him questioningly.

"I'll call the pilot and we'll be back in England before you know it." He went on.

"No." Bella spoke forcefully for the first time since they received the call.

"No?" Edward asked, not sure what was going on.

"No, Edward." Bella said again. "I don't want to go back to England now."

"What? But…I thought that you were afraid, that you would want to…"

"I am afraid, just not enough to go running back to the Palace now, and definitely not enough for us to ruin our honeymoon." She stood up suddenly, getting fired up. Her emotions were all over the place. She was worried and scared and angry and had no idea what was about to happen next, but she knew one thing for sure.

They were going to spend the rest of their honeymoon in peace if that was the last thing they did.

"Bella, we can't do that. We need to get back so that I can guarantee that there are enough security around to protect you."

"But, Edward…"

"No!" Edward yells. "No buts, Bella! I'm not risking your life on pure chance. We're going back to London now!"

Bella could do nothing but stare for a few moments. She'd never seen Edward this angry before. He was standing in front of her, fuming with his fists clenched tightly at his sides.

"No, we're not." She says quietly, but loud enough for Edward to hear. "We're going to stay here and enjoy our damn honeymoon as though that call never happened or so help me God, Edward, you'll be sleeping on the couch until further notice!"

Edward gaped at her in astonishment and Bella stilled waiting for his final verdict.

She'd never threatened him with 'no sex' before. Probably because it would be as much torture for her as it would be for him.

Talk about a night of firsts.

"Do you really want to stay?" He asked slowly.

"Yes." Bella answered immediately and without hesitation. She wasn't ready for the bubble they'd been living in to burst yet.

When Edward still hesitated, Bella walked towards him and grabbed one of his hands in her own. He immediately intertwined his fingers with hers. "You told me you'd never let anything happen to me."

"Yes, of course I wouldn't." He answered right away.

"And I trust you. So you see, there's no reason for us not to stick around for the few days that are left in our honeymoon." She pouted. That always seemed to work with Edward. He could never resist her pouts.

"Alright," He sighed in defeat. "But we're not leaving the hotel until then."

"Edward -," Bella was about to argue but he cut her off.

"No, Bella. It's either that or we go back to England now."

"Okay, boss." She muttered sarcastically. It's not like she was against spending the next few days in a bedroom with her husband, besides there were a lot of activities that could be done in the hotel anyway.

Edward smiled at her tone. "You're adorable when you're trying to stay mad at me, you know."

"Hey, I can stay mad at you."

"No, you can't. I'm too beguiling." He winked.

"Hm, yes, you kind of are." She nodded solemnly, while her eyes twinkled. "No wonder I married you."

"Yup, I'm a lucky bastard."He grinned as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her hard.

The tension of the last hour and the worry they suddenly felt all translated into steam that needed to be let off.

They continued to kiss as they tumbled into bed and lost themselves in each other until the next morning, momentarily forgetting the circumstances that had them worried in the first place.

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Bella woke up the next morning as Edward shook her gently.

"Wake up, baby. I ordered us some breakfast, we didn't get a chance to have any dinner last night." He said as he leaned over sweeping her hair out of her eyes.

Bella moaned as she stretched trying to lose the last remnants of sleep.

"That's because we got too distracted." She said.

Edward grinned, wiggling his eyebrows.

Bella rolled her eyes, "I meant by your dad's call. You really have a one track mind, don't you?"

Bella's joke fell flat as Edward's smile faded.

The tension from last night was slowly creeping its way back, while the post coital bliss was quickly fading.

"Um, what did your father say yesterday exactly?" Bella asked, hesitantly, not sure she really wanted to know.

Edward frowned, "You already know what he said…"

"No, I mean, after I went into shock." She chuckled half heartedly, trying to lighten up the mood. "Did he say anything else?"

"No, he didn't say anything of importance, just that he'd be sending more secret service agents our way and asked if we needed a physician, for you."

"More secret service?" Bella asked, shocked. "As in there are agents already here?"

Edward had the decency to look sheepish, "Actually, members of the royal family can not under any circumstances travel abroad without security personnel. I just asked them to stay out of site as usual." He remained tense waiting for her reaction.

"Well, I guess I'm grateful for that now." She muttered.

"Really?"

"Yes, really." She smiled at his utter disbelief.

"Well, that's a relief. I was expecting having to call Felix in here to protect me from your wrath." Edward grinned.

"Do it behind my back again and you might just need him." She tried to give him her worst angry look, but failed miserably as Edward started laughing. She threw the nearest pillow at him and he caught it before it hit his face.

"As much as I'd love to have a pillow fight with my beautiful wife, she really needs to eat because she needs to gain some color in her cheeks."

He got up and walked to the tray that was left for them on a nearby table, but stopped in his tracks when he heard Bella's softly spoken question.

"Why would anyone want to kill me?"

Edward's heart squeezed at how vulnerable and scared she sounded. He was almost afraid to turn around and see how she looked, lest he break down completely. He forced himself to do it, anyway, and he turned slowly to look at her.

She was huddled in bed with her hands wrapped around her knees as she drew them up to her chest.

She looked so small and defenseless that he wanted to walk over there, wrap himself around her and protect her from the outside world forever.

Instead, he walked slowly back to the bed and sat down on the edge next to her.

"I don't know, sweetheart." He comforted her. "But I do know that they have to be insane to want to harm an angel like you and I also know that they'll never come anywhere near you. Ever." He said the last word forcefully. He didn't want her to be afraid, especially not when he was right there with her. He needed her to know that he'd always protect her no matter what.

"The threat isn't the first one we've received. We've dealt with similar threats before and most of them turned out to be meaningless empty threats." He went on.

"Most of them? I thought you said all."

Damn it, he was hoping she wouldn't catch on to that.

Who was he kidding? Bella was the most observant person he had ever met; of course she would've noticed his slip.

"There was one time when the threat came close to being carried out." He admitted, hoping to God she wouldn't run away screaming after he told her what he had to.

"Your Mother."

Observant, just like he said.

"Yes, my mother. But it all turned out quite well…for both my parents actually." He said, reminding her of how that accident caused his father to realize how much he loved his mother.

He knew he didn't need that to know he was madly in love with Isabella Cullen.

"Okay," Bella breathed in, trying to grasp the situation at hand. "You know, I'm suddenly really hungry, let me have that breakfast." She smiled and Edward sighed in relief that she was handling it so well.

For a moment, he contemplated that maybe this would be the straw that broke the camel's back, that it would make Bella realize that perhaps marrying him wasn't the right choice to make and she'd eventually choose to leave him.

Even the possibility of life without Bella scared the crap out of him.

He led Bella to the table so she could have some breakfast and sat down next to her instead of across from her. He couldn't bear to have any distance from her right now.

They ate breakfast in relative silence with only the scarping of cutlery filling the increasing silence of the room.

Edward held Bella's hand in his, refusing to let it go as he ate with his other hand. Bella needed that constant connection too, she felt that if she let go of him she would completely fall apart.

They were holding on to each other so tightly that Edward was shocked when Bella suddenly let go of him and ran to the bathroom.

"Bella? What's wrong?" He called after her, but got no reply.

He got up quickly and followed after her. When he reached the bathroom her found her throwing up the breakfast she'd just had. He held her hair up for her and patted her back gently.

"That's it; I'm calling for the hotel's physician." He decided.

"No," Bella grabbed his arm as he was about to leave. "It's just nerves, Edward; my stomach hasn't been feeling well since last night."

"Why didn't you say anything sooner? This could be something serious, Bella." Edward asked, worried.

"No, it's nothing, Edward, I'm sure, stop worrying."

"I can't help it." Edward almost pouted, looking quite adorable.

Bella smiled as she rinsed her mouth.

"I'm going to be okay, I just need something salty to settle my stomach, that's all."

"Alright, I'll call the reception and have them send up some crackers."

"They have crackers?" Bella raised her eyebrows.

"If my wife wants crackers, then crackers she shall have." He announced authoritatively.

God, he looks so sexy. Bella thought.

If her stomach was any better she would've kissed the living daylights out of him.

Bella spent a few minutes in the bathroom as Edward made a few calls. Unbeknownst to her, he had a plan. He was calling in reinforcements.

Crackers were indeed sent up as Edward had promised. After she devoured them, Bella felt a bit tired and sleepy so Edward made her nap for a few hours.

She was woken up later by someone jerking her awake.

Immediately she knew that it wasn't Edward, he was way gentler than that.

She opened her eyes groggily and noticed the spiky haired pixie she called her best friend.

"Alice?" She asked as though she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"Yup, it's me!" Alice bounced, smiling widely.

"What? What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to help out. Your wonderfully caring husband brought me over here to help out."

"Help out with what?"

"With the reason you're so worried, of course." Alice spoke as though it was more than obvious.

"You know about that?"

"Haven't you heard? It's all over the news, Bella."

"What's all over the news?" Bella felt like she was retarded, asking all those questions, but she was still groggy from sleep and the shock of waking up to find her best friend in her honeymoon suite wasn't helping.

"The threats you've been getting…Everyone knows what's going on, now."

"Wait, how did you get here so quickly?"

"Edward, sent his private jet to pick me and Jasper up. It only took a couple of hours to get us here, can you believe it?"

"Jasper's here too?"

"Yes, he's friends with Edward too, you know, and we thought we'd make a vacation out of it. But let's get back to the matter at hand, Edward tells me you threw up?"

Bella got up and leaned against the headboard as Alice sat down next to her.

"Yeah. It must be the nerves. The last twenty four hours haven't exactly been easy, you know."

"Um, Bella? When exactly did you get your last period?" Alice asked slowly, as though afraid to spook Bella.

Bella froze and all the color she'd gained that morning faded back again.

She palmed her stomach softly.

Oh, God.

(A/N): Soooo, yeah! :D I've been getting a lot of reviews asking when this particular event was going to occur, so here it is!

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