Eat me?

It had been just over three weeks since I asked Bella to marry me. We spent every day as a family, with Elizabeth. They showed me their favourite places in New York and we went on long walks through the parks, me with my arm around Bella's waist and Ellie running around us or holding onto our hands. I had never been so happy in my life. I had my own family. I had a week left until I started my final year of law school and Bella and Ellie went back to their school. I had gone back to my apartment the other day, so I could get things sorted for my family coming over tomorrow. I hadn't spent any nights at my apartment as I couldn't stand to be away from Bella or Ellie for too long.

Ellie had been asleep for an hour as Bella and I sat on the couch, watching some TV.

"I love you Edward."

"I love you too Bella."

"What time do you need to leave tomorrow?"

"Not until three. It will take about an hour to get to the airport and then I have to wait for them and go back to mine."

"I'll bring Ellie over around six."

"I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too honey."

She ran her hand up my arm and traced patterns I couldn't see.

"Do you… Do you think they'll still like me when they find out what happened?"

"They love you Bella. You've always been a part of the family and no matter what you will always be a part of our family but now we have our own family. We're getting married Bella. You shouldn't be worried about anything."

Her lips came to mine as I pulled her into my lap. She moved her face into the crook of my neck and nuzzled her face. Her hand moved around my chest as she started whispering something into my neck.

"Are you okay love? You've been acting differently recently."

She started whispering something else but didn't move from my neck.

"I can't hear you my love."

By turning her head slightly, her lips brushed over the shell of my ear.

"Your skin smells delicious. I want to eat you all up."

Her teeth gently bit down on my neck as she ran her tongue around in a small circle. I chuckled slightly whilst she tried to get closer to me.

"Is that why you've been licking me the last couple of nights? I wondered why you were doing that."

She didn't say anything but continued to suck on my neck. My arms wound round her waist and I lifted her up before carrying her upstairs.

"Let's get you to bed Bella."

"I don't want to yet. I haven't finished eating you honey. You taste really good."

"I don't know what you are talking about Bella, but something has obviously happened to make you act like this. Just remember I'm here if you want to talk."

"I don't want to talk. I want to eat you."

As I sat her on the edge of our bed and pulled away from her, a long, loud groan came from her as she clutched at my shirt.

"If you brush your teeth and get ready for bed then you can eat me. Okay? Does that seem fair?"

"But I want to eat you now."

"You have to get ready for bed first Bella. I'm not going to let you eat me until you have brushed your teeth and got changed."

"Fine."

"Thank you love."

I pressed a kiss to her forehead before she ran into the bathroom. Collapsing to the bed, I was so confused as to why she would be acting this way. I couldn't understand. For the last week or two she had been more cosy and seemed to have to constantly be touching me at every moment of the day. Where I enjoyed spending so much time with Bella and basked in her every touch, I wanted her to lay off for a while. At times she would become suffocatingly close to me. Not wanting to hurt her, I'd hold her close to me and allow her to do what she wanted so that she wouldn't think I was rejecting her. There was a constant glint in her eyes that I recognised as fear. I couldn't understand where that came from though and wanted it to vanish.

Quickly, I changed into a pair of pyjama pants and walked into the bathroom. Bella was in the middle of brushing her teeth when I walked up behind her and wrapped my arms around her waist. After we had both finished brushing our teeth, I led her back to bed. As soon as I was lying down her lips attached themselves to my neck as she straddled my hips.

"I love you Bella. I'm here for you if you need me."

"I love you Edward. You taste so good."

My heart didn't know whether it should sink or not. Every time Bella tells me she loves me, my heart swells but the fact that she only wants to 'eat me' at the moment crushes me. There's obviously something wrong but I didn't know what and if she doesn't talk to me then I don't know what I'm going to do.

She continued to lick and suck my neck before finally falling asleep. I held her to me as she snored lightly. Turning us on our sides, I draped the comforter over us as I combed through her hair.