Chapter 21 – Picnic Dreams

Rosalie's POV

I'm roused out of my sleep like state by Amber's accelerated heart rate signaling her waking up from her nap.

She's adorable as she stretches her toes and neck as she tries to gain her bearings.

I fall a little more in love with her when she gives me the most lovingly soft smile when I move my head so that it's still resting on her chest but so that I'm able to look at her face.

"It wasn't all a dream?" Amber asks with wonder in her voice.

I couldn't help but pull her in for a soft lingering kiss. I feel a jolt that shoots strait through to my core as I feel the softest flick of Amber's tongue on my bottom lip before she pulls away and lays her head back on the ground as she gives another yawn.

By the time we load up the boat which really consists of Amber doing most of the work as she steals soft kisses from me every few minutes.

I couldn't believe my love and I are finally together.

We were on our way back to the house when Amber asked, "So not that I'm not happy to see all of you, but why exactly are y'all here?"

"Well when your grandparents and my parents went out to the Officer's Club they invited us out here for a mini vacation. I'm just glad that they did, because then I was able to clear up our little misunderstanding sooner." I say with a loving smile aimed at her.

"Well I truly am thankful for my grandparent's foresight. That or their meddling, either way I'm loving the results." Amber says with a smirk.

What I'm about to say is cut off my the small motor engine on the boat give off a grinding gear noise as it sputters and comes to a hold as it gives off a small explosion sound that definitely means that the engine is dead and not coming back to life any time soon.

Amber hangs her head as she hits the engine with her fists.

"Ugh, I thought that I had it fixed. Now we're stranded. Could you take a look and see if you could jerry-rig something, even though I know it's useless it's worth a shot." Amber asks.

After we both established that the engine truly is completely broken I'm a little shocked to see Amber starting to take off her socks and boots.

She starts to unbutton her collared shirt as she continues to explain "I took the paddles out of the boat so that it would give us more room in the boat to be more comfortable. In hindsight that was a stupid plan. So I'm going to have to do this the old fashioned way." Amber says as she stands up and ties the rope to the boat and jumps into the water.

I lean over the boat as I'm startled and shocked by Amber's quick departure from the boat.

"What are you doing!?" I yell at Amber's odd behavior when her head breaks the water after diving in.

"The engine is busted and we don't have any paddles, so I'm going to have to tug the boat back. That's why I tied the boat to the rope. I made a loop with the other end and then I'm going to put the loop around my torso and swim us back." Amber offhandedly says.

"We have to be 2 miles away from the boat house!" I start to say with worry in my voice. I was suppose to be getting my mate to rest and relax and this was by no means helping.

"3 and a half actually." Amber says casually as she starts to swim us back at a leisurely pace.

I can't help but feel guilty over the fact that Amber thinks that she has to swim and tow us back to the boat house. She is suppose to be relaxing and I know that she will be back to being exhausted when we get there, when in reality I would be able to do it in a few minutes.

A little under 2 hours later we make it back to the boar house and I still felt terrible when I had to wait and watch as my mate painstakingly swam us back to shore.

It did make me fall a little more in love with my mate. To know that she was already tired, but still would swim us back so that I wouldn't have to. I love and admire Amber's work ethic and her drive to take care of the people that she holds dear.

We thankfully made it back in time for dinner, which the sounds coming from Amber's stomach let everyone know that she was most grateful for.

My mate and I took the last two free seats at the table, that just so happened to be seated next to each other.

I can't help but smile when I feel an electric buzzing coming from my leg. I look over at Amber who gives me a smile as she gives my leg a soft squeeze before she lets go and starts piling food onto her plate.

I can't help but give a soft smile as I look bashfully down at my lap and I know that if I could still blush I would be red as a tomato.

I can hear my siblings snicker at my shy behavior. I can't help that my mate can leave me so disorientated.

Amber's POV

After that long swim I am beyond famished.

The giddy feeling that I've had since Rosalie had given me that first earth shattering kiss is beyond amazing. I feel energized in a way that I doubt a case of energy drinks could even give me.

I can't keep the smile off my face as I look around the table as I feel a sense of home that I haven't felt in a very long time.

I share a private look with Jasper and I know that he is basking in the happiness around the room as well.

After dinner the boys and I take to the back yard where we have our putting and chipping green. After a few minutes we're joined by grandpa roar and Carlisle and I can't help but smirk as I notice the box under my grandpa's arm.

I happily take one of the cigars out of the box as I take a deep breath of the fine Cuban aroma.

I start to light my cigar as everyone else grabs their own.

We spend the next half an hour laughing and golfing as we enjoy our cigars and each other's company.

That is until the women in our lives made their way to us from the back porch lounge area that over looked the back yard.

I almost choke on the inhaled smoke that I just pulled into my lungs as I watched Rosalie saunter up to me in the most erotic of ways then throw her arms around my shoulder and neck as she all but molds herself to my right side.

She whispers into my ear "I didn't know that you smoked."

I turn my head to blow out the roll of smoke away from her then I say "I do on occasion. Tonight seemed like a reason to celebrate." I lean in for a small kiss, just because I could.

Rosalie gives a soft hum as she answers "Well as much as I wish you didn't, for your health, I can't say that you don't look positively sexy." I can't help but shiver as I hear her purr into my ear, but I make a startled yelp when I feel her give my ear a sharp nibble with her teeth.

Sadly everyone calls it a night not long after. I offer to walk Rosalie to the small guest house that we have a little ways down from the main house.

Thankfully she readily agrees, because I don't want to part from her just yet.

I was a little confused when she stops by a tree that is about 50 feet away from the guest house.

I understood when she pulls me in for a heated kiss.

I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm broken out of my lust filled haze when I feel the bark of the tree dig into my arm that I had wrapped around Rosalie. Apparently I had back us into the tree and I had her pinned to the trunk with my body. Thankfully Rose didn't seem to mind if the serene look on her face was anything to go by.

I couldn't help but feel a smug sense of satisfaction at the sight of this goddess unraveling before my eyes as she seemed to be coming undone under my administrations.

As I was about to go in for another kiss I'm stopped by a sudden deep yawn that I couldn't help but release.

After some coercion Rose convinces me to go to bed with a kiss and a promise to see me in the morning.

Rosalie's POV

I feel so happy and giddy. I can not believe that my love and I have finally gotten past all of the dancing around each other.

After the stress of the misunderstanding I took the opportunity to hunt after I bid my love goodnight. I knew that the rest of my family would take advantage of the lush forest available to us as well.

After draining a number of wildlife I had made it back around 7am thinking that I had plenty of time to wash up and start on breakfast. Knowing that my mate had been over working herself I figured that she would still be asleep, but it surprised me to see her awake and chopping down the old oak tree that she had talked about wanting to discard of yesterday.

My over protective side was becoming angry at seeing my mate doing more work when I knew that she should be resting.

I was able to stop myself from marching myself straight up to my mate and causing an unneeded fight between my love and I.

I will have to use a more persuasive approach, one that I hoped would include a lot more kissing.