Rating: M

Disclaimer: Yep, Stephenie Meyer still owns all things Twilight. She hasn't returned my call about giving me Edward. I'm still refusing to give up though.

A/N…I can not thank lovinrob and amandac3 enough for helping me through this story. They have been true Godsends. If you only knew what RL adventures they have and then their own stories to boot. And I'm not the only story they beta. They are truly stars in my eyes.

You readers/reviewers continue to astound me. You shock the daylights out of me sometimes. It's fun each week to read what you will say next….

CHAPTER 40

Bella

"Hey Edward, would you want to invite your brothers to the springs with us this weekend or do you want to keep it to ourselves?" I ask in an attempt to change the subject but still looking out the window to see if Jacob is still around.

"Oh, about that. I forgot that mom has her Italian thing on Sunday. Can we postpone our trip for the next weekend? Or maybe we can take the bike to Lake Tahoe and stay at my house for the weekend? Which would you prefer?" Edward asks still looking out the window in search of Tanya and Jacob. I know he too is feeling a little off kilter seeing them as they brazenly stop in front of the window to make out. It was clearly for our benefit.

"Are you alright, Edward?" I ask, taking his hand in mine.

"No. Not really." He says, quickly getting up and walking outside standing in the same spot Jacob and Tanya had previously stood as he yells into his cell phone.

I get up and pay the tab before walking outside and listen to Edward. I have never heard him so angry.

"Jenks, you are fucking fired." He yells. "I have Tanya and Jacob standing in front of Bella and you do not so much as text me that they have left their goddamn house? What the fuck, Jenks?"

I stand back against the wall while he paces back and forth and dare not say or do anything until he is ready.

"Are you telling me that they slipped past all those men I get an invoice for each month? Bella has a protection order against Jacob and I hired you to protect her from that asshole and all you can say is 'He slipped past you!?'"

I can hear his breathing come close to hyperventilating proportions.

"You can fucking grovel all you want, Jenks. This is it….You go ahead and call my father. I'll do the fucking same!"

When he hangs up, I watch him pace a little more and then he stops suddenly in front of me, pulling me into his arms.

"I'm so sorry, baby." He rasps. "I just can't have this happen. He has let too much slip through as it is and this was epic. All he had to do was let me know that Tanya and Jacob were on the move and he couldn't even do that?"

I wrap my arms around his waist and tuck my head into his chest, listening to his heartbeat. It is nearly pounding out of his chest and I squeeze him tighter to me.

"It's okay, Edward, you are here with me." I say pulling him toward the car when his phone rings.

"Hey dad." Edward says calmly.

I stroll a little ways down the street and window shop while Edward speaks to his dad. I look back at him and his arms are flying through the air. I stand and look at some shoes perched on their stands. I try to concentrate on Edward's broken pieces of conversation.

"… Jacob and Tanya… display in front of her… he's fired, dad… okay, we will be there in a few." I watch as Edward drops his phone in his front pocket and he waves me over to him, reaching his hand out for mine.

"I need to go see dad. He's mad at me for firing Jenks." He says as we walk quickly toward his car. "I will hire my own team and Jenks can work for dad, I could care less. He has put your safety in jeopardy yet again when all he needed to do was let me know when Jacob and Tanya left their homes. God knows if Jacob was lurking around you in Tahoe City that whole time while I believed him to be tucked away in San Francisco."

"Edward…" I begin to say.

"No, Bella. I can't have this. I never want to worry about Jacob hurting you like that ever again, do you understand?" He says, looking deep into my eyes. His eyes are dark with anger and I know I better keep my thoughts to myself for right now.

"Yes, Edward. Thank you." I say, squeezing his hand in acknowledgment.

Once we are in the car his phone rings again and he looks at it and presses 'ignore'.

"Fucking, Jenks." And his knuckles turn white on the steering wheel as he drives toward home.

We pull up to his parent's house and a well-built older gentleman is leaning against a silver Mercedes, his arms crossed at his chest.

"That's fucking, Jenks." Edward says before he opens his door.

Edward gets out and walks around the front of the car motioning me to stay where I am and he opens my door for me, helping me out, all the while keeping his eyes on Jenks. He wraps his arm around my waist and walks me toward the house and through the sliding door. I look behind me and Jenks is following us in.

"Hey, mom." Edward says, kissing Esme on her temple. "Where's dad?"

"He's in the study and said for you to meet him there." She says, smiling at me. "Bella, Jenks why don't you have a seat in the sun room and I'll bring out some coffee."

I walk over to Jenks and hold out my hand.

"Hello, I'm Bella." I say, introducing myself.

"So, you're Edward's Bella? Nice to meet you finally. I'm Jenks." He says, taking my hand.

"I apologize for all this Bella. I know this is a mess and I hope it can be straightened out." I could do nothing but offer him a polite smile and guide him toward the sun room.

After half an hour, Edward calls for Jenks and Esme and I are left by ourselves.

"Good lord, what is going on?" She asks.

"Well, what I can tell you is that Edward had Jenks begin protecting me after the Jacob incident in Tahoe. Jenks was to keep close tabs on Jake and then he wanted Tanya watched as well after she threatened to show up in Tahoe City and especially after she broke into his house. This morning when Edward and I were at a diner in town, Jacob and Tanya deliberately stopped in front of the window of the diner and elaborately kissed in front of us. Edward is livid that Jenks failed to let him know that they were together, let alone that close to me. The end result is that Jenks was fired by Edward and now Carlisle is involved."

"Well, rightfully so, if you ask me." Esme said, daintily sipping her coffee.

"Yeah, I have to agree. There have been too many mistakes made and I am not sure Jenks can get back into Edward's good graces. I think he is going to look for his own security team." I say setting my coffee cup into its saucer. "What really concerns me, Esme, is that too many things have been happening and I am becoming a little uneasy about them."

"Like what, dear." She asks, sitting up and leaning toward me.

"Well, I have noticed movement outside the gates on the security video at Rosalie's house, but I can't be sure what it is. It could be anything. I haven't reviewed the video because, one, I don't know how and two, each time it has occurred, I have forgotten to tell someone. Then I swear a car was following me the other day, but the car is such a popular model, it too can be anyone. Then last night when Edward and I were walking home, we heard a loud rustling in the garden and Edward thought it could be a deer or maybe rabbits." I explain to her. "But there are just too many things that have me a little jittery, you know?"

"Have you told Edward these things?"

"No, not yet. I am not intentionally keeping it from him, I just haven't had the opportunity with us just getting back together and all." I say, smiling at her and knowing I have a pale blush on my face.

"Yes, dear, I know." She says returning my smile. She gets up and picks up a house phone and hits a key and waits.

"Carlisle, dear, may Bella and I come in and tell you something I think Edward needs to know?"

Then next thing I know, I am being escorted into Carlisle's study and I tell Edward my concerns and Edward looks over at Jenks and raises his brows at him.

"And here is my girl standing before you scared, Jenks. Either do your fucking job or get the hell out and stay out and quit groveling to my father. This is more than a paycheck, Jenks. This is about the safety of this woman here. She has two people after her. One because he is still sickly in love with her and the other because she is still sickly in love with me. Now with everything that has happened, can you honestly say you have been doing your best?" He stands as he yells at Jenks.

"No, Mr. Cullen. I haven't been doing my best. But like I said, I will replace the men I have been using and get a better team. I assure you that this will not happen again and if I fail, I will gladly resign as Volturi Winery's security counsel." Jenks gets up and walks across the room and stands before me.

"I am so sorry Ms. Swan. I have not been explained the depth of the situation you have found yourself in with Jacob and Tanya until now. Not that that explains away anything, but I didn't know the severity of the danger you are clearly in." He apologizes.

"Edward, here is my proposal. Bella will have a car and driver during the time period necessary until the danger is removed." He quickly turns to me at the same time I open my mouth. "No arguments. You want me to do my job then I am going to do it. It's only temporary but you will not place my team in any danger while they are protecting you by fighting these procedures, Ms. Swan." He says, challenging me.

"Yes, sir." I respond looking at Edward as he crosses the room toward me.

"Bella, I know this is going to be difficult for a while, but please, you need to do this, especially now that you think you may have been followed." He says, holding my face in the palm of his hands.

"Another thing I suggest is that Bella stay here with you, Edward. There are more people around and although Bella's present residence is gated, if she is seeing someone lurking around the gate, we need to remove her from that situation as well." Jenks adds.

"Now that idea, I really like." Edward says, smiling at me and pulling me to him, embracing me in a warm hug.

"What about my tutoring? My classes?" I begin to start thinking of all the things I have going on and how I can work around all these changes.

"You can be driven into the city to meet with Matt if you want or you can call him and explain the situation and continue your sessions by way of Skype. We have a conference room with a 52" video conferencing monitor that you can use. Your sessions are only for a few more weeks anyway." Edward proposes. I consider the possibilities and determine it will work.

"Okay, I will call Matt this morning and let him know what is going on and see if he will agree to Skyping rather than driving in to the city for my sessions. I am sure he will agree to it." I say, and see Edward is visibly relieved that I have agreed to his proposal.

"If necessary, we will rent him space at a location where he can have access to video conferencing himself. He can't possibly say no to that, right?" Edward says quietly lowering his forehead to mine. "Thank you for agreeing to this, baby. It makes me feel better knowing you will be more protected."

"Edward, will you drive into the city with me so I can pack my study papers and whatever else I am going to need?"

I don't have an issue driving myself, but if Edward is concerned and has come to an agreement with Jenks that he does what he needs to do to make sure I am safe, I am not going to cause them any problems in doing that.

"You know I will, baby." He says, kissing the corner of my mouth. "You go call Matt and I will meet you outside in ten minutes. Thank you, Bella." I know he was thanking me for not fighting him on this. I have caused him enough stress over the past few months, I am not going to add to it.

I go out to the living room to make my call to Matt and he picks up immediately.

"Hello, Matt, this is Bella."

"Oh, hello, Bella. What's up?" He responds.

I tell him about the situation with Jacob more in-depth before I ask him to change my sessions.

"Because of all of this, I am going to be temporarily living in Napa and I'm hoping you and I can do our sessions by video conference rather than me driving back into the city. But if that doesn't work for you I will gladly drive in."

"No, Bella, that works perfectly. We have a set up at the University and at our office, so I will make the arrangements for those days. Your safety is important, Bella, and if I can help in this small way, I would be happy to do so." He replies.

"Matt, you have no idea how relieved I am. I will email you the information so that you can set up the conferencing on your end since you don't know where you will be on those given days, alright? Thanks again for working with me on this, Matt. It's important to me that I get caught up, but I don't want to cause Edward any stress either, so I deeply appreciate it."

"No problem, Bella. And thanks for the heads up about Jacob. I will tell you that our firm came very close to hiring him and you saved us a LOT of trouble with your reference. I owe you the favor."

"Okay, thanks again, Matt. I'll shoot you that email and I will see you tomorrow at 1:00." I smile that he has agreed to work with me and I turn around and see Edward, Jenks, and Esme walking out of the study.

"Bella, again, I apologize for the mess I've made and I assure you it will not happen again. Be prepared for your team to arrive tomorrow to fill you in on the ground rules they have for you and you tell them your rules as well. You are not totally without a say, but once you are outside the front door, you need to listen to your team, alright?"

"Alright, Jenks. Thank you." I say, putting my arm around Edward.

"Let's go to the office so Angie can show you how to use the conferencing equipment, shall we?"

"Let's." I say, smiling up at him.

We drive to Edward's house and get Pinkie as I have affectionately named my Hummer cart that Edward had made for me. I fell in love with it immediately and it fits me perfectly. I turn on the stereo and the sound system rivals the one I have in my car. I look over at Edward and he is beaming with pride. I pull him to me and I kiss those beautiful lips in appreciation.

We decide to race up the stairs rather than take the elevator and Angie looks down the hall at the ruckus we are making and laughs as we run to see who will get to her first.

"Hey you two, no running in the house. Didn't your mother's teach you that?" Angie stands there with her arms folded over her chest.

"Nope. Not at all." Edward says laughing. "Hey Angie, will you book out the conference room every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1:00 to 3:00 for Bella? She will be using it for her tutoring sessions. But Bella, if I, or one of my brothers, need the room for a meeting or something, we will have to make other arrangements, alright?"

"Alright, Edward." I say, nodding my head in agreement.

"Angie, her first meeting is tomorrow, so would you show her how to use the equipment? I'll be in my office, baby." He says to me, kissing my cheek before I watch him swagger down the hall. It offers me a perfect view of that fine ass of his as he walks away from me. A very sexy view.

"Handsome, isn't he?" Angie says, watching me as I stand there with my head cocked to the side intently watching him as he disappears into his office.

"Is. He. Ever." I say in return.

"All of them are not hard to look at and I thank my lucky charms that I have three wonderful men to work for and even better to look at." She says giggling. "Ben has been jealous for years."

"Well, I only have eyes for one of them." I say, sighing. "Okay, show me this equipment."

After Angie gives me a run through of the conference room, I head back down to Edward's office, knocking before entering. He is sitting on his leather couch, on his cell phone, and there is a big gift-wrapped box sitting on the table in front of him.

"No, I am not going to voluntarily abandon my water rights. That's absured. I have used my water appropriately for the past five years and that does not give you the right to try to take them from me. No, YOU check into it and YOU let me know."

I sit quietly in a chair across from him and listen to Edward take care of business before he hangs up his phone.

"Hey beautiful." He says looking at me. "Come. Sit here." He says patting the spot next to him.

After I move to sit next to him, he motions toward the box.

"I have a gift for you. I hope you like it. Open it." He says beaming at me.

"Edward, what have you done now?" I say, blushing.

"Stop. Just open it. I can't wait. You better open it before I do." He says scooting to the edge of his seat.

"Geez, I'd hate to see you at Christmas." I say as I start removing the huge purple bow.

"It's a sad thing to see, Bella." He laughs.

As I tear into the gift wrap I see a picture of a laptop computer on the box. My heart starts racing and I tear at the paper even faster.

"Oh my God, Edward. You didn't." I say excitedly. "You did, didn't you?" Trying to open the box but the damned thing is taped shut like Fort Knox.

Edward jumps up and grabs the scissors off his desk and hands them to me so I can cut through the tape and after wrestling with the box I pull out the Styrofoam package. I pull out the laptop, plug it in and start doing the required set up. I didn't realize that I have ignored Edward and notice an hour has passed and he is now sitting at his desk engrossed in the papers in front of him. I sit back and watch him concentrate for a while before I walk over to his door and lock it. He looks up at me when he sees me get up from my seat and sit back in his chair.

His look changes when he sees the obvious lust in my eyes. I walk around his desk and bend over placing a hand on each of the arm rests of his chair, spinning him around to face me. I lower my mouth to his and don't mess around searching out his tongue with mine. I feel the tingling begin when he reaches for my hips, pulling me into his lap. I feel how hard he is for me already and squirm my bottom against him which gets me a sexy growl.

Once I break our kiss, I get up and lower myself to my knees in-between his and quickly unbutton his 501's. I reach behind his hips and begin to tug his jeans off his hips and he rises just enough for me to accomplish the task. I see his cock spring back and hit his stomach and I smile at how his body responds to me so quickly.

"Mmmm, what have we here?" I say looking at Edward, licking my lips.

"Fuck, Bella." He whispers.

"That's my intention, baby." I say taking his cock in my hand stroking him firmly, but gently. I look up at him, seeing that his eyes are closed and he has his head against the headrest of his desk chair.

I lick him from the base to the very tip, running my tongue around the moisture that has collected there and open my mouth around him, using my tongue to circle the head, teasing his sensitive spot.

"Oh God." He says.

"No, my name is Bella." I say grinning at him. He opens his eyes and looks down at me and watches me as I gently wrap my lips around him, sucking him further into my mouth, looking at him out the corner of my eye.

"Shit, Bella." I feel his body begin to tense and I know it won't be long now.

"Do you like that, baby?" I lick him like a popsicle.

"Does that feel good inside my warm mouth?" I suck.

"Is it as tight as my pussy wrapped around you?" I open my throat.

"You… Bella… I'm cumming baby." And bingo. I love pleasing him like this and watch him as he throws his head back against the chair, I pull him all the way to the back of my throat as he cums.

"Holy fucking shit, woman." He says stroking my hair; his eyes closed. "You know I can't hold back when you talk like that."

I take hold of his cock again, stroking it as he talks to me. I can already feel it starting to come to life again.

"I love the taste of you, baby." I press my mouth against his, sweeping my tongue in his mouth.

He amazes me with his quick rebound time so I know if I tease him and kiss him hard, he will be ready for me again in no time. And sure enough, there it is, full staff and ready to go again. I stand and remove my panties from under my skirt and straddle his lap lowering myself on him.

"I love to love you, baby. You know that." I say slowly raising off him then lowering down on him hard.

"God, I love you, Bella." He says, pulling me down for a hard passionate kiss. I can hear my heart pound in my ears.

He grabs hold of my hips moving me in a back and forth motion over him and I feel my body shudder in amazement at how he can make me feel this way. Then he lifts me off of him and then he thrusts back into me, hard and fast. It gives me goosebumps.

"Oh, shit… Edward… I'm… oh God… okay, I'm close…" I say, rasping into his ear as he pounds his dick into me.

"Come on, let me have it, baby. I can't hold it…" He says out of breath. "Now, Bella." He says as he growls into my neck and he cums hard and fast as I circle my hips over him.

"Oh… Edward… ohgod…" I can feel myself clench around him and I know I am holding onto his shoulders for dear life but damn this feels good.

I wait for my body to come out of its coma and I keep my head rested on Edward's shoulder until I can breath and trust my wobbly legs.

"You are undoubtedly the woman every man can only dream of, Bella." He says holding me harder now.

"I love you, baby." I say, covering his face with kisses. "Thank you so much for my new toy. You shouldn't have but I know now not to fight you on this kind of thing, but thank you… kiss… thank you… kiss… thank you." And I end up at his mouth in a slow, drugging, kiss.

"It pleases me to make you happy, Isabella." He responds, giving my breasts a firm squeeze.

"I have got to get up. My legs can't handle this position much longer." I say and work my body off his lap and get my strength back. I bend to pick up my panties and head for Edward's private bathroom to clean up. I bring him a warm cloth and watch him as he closes his eyes feeling the warmth of the cloth and of me gently gliding it over him.

"No more, baby. You need to drive me to town to get my stuff." I say, standing and giving him a quick peck on his lips.

"You are the best, Bella-boo. Let's go." He jumps up and buttons his jeans and I run over to pack up my new computer to take with me.

When we open the door, Angie is standing there packing up her desk to go home for the day.

"Where you going, Angie?" Edward asks.

"Home. I'm done for the day and you need to look into sound proofing if you two intend to keep up that kind of inter-office meeting." She says, not smiling. God, I hope she wasn't offended.

"I'm sorry, Angie. It was my fault." I said apologetically.

"No problem, but I intend to see if Ben is home." She says quietly to me, smiling. "I haven't surprised Ben for a 'nooner' in ages and I think we are due." She giggles and skips toward the door.

"Don't forget to lock up you two. Jasper and Emmett aren't here to do it." And she is gone as quick as that.

"I'm totally embarrassed, Edward. Next time, make sure you are more quiet, please." I giggle as I head out the door with my new computer in hand.

"Meeee?" He says, running after me laughing.

A/N: Another day, another bout of office chair sex. Anyone ever done it in their bosses office? *dishie slowly raises hand* . I told ya things are going to pick up now… stupid Tanya… stupid Jacob. Now there's a little box down there that you write in and talk to me about what you've just read. Fill it out and hit enter…submit… go… whatever… just do it! (please).