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CHAPTER 26
If there is one thing I have learned it's to never argue with a Cullen, it's such a losing battle. I liked the purple gown, but oh no Alice said it was too much. Green would look so much better. We debated this for almost a week; eventually I just gave in, because she was relentless! And Edward? He just stood there looking amused when I would complain about his sister. Nice boyfriend so supportive!
Moving day was here, was I excited? Um more like scared to death. I didn't realize the dynamics of what was about to happen. I was about to live with Edward and how did I feel about that? I had lived with Jake for 4 years and look how that turned out. But this isn't permanent Bella, he said just until you get back on your feet. Somehow I had a feeling he wouldn't let me leave once I got there, just saying.
"Do you want the soap dish?" Rose yelled from the bathroom.
"I think Edward has a bunch of those." I rolled my eyes at her question.
"Are you sure? Billionaires need soap dishes too." Rose chimed.
I didn't even dignify that with a reply. Edward, Emmett, and Jasper were moving all the big things while Rose, Alice and I packed all the small stuff.
"You know we could have just called a moving company." Emmett grumbled taking a sip of his water that had been sitting on a box.
"I don't like strange people touching my stuff." Rose smacked his arm.
"Well you seem to have no problem letting Jasper and Edward and their pretty strange." Emmett teased.
She glared at him and walked into the kitchen. I stared around the small apartment and with almost everything gone it looked so empty, so unwelcoming. However mover Edward was pretty fucking hot, I had to admit. He had on some ratty jeans and a long sleeve black tee with converse sneakers, fuck me hot! Plus his hair was a copper mess, just the way I liked it.
He was leaning over the counter in the kitchen sipping a bottle of water. I watched as the water poured into his perfect mouth. Jeez, I was getting off by him drinking from a bottle, what next, the way he brushes his teeth? That was pretty erotic too. Lord Bella get it together.
I heard chuckling from somewhere and realized it was coming from Edward. He was looking amused at me and I guess my expression said it all, I had a dirty mind.
"Sometimes I wish I knew what was going on in your head." He smirked coming to stand in front of me.
"I doubt that." I laughed lightly.
Hm." He said coming to pull me into an embrace.
"You're so sexy all rough and dirty." I snuggled into him.
"Am I now? What would you have me do now?" He looked down at me.
"Hmmm, I think naked under the shower would be perfect." I reached up and kissed his neck.
"I think I kind of like that idea." He muttered.
"Me too." I looked up and smiled at him.
He rubbed my cheek with the back of his hand and stroked my face.
"Can we just finish this, I'm starving." Grumbled Emmett.
"Man he's grouchy today, did Rose not give him any last night." Jasper groaned.
"Hey I can hear you!" Emmett yelled.
"Well then can you please stop the fucking whining you bitch!" Jasper said exasperated.
"I'm not a bitch, you pussy." Emmett commented back.
"The both of you shut up and finish moving." Rose ordered, and everyone went quiet.
Finally the truck was packed and our pizza finished. Everything was gone from the apartment, we were ready to go.
"Can you guys give Bella and me a minute? We'll meet you downstairs?" Rose asked our friends.
Everyone nodded and left us alone in the middle of the now empty living room. Rose turned her blue eyes at me sighing, grabbing my hands in hers.
"Who would have thought four months ago that we would be moving out of here and in with our men? I have to thank you for bringing Emmett back into my life; I truly don't know how I lived without him all this time." Rose smiled squeezing my hands.
"I still haven't forgiven you for this, so don't think you're off the hook." I gave her a stern look.
She hung her head in shame. "I know." She looked down at the floor.
"I still don't get how something this big would slip your mind Rose. I mean seriously, we have been friends since we were 8 years old! We used to tell each other everything and now I feel like you're leaving me out of everything." I tried not to cry, although I was feeling overwhelmed with emotion.
I had tried to keep that in check all week. I didn't want to rain on her parade, but the truth was, she went about this wrong and I was hurt. Hurt by my best friend who didn't think enough to tell me something so significant.
"Bella I'm so sorry, you're right, I have been a lousy friend lately. I have been so caught up in my own life and feelings, I didn't think about yours; I feel terrible." A single tear rolled down her cheek.
"Why don't we just focus on the future for now? Thank you for the apology, but I'm not really ready to hear it… yet." I dropped her hand and walked out of the apartment, I couldn't talk myself into looking back at Rose.
Edward was at the bottom of the stairs leaning against the railing. I ran to him, wrapping my arms around his neck; I began to sob uncontrollably. He didn't hesitate when he wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer and kissing my forehead to try and soothe me.
"Come on, let's go home." He whispered into my hair.
"Okay." I snorted and sighed into his chest.
He kept his secure hold of me, leading me to the car. Everything seemed to happen in a blur. We drove down the dark streets of Seattle, not saying a word while he held my hand and I leaned my head on his shoulder. This felt right, wonderful I thought cheering myself up. We pulled into the garage of "our" penthouse.
Making it up to our floor and to the living room, I plop down on the couch. I was exhausted from the long day of moving and emotional turmoil. Edward followed, picking up my head and placing it in his lap.
"You okay?" He looks at me sweetly.
"I'm still pissed at Rose, but it takes a lot of energy to be mad at someone." I sighed.
He caressed my face lovingly with a huge smile on his face.
"You like this don't you?" I gave him a tiny smirk.
"Like what?" He continued to smile.
"Having me here like this." My grin grew and so did his.
I had to admit, I liked it too, but this was only night one, we had a lot more adjusting to do.
"Yes I do. It's been my quest since New Hampshire." He wagged his eyebrows.
"Who are you trying to kid? It's been your evil plan since Halloween." I laughed.
"Yes, I suppose you are right. But now that you are here, it will be very hard for me to let you go." He smoothed out my hair from my face and leaned down to kiss me.
I let out a yawn and he began to chuckle, I could feel it vibrate over my whole body.
"Ready for bed, hm?" He mused.
"Yes, I think so." I sat up stretching and we walked up the stairs to "our bedroom".
Once my head hit the pillow it was lights out for me, even if that meant giving up hot sex with my hot boyfriend, I just couldn't restrain myself from falling asleep. Waking up the next morning however was a completely different experience.
As usual he was out of the bed before me and somewhere in the house. I chanced a look at the alarm clock by his night stand and saw it was 6:30am. It was also Monday morning, which meant sexy boyfriend was going to be sexy CEO today. For some reason him leaving me for the day kind of sucked, but I guess it would give me an opportunity to job hunt.
I pulled on one of his tee shirts and a pair of my jogging pants and made it down the stairs. Mrs. B left a note on the counter saying she'd made breakfast and left it in the oven, I just needed to reheat it, that she'd gone to the market early.
I wasn't that hungry for food, but for something else entirely. I was on the search for the object of my hunger and desire. I found him down the hall in his home gym running on the treadmill all sweaty and incredibly alluring. He had on red basketball shorts and a white tank top with Nike sneakers, he was to die for. He had his IPod in his ears, so he didn't hear me come in.
Thinking spontaneously, I stripped off my clothes, realizing he had yet to notice me enter. I sauntered over to the front of the treadmill and causally leaned on it and waved at him. He took a quick glance at my face and smiled, but then took a double take at the rest of me and immediately turned off the treadmill, skidding to a stop.
"Good morning boyfriend." I purred.
"Good morning indeed." He said in awe hopping off the machine.
He walked over to me smirking rubbing his hands over my shoulders.
"What is this?" He gestured with his hand to my naked form.
"Breakfast." I said innocently.
"Mm, yes what a delicious one indeed." He began to suck on my neck and his hands began to roam.
He pushed me against one of the walls gliding his tongue over both of my nipples in turn, placing open mouth kisses and nips down my stomach, over my folds, and sucking lightly on my clit. I clutched his hair so tightly in my hands from the exquisiteness of his technique; I was close to combustion in moments.
Then all too quickly his mouth was gone, but it was quickly replaced by his fingers, slowly rubbing over my wet center.
"I love you like this." He groaned into my ear as he tugged at the lob with his teeth.
"You don't love me any other way?" I asked breathlessly.
"I love you every way." He kissed me on the lips and grabbed my hips so he could secure me to the wall.
He held me with one hand while the other slid his short down, revealing a very hard very erect Edward. I gulped and he smirked. He bent his knees, still holding my hips and pushed inside of me. I threw back my head and he thrust upwards, creating a wonderful erotic friction.
"I love you." He said looking me deep in the eyes as he moved his hips swiftly in and out.
"Oh God I love when you tell me!" I moaned.
"I will love you forever Isabella, you are mine for always." He whispered in my ear.
"Yours." My voice husky.
"Fuck, you better come soon or I'm gonna be done before you." He leaned his head into my shoulder.
"Say something dirty to me." I said boldly.
"You're pussy feels so good on my dick, fuck!" He yelled.
"Oh god!" That's all it took and I fell off the mountain, cliff, building, bridge!
It was so intense, more intense than usual (if anything was 'usual' for us) and he followed soon after. He gently eased us to the floor and laid his head against mine.
"I love morning sex, fuck I love sex with you anytime!" He laughed.
"Hm, me too." I ran my finger gently down his cheek.
We sat there for a while until he said he needed to shower to get ready for work. Yeah like he would shower without me? Not likely. Yes another two rounds in the shower, and then he left for work. I would be on cloud nine for the rest of the day.
Looking through the want ads I came across nothing. I felt today would be another bust. It was surprisingly warm today for December, around 60, so I decided on a nice walk down town, I could even stop by Edward's office and maybe persuade him to have lunch with his wonderful girlfriend.
Walking down Lawson Blvd, I noticed a tiny book store. I decided to go in and see what I could find. The bell dinged when I opened the door and a sweet elderly woman with a name tag that read Bertha was sitting behind the counter.
I smiled warmly at her and began to look through their historic section. After grabbing up a few books I noticed a 'now hiring' sign on the counter, I inquired and Bertha gave me an application, we chatted for a bit and she hired me on the spot. Even if I wouldn't make a lot of money here, at least it was something for the time being.
Fortunately the store was not that far from Cullen Inc and it was around 11:30am when I made my way over. I was greeted by Walter, the front door man. He knew me well and allowed me to enter the 50th floor to where my prince awaited, actually he had no idea I was here.
As the elevator door opened I was greeted, for lack of a better word, by Jessica. How I have avoided her until now I will never know.
"Bella what a surprise." And she really did sound surprised.
"Why so shock to see me Jess?" I said sarcastically.
"Well I thought Edward broke up with you." She shrugged.
"No actually we just moved into together, now if you will excuse me, I'm going to see my boyfriend." I gave her a fake smile and brushed past her down the hall.
Leah was sitting behind her desk typing on her computer. She looked up when she saw me approaching.
"Bella! It's so nice to see you!" She beamed.
"Hey, Leah, good to see you too. Is um, Edward here?" I nudged my head in the direction of his door.
"He's on a conference call from Japan." She smiled.
"Well that's okay; I will just go in then." I nodded and walked over to his door, but she almost bums rushed me out of the way.
"Leah, what is your problem?" I protested.
"He asked me not to disturb him and you would be um, a distraction." She stuttered.
"Excuse me?" I put my hands on my hips.
"Bella listen, I think you are a nice girl, but Edward's been a family friend a long time and I think it's best you just leave this alone. You guys have been broken up for almost three weeks now, I don't think now is the appropriate time or place to "speak"." She quoted with her fingers.
I rolled my eyes at her. Geez why did everyone here think we were still broken up? What had he been like when we were separated?
"Leah, we aren't broken up, why does everyone keep saying that? We are living together; I just thought I would come have lunch with him." I huffed.
"Oh, I didn't know." She stepped back looking confused.
"Well, now you do, so move please!"
She apologized and walked back to her desk and I opened Edward's door to find him with his feet propped up on one corner of his desk and was wearing a hands free head set. He looked so sexy behind that desk with a white dress shirt rolled up at the sleeves and navy pants and my favorite shiny shoes. His hair was all over and a little flat from the thing on his head.
He eyed me carefully as I plopped on the leather sofa. His Japanese was fluent and sounded very appealing. I wonder what words he could scream out in passion in that language or many of the other languages he spoke. A small smirk grew on his lips and he looked away from me.
About 5 minutes later he ended the call. "Sayonara". His voice the usual velvety goodness.
He looked over at me, taking the head set off. His smile was glorious and determined. He leaned his palms on the sides of my body, face to face; I could feel his hot breath.
"What do I owe this wonderful, but unexpected honor?" He smirked.
"I missed my boyfriend." I smiled wrapping my arms around his neck, pulling him in for a kiss.
"Hm, I like it when you miss me." He smiled against my lips.
"I got a job today." I looked at him.
"Oh really? Where?" He pulled away, sitting next to me on the couch.
"The Raven book store on 34th street." I bit my lip.
"Mm." Was all he said shaking his head.
"What?" I asked warily.
"Nothing." He said resigned.
"Edward?"
"A book store Bella, really? With your education?" He looked at me like I was an idiot.
"I think I could be happy there for now. I love reading, the owner is a wonderful little old lady and it's just a perfect fit, don't you think?" I asked shyly.
"I could give you back your job, you know." He raised his eye brow at me.
"That's not what I want."
"Then enlighten me please and tell me what do you want?" He watched me carefully.
"I want you, but I also want my independence and if I want to work in a book store that's my decision not yours!" I pouted.
"Come here." He opened his arms for me.
I stood up and sat in his inviting lap. He leaned our foreheads together and rubbed my back with his hands.
"I want you too and if you are happy working in a bookstore, so am I." He kissed my nose, then he traced his tongue over my lips. With a devious grin he pulled back.
"Have you eaten?" He looked serious.
"No, I was hoping we could have lunch." I smiled.
"Do you want to eat here or go out?" He brushed a piece of hair from my face.
"Out would be a good choice today." I laughed.
He gave me a questioning look.
"Apparently people are under the impression we are not together." I giggled.
"Oh, it's really none of their business, but I guess I see your point." He smiled and kissed my forehead, releasing me from his arms.
We made our way to this adorable restaurant called 94 Stewart's and we were seated quickly. I assumed Edward came here often. However it didn't stop the hovering of every female employee there.
"Can you just be unattractive for like a minute?" I grumbled picking up my menu.
He began to chuckle giving me a look of amusement.
"I can't help it that people are so superficial Isabella." He mocked.
"Well for the record, I don't like it."I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Do that again and see what happens when we get home." He quirked his eye brow.
I hid my face behind the menu.
"What's good here?" I asked looking at the menu.
"The chicken chili is good. Emmett gets it's a lot, so are their hot wings." Edward said with emphasis.
"Welcome to 94 Stewart's, I'm Lauren and I will be your waitress today." Her tone sounded bored.
Edward had his menu up to his face, but once he registered her greeting the menu fell to the table with a light thud. I hadn't bothered to look up at her until I heard his menu hit the table. She was a gorgeous girl with long blond hair and big blue eyes. Her figure was to die for, curvy and well proportioned. The kind of girl I had always pictured with Edward.
"Edward?" A huge surprised smile stretched over her face. Of course they knew each other.
"Lauren." His lips tightening into a fake smile.
"You know each other?" I pointed between the two.
"Very well actually, isn't that right Edward?" Her smile was evil.
"Not that well." He narrowed his eyes at her.
"Oh now he's just being modest." She swatted his shoulder with her hand.
"Let me introduced you to Bella, my girlfriend." He smiled sweetly indicating me.
"Girlfriend? Is that what you are calling them these days?" She smirked holding her hand to her hip.
"Well I suppose when you are in love and living together, girlfriend/boyfriend normally fits." I said snidely.
"Edward Cullen doesn't do girlfriends." She retorted.
"I guess there a first time for everything isn't there?" I gave her a fake smile.
"I'd like a different server." Edward spoke then.
"My pleasure." Her tone was sarcastic.
I turned my attention to him and gave him the look saying he needed to start talking.
"Ex sub." He mumbled picking up his glass of water.
"You dated a waitress? Like how does this selection process work exactly?" I leaned back folding my arms.
"Can we not have this conversation here?" He whispered.
"Well I'm suddenly not hungry, so we could go back to your office and you can explain there." I huffed.
"Fine." He gave me another tight smile.
We left the place and headed back to his office. Once in the privacy of his room, I sat on the couch, I turned waiting for him to explain.
"Let's have it Cullen." I gestured with my hand.
"You are the first inexperienced submissive I have ever had. I get most of them from a service." He shrugged and sat down.
"Seriously? A sub service? There's like a 1-800 number you call and they supply them?" I began to laugh.
"Not quite. Dom and sub relationships are kept in a community. There are parties and conventions, things of that nature where you can meet people who are into what I'm into." He sighed.
"Is that how you met Blondie?" I eyed him.
"Blondie?" He smiled.
"Yes, I suppose that is correct."
"What do you mean you suppose? Either you did or didn't."
"I met her at a party in May. She and I were the main attraction." He wagged his eyebrows with a smirk.
"What do you mean the main attraction?" I gulped.
"Exactly how it sounds Bella."He scolded.
"You and her had sex in front of people?"
"Yes." He said it like it was no big deal.
"Would you..." But he cut me off before I even finished.
"Never." I think his tone was a little harder than he intended.
"Why not?" I asked curiously.
His mouth gaped at me, like he couldn't believe I would ask such a thing.
"I couldn't stand the thought of someone watching us or seeing you naked." He shuddered.
"I think it would be kind of hot, having someone watching you making me cum." I felt my face flush.
"Do you now?" His interest was piqued, and then he got a devilish look in his eye.
What had I just gotten myself into?
Thoughts?Concerns?