Chapter 19

We went through the secret tunnel back to our suite. Once inside, he scooped me up, carried me to his bed and laid me down. He reached under my dress and removed my dagger then laid down on top of me. We started kissing and he started touching me through my dress. I caressed his face, smiled and whispered, "I thought we had work to do."

"We do, but I can't stand it, I love your body and how you respond to me. But we do need to talk," and he set me up on one side of the bed.

"What about?"

"You defending yourself."

"I will have six daggers and a sword."

"Yes, you will."

"Isn't that enough?'

"Yes, hopefully, but I have a special dagger I want you to carry up one of your dress sleeves."

"What's that?"

He got up and pulled a new dagger from his closet. It was shinier and the metal was a shade lighter than the normal ones I had used. "It looks like the same but it is a shade lighter."

"It is diamond tipped and can pierce armor in case they are wearing armor plating."

"What? I said. We haven't talked about armor plating at all."

"I only have one of these daggers. Armor is expensive and only the higher ups will have it on. Remember, if you have to throw your daggers, I hate to say it aim for their necks or if you are in close contact aim about 4 inches above their crotches or at their crotch. Now let's go practice.

I did, but with a dummy needless to say. It was empowering; James had never let me do that much. "Now let's go to the meeting with the guards and go through the plan for tomorrow and the rest of the week."

"Fine."

"Don't worry, Beautiful. Then I am going to bring you back here and we can relax together. But you will need a good night's sleep because you will have a really long day tomorrow. Are you sure you don't mind riding a horse for that long?"

"Of course not, I will do anything to save my family."

As we met with the guards and reiterated that we would be on horseback with them, one of them suggested, "Maybe Queen Isabella should be dressed as a guard as well to disguise her."

Edward said, "What about her hair though?"

Another one said, "Simple. Braided down her back and put the jacket over it."

"Brilliant," Edward said.

He sent three guards to try and find a small guard outfit that I could wear. Twenty minutes later they returned with one. We went over the traveling plans and the plan once we got back to the castle. "That's it, gentlemen. I suggest you all get a good night sleep; we have a long ride ahead of us tomorrow.

"Good night, your royal highnesses."

As we got close to our room, Edward whispered, "What are you looking forward to the most?"

"Being with you, Emmett and Rosalie."

I reached up on my tip toes and kissed his lips, "What are you looking forward to?" with a smile I asked.

I was up and in his arms in our bed. Then he smiled while looking down at me and said, "You. You are the one person I never thought I would have and now I am married to her. Now go put on your dressing gown so that we can see how your guard uniform will look."

I smiled and said, "You don't want to help me."

"You are torturing my resolve, Bella."

"I am actually trying to."

"Why?"

"Because," I turned with tears in my eyes.

Edward said, "Shhhh! No crying. Why are you crying?"

"What if something happens to you or I in the next week?"

"Bella, are you trying to seduce me so that you can hold onto the memory?"

"Not really, I have been married to James for four plus years and I want to make love to the real Edward. This may be our first and last time."

He kissed away the tears and said through kisses, "This isn't how I wanted it to be Bella," then he started unbuttoning my dress and then undid the layers and my undergarments.

I helped push away his shirt. Then he pulled me to a sitting up position and whispered, "First you need to try on your guard clothes. He helped me finish undressing and slip into my sewn up dressing gown. Thanks to the bulkiness of my dressing gown, the pants fit. Now sit down my beautiful queen and I'll braid your hair down your back."

"How your highness?"

"It's something I needed to know along the way. Now let's try the jacket on," I put it on and the sleeves were long he cuffed them up.

"Edward, they are still flapping."

"Maybe your mom can tack them around your wrist."

"Besides that, it will be okay, I think."

"Yes, it will. I have one more thing; I will suggest."

"What's that?" and Edward started to help me remove my jacket and then my pants went away. Finally he held me up and I slipped out of my dressing gown.

I smiled and said, "I thought there was something else we needed to discuss."

"There is but I needed to get you to the proper form of undress to demonstrate the problem."

"And now I am? So what is it?"

Then he slowly undid my braid and carried me back to bed and laid me down. He laid down next to me and pulled me in close. His hand came up my side slowly and capture my breasts. I jumped some because Edward had never touched them naked before and the sensation was amazing and he continued gently touching and fondling them. In my ear I heard, "They are amazing, beautiful and full. I believe they have filled out a small amount since you have had two children."

"Yes, you noticed."

"Yes, of course, I did. They'll get very painful riding tomorrow as much as you are. If we had enough time or were at the castle,"

"You would tell me to wear a corset."

"Yes, I would."

"That is what I did with James."

"Good, do you mind if I bind them for you tomorrow?"

"Only, as long as, you do it and undo them."

"Yes, I will. I would never let one of my other guards do it and I will not ask your mother because I want to know that it is tight enough for the ride."

He rolled me so that I was underneath of him and he lowered his head to taste my breasts for the first time. I just wiggled underneath of him. His tongue and teeth played their own gentle game with my breasts. He brought them together and gently suckled on them in his mouth and I arched to get even closer to him. He then kissed his way back to my lips and whispered, "I do not want to stop; I want to keep exploring your body."