All characters are Stephenie Meyers. I don't own them I wish I did ;o)
This is the last chapter in Edwards POV. Hope you like it. There is a little more insight in this chapter I hope.
Enjoy!
Oh and there is lemony goodness in this one LOL.
Here is the last little bit from the previous chapter.
"I saw it about an hour ago. I also happened to block out what had just transpired but I got the after part just right."
"Thanks." I was glad on one part that she blocked out the shadow sex. I'm not sure I wanted to know what I looked like at that point.
"So now we have to plan your death and your wedding."
I looked at Edward he was watching us and reading thoughts. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you. Everyone is waiting downstairs for us." He paused. "They want to know if you're okay. You apparently gave them quite a scare with the state you were in. They almost had to get me to step in."
I shook my head. I didn't know what to think. I wasn't mad. I wasn't upset anymore. I trusted Edward. Now more than ever. Now I knew what was going to happen to some degree. Could I play the part of a broken hearted girlfriend? Could I do this with him in the same room?
~munchkin1978
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Chapter 24
EPOV
I watched as Jasper helped Bella to the bed. Alice took her shoes and dropped them on the floor. Jasper was trying to calm her when she blurted out what she had been holding inside.
"He's gone. He's not coming back. He's gone. He's not coming back."
I watched Bella. She was almost catatonic. She had been like this for days now. Since Alice had told her. I hated it, absolutely hated to do this to her but the reaction she was having was perfect. The wolves stayed on the out skirts of the funeral watching as my casket was lowered and they watched Bella react. Sam was dying to come and help her. Jacob was restrained. He was swearing up and down he was the best person for Bella. But she returned with Jasper and Alice. She hadn't noticed the wolves.
"She's not going to snap out of this. It is too much." Alice said to me breaking me from my thoughts of the previous hour's events.
"I couldn't change her emotions. She tossed me aside and blocked me. I don't know how, but she did."
"She will snap out of it tonight. Alice prepare for the next stage okay." I said to both of them.
I had stayed in the shadows. Not wanting to reveal myself yet to Bella. It was cruel to be in this house and not go to her but it had to be done. I had to have the reaction seen by the wolves' if this plan was going to work. So far it was. I watched as Alice and Jasper left the room closing the door behind them.
I stood for a few moments more in the shadows before I stepped out from them. I walked to the edge of the bed so she could see me as being real. I didn't move. I just let her digest what she was seeing.
"Edward…" She gasped out from her mouth. A normal human would not have heard it but I wasn't a human. I was still immortal and my hearing was excellent. I watched as she blacked out and I caught her as she fell. I wrapped her in the blankets on the bed as she felt chilled already. That wasn't the reaction I was hoping for but at least she didn't go ballistic.
I would wait. I would wait till she was awake and able to digest what had happened. I wasn't going to let her stay like this much more. She deserved better. I pulled her hair away from her face as she slept.
When her heart beat picked up I knew she was awake I could tell she was contemplating opening her eyes. I was still standing at the end of the bed watching her as she bolted upright, the blanket falling down to the bed. I waited for her to make the next move. I didn't want to alarm her. I wanted to show her I was real. What she did next surprised me. She crawled across the bed stopping in front of me. She watched me for a moment and then kissed me.
I was caught off guard for a moment but that moment was gone and I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her back. She was pulling me closer. Closer than I should have been but there was an urgency in her kisses. Her eyes shone with tears but they didn't fall. Had she forgiven me so easily for deceiving her about dying?
I kissed her back not wanting to let her go. I had missed spending time with her, holding her and talking to her. I moved her gently across the bed laying her down in the process. I would have stopped if she had relented but she didn't. She was pulling at her clothes, pulling me closer and closer till our skin met. Heat echoed off my body as she touched it with her flaming skin. I kissed her now naked body down her chest across her stomach. Heat coming from my lips as if it were a shadow across her skin. I kissed back up her body and she arched into my every kiss. I returned to her waiting mouth as she pulled me closer. She wanted this. I was only all too happy to oblige. She moved one way and I moved with her. She didn't cry out in pain, she cried out in pleasure as we were dancing in the blankets. I was not much farther behind when I collapsed beside her. I wrapped the blanket around her and pulled the loose strands of hair behind her ear. I slipped on my clothes before I blew a single cool breath over her ear and spoke to her finally.
"I told you to trust me. I am not going to leave you Isabella Swan." I paused waiting to see if she reacted. "I'm yours forever."
I watched as her eyes flew open and she pulled in a single breath only to blow it back out. Then I heard her say it. "Edward…" She turned over too quickly, having one of her clumsy moments I was waiting weeks for. She got all tangled up in the blankets. I pulled them away from her face along with the loose hairs and I spoke to her again.
"I'm not leaving you Bella. I made a promise to you."
I reached out and touched her cheek, showing her she wasn't dreaming. I knew she was thinking it. I could see the expression on her face.
"You're not dreaming love. I am not leaving you. It was…." Her emotions changed rapidly. I paused not bothering to continue. She bolted up and spoke out loud.
"You left." She spat out. Her anger was setting in.
"I didn't really leave. I was in the house the whole time. I had to do it as part of the plan."
Her eyes weren't the wide shocked eyes anymore. They were filling with hate and anger. The same eyes she had when she returned home. "You left me again." She had started to get up after that statement.
"It was part of the plan, love." I sat up on my elbow and watched her. The reactions she was having was fascinating but they were changing so quickly even I needed a moment to catch up to where she was.
"Trust…." She said quietly.
"Yes Bella. I asked you to trust me. Do you remember? I asked you to trust me. I needed your reaction. The reaction you had is going to help with the next part of the plan."
I waited. It was only a minute before a response from her came again.
"Are you going to tell me?"
"I never meant to keep it from you Bella. I needed your reaction. The next part involves you." I paused, my eyes getting darker as the thought crossed my head. It was settled and decided. I wasn't going to change my mind. "And your human death…." I paused again to wait. Was this too much for her to handle right now? Her face told me to keep going. She was catching up and keeping up with each comment. "You have to die of a broken heart. You're not really going to die Bella. We are just going to show the wolves that you have died. Very similar to Romeo and …."
"Juliet." She said out loud. It took her a moment to realize that we were talking about her immortality. "You're going to change me."
I reached for her arm. She didn't shrink back like she should have when someone was upset and angry. I kept my touch simple and gentle. I loved to feel her skin. She was my equal and my partner for life. I wanted no one else. "I am going to change you Bella. I realized that you didn't want to be anywhere else but with me. You didn't want to die alone like Charlie. I don't want to be alone either. I don't want to live without you there every single day for forever."
"Is that a …"
"In a way yes." I paused. "I do want to marry you Bella."
"I accept."
As she said her acceptance I watched her eyes. They were bright, they held no anger. I moved from the bed before she could blink even twice. I had while she slept a few days ago fastened the two rings I had for her. Her grandmothers and my mothers. I quickly opened the box and closed it back. It was still nestled inside waiting for Bella. I came back out and sat on the bed with her and opened the box again. I watched as her eyes go from bright to curious and a smile from ear to ear.
"One was the ring Charlie gave to me for you. The other was my mothers. I combined the two. Past, present and future."
"It's beautiful." I watched her take the ring from its cushion and I gently took it from her placing it on her finger. She sat upright again before she spoke out loud. "Wait if I wear it now won't they notice?"
"I don't think so. I think they will by pass it."
'Edward can I come in? Is Bella okay?' I listened as Alice knocked.
"Give Bella a moment Alice. She'll be right out." I said out loud after the knock.
I watched Bella get off the bed and dress in the clothes that Alice had taken off of her to dress her in the funeral clothes. I got up and pulled my shirt on doing up the buttons. I heard Alice come in as I was finishing the last button.
"I don't want to know how you two made up or how you told her you were really alive. I told you from the start it was a bad idea." Alice started in on me. She never really agreed to do it my way. I was set in it. I did deserve her wrath but I knew she wouldn't take it far with Bella here.
"Alice it's okay. I'm okay with what he did. He explained it."
"Oh..." She paused for a moment. "Well I'm sorry I couldn't tell you. If I had a beating heart it would have broken watching you the way you were." That was a true statement. Alice hated seeing her best friend that way. She hated when anyone was that way.
"Thanks Alice. Thank you for looking after me. I hope I wasn't too much trouble."
"Jasper had tried to calm you on several occasions but he couldn't. You just pushed his gift away. What did you do?" I would love to know that as well I thought to myself. No one can block out Jasper's emotion changes that is human.
"I don't remember. I was kind of out of it."
"Oh… Well I am glad you're okay and back to normal. Now let's see that ring?"
"Alice you knew I would be okay with all this didn't you?"
"I saw it about an hour ago. I also happened to block out what had just transpired but I got the after part just right."
"Thanks."
I was trying to pay attention to Alice and Bella but Esme's thoughts were clear and ringing out in my head. 'Is Bella okay Edward? Bring her down. We'd like to see her.'
"Sorry, didn't mean to startle you. Everyone is waiting downstairs for us." I paused watching the two of them watch me. "They want to know if you're okay. You apparently gave them quite a scare with the state you were in. They almost had to get me to step in."
Bella was still processing what she needed to do now. I just hoped she would be able to pull this off as well as today went. If not this plan would fall down around our feet.
Well what did you think?
So another chapter. This one had more of the lemon from the last chapter. Hope you liked it. Please read and review. I would love to get over 100 reviews for this story. It is getting there. I fear I have lost some of my readers with chapter 23. I kind of confused a lot of people. I told you there was a method to my madness. Hope some of you come back and read the remainder of the story.
One more chapter and the epilogue people!!!
I have been reading the Vampire Diaries. Some similarity but totally different story. I am also reading the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. It is very good and very highly praised by Stephenie Meyer. On the box cover she even says she is spending the weekend with Jace over Edward and Jacob. I am on the second book City of Ashes.
If you haven't read Truth go read it--- It is 9200 words for the first chapter but it is all human and the first chapter is in Edwards's eyes. I like it and it was begging to come out and be born. Please read and review that one too!
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