Passage Favor

My body was still pinned under Edwards. I had my hand pressed against his chest holding him away from me. Or at least he let me think I was holding him at bay. I knew that if he really wanted to press the issue he could. He was better than me. A better killer and a better fighter. I am not ashamed to say he is tougher and harder than me. My legs were getting tired and starting to hurt from trying to hold them off his legs. For some reason I hadn't wanted to relax my legs against his. It felt to intimate for Edward and I. Then again he was on top of me and that was more intimate than any thing else. So I rested my legs against his. Maybe if he thought I was calm and collected he would talk before this got out of hand.
"I don't want to do it just for you to show me up. You may add to it just for show." My voice was cool and steady. Point for me. "How am I suppose to know it is real?"
"Are you doubting me?"
"I do not doubt you but I doubt your ability not to show off just for me. Not to put more..." I thought of a way to put it into words.
"Not to put more action into it just so there is no room for doubt?"
"That's as good as any explaination." I said. "I want to know what you are really like in bed. Not what you want me to think you are like."
In one fluid motion his hands grabbed my wrist and pinned them to the bed above my head. His face was pressed roughly against my neck but not to rough. At the same time he rolled his hips to make his groin press against mine. I gasped and arched my back; shoving my body against his and closing my eyes.
"Still think I want to know?" He asked me. "Still doubt I will be true?"
"I..." I stopped to catch my breath and try not to sound to winded. God, one thrust with our clothes on and the man hand me sounding like I had ran a marathon. I tried again. "I want to know how you really do it. Like when you were with Donna."
Edward chuckled. He fucking chuckled. Could he do that? Apparently he can. "I never really did it with Donna." Something must have shown on my face because he was quick to add. "Oh I did do her but I was never able to be myself with her. I have been able to do that. No one would be able to take it."
I heard something in his voice that made me think he wanted to do this not to show me up and not because I was curious but because he was sure I could handle the real thing. In a way that frightened me but at the same time things low in my body jerked so tight that I caught my breath again. I was praying Edward hadn't caught that but the look in his eyes said he did. I was still trying to figure out what to say when he decided to continue.
"I know you can take it. I know you can take everything I want to do and I dream about doing. I have always known that. Remember when Olaf said you were his soulmate?" I just nodded and he continued. "I think he was wrong. You're not his soulmate. You are just a harder challenge for him so he has misunderstood it for soulmate. You would make it worth his while to rape and torture and kill because it would take more to make you hurt. More to make you Scream. More to rape you. And way harder to kill you. Sorta like how I would rather hunt you than kill you from behind. It would make a more entertaining game. I believe you are my soulmate. You are the only woman just like me and the only one I would trust to have my back. I believe you would find pleasure in the same things I find it in. I am not saying we should go get marries and confess undying love for eachother because I would still like to see who would come out on top if we went head to head for the kill; but we are one of the same."
I didn't know what to say. Aside from Edward explaining a case to me he had never spoken this much. He had never dove deep into himself and explained it to me. I was shocked. and speechless. I didn't have anything to say about any of what he had just told me. He just told me that he had always known we would make a good match together as life time lovers but we could never be life time lovers because he would always want to hunt me for a kill. What is a girl suppose to say to that?
"You say was as in Donna in past tense? Are you not still with her?" When you don't have anything to say about one subject; ease it into another subject.
"No. Shortly after the last time we talked Donna grabbed the kids up and left. I think she overheard some of our conversation. That or she just felt something off about me. She is gone." He tilted his head to the left and studied my face. I had to fight hard not to wiggle under that gaze and look away. "Why did you change subjects?"
"What?"
"Why did you change the subject from us to Donna?"
"I didn't know what to say so I moved the conversation else where."
"Interesting."
His hands had eased up on my wrist so I wiggled them around hoping to give him the idea to let me go. It had the reverse effect. He tightened his grip on my arms and lowered his head towards my neck. I took a deep breath of him as he lowered himself. When he spoke again it was right against my ear and only the barest of whispers.
"So do you still doubt me?" I shook my head because I didn't trust my voice and he continued. "Do you do this willingly or do I take it?"
I didn't really believe Edward would just rape me. Not after what he had just told me. But I still didn't trust myself to speak. I did believe he would give me the real Edward. If I could give Edward nothing else I would at least try to give him what no one else could. I turned my head to the side and took another deep breath of him before I pressed my lips to his neck just below his ear softly. A shiver ran through his body as he pressed himself against me a little more and I heard his breath catch as well. It was a sound that made me sure what I was doing was right.
I still had my lips pressed to his neck but my mouth was open and I was tracing his hair line with my tongue. Every caress sent more shivers down his body and he pressed himself against just a little more. He had just turned his head and pressed a kiss to my jaw line when there came a knock at the door. We both jumped as if we had been hit. We laid there frozen with shock when another knock came but harder this time. The second knock braught Edward and I both to a sitting position. I don't know how we timed our movements just right but suddenly he was sitting at the edge of the bed and I was sitting up against the pillows. There was a folder at the foot of the bed that I hadn't noticed before. Was I that caught up in Edward? The knock came again as Edward spread some pictures out on the bed and nodded to me. I got the drift and leaned over the pictures as I shouted to the door.
The door opened and Zane and Cherry stood in the doorway. Thier steps faltered just slightly as they walked into the room together. They looked at Edward and I leaned over the pictures with barely contained curiousity. I spared a thought for if my hair was a mess and showed signs of what they had interupted. Too late now.
"Are we interrupting?" Zane asked.
"It took you a while to open the door; we thought maybe you had drifted to sleep." Cherry said when Edward and I didn't answer.
They would never ask outright what was going on but they would ask questions that will answer the real question and gain them the truth. Their questions were a round-about-way of asking if they had walked in on an intimate moment. Or maybe that was me feeling guilty. Edward apparently didn't want anyone to know what we were doing so I decided to lie by telling as little of the truth as possible.
"We're looking at photos. Edward has asked me to help him on a case." There. That was the truth. We are looking at pictures. And he did ask for my help?
"I'm Edward." Edward said.
"I'm Cherry," She motioned to Zane. "This is Zane."
"Hi." Zane said.
Edward just nodded to them both before standing up. "I guess we will do this later Anita. I am sure you have things to talk to your people about." He grabbed all his pictures and started for the door. "Thanks again for helping me."
"You're welcome." I said. Then I had a thought to help smooth our lie over. "If you want, you can leave the folder on that table and I will go over them before I go to sleep. I might be able to bring some fresh ideas to light."
"He nodded and set the folder down on the table by the door before walking out the room and shutting the door.
"That was akward." Zane said.
"What was?"
"You were both so still it was almost as if you got caught doing something you shouldn't have." Cherry said.
"Edward isn't very comfortable with us monsters."
"He was comfortable enough to be in a locked room with you." This from Zane.
"The door wasn't locked." I said.
"It was closed."
"I told you he isn't very comfortable with the monsters." I was starting to get angry.
"What you say is no lie so we have no reason to doubt you." Cherry said.
"No you don't." I was calmer now so everything was going okay. "What did you guys need?" I stood up from the bed and made my way past them and to the table with the folder on it. I opened the folder and laid everything out on the table for me to examine. "I have alot of work to do so just tell me whats up so you can go and I can start helping Edward."
"Cherry and I wanted to spend the night at your place. We understood you had a friend here and would being staying so that left some extra room at your place and Nathaniel doesn't want to be alone. He was talking about staying with us here but we suggested he go home and we would ask you if we could stay at your place."
"Thats fine. Why didn't you just ask Nathaniel?" I hadn't considered the fact Nathaniel would be alone tonight at the house. Micah was running patrol with Stephen for the Lycan Outreach Program.
"We did and he said it was okay with him but we would have to get your permission."
"Thats fine with me. I don't want him alone anyways." I was starting to feel bad. I felt like I was cheating. First I wasn't going hom and I was staying here to help a friend. A friend who I also almost slept with. Great. "I kind of forgot Micah wouldn't be home tonight." I mumbled.
Cherry nodded then turned back to Zane. He was walking towards the door to leave so I turned back on them and called over my shoulder. "Goodnight guys and give Nathaniel my love."
"We will." Zane said. at the same time Cherry said "Goodnight."
I didn't hear them leave or the door even close but I felt they were gone. I turned back to the door to find it was indeed closed and I was alone in the room with Edwards file laid out infront of me. The photo in my hand was a photo of a man on his cell phone and it was a profile picture. I had never seen the man before so I moved on to the next photo. It was the same man only he was walking out of a fast food place with a burger in one hand and a drink in the other while balancing the phone between his shoulder and ear. The picture was not taken with the mans knowing because I dobut he would have had a burger stuffed in his mouth if it were.
I had looked through all the photos and they were all of the same man doing various things from walking to eating and to even holding a woman by the waist. Looked like someone was doing some survaliance. There was only an evolope left to look at so I opened it to find more pictures. But these pictures were all of a cell phones screen. Each one had the same name and the time of the call. I started noticing a pattern. In every picture there was a time and a date and the man was on the cell phone. I laid the pictures out on the table in order by date and time. On top of them I put the tiny pictures of the cell phone screen shot in the same order. They all lined up. I realized that Edward must have been talking to the man on his cell when he took these pictures. Was this the man who he had killed and was now being hunted for or was this the man trying to kill him? There was one more thing in the envolope. A piece of paper with some numbers on it.