*Bella*

*(Evening)*

The moment I had landed in England...The thought suddenly came to me...There was no way that I could ever intentionally leave Edward or live my life knowing that I had lost the best thing that has ever happened to me...My mum had my Aunt...She probably would have wanted me to stay but of course, being so wound up in her feelings in my heart...And with Edward's insistence..I went away.

It may seem a little crazy and stupid...But, I never stayed in England...Not long enough...I had boarded the next plane back to France.

My life was mine to live...For once, I took the stubborn approach..Without Edward there is no life and there can never be any life. It just took me a whole wasted flight for me to realise it.

I hated my Aunt Gilly and the thought of my mum being with her but my mum was the reason I was sent out to France in the first place – I may have never met Edward at all if my dad hadn't been such a prick!

The flight was long and tiring but there was something waiting for me at the end of it...My life's purpose which I have been searching years for...I had an excuse to live and breathe.

Edward Masen.

I stepped into the apartment with my old key which I had never given back...Even though I was planning to, the goodbye to my Edward at the airport was more than enough strain on my thoughts to take away any sense or saneness left.

As I closed the door gently, Paul came out of the living room...I saw his eyes light up but immediately thinking that he was going to shout I placed my index finger on my lip with my free hand...Honestly, a bit shocked to see him myself...Using the hand to hold my lip for a moment that wasn't holding my suitcase and he nodded in response.

"Is Edward upstairs?" I mouthed barely whispering and making any noise as he nodded again with a proud sort of smile and expression on his face before I climbed the stairs on tiptoes thankful that I had taken the time to remove my shoes beforehand.

As I got to the landing, I saw that Edward's door was slightly ajar – I stepped in, the breeze hitting me from the open doors leading out onto the ever so amazingly beautiful balcony.

There was my sweetheart, sleeping on his bed his beautiful torso shining off of the light on the landing, closing the door to get rid of the spectrum...I put my case down and tiptoed closer to my love forcing the smile off of my face as I imagined the look on his own face when he saw me again...Our little reconciliation after only hours of being away from each other. Both of us had been so sad to see the other one go and it was bound to have had some affect on his system – that and the fact that he works ridiculous work hours in all the time that I had come to know him and gradually fall in love with him.

I came to a standstill beside his bed watching his face as he slept...So peaceful, his breathing deep but slow as his muscular chest rose up and down...I leaned my upper body down...My face inches away from his and opened my mouth to speak.

"Edward?" I whispered...Taking out my index finger from my pocket and trailing along his forehead smoothly, the softness of his skin sending tingles through to my very soul...From his forehead, I moved to his cheeks and along his jaw-line...There was a soft moan and Edward tilted his head to the left and fluttered his eyes open...A confused and sleepy expression clouding his handsome face as his eyes locked with mine.

"Bella?" he said softly and just audibly for me to hear him.

"Hi" I replied in a whisper smiling at him in greeting.

"What are you-"

"Ssh" I used my index finger to place it on his lips...He needed to wake up and of course, I needed the time to explain why I had come back...Basically a much needed monologue on my part.

"Let me explain...I came back here, not just to say how much I love you but also to say that...I don't want to leave you, Edward. From the moment we said goodbye, there was a huge aching in my heart that I knew I could never be able to shift even if I live for the next twenty years...In my mind, there shall always be backward glances and questions of 'what if'. As soon as I entered the arrivals lounge – I had a choice...I could go back and live the same life, with nothing ever changing – expectations forever being planted on my shoulders, looks of disappointment or I could go back and be with the person who IS my life purpose...You're my life, Edward...And I love you so much from every area of my soul and everything that I am...I want to belong to you...Spend my life with you – that is, if you'll have me." Tears fell down my face as I lifted my finger away from his lips and cupped his cheek in my hand...Waiting eagerly for his response.

Edward shifted in silence, moving his body up to sitting as he cupped my face in both his hands..I as a result of the new position had to lean my hands against the mattress to stay upright.

"Bella, you don't know how long I've waited for you – needing to fill that gap of emptiness...I don't have much, Bella...I don't have a family and right now, no life plan but...There is one thing that I'll always want and always need...That is you, my love...I love you so much, it hurts."

"Always mine, Edward" I answered softly...In the moment of silence I leant my head in closing the gap between us and brushed my lips on his as he quivered and sighed contently underneath my mouth before taking complete lead of the kiss...Opening my mouth and letting his tongue glide gently through to mine, caressing and reaching every area making my knees buckle as I responded rather violently to his kiss working my tongue and battling for dominance with him..I moaned against his mouth as he inched closer and closer to me still never once stopping our hard working mouths in the silence and peacefulness of the room.

Edward and I were together again, reconciled against all the odds and against anyone else's intentions, I have lived so long living the life my parents want me to – that now, there is nowhere else I wanted to be but in Edward's arms...That is my heaven and always will be.

"Edward" I took my mouth away from his and took in much needed oxygen "I need to have a shower"

"Why?" Edward breathed moving his lips to my forehead, nose, eyelids and jaw making me immediately lean into his mouth harder from my own desire for him.

"I have plane on me" I answered simply...He took his lips away from my skin and locked his eyes with mine again, the beautiful evergreen shade on dark chocolate.

"I don't care about what you smell like...You will always be the most special and amazing thing in my life, Bella...And you always smell great" Edward's voice was husky – pure sexiness pulling my vulnerable soul under in the depths of their power...He knew what he could do to me and the cheeky sod was now using it to his advantage.

"Edward...Don't speak like that...You know what you do to me"

"I don't do anything I am not proud of, Bella...Stay with me" he pleaded moving his lips to my neck, then making me tilt my head back to give him more space.

"I can't"

"Please?"

The plead made me entirely at his mercy as he continued to ravish my neck in heart-warming kisses...I sighed and nodded under his mouth...I felt him smile against my skin before taking his lips off of mine and looking up at me.

It was Edward's turn, then to connect our mouths again...I kept my mouth still letting him move them and reach the insides of my mouth as he does so amazingly well...I leant forward further and he must of noticed as he pried one of my hands off of the duvet and pulled me forward.

"Come here" he whispered kissing me again..I got up onto the mattress balancing my weight on my knees before Edward guided me into the space next to him underneath the duvet..He was only in his boxers and I was fully clothes but kissing him was taking up most of my concentration.

God, did I love him...I would do anything for him!

I snuggled closely to Edward as he wrapped his arms around me cocooning me from the rest of the world and leaving us the only two people left to worry about...He stroked down both sides of my waist as we both leant against his pillows..I put my own hands on his chest continuing to moan against his mouth as he worked it as expertly as he would his piano....As his fingers lightly brushed the sides of my breasts..I quivered instantly shaking against his moving lips...Giving him the instant indication of my desire for him – I wanted so much to take off my clothes in that moment but holding back was needed here...Edward had clearly not finished just kissing me, yet.

I was a little relieved when he finally took his lips off of mine and moved the trail to my neck – only this time he pushed my body like a ragdoll so that I was flat my back against the mattress he hovered above me from the side and then hitched one of his legs over to work his way down my covered body. I lost it in that simple movement and sunk my header deeper into the pillows trying hard to fight the urge to strip down.

"Always so beautiful, Bella...You never believe it but you should" he whispered huskily kissing my chest and my breasts through my top bringing his hands out to knead them...His lower body resting on mine...His erection so close to where I needed him..My hips started to buck involuntarily at the contact...The goose bumps from Edward's mouth carving my skin through my clothes...I felt his fingers touch the hem of my top and the self-control went completely out of the window...I could never deny him when I needed him so much like this.

Lifting up my arms he took the top completely off of me, my chest once again against his own through his T-shirt – this time when Edward and I were together, I could never be in a position to doubt his feelings for me or the feelings I had about myself.

Edward unclasped my bra and exposed my chest to him...I wound my hands in his hair keeping him close to me, moving my own mouth against his forehead.

Gasping, he moved down my body taking the waistband of my jeans in his hold and taking them off of me, the slowness torturing me...Now, I wasn't covering my face – I didn't need to, I had everything I ever needed in the world hovering over me, right now.

"Please, Edward?" I pleaded sinking my head back and tilting it against the pillows...The breeze on my legs to the air around me made me tingle more than ever without having Edward's mouth on me.

"What is it, baby...Tell me what you want, my darling?" he whispered kissing the centre of my stomach and dipping his tongue into my belly button, causing me to squirm.

"I need you so much my love" breathing in answer I grabbed his arms and pulled him down further onto me, hungrily kissing his mouth as he moaned against my lips...Abruptly he lifted up onto his knees and cleverly removed his boxers my legs hiding the view of him for a few moments, he took them off from around his ankles and put them down on the floor as he moved to the bedside table..I wrapped my hand around his wrist to stop him.

"It's alright, Edward...Please" he never knew about the pill but trusting me, he nodded and slowly took off my last item of clothing, the two of us now exposed to each other once again.

"Are you sure, Bella?"

"I'm protected...Trust me...I love you"

He took a hold of my thighs and wound them round his waist as he balanced all of his weight onto his knees, entering me swiftly the feeling so amazing that I groaned at our lower body contact..He was not so gentle as he was last time around but I welcomed it, lifting my torso off of the mattress to get a deeper angle as he began to move his hips surrounding and filling me...Masterful in every spot – we had only been together once but he seemed to know how my body worked and what I liked...Being with Edward like this was nothing short of spectacular..How had I ever questioned my self-concious opinion of myself?

Wrapping my hands around his wrists on the mattress, I found his rhythm moving my own hips a little faster than last time as well...Needing to have another orgasm and quickly as the need was too much to handle.

Instead of asking him to go faster...Words no longer coming into my mind – there was no way that they will come out understandable from my mouth, I increased my hips, Edward following me never once stopping to find it – he knew my body better than anyone.

Edward and I came quickly...The two of us not lasting as long as our first time, the lust starting from the moment I had said his name.

He collapsed next to me, pulling me into my heaven...Stroking my hair tentatively as his breathing subsided.

"I will love you all my life, Bella Swan" he said making my heart flutter.

"You are my life, Edward Masen...No matter where we go now...It's just you and me" I breathed out returning the compliment.

"Forever"

"Forever and always"

In my true love's arms...An easy sleep swallowed me up.

England was long gone, for now...I was going to live my life in France.

France with my Edward Masen until the day I die.