I DREAM OF RAINBOWS

Disclaimer: The Cullen's, the Swans, and most of the characters mentioned in the story that are known from Stephanie Meyer's beloved Twilight Saga, are all hers and hers alone. I neither have nor wish to pass them off as mine. I do appreciate the fact that she did bring them to life and allows us to play with them in our imaginations. The only thing I will claim is the current storyline.

The awesome and talented dowlingnana searched out my errors and corrected them.

And, Edward, in his mind, was in full agreement with the server.

CHAPTER 62: BLINDFOLD REMOVED

In Edward's opinion it seemed that dinner drug on for no apparent reason except that Bella was stalling for time; time to come up with a reasonable excuse to leave. True she had stated sometime during dinner that she wanted to call it an early night since she had just arrived back in town that afternoon and was tired. But Edward was determined that he was going to have a shared night with her.

As dinner was over and Bella was getting ready to say goodnight and leave Edward was racking his brain as to how to approach her to get her to stay; to stay with him for the night. It was something that he hadn't asked her to do outright before but had hinted at from time to time. True he had done a lot of assuming about her in the very beginning when he first met her. Had even hinted a time or two since they had begun dating with no real expectation of anything happening at that moment so had never made any real effort to force the issue. Not like he was planning to do now.

"Bella, do you really have to go? Why can't you stay here tonight with me?" He begins to question her and as he sees that she's about to answer by giving the same answers that she had already stated earlier, he holds his hand up as a sign for her to remain silent.

"Please hear me out before saying anything?" Edward asks of her. Then he continues without giving her time to reply. "I know that you have obligations here in Seattle that you have to attend to before returning to L. A. just as I have several upcoming commitments that I must handle as well both here and once I return home. It will be a while before we can be together again and all I'm asking for is just this one night. This one night to hold in my memory as a reminder of what I will have waiting for me once I'm free to be with you once more."

Bella didn't know how to answer him so all she did was look at him. She was trying to figure out what to do. On one hand she did want to experience more with Edward, much more. In fact, her body was eager for it to the point of demanding it but on the other hand she mentally questioned if he had changed his attitude towards women enough to be truly sincere with what he was telling her and now asking of her. She wondered what would happen if she told him no because of her caution and it turned out that Edward was really being honest about his reasons. Could her rejection be the trigger to show him that he wasn't trustworthy and that his changes made no difference?

"Bella, please, give me this one night and I promise to wait until you ask me the next time. I'll wait even if it's weeks from now." He told her with a slight look of hurt and a small pout.

He carefully watches Bella's face while he maintains his pose of want and sadness with what he wants to appear as hope. Hope that she was going to give in to his request.

The tension between the two of them increase as the silence stretches; neither saying a word to the other. Edward is growing impatient but knows that he has to maintain his current position and allow Bella the time she needed to come up with the decision that he's wanting. But after the silence becomes unbearable Edward gives a sigh and begins to turn away with the impression that he had lost once again.

Suddenly he's jerked back into place as Bella attacks his lips with hers. Edward was so surprised by Bella's actions that he didn't respond to her kiss immediately. But when his brain did catch up with all that was happening, he responded with a vengeance.

He quickly picked her up and had her backed up against the wall with her wrapping her legs around his waist. As they both needed to break to catch their breath, Edward was quick to ask, "Are you sure about this? Please make sure that you are because I don't want you to be accusing me of seducing you when all is said and done." He finished saying.

Bella just looked at him for a moment or two before giving a quick nod of her head and answered, "I'm sure since I'm the one that made the final decision and the decisive move. You asked me for this one night and I decided that we've wasted enough time, so it is my decision to move forward and no one else's." Bella told him in a quiet, almost in a whispered tone of voice.

That was all that Edward needed to hear before acknowledging in his mind that he had finally won. He was getting what he wanted and figured that afterwards he would be able to finally get her out of his system, out of his mind and be able to go back to his old ways.

So, with Bella still in his arms and her legs wrapped tightly around his waist, Edward moved them into the bedroom and gently laid her down on the bed. Releasing his hold on her he braced himself above her with his arms being placed one on each side of her. With him leaning over her, they just took the time looking at each other before Edward made the move to begin undressing her and then himself.

Once he had them both unclothed Edward was quick to return to join Bella on the bed and reached out pulling her to him. Their lips met in another heated kiss while the hands of both began moving on the other's body and their emotions and bodies were responding.

Bella's hand moved slowly downward and came in contact with Edward's erection, and then she firmly grasped it to give it a squeeze while moving her hand slowly up and down. This elicited a long low moan from Edward, and he quickly moved his hand down to cover hers as he began a slow thrusting movement which helped to show Bella the pace, he needed her to maintain.

After getting Bella's grip adjusted, Edward resumed his exploration of her body. He grabbed her breast first the left and then the right one, rotating from one to the other with his feeling each, then pinching the nipple as he pulled on them.

Slowly drawing his mouth down Bella's neck placing open-mouth kisses as he moved southward, Edward gathered first one nipple then moved to the other, sucking on them, removing his mouth to gently blow on them then to suck on them once again while he would bite down from time to time as he would pull on each nipple with his teeth. This brought forward a deep moan and groan as Bella pleaded with him to give her more.

Even though Edward heard her, he ignored her as he still continued in his slow movement down her body, setting his own pace. He was determined to do things his way while still bringing enjoyment to his partner for once.

Usually, Edward didn't give that much in return to his sexual partner of the time, but this was Bella. This was the one that has been driving him nuts and he felt that he needed to go the extra mile to be able to get her out of his system, out of his mind and out of his emotions so he can get back to what he called normal to him.

Moving from her breasts, Edward was working down to circle his tongue around Bella's belly button before dipping it into the small indentation. All of his administrations to her body had Bella moaning, groaning, writhing with pent-up need and frustration of wanting to reach her climax, her release from the most exquisite torture that Edward was giving her body.

His torture was such that she had ceased to administer any sort of attention to Edward and his release which didn't seem to be bothering him at all.

As his mouth and tongue were paying attention to Bella's naval, he moved a hand lower and began to massage her clit. As he intensified the pressure in that area, he started moving his mouth even lower to her entrance and began giving that area of her body his undivided attention.

It wasn't long before Edward moves his tongue to Bella's clit and his hand down to her entrance. While using his tongue to stroke her clit, Edward inserted two fingers into Bella and began a slow thrusting movement making sure to curl his fingers slightly while they were inside her to hit more sensitive areas.

As he felt Bella building for her release, he stopped for a few moments to stroke himself, giving both Bella and him time to regain a bit of control before lining himself up to her entrance and then giving a gentle thrust inside.

He would move slowly and then speed up only to slow down once again and then speed up once more. He maintained this pattern until they both gained release together.

After that neither spoke but were so exhausted that they dozed off to sleep. Sometime during the night, they woke up and had round two, three, four and started on round five when Edward's phone began to ring.

When Bella heard the name of who had called, she got up and began to get dressed. Edward was shaking his head trying to tell her no but to no avail.

"Emmett, I will be returning later this afternoon. At that time, I'll give you a call back to discuss the arrangements that will need to be made upon your return to L. A. But right now, you have caught me at a bad time."

Edward listens to what his brother is asking and then answers, "Yes, I've finished up some business that came up in Seattle and plan to see Bella before leaving here this afternoon."

He listens a bit longer to what Emmett is telling him and then finally gets to hang up just in time to catch Bella before she walks out the door to leave.

Edward moves rather quickly to grab Bella by her upper arm just as she's reaching to open the door. "Why are you leaving?" He asks with a slight pout appearing along with a puzzled look on his face.

"Edward, I should have left last night but instead stayed. I stayed because it was something that we both wanted and because I felt that it was time that I showed you that I do trust you. But I've got work to do and I do have some appointments that I need to keep. And, as I just heard you tell Emmett, you'll be leaving this afternoon." Bella tries explaining to him.

"That doesn't mean that you have to leave right this minute. Stay and let's have breakfast together. You know you're going to have to eat sometime this morning so why not eat with me?" He asked quietly while using his soft, velvety voice to entice her decision to stay.

So, with a small sigh Bella nod once and turns back to face the living area of Edward's suite.

Edward wastes no time ordering breakfast for the both of them and in the meantime while waiting for room service he quickly returns to his bedroom to get dressed.

He returns to where Bella is quietly sitting in the living area and walks over to her. Kneeling down in front of her he quietly tells her, "I have no regrets about last night and I sincerely hope that you don't either. Never have I felt so complete as I did, and I do hope that I made it both enjoyable as well as memorable for you."

Bella looks at him for a moment then tells him, "Edward, never have I had such an experience as I did with you. You took me to a level that I have never been before. Thank you."

They both talk about other non-important things after that even after breakfast had been delivered and served. Finally, it really was time for them to say bye to each other with Edward promising to contact her once she gets back to L. A. Edward kisses her on the forehead and then gives her a gentle kiss on the mouth just before she walks out the door.

At that moment Edward felt regret with seeing her go but quickly tells himself to get a grip before moving to pack all of his things up in preparation for his return home.

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When Bella does return to L. A. she goes to her rental home and makes calls to Rosalie and Alice to let them know that she is back in town. Then the next call she makes is to Edward.

He doesn't answer his cell phone, so she calls his office asking to speak with him for a moment. She's told that he is extremely busy, and a message would be given to him if she cared to leave her name and number.

This situation continues for a week with not being able to get a hold of Edward and at the same time not having him return any of her calls. She had left messages at both his office and on his cell phone voicemail.

So, with having enough of this going on Bella goes to his office since finding out from Emmett that Edward is in.

A/N: The ending of this chapter will bring a portion of chapter 1 full circle. The area where Bella is standing outside the door of the devil and the hell that is inside. From this point in the story, we will experience a time jump and be moving forward from this moment.

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