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Continuing EPOV

It took all of me not to turn around, walk back to her, and kiss her as hard as I could. But I couldn't. Today was the first date. I need to wait a little while, maybe third or fourth date and then MAYBE, if she seems to want me to, I can kiss her.

If it were an average girl, she is anything but average, she would have probably done it by now. Most women throw themselves at me after five minutes of talking to me. I hate that. I don't see why women would belittle themselves for a man. It is a huge turnoff.

Doesn't matter now. I decided it was time to go to bed. Tomorrow will be another day to work, and another day to see Bella. I smiled to myself and got ready for bed.

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"Good morning Edward." My secretary, Lauren, told me. I couldn't really stand her. She always tried to get me to ask her on dates.

"Morning." I kept it short, didn't look to her, and walked straight to Bella's office.

"Hello" She said after she saw me walk in. "I had a great time at lunch yesterday. Thank you so much for taking me."

"Thank you for coming. By the way, your secretary will be here today. She won't get in till after lunch, but she will be joining all of us in a "company lunch"." I did air quotes. They thought it was just fantastic if we all ate lunch together a few days a month to get to know each other better.

"Company lunch?"

"Yes. It is their way of forcing us to interact with our department. Every so often, we will have a company lunch. Each department goes somewhere separately with their secretaries and they have eat together. I showed you where our department has lunch, that is where we will continue to go."

"So I meet my secretary during the company lunch?"

I nodded. "You will meet her, Jessica is her name, and only one other person and their secretary. We are the smallest department because we are paid more and we work in the court rooms. Others give us our cases or sort out what cases we will use."

"Oh. That sound interesting I suppose." I gave her a little laugh

"Hardly. We will not see the other guy and his secretary very much. You are my partner therefore we will work together a lot. James, which is his name, works on a different subject matter than we do. He does public work and such, that means he goes into big courtrooms and has a big case. We are private lawyers so we work mainly with the judge and our client in private settings."

"I see." She seemed a little confused.

"It will all make sense later. I promise." She smiled at that. She was definitely confused then. "Would you like to ride with me to the restaurant?"

"Yes thank you." I gave a big smile and walked back to my office.

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BPOV

He had the most amazing crooked smile I have ever seen. It made my breath catch in my throat. I am so lucky to work with him.

Lunch finally rolled around and Edward came to my office.

"Are you ready to go?"

"I am." We walked to his car and he opened the passenger door for me. "Thank you." He gave me another gorgeous smile. My heart melted.

"So I am meeting Jessica, my secretary, James, works in the same department as us, and his secretary...What is her name?"

"Angela. She is a very sweet girl. Too sweet to work for James."

"Is he an ass?" He laughed at my choice of words.

"Pretty much. He is known to not be to nice to women. I would suggest that you keep your guard up around him. He will take any chance he gets to be with a woman like you." I blushed when he said that.

"Thanks for the warning."

We arrived and we went to the booth that already had two women there.

"Hello Edward." They both said at the same time and giggled. I could have sworn he rolled his eyes just then.

"Hi" I slid in the other side of the booth and he sat beside me. These booths were very large so they would fit two more people easily.

"Hey guys, sorry it took me so long. James is on his way. He got caught up on the phone with a potential client." Angela sat beside Edward.

"I was going to wait till everyone was here but I will go ahead and start. Everyone this is Bella, my new partner. This is Jessica..." He pointed to one of the women. "Your secretary. Lauren..." He pointed to the other woman beside Jessica. "My secretary and this is Angela, James' secretary."

"Hello. It's nice to meet you." They all smiled but Angela was the only one to reach her hand out to shake mine.

"It is nice to meet you too Bella." The other girls snickered a little. I new that I wasn't going to have the best time with my secretary.

"Could you ladies excuse me for a moment?" Angela stood and Edward slid out of the booth to go towards the restroom.

"So you are going out with Edward?" Lauren asked me

"Not technically no. We just went on some dates." Her and Jessica glared at me for a moment but I don't think they meant for me to see.

"Well he normally doesn't date women at the office. I wouldn't even bother if I were you." Jessica said backing Lauren up.

"Oh. Well he asked me actually." I told them truthfully.

"Really? That is nice. It is good to see Edward get out a little." Angela said very sweetly.

"Yeah I guess. I would just be careful though. I think he still has feelings for me. We dated at one point. I'm not sure he got over it." Yeah, I was going to hate both of these girls. I could already tell.

"I thought you just said he didn't date women from the office." Lauren gave me another glare but smiled after.

"Well, he stopped after he went on a date with me. I think after I left him it crushed him and he is scared to fall in love again."

"I don't think he was in love with you Lauren. I don't even remember you dating." Angela said. Lauren let out a full pointed glare at Angela.

"Well, it didn't last an extremely long time. Besides you probably didn't hear about it because I asked him not to tell anyone. He was so excited when we first started dating that he wanted to tell everyone in the entire firm! He was so sweet like that. But I asked him not to that way we could keep our love life private." She gave a smirk towards me. I just smiled back. I knew what she was doing. She was trying to keep me away from Edward.

"He asked me to date him after they broke up. I said no though because I am too close to Lauren to do anything like that to her." Jessica said.

Just then Edward walked back to the table and Angela got up let him slide in, then she did the same.

"Sorry ladies. I had to wash up before we ate." He wasn't really gone more than a minute or two, it just seemed like this conversation lasted a year.

"That is quiet alright Edward." Jessica told him with a huge smile on her face. He narrowed his eyes and faced me. He bowed his head extremely close to mine and whispered in my ear.

"What did they say to you? I hope it wasn't too awful." He leaned up and looked in my eyes for signs of what they mentioned.

"Not that bad. I'll explain later." I whispered back. Only we could hear each other, not even Angela heard us, but it didn't stop Lauren and Jessica from glaring at me full force.

"Hello all! Sorry it took so long. I just booked a client." James walked in and sat beside a giggling Jessica.

"Who might this beautiful woman be?" James extended his hand to me and I felt Edward stiffen sharply.

"This is Bella. She is my partner." Edward told him. It sounded like he was grinding his teeth together.

"Well hello Bella. My name is James. It is a pleasure to meet you." I took the hint from Edward and kept it short.

"Thanks." I didn't even smile at him

"Hi everyone. What can I get you?" Our waiter asked.

We ordered, ate, and paid. Angela already headed back to the firm and Jessica and Lauren were at the register with Edward while I was gathering my things from the booth. I thought James had already left but he was standing behind me.

"So Bella, would you like to go on a date this weekend?"

"Sorry James. I already have plans."

"Really? With whom." I hated it when guys snooped. It was none of James' business who I had plans with.

"I don't mean to be rude but I'm not sure that is your business." I knew I was rude but I didn't like the vibe I was getting from James. It made me nervous.

"That's alright. There is always next weekend. Do you have plans then?"

"Yes she does." Edward walked up and put a hand on my lower back. It comforted me that he was here now.

"Well well. I thought you weren't one to date in your department Edward."

"I changed my mind. Excuse us." Edward led me out to his car passed narrowed eyed Jessica and Lauren.

"I should have made plans to eat somewhere else. I knew something like this might happen."

"It's fine. It's a good thing we don't have to see him much."

"Yeah." Edward seemed to be deep in thought and unnerved about something. A moment later his expression changed.

"So what did Lauren and Jessica say to you when I left?"

"Oh nothing big really. Just that you were still in love with Lauren." I giggled. I knew it wasn't true.

"What? Bella please know that I have never dated anyone from the entire firm much less in my department. Besides, I would give either one of them a chance. I don't like women like that."

"Don't worry it's fine. I figured you would. They were just trying to get to me."

"Please don't let them. They aren't worth it. Don't listen to anything they tell you about me."

"I won't. I figured them out pretty quickly after I saw them glare at me for just arriving with you."

"I have tried so hard to get a new secretary. Lauren is awful." He told me

"I'm sure I'll have a blast with Jessica." I said sarcastically.

"I'm sorry about that. Angela was going to be your secretary but Lauren said that since the secretaries work together she needed one that would work hard and she insisted Jessica was just the person for that. Of course Jay knew Angela was an extremely hard worker, he just thought they had a problem together and didn't want to make it worse so he moved Angela to James' office since you and I or our secretaries wouldn't work with him much at all."

I hate it when people are like that. "That's ridiculous."

"Very much so. But unfortunately you are stuck with Jessica."

"Yippie!" I said loudly with sarcasm. Edward laughed.

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After an extremely long Thursday, I got to go home. Jay gave me Friday off since I got a lot of work done.

"Your home early." Alice called to me from her bedroom.

"Yeah. I didn't take any detours on the way home like usual. Hey I have the day off tomorrow, want to do the shopping spree tomorrow and take Saturday off from shopping?"

"Sure. I ordered pizza, it is in the fridge."

Since I was shopping Friday instead of Saturday that meant I could meet Edward early. I decided I would call him and let him know.

"Hello?" Edwards beautiful voice came over the phone.

"Hi Edward. It's Bella."

"Hey!" He sounded really excited, I hope he is.

"I was going to let you know, since Jay gave me the day off tomorrow I moved my Saturday morning plans to tomorrow. We can meet earlier if you want to."

"That would be great actually. I was trying to figure out the small time frame. Thanks."

"Anytime. When do you want to meet?"

"How about 12:00?"

"Sounds good."

"Okay. I'll pick you up then."

"Alright."

"Talk to you soon Bella."

"Not soon enough, but okay." He chuckled. Crap! I can't believe I said that out loud!

"Bye."

"Bye." I said and hung up the phone.

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