Love Me Tender


Inspiration: a We Heart It image, passionate love, and Ron Pope's "You're The Reason I Come Home."

Disclaimer: The characters? They belong to Stephenie Meyer. The rest is all mine.

With love, for Honeybee Meadows, although I know she prefers Ali/Bella pairings.


Rosalie Hale


Straddling my lover as she lays face down on our bed, I rub her back to ease the day's tension. "I love you," I whisper against her skin, placing a soft kiss on her shoulder afterward.

Bella smiles and turns her upper body to gaze into my eyes. "I love you, too, baby."

This is perfection, I think, as my face breaks out in a similar grin, warming me inside out. I have everything I need and want here - in my bed, in my hands.

"What are you thinking about, Smiley?" Bella teases.

"About your beautiful freckles," I say.

She raises her brow. "Oh, yeah? What about them?"

"I wanna kiss each one on your body."

"I have a lot of them."

Playfully biting a freckle she has on her back, I smirk and say, "I know."

Bella cups my cheek, kissing my lips gently. "Okay," she whispers.

And so I begin, tenderly kissing and claiming each of her freckles all through the night.