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She pushes me into the wall of the elevator and has her hands all over me. She's attacking my mouth with hers and it's like nothing I've ever felt before. I can feel her nipples hardening through her thin blouse as they are pressed against my chest. I let out a deep, throaty moan. Bella has her hands on my pants, and there goes the button, then the zipper. Holy FUCK, what this woman does to me. I am so hard I can probably shatter glass with my cock, wait no, no shattering glass with the cock, that would hurt. Before I realize it she's got her hand in my boxers and slowly she starts pumping me. "OOOOhhhh, baby. You have no idea what you do to me. That feels….ssooooooo….good. UNGH!" All that comes out in a whimper. She starts pumping a little faster, her grip on me tightening as she does so. Her thumb goes to the tip and spreads my pre cum for more lubrication. All of a sudden she stops and I groan in protest. I open my eyes to see what happened and she's looking right at me under her lashes, her thumb soaked with my pre cum going into her mouth. She closes her eyes and moans at the taste. "mmmmm, Edward, you taste so fucking good. I want more." All I can do is grunt in agreement; the sight of her sucking me off of her thumb is the most erotic thing I think I've ever seen. Words have literally escaped me.
Bella pulls the stop on the elevator and is on her knees in front of me. She slides my pants and boxers down around my ankles. Beep, beep, beep, beep.
"FUCK!!! I hate you, you fucking alarm." I hurl the alarm across the room with more force than necessary, it crashes against my wall and shatters to pieces. That'll show you, waking me up while Bella is going down on me in the fucking elevator. Seriously, Cullen, chastising the alarm clock? You've really lost it. I scrub my face with both hands and groan. I am rock hard and am going to have to take care of my problem again in the shower before work. Hey at least you don't have to change your sheets this morning. I stumble my way into my bathroom and turn on the shower. As I step into the hot stream pouring down from my rain simulated showerhead my thoughts automatically go to Bella. I start where the dream so rudely got interrupted and picture Bella as she takes me in her warm, wet mouth. She does this thing with her tongue that drives me crazy. Coming back up the suction gets more intense. She cups my balls with one hand while the other one is pumping the base of my cock in the same rhythm as her mouth. I feel that familiar tightening and I explode screaming out Bella's name.
Forty five minutes later I am in the car on my way to Starbucks near the office for some coffee. I definitely need some caffeine this morning. As I step out of my car I notice a familiar blue car in the parking lot. I brush it off, it's a freaking Volkswagen for Christ's sake, I am sure other people have purchased that exact same car, not just Bella. Obsess much? I follow the scent off fresh coffee into Starbucks, stand in line and pull out my Blackberry to check on work e-mails. Might as well be productive while I'm waiting in line. The scent of lilacs tickles my nose for a brief moment and then is gone. For some reason I feel a warm surge pulse through me, almost electric. I look up and see Bella watching me rather intently. I give her my panty dropping smile and a small wave. She blushes and waves right back. We just stare at each other for God only knows how long, it could have been days and I wouldn't have noticed. She looks absolutely stunning in her white slacks and black shirt and those shoes, I want those shoes digging into my ass as I pound into her. Good job asshole, now you're hard in Starbucks and she's staring right at you. I am so fucked today, I'll be stuck in the conference room with her all day, and she'll be wearing those shoes. FUCK. Her eyes glance down to my pants for a brief moment and she blushes. No chance she didn't see my erection, but she blushed, that means she liked it right. Holy shit, did she just lick her lips at me?
I have break eye contact because I'm next in line. I order my latte and head over to where Bella is waiting for her coffee. I am about to say hello when the barista puts her coffee in front of her. She turns to look at me, winks and is out the door. Standing there waiting for my coffee I think about what just happened. There is no way she didn't see what the thoughts of her in those shoes did to me, not that she knows that's what I was thinking about. She blushed and winked, that has to be a good sign right? Since when did you turn into such a girl? I decide I can't think about this anymore, it's just going to cause more…er…problems that can't be handled at the office. My order is finally up and I am on my way to the office.
"Okay, so here's an idea…" Jasper, Angela and Tyler have been rattling off ideas for the past hour and I need a break. "Okay guys, I need a break. Let's meet back in here in 10 minutes to continue." Everyone agrees that a break is necessary at this point. We've been working for 3 hours straight. After using the restroom I walk over to the break room to grab a bottle of water and a banana. As I step in I see Bella, well the back of Bella on her tip toes trying to reach something in one of the cabinets. She's muttering something that I can't hear. I walk over to her to help her out and can finally make out what she's saying, "fucking dumbass people. Who the hell puts the coffee filters on the top shelf? Nobody has any consideration for short people around here." I come up behind her and reach up to grab the coffee filters. I am so close to her that I can smell her shampoo. I try to take in the scent without being obvious, she smells absolutely divine, like strawberries and lilacs. I want to bury my head in her hair and just hang out there all day. I can feel my pants starting to tighten so I pull away. What would she do if she knew how much I was enjoying just the smell of her hair? Bella turns around with a shy smile on her beautiful lips and a shade of pink colors her face.
"Thank you Edward. I am grumpy if I haven't had enough coffee and somebody took the last of the pot and didn't bother making more." Good to know for future reference.
"Sure thing Bella. People really should put those on the bottom shelf." Bella puts her hand on my forearm and I feel that pulsing electricity flow through my body again. She suddenly pulls her hand away and stares at it. I wonder if she felt it to.
"So Edward, did you come in here for coffee too?" she asks.
"Uh, no actually, I came in for a bottle of water and a banana. I'm already jittery from the 3 cups I've had today." I reply as Jasper walks in.
"Hey Edward, Bella. Ah, coffee, just what I was looking for." Jasper notices how close Bella and I are standing to each other and gives me a knowing look. Thankfully she doesn't catch it. I decide I need to take a few steps back from her so I go grab the bottle of water and a banana. "Oh, Bella, I almost forgot to tell you that Alice wants to go to lunch with you today. She said something about shopping."
Bella groans and under her breath says, "Ugh, I hate shopping with Alice." I don't think we were meant to hear her, but I can't suppress the chuckle. She looks at Jasper and continues "Why did she have you relay this message? She could have just called me herself. Did she say what time she was going to be here?"
"She said that she tried your cell a few times and you didn't pick up, sorry Bella. I just talked to her when we took a break. She'll be here at 12:30 and she said to tell you to be ready to power shop. Whatever the fuck that means."
Bella groans again. "Power shop! Jasper, if you are going to continue seeing Alice you need to know that when she mentions power shopping it's never a good thing for anyone but Alice. Damn Pixie."
Right at 12:30 Alice shows up and takes Bella for her "Power Shopping" lunch date. The rest of us break for lunch as well. Jasper and Emmett invite me to go out with them and I readily accept since I am starving. As soon as we are seated Emmett gets into his date with Rosalie last night. "Yeah, so I took her to Serafina's and let me tell you, that place is the shit! Rosalie loved it and was all over me afterwards. We hardly made it inside my apartment before she had my pants around my ankles." He says rather enthusiastically. I look over and Jasper and he's just nodding his head. Emmett doesn't notice that Jasper or I haven't said a damn word and just continues with his story about Rose and their sexcapades last night. I have to admit that I am a little bit jealous of my brothers; they both went after the girls they wanted and seem happy so far. It's only been a couple of days though and Emmett especially isn't known for his longevity with women. Still it's been a couple of months for me and I apparently have been reduced to living vicariously through my brothers. How pathetic, really.
I am brought out of my musings when I hear Emmett mention Bella. I swear to god if he's talking about her ass I am going to lunge across this table and beat the shit out of him. MINE!!! Down boy, she's not yours. Yet. "…said Bella was coming for dinner on Saturday. I was thinking about asking Rose to come too." If Emmett saying Bella was coming to dinner at our house on Saturday didn't shock the shit out of me the fact that he wants to invite Rosalie sure did the job. Emmett has never, and I mean NEVER brought a girl to the house to meet the parents.
"Emmett, really, you're going to bring Rosalie to meet the parents? That's great man, big step." I tell him and give him a brotherly pat of encouragement on the shoulder.
"Yeah man, that's really something. You must really like this girl to bring her to family dinner. Is she nervous at all?" Jasper asks.
"Well, I haven't actually mentioned it to her yet. I wanted to run it by you guys to see if you thought it was a good idea first. Hey Jazz, maybe if you ask Alice it will make Rose a little more comfortable. Then she can have both of her girls there for support. Safety in numbers or some girly shit." Emmett suggests.
Suddenly Jasper looks a little embarrassed and I have to ask why.
"I sort of already asked her. Mom's really excited to meet her. Alice has actually already talked to mom and dad on the phone a few times and she and mom have planned some shopping trip for just the 2 of them in a few weeks."
I look over at Emmett and he's got his fork stopped about half way to his mouth with a look of shock on his face. I imagine I have the same look. It's only been a couple of days and these two yahoos are already bringing these girls home to meet our parents. Not only that but Bella is apparently coming as well, how the fuck am I going to keep from staring at her and thinking of all the things I want to do to her when she's sitting right there? This is going to be one interesting dinner.
We head back to the office after lunch, Emmett goes into his office while Jazz and I make our way back to the conference room. About halfway there Jazz stops me. "So are you going to be okay with Bella being at dinner?"
I roll my eyes at the absurdity of the question. Am I going to be alright with Bella at our parent's house? "Yeah Jazz, it's no big deal. She's dad's assistant. I know mom loves her; she talks to her all the time on the phone. Really, I'm surprised it's taken this long for mom to extend her an invite."
He raises an eyebrow at me; obviously not believing my casual response.
"Really, it's fine. I can control myself. You don't see me rubbing myself on her here do you?"
"No, but I see the look of longing every time you glance at her. You're lucky no-one has noticed. Well it doesn't matter I guess, nothing we can do about it now, you'll just have to endure it." By this point we are late getting back from lunch and everyone else is already in the conference room working.
The rest of the day goes by in a blur. By the time 9:00 rolls around we have narrowed down 3 solid ideas and have started working on expanding on them. Everyone seems to be slowing down and it's obvious that it's time to call it a day.
Back in my office I am cleaning up a bit and shutting things down. I don't notice when she gets here, but the clearing of her throat alerts me of her presence.
"Hi." Is all I can manage to get out.
"Hi. I was just wondering if maybe you could walk me to my car again tonight? Everyone else seems to be gone for the day and I really don't like that garage at night." For some reason she looks so shy when she asks. Like I could ever say no to her.
"Yeah, I can do that. I was just shutting down and packing up. Give me a minute and we can go." Bella walks into my office and takes a seat on the couch as she waits for me. I finish up and walk over to her to offer my hand. She takes it and I help her off the couch. As she's standing up she trips and falls right into me. Thankfully I still have my wits about me and I catch her without both of us falling. "Are you ready Bella?"
"Yes. And thank you for that. My clumsiness strikes again it seems." She replies.
"It was nothing. Glad to help." We walk to the elevators and as we're waiting I figure that it's now or never. I want to get to know this girl, so I better start talking. "I had lunch with Jazz and Emmett today; they said that you and Alice were coming to dinner at my parent's house on Saturday."
"Oh, yeah. Carlisle asked me this morning and seeing as I have no life to speak of I figured why not. Alice is really excited too. She says she has already talked to your mom several times. I honestly don't know how she does it. She just goes and gets what she wants without even trying. I wish I could be more like that."
"I know what you mean; Jazz and Emmett are like that. Me I take my time, think everything to death before I do anything. Sometimes I think I am missing out on things because I take too long to figure out exactly what I want." I am looking at her while I say this and I hope that she doesn't see the look of, what did Jasper call it…ah longing, that was it.
She looks back at me with a slight smile and I can't help but wonder what she's thinking about, so I ask.
"Well Edward, to be perfectly honest with you I am thinking that I need to take action and just go after what I want, but then the rational side of me is making me think that maybe it's a bad idea and I should just wait it out some more." She's silent and looks pensive before she continues. "Can I ask you something Edward?"
"Sure, you can ask me anything." It's true, she can ask me anything, anything at all.
"Why haven't you used my number yet?" What?!?! Okay, how to respond, how to respond.
"Well Bella." I am nervous and start rubbing the back of my neck trying to come up with something that doesn't make me sound like a total asshole or make her think that I think she's a slut or something. "I, uh…"
"You, what Edward? I gave you my number at the club the other night. I thought I felt a connection to you when we were talking. No guy has ever just sat and talked to me for hours like that. I really liked it." She has her hands on the hem of her shirt and is looking down, but I can see the slight tinge of pink on her cheeks. Just as I am about to answer her, the elevator doors open up to the garage. "I get it, no need to explain." She steps out of the elevator and I lightly grab her elbow to stop her.
"You get what Bella?" I ask, I need to know what she thinks the reason is for me not calling.
"That you're not attracted to me. I mean look at you and look at me."
"Bella, that is utterly ridiculous. The reason I haven't called you is because I wasn't sure if you were giving me your number because you were drunk or if you really wanted ME to call you." To think that she actually believes that I'm not attracted to her is just beyond ridiculous. I can say with all honesty that there is NO ONE that compares to Bella. How would she know though, it's not like you've told her.
"So let me get this straight, you think that I flirt and give my number to everyone if I've been drinking then. Is that what I'm hearing? Wow, Edward. Thanks." She's really angry and starts stomping off to her car. I follow behind her and call her name to stop her. I can't let her go thinking the wrong thing and being angry at me.
"Bella, please. Wait. That's not what I meant." She stops when she reaches her car and instead of opening the door and stepping in she turns to face me.
"What are you saying then Edward?" Again she looks pensive; I can see she's having trouble putting her thoughts into words. "I gave you my number because…" her phone starts ringing and cuts her off. Her ringtone is a familiar song, I can't remember the name of it or who sings it, but I know this…No truer words were ever spoken.
"Save me, I'm lost
Oh lord, I've been waiting for you
I'll pay any cost
Save me from being confused
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for…oh lord"
She looks at the caller ID on her phone and sighs. Bella looks up at me and says, "I have to get this."
"Hey Rose, what's going on?...Ooookay?...Why are you so freaked out?...It's just…Geez, fine…Yes, I'll be there in ten minutes…Okay, bye."
"I have to go Edward. I'll see you tomorrow." With a small smile she steps into her car and is gone.
I stand there just staring at where she was standing wondering what the hell she was going to say. Why did she give me her number? She wouldn't be upset if she didn't want me to actually use it, right? I had to be an ass and basically call her a slut, idiot. A few moments later I realize that I am actually still standing in the garage at the office and somehow get into the Rover, get home and slip into bed. How I managed to do all this and not remember it is beyond me. All I can think of is Bella's words tonight.
My dreams that night are just a continuation of our conversation in the garage, only this time her phone doesn't ring and what she says is music to my ears.
"I gave you my number because I want you Edward. I've wanted you for so long. I can't deny this pull I have to you any longer. Please Edward. Please." And I kiss her, hard. Her hands are on my face, in my hair, oh god the hair pulling. Bella is biting my lower lip and then sucking on it. She slips her hands from my hair, down my chest. Lower, lower still and now her hand is right where I want it most. Her nimble little fingers are undoing the button on my pants and lowering the zipper. My hands go to hers and mimic her movements. She slips my pants and boxers down to my ankles and I help her out of hers.
I press Bella up against her car door and her legs instinctively wrap around my waist. My cock is perfectly lined up with her hot, wet center and I slowly, oh so slowly enter her. She's so fucking wet for me. "God Bella, you're so tight." She moans my name and I push further into her. I finally am fully sheathed inside her and I hold still, just for a moment to savor the feeling. "Please, please Edward, I need to feel you" Bella whimpers. I start moving and she's soon moving with me, meeting me thrust for thrust. All too soon I feel that tightening and I can't keep from coming inside her or screaming her name in the empty parking garage. I find her clit with my thumb and soon she's coming around my cock. "EDWARRRDDDDD….FUCK…OH GOD…YOU'RE SO GOOOODD."
"I'm touching your skin
If it's only a fantasy, then why is it killing me?
I guess this must be infatuation (I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it)"
Fucking alarm clock! Why the hell did I replace the one I destroyed yesterday? And why the hell do I have to wake up to THIS song? Oh right, if I didn't I would never get to work on time. And to answer my other question, God hates me. Looks like my morning is starting out just as it usually does. I need to strip and wash my sheets again. "Fuck, I need to stop this. It's getting out of hand." HAHA, out of hand. Grow up Cullen, what are you 12?
I get up and do my usual morning routine, but instead of going out for coffee before heading into the office I just make some at home. I have no time this morning with all the extra…umm…clean-up I have to attend to.
Traffic is a nightmare due to some accident so I call Jessica to let her know I am going to be late and have her tell the others to just get started without me. She says she'll let them know and tells me that my father wants to see me when I get there. GREAT! I wonder what that could be about.
I FINALLY make it in an hour late and go straight to my office to put my things down before going in to see my father. I get to his assistants desk and half expect to see Bella sitting there, although I know she's in the conference room working. I have to admit that I am a little disappointed when I notice that some other woman is sitting at Bella's desk. She's not bad on the eyes, long flowing strawberry blonde hair and a nice body from what I can tell.
"Hello, I'm Edward Cullen. Carlisle is expecting me."
"Oh yes, he told me to send you right in when you got here. I'm Tanya by the way. Nice to meet you Mr. Cullen." She sticks out her hand for me to shake and bats her eyelashes at me. If I weren't so obsessed with Bella I would find her appealing and possibly make an attempt to flirt with her. Instead I say thanks and turn and knock on my father's door.
"Come on in." he shouts through the door.
"You wanted to see me dad?" I step into his office and notice Bella sitting there.
"Ah, Edward, yes." He turns his attention back to Bella for a brief moment. "Ok, so you have the directions to the house, right? I tell you Bella, Esme hasn't stopped talking about you; she's so excited to meet you face to face. I think she's going to try and play match maker for you though, so be warned." He says with a sly smile, and then the bastard winks at her. What the fuck is he talking about, my mom playing matchmaker for Bella? She's mine damn it.
Bella's musical laugh fills the air in the office and I can't help the smile that touches my lips. I could listen to her laugh all day and die a happy man. Well, you could listen to other sounds too, like her moans and whimpers and die just as happy. Shut it voice, the last thing I need right now is to think about Bella's moans. As she's passing me on her way out I notice the look of sadness in her eyes. I know she's probably still angry about what I said to her last night; I really need to fix this. I can't have her be sad or angry with me. That just won't do at all. Strictly on a professional level, that's all. Yeah, like this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you want to fuck her. NOOO, not at all. I'm pretty sure I told you to shut it voice.
"Edward, have a seat. The reason I wanted to see you this morning was to talk to you about dinner at our house on Saturday. As I'm sure you've gathered from my conversation with Bella just now, we had asked her to join us. It seems that Jasper has asked Alice and Emmett has invited…Rosalie, is it? We have told Bella she can bring a date if she'd like and your mother asked me to tell you the same thing. Just let her know as soon as possible so that the proper arrangements can be made."
"Thanks dad, but I don't think I'll be bringing anyone this time. You can go ahead and relay the message to mom." Like I would want to bring anyone other then Bella.
"Alright Edward, just wanted to inform you of the plans. I will let your mother know you won't be bringing anyone. She'll be quite disappointed you know. She keeps saying that she wants to see you settle down finally." He tells me. I know what he's saying; she keeps telling me the same thing every time I talk to her.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm only 25 though, the youngest out of the 3 of us, don't you think she should be more concerned with Jasper and Emmett?" I know what he's going to say before he even says it because I have heard my brothers complain countless times about mom pressuring them to "Settle down with a nice girl and give her some grandbabies".
"Don't worry Edward; Jasper and Emmett get it from her far worse than you do. Just you wait, once you hit 27 or 28 it will never end until you finally get married, and then it'll be all about when you will be giving her grandbabies." I just groan, because really I knew that was going to be the response I got from him. "Alright, I think I've kept you long enough go ahead and get back to work son."
"Sure dad. See you later." I get out the door and Tanya waves at me and says she'll see me later.
In the conference room everybody is hard at work and it's looking like things are really coming along quickly. I'm really impressed with my team and how much work they've all put into this. I knew I was getting the best that the company had, but the campaign is moving along so fast that I think we'll be done before the 2 week mark. Bella is working with Jazz and Eric on one of the two concepts we have decided to run with while Angela and Tyler are working on the other one. She notices me come in and I give her what I hope is a reassuring smile and a look that conveys how sorry I am for what I said to her last night. She gives me a slight nod and small smile of her own before turning her attention back to her work. Jasper notices my arrival as well and comes over to talk to me.
"Good afternoon pretty boy, did we interrupt your beauty sleep?" I give him the finger and yet he still feels the need to keep going, asshole. "What the fuck took you so long to get here? Did your blow dryer give you a rough time this morning?" He asks with a chuckle and a pat on the back so rough it rivals something Em would do. Those two have clearly been spending too much time together.
"Funny you douche. I was stuck in traffic and then dad wanted to see me as soon as I got in." I reply with a punch to his shoulder.
"Oh yeah, what did the old man want with you so early?" he asks with a punch to my shoulder
"Uh, he wanted to inform me that Bella was coming to dinner on Saturday and that you and Em invited some lady friends as well. Mom apparently wants me to settle down already and give her grandbabies."
He sighs, I know he feels my pain. "Fuck man, she's started on you already. At least she waited until I was 27 to start on me with that shit. I hope it's over now that I'm bringing Alice. If I have to hear about her wanting grandbabies one more time I swear I am going to tear my fucking ears off and send them to Cambodia or some shit." I just laugh, because I really do feel bad for my brothers. Our mom has been relentless in her pursuit for him and Em to settle down. I'm just now getting it; they've been hearing it for almost a year now. "Anyway, I actually came over here to inform you that Tyler, Eric, Angela and I aren't going to be able to stay late tonight. We've all got other plans that we couldn't get out of, so it'll either be an early day for you or you and Bella can maybe work together tonight."
"Okay. Um, I guess I'll leave that up to her. I'm sure she'll just want to go home though and lord knows I could use the extra sleep." I think that maybe if we can work alone tonight that I can possibly fix my massive fuck up from last night. That thought alone makes me giddy. Yeah I said giddy, so what? I just hope she doesn't mind working late tonight with just me.
I talk to Bella a few hours later and she says she doesn't mind working late tonight with me. It gives me hope that maybe just maybe she doesn't hate me after all, not that I would blame her if she did after what I said.
At 5:30 Tyler, Eric, Angela and Jazz leave for the rest of the day. I decide that I need a little pick me up so I got into the break room to grab Bella and I some coffee. When I come back she's bent over the table looking at some of the things that we've been working on. She's breath taking and I can't stop myself from staring at her. Deciding that it's not in my best interest to be caught openly ogling her I walk in and place the coffee next to her. "Thought you might want some coffee."
"Thank you Edward. So I think this looks really good so far, don't you?"
"Yes, I agree. You know Bella, I'm really glad that you're working on this with me, you're a natural." I look up at her and she seems upset. I place my hand on top of hers and feel that same electricity I've felt every other time I've had the opportunity to touch her in some way. "Bella, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm fine. Let's just get to work so we can get out of here at a decent hour." Bella pulls her hand from under mine and starts working. I can't help but notice how well we work together, it's like we feed off of each other in a good way. Before I know it its 10:00 and we've been working nonstop. There have been little touches and sideways glances, but no real conversations about anything not work related.
"Bella, its 10:00, I think we're done here for the night. Meet me in my office in 5 minutes?" I ask. She looks at me and seems a little confused.
"Um, okay. Why do you need to see me in your office?" She now looks nervous as well as confused. Does she think I want her in there for some other reason? Sure I've had a number of fantasies of fucking her while she's bent over my desk, but obviously she isn't aware of that.
"To walk you to your car of course. Why did you think I wanted to see you in my office?" My own curiosity is getting the better of me. She blushes that beautiful pink shade I love so much and I really wish I could read her mind right about now.
"Oh. Um. Nothing. Yeah, I'll meet you in there in 5 minutes." Bella helps me put away all of the work materials and goes off to her temporary work station to gather her things.
Walking into my office I hear my cell phone ringing so I rush in to grab it. It's Jasper so I pick it up. Odd that he's calling me this late, but it must be important. "Hey Jazz?"
"Oh good, I'm glad I got a hold of you. I just wanted to give you a heads up that mom invited some guy named Seth over for dinner to set up with Bella. I guess he's the son of one of her clients and according to mom he'd be perfect for Bella."Jasper informs me.
" What?! Fuck! Why must she play matchmaker?" I let out a deep sigh in frustration and run my hand through my hair.
"I don't know, she's never been very good at it. Look I have to go, Alice is here and she's just about done with her phone call. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Alright. Thank you for the heads up. Night Jazz." Just has I hang up Bella walks in.
"Edward, can we maybe finish our conversation from last night?" She asks timidly.
"Uh, sure Bella. Why don't we sit on the couch?" I go over to the couch in my office and wait for her to sit. I really want to hold her hand right now because she looks so uncomfortable.
We sit in silence for a few minutes while we both collect our thoughts. Finally she speaks up.
"Alright, I don't know how to say this, so I think I am just going to come right out and say it, okay?" Not knowing what to say in response to that I just give her a nod and urged her to continue. Bella takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out with her eyes closed. When she finally opens her beautiful brown eyes she looks determined. "Edward, I would really appreciate it if you could forget that I gave you my number. I really should not have been flirting with you like that, you are technically my boss and it was completely inappropriate. I also want to apologize for putting you in that position last night. It was clear that you are not interested in me in that way and I realize that my outburst just made you uncomfortable. I assure you that that will not happen again." She lets out another breath and looks to me for a response. I, however, have nothing. She was flirting with me, I knew this, I'm not that dense. Yes you are, let's not kid ourselves here. When it comes to Bella you are completely fucking clueless. She's still looking at me waiting for a response and all I can do is nod in acknowledgement, words have apparently left my brain for the time being. She was flirting with me, with me!
"Okay, great. Thank you Edward. I hope we can be friends." Again words escape me, but I somehow manage to get out an "Of course!" A little too enthusiastically in my opinion, thankfully she doesn't notice. A feeling of elation comes over me as I realize that Bella has feelings for me and there is a real possibility that if we can figure out a way to get my father on board that I could actually be with Bella. I just need to play my cards right and also prove to her that the feelings she is having for me are completely mutual. With this new revelation I feel hope as I stand up and offer my hand to help her up.
"Are you ready to go Bella?"
"Yes." She responds and we get into the elevator and silently make our way to the garage to our cars.
So there it is, I hope you liked it. Family Dinner is up next so stay tuned.
The songs used in this chapter were "Show me what I'm looking for" by Carolina Liar (Bella's ringtone) and "Infatuation" by Maroon 5.
On a side note Infatuation by Maroon 5 is the inspiration for this story. Take a listen to it if you want, it's good.
Please review and tell me what you think. Your opinion matters to me. Oh and if anyone wants to BETA for me, or you know anybody please let me know. Hugs!