Chapter 27
We both had a dagger under our pillows and two more on our night stands. "Edward, can I ask a very big favor for later today?"
"Anything , my love."
"Please wait for me to wake up before you leave me alone. I'm not ready to be left alone yet. If it gets too late, you can wake me up."
He kissed my cheek and said, "Go ahead and close your eyes. I promise I will be here when you get up later today. Now please, Bella, close your eyes; you need asleep." I tried and then I heard the humming of my favorite song to me. Three hours later, I was screaming, "Let me go, let me go," and I grabbed my dagger from under the pillow; but because of my gauzed up hands, I couldn't hold my dagger and it fell. Edward woke up instantaneously to my screaming and pulled me back in and kissed me to wake me up. "Bella, it was a nightmare. Please wake up."
I finally woke up, "Oh my god, I just tried to kill you because of my nightmare." I got out of a bed and walked away from Edward.
He was right behind me and pulled me in into him by my waist. "Stop, Bella. It's okay; we won't sleep with daggers under our pillows anymore. Bella, it is okay. Stop crying; you went through a terrible experience last night I would expect you to have nightmares. You have never experienced such an ordeal first hand. We killed several men tonight which is not pleasant. But it was for the greater good. Come on I will show you why?" First he scooped me up into his arms and carried me to one of our mirrors and said, "You and I are still here. Pull your robe tight we are going for a walk through the castle." Our guards got up and came with us. Edward easily just carried me up the stairs of the tower my family had been in. "This is the other reason." Emmett and Rosalie came running up to us. But Edward stopped them and said, "Please just lean in and give your mummie a kiss on the cheek. She's some injuries that need time to heal before you can hug her." After I had received many kisses, we sat and visited for a while. Edward finally said, "We need to leave you all here until tomorrow just as a precaution. How would you feel about returning to your rooms then?"
"Mr. and Mrs. Swan, I would like it if you would stay here with Bella and I for at least six months and then you can think about moving back to Paris if you would like too though you don't have too. You're welcome here as long as you would like."
"Thank you, your highness. Of course, we will stay."
"Now if you all will excuse me, I think the queen needs a nap." Emmett laughed it that.
Edward carried me back down the stairs and as we were getting close to our bedroom, "Please don't make me take a nap, I'm afraid to close my eyes. Let us do some work around the castle after we get dressed. Hopefully, I will be exhausted and I can sleep tonight."
"Okay, but if you fall sleep over a bowl of soup," he leaned over and whispered, "You owe me two hours of nakedness on our bed during broad daylight."
"Why two?" I whispered back.
"Because I'm serious about helping you heal faster, so I'm going to make you do one hour anyway. Let's get you dressed and see what shape this castle has gotten into since you've been gone."
"My king would like to see all of the castle and how it has been taken care of since you have been gone for the last five years."
"Only with you on my arm, your majesty." Back into our suite and into our own dressing rooms we went. Edward came and found me on my stool in my dressing room. "Would you like some help your majesty?"
"Yes, please Edward." He took me into his arms and helped me stand up. He slowly unbuttoned my night gown then helped with my layers. We added my fuller dress layer, my corset though it wasn't very tight to give my ribs the rest they needed, and finally we put on one of my mother's beautiful designed gowns, the one I'd worn the first night I met him.
"Oh my god," he said. As he got my dress settled over me, "I didn't think you could get any more amazing in this dress than you did the first night. But your breasts fill out the dress even more than it did the first night."
" The corset helps with that to my king." Together, we explored our castle. We had lunch and no I didn't fall sleep in my lunch. We then went back to our suite. We were going to tour the rest the castle after our nap. Our maid and butler were still kept away. Edward moved my chaise from the fireplace to a set of the windows. He helped me completely undress; we laid a towel around my womanhood for protection and my husband had me sitting in the sun naked. He pulled a chair up by me and read me poetry like while I'd been his prisoner. When he finished one of the poems, I asked, "You know, I am still your prisoner right."
"Why?"
"I'm your prisoner of love now."
"Bella, I've been your prisoner of love since that night in the garden."
"James may have been able to impersonate you on a physical level but he cannot hold a candle to how you affect me, my heart, and my emotions. James was always calm and easygoing with me. He enjoyed teaching me to ride and use daggers. Making love was easy and enjoyable. But with you there is a passion that wasn't there before. You make me want to be constantly with you. Poetry, talking and my opinion counts."
"You're more brilliant than I even am. You'll always be a part of the guards and planning. You took out four of the eight guards that attacked us. Our men were happy to have you on our side. Bella, shhhh, I understand about my brother."
"Edward, just a minute let me finish."
"Go ahead."
"I was happy with James and I did love him. What we had I would have had for the rest of my life and never questioned it? But then I met Anthony and we became soul mates. We could talk about anything and after one kiss me, it reminded me of the jolt that I was missing but I didn't know that it existed for real until Edward reappeared. And yes it's also comfortable to be with you and even more exciting when you kiss me. I feel the electricity that went through me and that is what I want for the rest of my life. I love you Edward," and as I looked up at him; I saw tears in his eyes. I sat up to get close to him and kissed the tears away. He slid in next to me on my chaise and we started kissing and touching. "Edward," I said when his shirt kept getting in my way. "This is much too unfair."