AN: A lot of you were pissed off at Bella and I feel your pain...so does Edward. Thanks for all the great reviews! They made my week.

I pulled at the cuff around my wrist despondently. It was my everyday collar, as I couldn't wear one around my neck without people getting suspicious. It was dark blue leather with my crest on it, but instead of the lion in the bottom right corner it had her initials I.S.

I sighed and rested my head in between my hands. I don't know what I had done to upset her, but it had been a month and she was still completely ignoring me. She wouldn't answer my calls, or my e-mails. I even tried camping outside her apartment. But even though she was completely avoiding me I could still hear and feel her in my mind. I couldn't concentrate on anything. I found myself ignoring my family and working overtime at work. It was like I had broke up my girlfriend or something.

The phone on my desk rang and I looked at the clock on the wall. 9:00. I sighed and picked it up. The whole office was deserted, even Alice had gone home for the night." Hello." I mumbled into the phone and I sounded pathetic even to my own ears.

"Where the hell are you?" Rose shrieked down the phone. I pulled the phone away from my ear and grimaced." What are you talking about?" I said tiredly. I didn't have the energy to argue with her." Dinner! You fucking idiot." I frowned and looked at the calendar. It was Thursday. Fuck. Rose was still shouting down the phone at me but I put the phone down without saying anything. I stood up and grabbed my jacket and left, not bothering to take any work with me. I probably looked like crap right now, as I hadn't bother shaving this morning after sleeping in. I got into the elevator and pressed the bottom floor.

The doors pinged closed and I slumped against the back wall suddenly glad that I worked on the fourteenth floor. The tune of ' I believe I can fly' sounded in its electronic ring probably meant to cheer people up who were riding the elevator, but at that moment I just wanted to smash whatever made it make that noise. The doors pinged open and a pair of heels appeared next to me.

"You're Edward Cullen, right?" I straightened up my pose and looked over at the girl standing next to me. She was a tall blonde, with files clutched in one arm and a briefcase in the other. I ran a hand through my hair,"Um...yeah. I'm sorry I don't think we've met." She giggled," Oh my gosh. I feel stupid now. Jessica Stanley, Human Resources." I squinted at her, no it couldn't be. The world wasn't that small.

"Jessica Stanley...as in from Forks High?" She looked confused for a second before her mouth fell open." Oh my gosh, you remember me? We made out once behind the bleachers." I nodded and I managed a hint of a smiled. She carried on," Wow, it's a small world..." Her voice trailed off and she looked at me again.

"Who is she?"

I looked at her with raised eyebrows," Who?"

She smiled," The girl that your pining over. I know the signs when I see it."

I sighed," It's complicated."

She nodded," It always is."

I chuckled," Yeah, it is." The doors opened for the bottom floor and we stepped out. She turned to me," Do you want to go for coffee or something? You can talk about your lady love." She smiled warmly at me and I shrugged." Why not?"

OOooOOooOO

We sat facing each other in the coffee shop sipping our respective drinks," So tell me about her." Jessica coaxed leaning forwards. I sighed, " We weren't really seeing each other like as in a relationship, but the sex was great." She laughed loudly and put a hand over her mouth," It always is Edward. I speak from experience. I was with a guy like that once. It didn't end well." She shook her head looking far off.

She turned back," It seems strange to see you again. I keep seeing people from high school ever since I moved back. Thinking of that guess who I saw the other week?" I shrugged," I can honestly say I have no idea." She smiled," Lizzy Mason...Well she goes by Elizabeth now. She just got married to this Anthony guy. Hot as hell with abs that make a girl drool."

I raised my eyebrows. Strange I had just looked through my yearbook like only two days ago. I wasn't quite sure what I had been looking for, but I got nothing from it. I opened my mouth to speak when Jessica interrupted me." What's that on your wrist?" I fought against the automatic reflex to hide it and shrugged in a non-chalent manner." It's a cuff."

Her eyes were wide and she looked back up at me," Oh. My. God." I frowned and hoped that she okay," Are you alright?" I asked hesitantly. She shook her head," You're him." She whispered. She shook herself and stood up." Um... it was nice meeting you Edward, but I just remembered that I have to go...pick up my laundry." She turned and hurried off without looking back.

I frowned and leaned back in my chair. I shrugged and concentrated back on my coffee. My phone rang as I was leaving and I picked it up without looking who it was." How dare you hang up on me!" Rose shrieked.

I sighed getting really tired of this shit." Rose if you don't shut the fuck right now I'm hanging up." I growled. She went silent for a minute before commenting," What crawled up your ass?"

" I'm just tired." I mumbled.

"Uh uh. I lived with you for over ten years. I know when you're tired or when you have got problems. So spill before I get Emmett to badger you about whatever it is that has you wound up."

I momentarily considered just switching my phone off and throwing it under a passing bus, but I knew she would just turn up at my apartment.

" Personal stuff. So just leave me alone."

I hoped that this would make her leave me alone, but I obviously didn't know her that well if I thought it would work. " Okay Im coming over to your apartment." Her tone held a note of finality and panic spread through me. I mean I loved my sister, but I didn't want her coming over to my safe haven. It was like my bat cave. Private." Guess who I just met for coffee." I interjected quickly trying to distract her. She huffed," I don't know."

" Jessica Stanley!"

"No way!" She exclaimed.

"Yes way." I replied trying to hold back the gloating feeling inside. She was completely distracted.

" I saw her the other day! She was just going to a wedding for some chick from high school and she said that quite a few of the people from our old school were there. Bitch didn't invite me though." I rolled my eyes at her dramatic behaviour." No offence Rose you weren't the nicest person back in high school." She huffed," Oh and Jessica was?

I chuckled," As much as I would like to talk about the unfairness that is the world I really have to get home and get a decent nights sleep." I hung up before she could argue and hailed a cab back to my apartment.

I directed him to my apartment and focused on looking at all the passing people and wondering whether their lives were as complicated as mine. The cab stopped at a traffic light and I looked at the apartment building in confusion. It looked familiar. It took a minute for it to dawn on me that this was Bella's apartment building. My heart stopped in my chest for a second and before I really made a conscious thought I got out of the cab and thrust a couple of twenties at the cabbie. I stood across the street from it and stared at the building trepidation creeping in.

What the fuck was I doing here? It was raining heavily and the likeliness that she would see me was slim. My heart and balls told me that I shouldn't give up on her, but my mind told that she was just going to rebuff me again. I sighed and pulled the collar of my coat higher and bucked my head as I ran across the street.

I got a deep breath and pressed the buzzer to her apartment. I waited with bated breath as she answered," Hello?"

I took a deep breath and answered," Hey, it's Edward. We need to talk."

It was quiet for a minute before she answered," Edward it's late and I though I told you not to come back."

"No, you told me that if I was smart I wouldn't come back. I never claimed to be smart." I looked down at my watch," Plus it's only ten."

She sighed," Edward, what you don't understand is that I don't want to see you."

I leaned my head on the wall next to the buzzer and took a deep breath," So you're just going to keep ignoring me? Whether you like it or not until I remove my cuff and give it back to you I am still your Sub and you are still my Domme. So unless you see me this will never be over."

Silence followed before the door buzzed and I fought the instinct to do a fist pump. I pushed open the door and ran up the stairs not wanting to waste any time. My feet squelched on the tiled floor and I'm sure I was leaving huge wet spots on the floor, but I really didn't care. I stood outside her door for a second trying to compose myself before I knocked. I lifted my hand up and rapped twice. I felt the wood vibrate before it swung open.

We stood there simply staring at each other. She was wrapped in her floor lengthed purple dressing gown. She looked at me, her face a picture of calm. If she hadn't been chewing her lip so hard I might have actually believed it. I leaned on the doorframe with one hand panting breathlessly," How do you want to do this?" She asked quietly. I shrugged ignoring the lump in my throat." I don't know you're the boss."

She ran a hand through her long brown hair that was hanging around her waist and shook it out." It should be simple. Just give me the cuff and then Thats it. We both go our separate ways." I swallowed convulsively," If that's what you want." I reached down with a trembling hand and undid it. It felt like as soon as it fell off my wrist the load on my back got heavier. I could hardly breathe and I clenched the cuff in my other hand before offering it to her.

"By doing this we are terminating our contract. Anything that happened in my playroom will stay there." I dropped it in her outstretched palm and nodded," Okay." Her fingers curled around the cuff and I suddenly felt naked and exposed before her. She looked down at it a mystified look on her face," I guess this is really it." She said her voice sounding choked up.

I shook my head," It doesn't need to be." She looked up at me and squared her shoulders," No, this is for the best."

I leaned in closer unable to help myself," The best for who?" She smiled weakly," Me. I let my emotions cloud my judgement. I blurred the lines in our relationship and that was wrong of me." I smiled sadly," I kind of liked it."

She frowned for a minute before nodding," Okay, well I have got to get some sleep…" She trailed off suggestively. I nodded feeling empty and turned away. I stuffed my hands into my pockets and started walking away.

"Wait!" I stopped but didn't turn around. If she wanted something she would have to come get it from me. I heard her light footsteps behind me," Look at me Edward." I turned warily to see tears falling down her cheeks. She stood up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to mine.

" The summer of 1995. I came to Forks to visit my father. We were both seventeen and you took me out for ice cream. I came back the next year to see you, but you had already graduated and left for college."

I stared at her in shock," I remember you. You had short hair and always wore sunglasses even when it was raining." She smiled and nodded," I guess I never got over you and when you came to me I thought it was a dream come true, but I let my emotions get the better of me and I made things complicated. I love you Edward. I always have and I don't think I can let you walk away from me."

My mind was working a mile a minute trying to piece together everything. " So that's why you attacked me in the shower?" She nodded. I frowned," But if you loved me then why did you try and break this off? I mean why didn't you just tell me? There are so many people in BDSM who do both, have a relationship and do BDSM."

She sighed," I know...it's just as you can see I'm not very good at separating my emotions from my professional life and I doubt that if we were dating that I would be able to control the urge to jump you every five seconds."

I ran a hand through my hair trying to control the grin threatening to overcome my face. Never had I been so glad that I hadn't listened to my what my mind was saying and listened my cock instead...plus maybe my heart in a weird sense." You never know until you try. I mean you did so well at the beginning."

She bit her lip," Do you want to try?" I chuckled," Do you think that I would show up at your apartment this late at night if I didn't have at least an inkling of feelings towards you?" She shook her head and sighed, " We are one messed up pair aren't we?" I chuckled," Well actually I was doing pretty well." She rolled her eyes and pulled my head down and kissed me. She pulled back and grabbed my hand pulling me into her apartment.

She pushed me against the door and attacked my mouth with kisses. I don't know for how long we just stood there kissing and touching each other. It could have been minutes, it could have been hours and for once I just didn't give a fuck.

AN: Nooo! Is this the END?...or shall I carry on? You guys decide. So what did you think? Review and tell if I should stop here and give you an Epi or just keep going. I have also started a new story called Whistle In The Choir, which I will be posting later this week. It's set in the 50's.

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