Taste of Innocence Chapter 12
“Really?” she asked, her voice filled with disbelief and her eyes shining with happiness. What, did she think I fucking started lying to her now? If I was going to lie, I sure as fuck would have lied about more important things than moving to godforsaken New Jersey. I could have saved myself a load of fucking grief and a couple of beatings.
“I said yes, didn’t I?” Before I could say any more her arms slipped around my waist and she gripped me in a tight hug. She’ d have cracked the ribs of a human if she were hugging one, which of course she wouldn’t be because I was the only man she would be hugging ever again. I returned the gesture, squeezing her much more gently than she was squeezing me, not that I fucking minded at all. Any time she was touching me with affection was fine by me.
I pressed a kiss to the top of her head and she tilted her face up to grin at me. She was absolutely fucking stunning when she was happy. “I thought for sure you’d argue with me.”
“I only argue with you when you’re being an obstinate pain in the ass,” I pointed out. She laughed and squeezed me again. “When you’re being reasonable, which is rare as hell, I’m ready and willing to listen and compromise. You’re finally opening yourself up to the possibility of feeding the correct way and that’s all I needed to hear. I’ll let you try your little experiment and when…” I broke off, not wanting to incite her wrath when she was so content. “If it doesn’t work out, we can return here and I can teach you the proper way to be a vampire, without the use of the minds of insipid Hollywood writers.”
She giggled. “I actually think it’s kind of sweet that you sit here and watch them with me, even though I know you hate them with a passion.”
“Yeah, well, the chicks are pretty hot. Plus, I think I’ll take some inspiration from The Vampire Diaries.”
Her eyes widened. “What do you mean?” she asked in disbelief.
I traced my pointer finger over her cheek. “I think I’ll start my own pain journal.”
She snorted with laughter. “That was the thing you were bitching about most. I thought you hated all the emo vampires, now you’re saying you are one?”
I flicked her nose and grinned down at her. “No, my pain journal will catalog all the times you kick or hit me when I piss you off. I’ll have to get a very large book.” She smacked me in the side but giggled at the same time. “See, now I have another entry.” She pulled away from me and lay back across the couch, her legs stretching over mine, giggling helplessly. Damn she was fucking cute when she was happy. Was this the first time she’d been happy since she woke up? That was pretty fucked up but probably true. Well, she’d no doubt been happy when we were making out but that was a given. And she’d been content when we spent two days talking, but there was a hint of sadness running through her memories since she knew she’d never see the people she was telling me about again. This was the young, carefree side of Bella I’d yet to see. I’d assumed she was a grandmother trapped in the body of a co-ed. I really fucking liked seeing this side of her.
“I could start my own journal of the amount of sexual innuendo you throw my way. I bet I could fill my journal before you completed yours.” That was not a fucking bet I was about to take, not when her luscious little body was lying across the couch, her legs draped over me. It would be all too easy to crawl over her and lower myself on top of her and kiss and lick and…fuck, Edward Junior was standing at full mast again. My reaction to this girl was just ridiculous.
I squeezed her knee. “There’s no fucking way in hell I’m taking that bet.” She continued to laugh at me and she was absolutely breathtaking. And now I sounded like a fucking chick again. I knew I wasn’t though because Edward Junior was making himself very much known against Bella’s leg. I was surprised she hadn’t commented on it. Of course she was probably just ignoring him. She was surely used to him by now. Too bad she wasn’t used to him in much better ways, like how long and hard he was as he pounded inside her. And how wonderful he tasted as she wrapped her sexy little mouth around him and sucked…fuck. We had to get to Jersey and fucking fast so she could fail and embrace vampire life and then let me fuck her, repeatedly. If she was going to eat humans, then her main argument against having sex with me was gone so she could remove the cockblock and have at me like I knew she wanted to.
I lifted her legs and got up from the couch, setting them back down. “Where are you going?” she asked, her laughter finally dying down but the light still shining in her ruby eyes.
“I’m going to get the laptop. We need to find a place to live in Jersey, don’t we?” She grinned and nodded. I ran up to the bedroom and returned seconds later with my laptop in hand. “Any specific requests?”
She swung her legs over the side of the couch and sat back up to make room for me. She scrunched up her face in thought and then smiled. I wondered what was going on in that infuriatingly silent mind of hers yet again. Patience, asshole. You can give her a few minutes to figure out a way to cope with the life you forced on her. Shut the fuck up, you prick. She’s finally happy and you’re trying to piss me off now? Go the fuck away and come back when I actually need you. You always need me; you just deny it all the fucking time. I need you to go away, permanently. God I hated that smug motherfucker. I needed him? Who the fuck did he think he was? The only thing I needed was sitting on the couch next to me looking delicious in a body hugging green tank top and jeans.
“Well, I think we’d have to find something pretty isolated, since I need to be away from people. Maybe farmland?” she asked uncertainly. “And, since I don’t really know if the cow thing will work, maybe someplace with a forest nearby. Maybe I’d prefer actual wildlife to domestic animals? I don’t know, what do you think?” She looked up at me with wide, trusting eyes as if I would have all the fucking answers. Like I knew shit about what fucking animals she would prefer. She hadn’t exactly taken to my dog suggestion, or the gorilla. I rather enjoyed the mental image I had of her wrestling with a gorilla…probably because it was fairly close to a human genetically. Maybe I could go to the Bronx Zoo, save us the time and effort of finding a place…”Edward?” she asked, nudging me with her elbow.
“What?” I asked, jerked out of my strange mental picture of Bella wrestling with a giant ape.
“Do you think that sounds alright?”
“Oh yeah, let’s see what we can find, okay?” I shook off the fucked up arousal I felt at that image and pulled up some real estate information for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was about an hour from my place and with my speeding the distance would be negligible. I typed in my criteria as having a lot of land and with a cost of a million or more. Surprisingly, I got several pages of results. Who fucking knew, New Jersey actually had some decent real estate.
“A million dollars?” Bella screeched, smacking me on the arm. “Edward, you can’t spend that kind of money on a house.” Was she fucking serious?
“Why the fuck not? Do you know what this place costs?” Did the girl have no clue what New York City real estate went for? A million dollars was nothing. Hadn’t I just spent that on my date with Angela?
Bella glanced around, a new wariness in her eyes. She winced when she saw the hole in the wall where my guitar had landed. “Sorry,” she whispered, sounding ashamed of herself.
I laughed and kissed her on top of her head. “Don’t be, it was fucking hot when you threw that guitar at me.”
She giggled. “You’re so weird.”
“You bring out my weirdness. Now, stop worrying about money. I told you how much of it I have. If I want to spend millions on a house in fucking Jersey, then I will.” I still could not believe I was buying a house in New Jersey.
You wouldn’t do it for anybody else but her. Oh Christ, not you again. I thought you were gone. I can’t go away, I’m you, jackass. Well you’re the one annoying fucking thing about me and I never heard from your stupid ass before so why you feel the need to come around now when I’m finally not alone anymore is beyond me. I’ve always been here; you just never bothered to listen to me before because you’re a stubborn asshole. Well can you explain to me how I ignored you before because I’d really fucking like to start doing it again? No can do, buddy, you need me. Like hell I fucking do. I’m doing just fine without you. Oh really? How come it’s me that helps you understand your girl then? You know the only reason you’re putting up with her is because you l…Oh hell the fuck no, don’t you dare finish that sentence. You’re a fucking wuss. Why can’t you just admit how you feel about her? I have, you asshole. She knows I care. Caring and l…I said shut the fuck up! Damn it, no wonder I’m such a fucking wuss when it comes to her, it’s your pussy self coming in and interfering. Go away. I’ll call you if I fucking need you. I waited and no snappy reply came so apparently the douchebag was sulking like the fucking chick he was.
“Um, Edward, are you okay?” Bella asked, putting her right hand on my arm.
“Oh yeah, I’m fine. I just zoned out for a minute there.” Fucking annoying inner voice, disrupting my life. I clicked on the first house that came up. “What do you think about this one?”
It was a white two-story house with a pretty fucking cool balcony running along the top floor. “Edward, it’s 2.5 million dollars,” Bella hissed, sounding completely distressed.
“Bella, what did I tell you? Money is no object. The fact that this house is only two and a half million dollars shocks the hell out of me. Do you know what it would cost here? Three times that, at least. Now look at the house and tell me what you think?” It wasn’t going to work, it wasn’t isolated enough, but if I could at least get her opinion I could figure out what the fuck she did like and go from there.
She sighed but looked at the pictures I pulled up. “Oh, I love the bathtub!” I had to admit, it was pretty fucking nice. It was a huge oval surrounded by gray marble and had a huge ass window that you could look out while soaking in the water. The thought of climbing into that tub with Bella and caressing her naked, wet skin in the moonlight had Edward Junior battering against my zipper again. Fuck. House hunting was suddenly pretty fucking interesting.
“The pool is fabulous but I don’t really like the old fashioned diner thing they have going on. And who needs a basketball court in their house?” My girl had good fucking taste; I’d say that much for her. “The house is pretty and I love the lake but I don’t think it’s the one.” Not unless she planned on sucking the blood from fish and that was just a foul ass image if ever there was one.
“I agree. It’s not really isolated enough either, only 6 acres. We need a lot more land than that.” I pulled up the next home, another two story white house but this one was a farmhouse with 127 acres. Much better. Ha, they raised fucking sheep? I wondered if Bella would be partial to sheep’s blood. “How about this one?”
She wrinkled up her nose in the most adorable fucking way and I couldn’t resist so I kissed the tip and she laughed and pushed me away. “Wood paneling? I hate wood paneling. I don’t like the looks of this house nearly as much.” She was right, yet again. Was there any question she fucking belonged with me?
I grinned at her. “I couldn’t agree more. The land is good, but the house is not and since we don’t have time to wait, this one is out.” I clicked open the next house and barely managed to keep from shouting out in triumph. This was fucking it, at least in my eyes. It was a 175 acre horse farm, surrounded on both sides by nothing but forest. It was completely private, the only other building nearby was the stable for the horses. It had gleaming wood floors, a huge modern kitchen, not that we needed it, a beautiful brick fireplace that we could curl up in front of, a very large pool…I was instantly sold.
I waited anxiously for Bella’s reaction. She hadn’t said anything, only taking a sharp breath when I first pulled up the property and then just sitting there silently. Why the fuck couldn’t I hear her thoughts? I needed to know, now. This was our house, damn it. She had to see it.
“Edward, it’s perfect,” she breathed softly. “Look at that staircase!” It was great; it curved up in this sweeping way that was reminiscent of those old time movies where the hero carried his girl up to their bedroom and the movie faded to black. I couldn’t wait to carry Bella up those stairs but we wouldn’t be fucking fading to black.
“It is perfect,” I agreed. Of course she fucking saw that. She was made for me. “There’s tons of forest where I’m sure you could find some creatures to hunt. Plus, we can raise your own food. How do you feel about horse blood?” I couldn’t resist the urge to laugh at the horrified look on her face.
“I’m not eating horses!” she shouted. “Why would you think that I would want to eat a horse? Horses are beautiful.” She looked completely outraged, her arms were crossed across her chest and she was glaring at me. She was so fucking hot.
“Cows, horses, what’s the difference?” I knew I was goading her but damned if I didn’t enjoy it.
“Cows are raised to be food. Horses are for riding and petting and loving.” Her lip stuck out in an adorable pout that I wanted to bite but I preferred to keep Edward Junior attached to my body so I refrained.
“Baby, did you want a horse when you were a kid?” She was so fucking cute, sulking about a fucking horse.
“Maybe,” she muttered, still glaring at me. I would fill the stable with them if she wanted but I didn’t know how horses would take to us. Animals tended to recognize predators a lot more easily than humans did. Still, we could try I suppose.
“Do you want one? I’ll make sure they include them in the sale if you want.” How the hell I would do that was beyond me. Well, Jenks could fucking figure it out.
She smiled but shook her head. “I doubt a horse would let me near it now. But thank you. That was sweet of you to ask me if I wanted one.”
“I’d get you a dozen if you wanted,” I blurted out. What the fuck, Edward? Why don’t you just hand her your cock and be done with it?
She grinned and kissed my cheek. “I know you would but it’s not necessary. Still, this is the house.” Of course she knew she had my balls in a vice. She wasn’t fucking stupid. Damn witchy woman.
“I’ll get Jenks on it. I’ll offer a bonus to make sure we can get in as soon as possible.” The house was three million dollars, if I offered five they could sure as fuck let me close on it in a timely fashion. Maybe it would come furnished and save me a shitload of trouble as well.
Bella’s hand twined with mine. “Thank you for doing this for me, Edward. I know you don’t want to, but you’re doing it anyway. I appreciate it.” Her voice was sweet and sincere and made me feel like I’d done something important and heroic. I hadn’t really.
“It’s no big deal,” I told her, trying to pull my hand away but she held fast.
“No, it is and I want you to know that I see that. I know I’ve annoyed you a million times but you’re still here, putting up with me and buying me a beautiful house to let me try to live the way I want to, even though it’s not what you want. You’re a good guy, Edward.” Oh hell, when she put it like that I sounded like some kind of a saint. I felt uncomfortable with the way that made me feel.
“Look, Bella, we both know that I’m not…” she cut me off by pressing her lips to mine and whatever the fuck I was going to say was lost. I moved the computer and wrapped my arms around her and returned the gentle kiss. There was no passion here; it wasn’t the type of kiss that would lead to fucking her right on the couch. It was softer and warmer. It was fucking incredible.
She pulled back eventually and smiled at me, light sparkling in her eyes. “I know who you are, Edward. More importantly, I know who you can be. Stick with me and you’ll find out.” What the fuck did that mean? Still…
“I’m not going anywhere,” I told her roughly, tightening my arms around her.
She kissed me again. “I know.” Of course she did. She was finally recognizing her power over me. I was well and truly fucked. You know you like it. I wanted to tell him he was fucking wrong but we both knew he wasn’t.
I released her and reached for my cell phone. “I’ll call Jenks and get him on this. You’re going to need to work on something while I do.”
“What do I need to do?” she asked.
“Hold your breath.”
“What? What do you mean? Just tell me what I need to do?” Her forehead was wrinkled in confusion and she sounded annoyed, thinking that I was fucking with her.
“The drive to Jersey will take about an hour when we move. You need to practice not breathing for that long. It’s not that difficult but it can feel weird. I can’t have you breathing in at the wrong moment and ripping the car door off to go attack a human along the way.”
“Oh! I hadn’t thought about that.” Well of course she hadn’t, she had yet to go out and deal with humans.
“That’s what I’m here for.” She laughed and slapped my knee. “So, just stop breathing.” She took a deep breath and puffed her cheeks out. I laughed my ass off at the sight of her; she looked like a little kid about to take their first leap into a swimming pool.
She released her breath and glared at me. “What?”
“You don’t have to take a deep breath and hold it in like that. Just stop breathing entirely.”
“Well excuse me; I’ve only been doing it naturally all my life. How the hell am I supposed to know how to stop breathing?” She folded her arms and huffed in frustration. She was killing me with how fucking cute she was.
“It’s simple. Just take a breath and don’t let it out. You don’t have to puff your cheeks out, let it into your lungs and leave it there.” She did as I said and looked a lot more fucking normal this time.
I chuckled at her still annoyed posture and flipped open my phone to speed dial Jenks. It was fairly early on a Saturday morning for me to be calling him but I didn’t give a damn. He lived to serve me.
He answered breathlessly, as if he’d had to run across the room to get his phone. “Mr. Cullen, sir, how are you? Was your evening satisfactory?”
My evening? What fucking evening? Oh, the date with Angela. “Yes, it was fine, thank you for arranging it.” I could afford to be magnanimous, the night had been a success and I had my girl by my side, gamely doing her best not to breathe.
“I’m glad to hear it, sir. What can I do for you this morning?” There was a note of terror in his voice that satisfied me immensely.
“I need you to buy a house in New Jersey. The property is 31 Fairview Hill Road, in Fredon Township. I want it as soon as possible, preferably by Monday.”
“What?” he spluttered. “Why New Jersey? And what makes you think you can close on a house that fast? The owners need to approve it and then the settlement costs and…”
“Are you fucking questioning me, Jenks?” I thundered. What the fuck was with him lately? All he seemed to do was ask me to fucking explain myself. Who the fuck worked for whom?
“No, sir, it’s just, you’ve had these strange requests lately and I’m wondering if something is wrong with you. Is this all about that woman? Mr. Hall said that you seemed friendly but not like you were in love or anything.” What the fuck had he just said?
“What the fuck did you just say?” I demanded. “You actually spoke to that obsequious little fuck at the museum and asked him about my evening? Since when do you fucking check up on me? Do we have a problem, Jenks?” How dare he? It was about time I severed our relationship, permanently. I’d make him drive his ass out to Jersey and kill him to celebrate closing on my new house.
“Uh, no, I mean, I wasn’t checking on you per se, I just wanted to make sure that you were satisfied with the accommodations and…”
“And you called and checked up on me!” I shouted. Bella put her hand on my knee and gave me a gentle squeeze. As always, her touch did calm me somewhat but I was fucking pissed. “Look, Jenks, I thought we had a mutually satisfactory agreement but if you’re going to be questioning me at every turn and fucking spying on me, maybe I better find someone who can manage to follow my orders more thoroughly.”
“No, please, Mr. Cullen. I apologize for overstepping my bounds. Please, give me a chance to prove myself to you. I’ll get you that house and I’ll get it by Monday. Just give me the name of the realtor and I’ll take care of it.” That was more fucking like it.
“Any more behavior such as this and I will be forced to look for a new assistant. I believe I pay you more than enough to deal with my occasional request, no matter how odd you deem it to be. You know that I am special and I demand to be treated as such.” Neither of us had ever uttered the word vampire but he knew I never aged and he had more or less put together the fact that I was immortal.
“You are more than generous, sir.” Damn right I was. He was still fucking alive, wasn’t he? For how long remained to be seen.
“The realtor is Weichert. The property lists for $2.9 million. Offer them five to be out by Monday, if it’s not already empty. If they throw in furnishings, add another million. I’ll be expecting your call. Oh and Jenks? Make sure there’s at least one cow in the pasture.” I hung up on his sputtering and grinned at Bella. “You’re doing great, baby.” She nodded and leaned back into my arms. Everything was coming together, finally. I’d have everything I wanted soon enough.
Xoxoxoxox
Color me shocked but Jenks fucking came through. He called me back Saturday afternoon to say that the house was already vacant, which was a fucking relief. Most of the furniture was still there and the owners had been willing to part with it so that was another fucking win for me. He flew out to sign the papers and then left the keys in the mailbox. He’d made no mention of the cow but I assumed he’d come through on that front or else his call would have been filled with apologies and excuses.
“Are you ready, Bella?” I asked. The Volvo was loaded with our clothes, the computer, music and books. Anything else we needed I’d fucking order when we got there. Jenks had taken care of the electricity and water and whatnot so all we had to do was show up. It was just after 2 AM and it was time to head out. Bella needed to eat and I needed to get this shit underway. The sooner we got there, the sooner I would win. Plus it would make Bella happy to have a little space to roam. Sure it’s just an afterthought for you, Bella’s happiness. You fucking lie to yourself. I was not acknowledging him. I had places to go and people to do. Well one to do anyway. She would be mine soon, I could feel it.
Bella came down the stairs holding another bag of books and thrust it at me. Her nerves were written all over her face and in her body language. Her ruby eyes were darting around the room and she was shifting from foot to foot. I wrapped my free right arm around her waist. “You can do this. You’ve gotten really good at it the last couple of days.” She had too. She could hold her breath for over an hour, but practicing it in the safety of the house versus out on the open road was another thing entirely. Still, I had confidence in my girl. I pressed my lips to hers, grinning at how easy it was to kiss her now. She almost always responded and I didn’t have to piss her off to feel her lips moving against mine. We were getting closer all the time.
I pulled back and smoothed her hair back over her shoulders. She had on a blue button down today…my blue button down. It looked fucking hot as hell on her. “Let’s go.” She looked at me with wide, frightened eyes but took a deep breath and nodded. I took her hand and opened the door, holding on to her tightly as I shut and locked it. We moved quickly to the car and I opened the passenger door and threw the bag of books in the backseat and helped Bella into the front, closing the door quickly. So far, so good. Nobody was out on my street this time of night. I knew we’d eventually come across people though.
I hurried around to the driver’s side and was in with the car started a second later. “If you think you’re going to lose control, just grab my hand,” I told her. She grabbed it right away but sent me a tight nod to let me know she was alright. “Okay, just squeeze my hand if you suddenly feel the urge to attack someone.” She nodded again. I put the car in first and took off quickly. We just had to get through the next hour and all would be well.
I turned left and headed toward the Holland Tunnel. I was worried about that part of the trip; there’d be nowhere to go if she had the urge to attack. But we’d deal with that when we got there. We were only ten miles away and we were getting a more crowded part of the city. There were bars and restaurants still open at this time of night which meant people. I stroked Bella’s hand gently as I maneuvered my way through the city.
We were only two miles away from the tunnel when I heard it. Fuck. Just one more block and she’ll be all alone. I’ll show that bitch for rejecting me. There was nothing I could do. I had Bella in the car and I couldn’t afford to stop and end him. But I couldn’t let him attack the girl either. I saw it clearly in his mind; he was going to rape her. Maybe he’d leave her alive, maybe he wouldn’t, he hadn’t decided yet. She might prefer death to what he had in store for her though. The girl was young and she had long brown hair, just like my Bella. My hands tightened on the wheel as I warred with myself. Should I just walk away and let it happen? Could I? Would Bella want me to? I didn’t fucking think so.
I pulled over and stopped the car and she whipped her head around to look at me in alarm. “Bella, I have to stop. It’ll just be a minute. Someone’s in trouble. I have to help. Whatever you do, stay in the car. Do you understand me?” Her whole body went rigid but she nodded. “I’ll be right back.”
I was out of the car and moving quickly. He was two blocks away from me and only about 50 feet away from her. I saw him turn into an alley, his thoughts gleeful because nobody could see him take her now. I was on him before he even caught up to the girl. She turned when she heard his body slam up against the brick wall. “Run,” I told her through clenched teeth. Her thoughts were disjointed and confused but she got the hell out of there.
“What the fuck, man?” The vermin struggled against my hold but I had him pinned and he couldn’t begin to budge me, despite the fact that he was huge. He was about 200 lbs of pretty solid muscle with a shaved head and a gold stud earring in his left ear. He had a scar on his left cheek and some kind of tattoo poking out from under his black shirt.
“I’m not letting you rape that girl.” He jerked in surprise but quickly covered the movement with a sly grin.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m just on my way home. It’s just a simple misunderstanding though. No harm, no foul. Just let me go and we’ll forget this ever happened.” Right, like I was a fucking moron that would believe that.
His lies weren’t the problem here though; I didn’t know what the fuck to do with him. I couldn’t drain him and go back to the car smelling of his blood. Bella would undoubtedly lose her shit if I did and then I’d be chasing her through the streets of New York City trying to prevent a bloodbath. I couldn’t let him go; he’d just find someone else to attack. I could see that in his foolish fucking mind as well. He was already picturing other girls at the bar that had caught his fancy. I could just snap his neck and leave it at that, I suppose. It was a waste of some good blood but better than setting Bella off.
Resolved, I smiled and loosened my grip on his arms. I started to reach for his neck when I knew we weren’t alone. Fuck. She hadn’t listened. Of course she hadn’t. Why would she start now? I hadn’t heard her approach but I knew she was there just as well as I knew my own name. I felt her.
I turned and saw Bella standing at the foot of the alley. Now that one is prime. I need to shake this loser and make her scream. His mind filled with images of him ripping off her shirt and I let out a growl of rage and shoved him back against the wall again. His head hit the brick with a resounding crack that gave me a bit of satisfaction.
“Baby, you need to go back to the car.” She just shook her head and stepped a little closer. Holy fuck. She didn’t want…did she? “Do you want him?” The moron was mentally cheering over the question. What a fucking dumbass. Like I was asking my girl if she wanted to fuck this loser? If the answer was yes, he’d be in a million fucking pieces before he could blink.
She took another tentative step closer but shook her head, more slowly this time; like she wasn’t sure about the answer. God I wanted to watch her drain this rapist freak but I wasn’t going to push her. “Are you sure, Bella?” She nodded, again, seemingly reluctantly. Well damn. “Okay then, go back to the car.” But of course, being Bella, she didn’t make a move in the opposite direction. She just stood and stared at me. What the fuck was I going to do now?
I just needed to snap his neck and be done with it. I put my hand over his windpipe and kept my eyes on Bella. She watched me steadily, not flinching from what I was about to do. There was no derision in her eyes but I almost felt it coming from her. If I killed in front of her, would she hate me forever? She’d sort of accepted this side of me, albeit grudgingly, but it was one thing to know what I did and another thing entirely to see it. She may never look at me with that light and happiness shining in her eyes again. I couldn’t fucking risk that. He wasn’t worth it. Nothing was. See, you l…Not now you motherfucker. I have way too much shit to deal with in this moment without your ridiculous taunting. He mercifully remained quiet.
I turned back to the loser who was struggling against me. “Your life is spared, tonight. You can thank her for that. Unfortunately not the way you want to. I should kill you for your thoughts of touching her alone. But she wouldn’t like that. So I’m letting you live.” He stopped moving and looked relieved. I gave him my predator’s smile, my teeth glinting in the moonlight. He gulped. “That doesn’t mean I’m going to let you walk away to rape another girl in her place.”
“Yeah? You gonna call the cops? You have no proof. If anything, they’ll arrest you for assault.” He was feeling confident now, since I said I wouldn’t kill him. Fool. I didn’t know if Bella would like what I had planned any better than killing him but I had to do it. I couldn’t just walk away leaving him whole.
Before he even registered my movement, I released one of his shoulders and grabbed him by the crotch. He let out a yelp of surprise that quickly turned into an excruciated scream as I crushed his cock and balls in my hand. “Let’s see you try to rape a girl with a broken dick,” I hissed. It was fucking gross and made Edward Junior throb in sympathy but it was the best I could do under the circumstances. He collapsed to the ground, cupping his useless junk in his hands and screeching bloody murder.
I ran to the end of the alley and grabbed Bella’s hand. She was just gaping at me but she was still holding her breath, I was proud to see. We rushed back to the car and I took off quickly, getting us into the Holland Tunnel and through it with no difficulty. Bella just stared out the window but held onto my hand tightly, ready to give her signal if she needed it. I was so fucking proud of her, but that pride was warring with fear that she’d hate me for what I’d done.
I made my way into Sussex and found the drive that led to our house. “You can go ahead and breathe now, if you like.” Bella took a deep breath but still kept vigilant watch out of the window. I would give everything I owned to know what she was thinking in this moment. I pulled up in front of our home and it was even more beautiful in person than it had been online. I turned off the car and finally she turned to face me. Her eyes told me nothing and her face was perfectly smooth. Had I fucked everything up irrevocably? “Bella, baby, please talk to me. Do you hate me now?”
She shook her head and then launched herself at me, her lips meeting mine with surprising force. What the fuck? Had I turned her on? Fuck I loved this crazy, unpredictable girl. Oh shit…no. Inner motherfucker didn’t say a word; he just laughed his ass off. I was so royally fucked.
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