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Chapter 47 Purring

EPOV

"Sleep, baby. There is no reason for you to have to get up", I said as I stroked her hair and moved a bit of it out of her face and tucked it behind her ear so that I could kiss her creamy smooth cheek.

"But you're up", she said stroking my hardening erection and softly moving her leg back and forth over my hip.

"Silly girl. It's really early in the morning, too early for this to even count as our morning routine, love, I'm just going to go down and cook breakfast and coffee for our guests before they leave to go fishing. I'll be right back up here with you and we can sleep in today if you want", I told her as she continued to draw me to her and place kisses along my neck and jaw. She was hungrily searching for my lips, I knew her well, but if we started this, breakfast would never happen.

"But you're purring now, sweetheart and you know I can't resist that", she told me as her lips found mine. Damn. I didn't even notice it anymore. I guess I was. It was just so hard not to around her, I was so happy with her in my arms.

"I'll be right back, I promise. We can snuggle under the covers and I'll kiss you for hours."

"No. If you are going downstairs, I'm coming with you. I can't sleep without you anyway and if we are both cooking, we'll finish twice as fast", she insisted as she headed for the closet to grab some sweats and a t shirt.

I watched my wife cross our bedroom naked. The sight of her rounded belly, carrying my child was almost more than I could take. She was beautiful, absolutely the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. Her skin glowed now that she was pregnant and her hair was thicker and shinier than it had ever been. If a single second more had passed, I would never have put on my sleep pants and been willing to leave the room. As it was we headed downstairs and had the lights on and the coffee brewing just before Renee walked into the kitchen.

"Morning Mom", Bella said as she got the eggs and bacon from the fridge and I took out the appropriate pans and put them on the stove.

"Well good morning, both of you! This is a surprise, I didn't expect to see you two this early in the morning", she said with a smirk. Her thoughts gave her away.

It's no wonder she can't keep her hands off him when he looks like that in sleep pants.

If I had something that looked like he does in bed with me, I might never get up.

Just look at the abs on that young man.

I am just so happy for her, he seems to really love her, and I know she loves him.

"Edward wanted to make sure everyone had breakfast before they left", Bella told her, smiling at her Dad as he came in and grabbed a cup for coffee.

"That was considerate of you, Edward. But you didn't have to get up, sweetie. We all understand that you need your rest", she said eying me.

"I tried", I added as she looked at me out of the corner of her eye, "she wouldn't stay in bed without me and insisted we could make breakfast together faster than I could do it by myself."

"Well, from what I see she may have been right. You two move like you can anticipate the others next move. You had the bowl for her almost as she grabbed the eggs to crack them and the butter in the pan as she finished. I've never seen anything like you two", Renee remarked.

"Mom", Bella glowered, "We just anticipate what is needed. Don't be so dramatic. We just know each other well and what we need, that's all." Her Mom thought about that for a minute as she watched Bella kiss my lips as I stirred the bacon and she poured the eggs into a plate. She was mentally equating us to magnets, I move she moves. Humans had such ridiculous thoughts some times and her Mom was no exception.

Charlie's thoughts were not so tame, or so esoteric. He was wondering why in the hell I didn't have a shirt on and if I slept with his daughter that way. If he only knew. He was sitting, drinking his coffee and thinking that at least she still wore those baggy sweats and a t shirt to bed, just like she used to.

Phil and Jacob joined us and they all had a huge breakfast complete with homemade jam from one of the folks in Highlands. The jam was all that Phil and Jacob could think about, well that and getting seconds on everything else. They were just finishing up and I was doing the dishes as Jasper and Emmett walked in the door, followed by Carlisle.

"Have you guys eaten?", Bella asked them. I couldn't help it. My knee jerk reaction was for my jaw to drop as I looked at her, stunned. Luckily, I was facing away from the humans because it was all I could do to then. keep from laughing. Carlisle amazed me. His thoughts were shattered into a thousand pieces by the nonchalant way she had thrown that question at him, he was barely able to keep by a straight face as he answered, "Yes, thanks."

Emmett was not so reserved and immediately wanted to play.

"We had a huge helping of venison for breakfast this morning, fresh as could be. I can't be eating all those carbohydrates and keep this boyish figure", Emmett said as he flexed his muscles for us to see.

"Huh, never thought of deer for breakfast", Charlie said as he laughed at Emmett, "that's a new one on me."

"Charlie, you know how weird Emmett is", Jasper chuckled as he smiled in spite of himself.

Dear God. All I had wanted to do was make breakfast for our guests and this is what I was being subjected to. I could have stayed in bed and been buried in my wife instead of enduring this from my brothers. I guess it really wasn't their fault, Bella started it. She loved to joke with them about their being vampires. She took the whole vampire thing entirely too lightly if you asked me, but I had accepted that about her and I loved her for it. She embraced every part of who I was entirely and seemingly without reservation.

The guys were out the door, leaving Bella and her mother with me in the kitchen. I sat down at the table with them and took Bella's hand as Renee finished her coffee and Bella drank the last of her orange juice.

Renee smiled at us and our joined hands. "You two really didn't have to get up. I could have fixed them breakfast you know", Renee offered as she sipped her coffee.

"Thank you, Renee, but you are our guests, it was up to me to cook breakfast. I had just hoped to sneak past your daughter and leave her undisturbed", I said as I rubbed Bella's knuckles with my thumb.

"Well, she is way to tuned in to you for you to be able to escape from her, Edward", Renee teased.

"Mom", Bella said as she squirmed adorably in her seat, "I can't sleep with out him. I haven't been able to for a long time now. I notice when I don't feel him touching me and I wake up." Renee smiled at her daughter, and her thoughts were everywhere but all involving some form of intimacy between Bella and I. I really liked Renee, and I somehow didn't mind sharing somewhat personal details with her.

"She"s kind of funny that way, Renee. I can rub her back and move her hair out of her face and even kiss her lips and she stays asleep, but if I take my arm from around her, she wakes almost instantly", I shared with her.

"You two are very lucky. Most people that I have ever talked to can not sleep with someone close to them, much less actively touching them. Maybe it has something to do with having been apart, you just need to feel each other's presence to be comfortable enough to sleep", Renee mused. She had a point. I had read minds for years, and few took comfort in being held or touched while they slept, they usually preferred to sleep close, but separately.

"To be fair, sweetheart", Bella said as she leaned in and kissed me softly, "I think Masen notices when you take your hand off my belly and he starts kicking me to wake me." She had a point. Masen did seem to react to my touch, it seemed to comfort him when he knew I was near.

"Speaking of the baby you two, Charlie told me that Carlisle is doing another ultrasound today. Is something wrong?", Renee inquired.

"No, nothing's wrong exactly", Bella hesitated as she explained, "Mason is just really moving around a lot and kicking me and I want to make sure he's alright, that he isn't being active because something is wrong in there and we just don't know about it." I placed my hand on her extended belly and rubbed it softly.

Bella covered that one really well. Her mother totally believed her story. She was learning to cover a lot of things well, like the fact that she came down to the kitchen and ate a raw steak everyday. She didn't exactly hide it from me, she just chose times when she thought I wouldn't notice . . . but I noticed everything about my wife. I needed to bring it up to Carlisle. I needed to ask him if perhaps Masen wasn't . . . thirsty. It might be a clue to just how much vampire and how much human he really was. That was a discussion that I couldn't have in front of Renee, of course.

"Well, would you mind if I came with you?", Renee asked Bella, "I'm sure Edward has other things he could be doing and I could go with you to meet Carlisle at the hospital, if it's alright with you that is."

I nearly panicked. Surely Bella would not agree to leave me behind, not when we were going to see our baby. It took everything I had not to show my distress over just the idea of me not being there. My panic was short lived as she answered her Mom.

"You're welcome to come along, Mom, if it's alright with Edward", she said as she leaned in to me, "But he's coming as well. I would never go to see our child without him. We're not going till Carlisle comes back from fishing, sometime late this afternoon."

"It's fine with me if you come, Renee. I'm glad you're interested in Masen and you're welcome to come. If you don't mind though, right now I promised my wife that she could sleep in and she apparently can't sleep without me", I said as I took Bella's hand and gestured for her to come with me.

"Have a nice . . . rest", Renee managed to say without too much giggling, as we headed upstairs.

"What was that all about?", Bella asked me as we closed the door to our room.

"Your Mom doesn't think we have even the slightest intention of actually sleeping, love", I told her.

"Do we?"

"Do we what, love?", I asked her as we both shed our clothing and crawled into bed. I covered us both up and snaked my arm under her so that she could rest her head on my shoulder.

"Do we intend to sleep?", she asked, looking up at me with a light dancing in her eyes.

I turned to her, stroking her cheek softly as I kissed from the edge of her lips down the line of her jaw to her neck, pulling her close to me, "I'm sure I can manage to tire you out enough that you will sleep . . . eventually."

She smiled as she put her lips to mine and scratched my neck and back lightly with her nails.

"That feels amazing", I told her as shifted positions slightly to give her better access to my shoulders and back so that she could use both hands to scratch and I could lay mt hear on her shoulder and nuzzle and kiss her neck. I loved quiet, relaxed mornings like these. No destination, no intent . . . just quiet scratches and caresses with little kisses and nibbles thrown in.

"I just thought I might get you to purr right away, sweetheart. You know what that does to me", she whispered in my ear as she nibbled on it.

Done.

I was purring louder than a fat cat on a sunny window ledge after a meal. Instantly.

I traced my hand down to my wife's breast as she continued to scratch my scalp and neck. Her breasts had gotten quite a bit larger with the pregnancy and the nipples had darkened. Interesting, they never mentioned that in medical school and I found it fascinating. I gently kneaded her breast, her body arching into my hand as I squeezed lightly. From my position, with my head on her shoulder, I was looking directly at her breast when I noticed something glisten. I hadn't gotten her so worked up that she could be sweating yet, so I leaned in for a better look. She was leaking a fluid from her nipple. I squeezed it again, just lightly around the nipple and a drop of fluid was visible. I couldn't resist tasting it. I loved the taste of her mouth and even her tears when I licked them from her cheeks, not to mention what her other fluids did to me.

I leaned over and took the nipple into my mouth, gently caressing it with my tongue and sucking lightly as my wife moaned and hugged me tighter.

Shit!

I came instantly. The taste in my mouth was so exquisite, so erotic, so all consuming that my entire body tensed and I came every bit as hard as when I had tasted her blood in bed with her. I had absolutely no control as my arms became iron manacles around her and my legs moved to cover hers as my hips held her down. There was very little of the fluid, a drop or two perhaps, but it was enough. My body was rigid and my moans turned into growls as I was brought to climax again and again.

I was vaguely award of Bella's hands in my hair and on my face, a part of my brain realized that she was pushing my face, pulling at my hair, trying to get my attention, but it was to no avail. I moved to the other nipple and kneaded it the same way I had the first one, taking more effort but gaining the same result . . . a tiny drop of fluid. I regained my senses for only an instant, long enough to raise my head and look into her wary eyes. I realized I was growling.

"Edward?", she spoke with a tone to her voice that was just on the edge of fear and I never wanted my wife to fear me . . . we had come too far for that.

It took everything I had to manage just a few words to her. I managed to lift my head and stare into her eyes for a brief instant, long enough to say, "I won't hurt you", before I moved my lips to envelope the other nipple. It was just as exquisite as the last and again I climaxed harder than I could ever remember. Repeatedly.

"So good . . . Bella . . . oh dear God . . . damn . . . . ahhhh . . . . holy . . . . so good, so good . . ."

I opened my eyes, sitting on my heels between my wife's legs after taking her hard again and again from that position. She was staring at me, her arms out stretched towards me, beckoning me to come to her. I bent forward and put both hands on her belly, kissing it gently as I checked on Mason. His thoughts told me that he was fine, oblivious to what took place outside his warm shelter, only happy that I was close by with my hand on her belly like he liked it. I closed my eyes and blinked as I moved to lie beside her, venom filling my eyes and flowing down over my cheeks, though it had never done so before.

"Are you alright, sweetheart?", she asked me, somewhat frantic, her eyes filled with the love she had for me.

The irony of that was not lost on me. She was asking me if I was alright. A vampire had just ejaculated all over her repeatedly while forcibly restraining her with no regard for her needs and she wanted to know if I was alright. I buried my face on her shoulder and cried inconsolably. She just kept stroking my head and holding me to her, whispering her love for me.

"I'm fine, Edward. Sweetheart, I'm absolutely fine. I love seeing you come unglued with me. It means everything to me that you really do care that much about me, that I can have that effect on you, baby. I promise you, Masen and I are fine."

"I scared you, Bella. I never want you to be frightened of me. It's the one thing I fear. I thought when you saw me hunt you would leave me and I still worry that one day something will click and be too much for you."

I took her face in my hands and stared into her eyes, willing her to understand, "I can't loose you."

BPOV

I learned long ago that though my husband was kind and thoughtful and loving, he was also a vampire . . . and vampires reacted differently than humans did in some situations. They took things differently, things had a different effect on them than you would expect of a human male.

We had tucked into bed and snuggled close, his head on my shoulder so that I could scratch his scalp and back with my nails. I wanted to hear him purr. He had developed the habit of purring when we were snuggling and had been alone for an hour or two and always after we made love. I loved hearing it so much, I thought I would see if I could get that response from scratching his scalp and back and I was thrilled when I heard the slight rumbling start in his chest.

I knew he wanted me to rest and relax, but I also knew that we always made love in the mornings and this morning would be no exception. I was so at peace lying in our bed with my husband gently caressing me. He seemed fascinated with my chest and scooted his head over to take one of my breasts into his mouth, as he always did, tracing kisses across my chest on the way.

Something was different this time. The moment he took me into his mouth he tensed. The gently, loving arms of my husband changed instantly into something foreign - something lethal. His arms became steel, completely unyielding and inescapable as he stopped any movement of my legs with his and held me completely immobile, pressing me into the mattress. I heard him start growling and his body went completely rigid, cool liquid spilling out all over my leg again and again as I felt my husband come repeatedly.

Something about him had changed, a shift in his very being. I pulled at his hair and pushed his forehead with both hands trying to get him to look at me, to get his attention and call him back to himself. I had never seen him like this and I thought he might need help to regain his control. It was baffling, I had no idea what had sparked this change in him, one minute he had been gentle and sweet, relaxed and slowly caressing me and the next he was rigid, unyielding and ferocious. The growl coming from him would rival that of any predator in the jungle.

I called to him and he finally raised his head to stare at me, maybe he finally realized I was using all my strength to try and get his attention or perhaps he summoned some inner strength that allowed him a moment to reassure me, I didn't know. The face that I saw before me was not that of my husband, it was the face of a predator, an apex predator that was restraining his prey. He was completely inescapable. The hard lines of his face and the set of his jaw were matched in ferocity only by the stare coming from his coal black eyes. I stroked his cheeks with my fingers as I heard him manage to get a few words out, his teeth clenched and his lips drawn into a thin line.

"I won't hurt you."

Did I hear him right? I knew he was trying to reassure me, something way in the back of his eyes told me that my faith in him was warranted. He loves me and would always protect me. I had come to believe that he was incapable of hurting me, that there was something in him that would always protect me . . . even from him. I had to rely on this belief now. I had to trust my faith in him, in his love for me and Masen. Not that there was any choice . . . whatever it was he was going to do, no one would have been able to stop him.

He took my other breast into his mouth and licked and sucked gently, eliciting exactly the same response as he had a moment before . . . all over my leg, repeatedly. After lingering there for a moment, he raised up and knelt between my legs, taking me again and again while he screamed 'mine'.

The face I saw then broke my heart. Edward was crying. Tears were streaming down his face as he placed his hands tenderly over where Masen was growing and bent to kiss my belly. I held my arms out to him, entreating him to come to me and he complied, moving to lie beside me with his face buried in my hair.

He was crying uncontrollably.

I told him over and over that I loved him, that he hadn't hurt me, but he continued to sob. I just held him to me and stroked him over and over as he shook with the force of his emotions. Slowly, over time he started to calm. I continued to run my fingers through his hair and scratch his scalp and shoulders as he lay beside me. I was able to reach behind me and find a corner of one of our blankets and I managed to pull it over us as we lay together.

His unnecessary breaths slowed, and I realized he was going to sleep. I fastened my arms around him and held him as I looked up and realized Alice was standing beside our bed.

"I saw something, Bella. I just had to see if you two were alright", Alice said with some hesitation and more than a little embarrassment at being in our room unannounced. I was glad I had pulled covers over us moments before.

"What did you see", I asked her quietly as I continued to stroke his hair.

"I saw him crying, Bella. Tears were streaming down his face!", she said with almost a scared look on her face.

"Yes, he was crying, Alice. He's sleeping now though and I don't want to wake him. Can you see how long he'll be out?", I asked. She closed her eyes for a moment, "He'll wake up in under an hour and Bella, he'll be a mess."

"Thanks, Alice. We should probably tell Carlisle about this when he gets back, I'm just glad he's okay", I said as I kissed the top of his head and held him tight.

Though the lack of privacy was sometimes annoying, I loved that Alice was always looking out for us. I was also relieved to know that he would wake up. I needed the tell tale reassurance of soft breath and a heartbeat to let me know that he was alright and there was none. I loved that he could sleep now, but given his behavior this morning coupled with his falling asleep, I needed to know that he would be okay.

EPOV

All of a sudden I became aware of my wife's heartbeat. My head was on her chest, her arms were around me and we were completely covered by a soft down cover. She was so unbelievably warm that she made me warm. I had one hand resting on her belly, and I started rubbing it gently. Masen appeared to be sleeping as well. Sleeping. I must have fallen asleep. Everything came flooding back to me, the taste, the ecstasy, the look on Bella's face. Oh God. The look on her face. I raised my head to look at her features, her face was serene, calm while she slept.

I had scared her. Forgive me God, I had scared my wife and I never meant to.

I checked every vital sign for both her and the baby and they appeared to be fine, simply asleep. My movement started to wake her and she tightened her arms around me, leaning her face into my hair.

"Hi, sweetheart", I heard her softly say.

"Bella."

"It's okay. Everything is okay", she said a she continued to speak softly, lovingly to me.

"You fell asleep. Nothing to worry about, I'm just too much for you. Too much sex and the big bad vampire had to take a nap", she gently chided me.

How did she do that? She took a situation where I was completely out of control, a situation that should never have happened and she was teasing me about it. Maybe she really did have absolutely no self preservation instinct.

"Bella, how can you joke about an aroused out of control vampire coming all over you repeatedly", I asked her.

"Are you alright . . . really alright sweetheart?", she asked me, her voice full of concern. "What was that all about anyway?"

I had to tell her, I owed her an explanation of why I went all vampire on her, or whatever that was . . . and I didn't keep secrets from her regardless.

"I'm fine love, as far as I know. You were, um, leaking", I told her as I caressed her breast, "and when I tasted it, I couldn't control myself. It was a completely unbelievable turn on and I'm really really sorry about that."

Bella turned bright red, the blush touching the tops of her breasts. Luckily I was now propped up on one elbow so that I could see it.

"Leaking? Leaking, Edward?", she asked, mortified.

"It's perfectly natural sweetheart. Your body is preparing to feed the infant", I told her as I held her close and kissed her neck.

"Doesn't that come after the baby is born?"

"Well, yes. But sometimes they start producing a substance called colostrum before the baby is born as well. Just not usually this early", I told her, my two medical degrees kicking in somewhat. I should have known when I saw the drops to begin with what they were, I just didn't connect it at the time. And I certainly had no idea the effect it would have on me.

"Let's get in the shower and get cleaned up, okay?", I asked her.

I carried her to the bathroom, Bella needing a human moment while I filled the tub with warm water and bubbles.

Joining her when she finished with the toilet, I slid in behind her and she rested against my chest as I held my hands over her belly. We managed to duck under the water and wet our heads, shampooing each other and then ducking in again to rinse. With the size of her belly and her current lack of mobility, I was glad I had chosen to put in the over sized jacuzzi, not just the one large enough for two.

Bella turned to me, straddling my lap as she kissed my lips, her hands fondling my chest and abs. I kissed her back, somewhat hesitantly given what had happened earlier.

"Sweetheart, I have something I need you to take care of for me", she said against my lips ever so softly as she kissed me. Of course. I hadn't given any thought to my wife's pleasure. I hadn't seen to it that she came before me or even at all this morning. She rocked her hips into mine, making her intent clear as I traced circles on her back and her behind while she sat astride me.

"I love you more than anything, Bella, I just . . ."

"No. I don't want to talk right now. I had my vampire, now I want my husband to make love to me."

Guess that was all I needed to hear.

I kissed my wife with all the love and emotion that was flowing in me at the moment, releasing her lips only when her need for oxygen demanded it, but never lifting my lips from her skin.

She moved with unbridled passion as she rocked against me, moaning my name, her hands gripping my biceps with a strength that would have caused a mortal man to cry out. I held her waist as she moved, making sure she wasn't going to slip or injure herself in the tub as she paid no attention to her own safety. She screamed my name before I was able to muffle her cries with my mouth on hers. I knew her mother was in the house and I guess we didn't care.

She collapsed against my chest as she relaxed, her heart rate dropping slowly back to normal and her breaths coming more easily. I stroked her hair as I realized she felt my length aroused again.

She looked up at me.

I shrugged my shoulders. "Vampire. I think you're used to it by now", I said as she smirked at me. I held her hands as she stood, pulling herself from me and we stepped out of the tub.

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