Chapters 21 and 22

~Chapter Twenty-One~

EPOV

Jasper refused to let his news from work affect the rest of the time that we had at the cabin, but I still couldn’t shake the mood I was in, and by the time we got to bed, he’d had enough of me.

“Edward, it’s for a few days, that’s all,” he chastised. “Their site manager got food poisoning and there has to be some management there because they’re shoring up the sides of the dig. I have to go,” he said in a pleading voice as he kissed against the frown on my lips.

“But I feel as though I’ve just gotten you and now you’re going out of the country. Can’t they send anyone else?” I whined petulantly as he pulled me into his arms.

I knew that I was acting like a spoilt brat at Christmas, but I didn’t care.

“They can’t send anyone else, they don’t have anyone else, Edward,” he chuckled against my lips as I pursed them and refused to kiss him back, “and besides, think of all the hot phone sex we could have over the course of those days,” he chuckled as I let my lips relax just a hint.

“That does have a nice appeal to it, but I still don’t like the idea of you going,” I pouted one last time before I fully relaxed and then kissed him hard.

“I’m going to miss seeing you in a toga.” I smiled against his lips as he laughed.

“I will not be wearing a toga, Edward. Just jeans and a shirt.” He smirked.

“Damn shame, togas seem like they have easy access points.” I chuckled.

“You want me to have easy access points in Athens while you’ll be here?” It was his turn to pout.

“Hell no! No one gets to touch what is mine, but it would be good for those phone calls that you mentioned.” I smiled.

“Very good point indeed, Mr. Cullen,” he replied and at the mention of my name on his lips, our discussion was over and the sex started... again.

But in the back of my mind, I was forming a plan.

JPOV

I was aching.

Half was because Edward liked to try some really awkward positions and the other half was because on Wednesday, I would be flying out to Athens until Saturday.

I could cope with the positions because they were funny as hell and it was good to laugh during sex, but Athens was another matter.

I saw his point very clearly. After everything that we had been through, we were finally together and this popping up right now was not a good thing.

I did ask Edward to come with me, but he had orders turning up that he couldn’t change and shutting the shop for nearly a week wasn’t good business, especially after the days he’d already been closed down during our ‘separation’.

By the following morning we were both sulking and I hated it.

“Webcams, phones, text messages, we can do it all you know. We can really have some fun with this,” I said half-heartedly as I dished up breakfast onto our plates.

“I know, but I like waking up next to you,” he pouted again and he was lucky that I didn’t swipe everything off of the table and have my way with him again.

“True, but you have to remember that we’re not living together, so we wouldn’t always be waking up next to each other and with us both working, we wouldn’t exactly be spending majority of the day together either,” I tried again to soften the blow of our upcoming time apart.

He came over and took the spoon from my hand and dropped it on the counter, before grabbing my hand and holding it against his ink as he gingerly placed his hand over my ink.  “Why not?’

“Why not what?” I asked, not sure where he was going with this.

“Why aren’t we living together?  Well, making plans to live together, that is,” he said sincerely.

“Um, I don’t know.  Maybe because we’ve just finally officially gotten together...” I was cut off by his fingers pressing against my lips as his other hand pressed into my chest, causing a brief stinging.

“I think this ink on our chests speaks loud and clear about what our future entails, don’t you?” His voice had deepened, become husky and once again, I couldn’t resist him.

Another breakfast was forgotten as we feasted on each other, accidentally breaking one of the breakfast stools in the process.

Don’t ask.

I’m just glad my ankle didn’t break when it got twisted in the legs.

~*~

EPOV

“But I don’t want to go home,” Jasper pouted petulantly as I pulled up to his home and killed the engine.

“I know, but I won’t be long. I just need to check on a few things at the store and then I’ll be back, I promise. And when I do get back, hopefully your new bed would have been delivered and we can have a little fun checking out the density of the mattress,” I chuckled as I picked up his hand and kissed the back of it.

“I’m hard again, in fact, I think you might have slipped something into my coffee this morning,” he smirked at me as I winked.

“You never know, Jasper, you never know,” I wiggled my eyebrows, making him laugh. “Right, are you sure it’s okay to borrow your truck? I wouldn’t ask, but I have no idea where my brother, or my own car, is,” I playfully growled out as I thought about Emmett just driving off with my car.

Bastard.

“Of course it is, and it also gives you an excuse to come back.” It was his turn to wiggle his brows, but as I went to kiss him, he pulled away.

“If I kiss you now, I will want to fuck you now, and you have work to do and I have to pack,” he whined and I had to fight not to spill the beans to alleviate his discomfort.

Instead, I kissed him briefly, but firmly, and stepped away. With the strength of an ox, I turned and walked back to the truck and drove the relatively short distance back to The Lion’s Den. I couldn’t believe he’d been that close all this time.

Thankfully, my weekend kid, Barb, had made it in and had been here to receive the shipments, even if he hadn’t inventoried and stocked the merchandise.

Now, I thought that when I hired Barb, his name suited his personality. He was a complete emo and I had respect for his ink and metal, but he was a quiet kid. Very quiet. It wasn’t until I asked him his last name and he told me it was Dwyer, that I almost pissed myself laughing on the spot.

Barb Dwyer.

BarbD Wyre

Barbed Wire.

He just shrugged and said that since he had to live with a fucked up girl’s name, thanks to his parent’s sense of humor, he’d play the part and make his personality fit his name.

Chuckling to myself, I grabbed the box cutter and opened each box, doing a quick dig through each one to confirm the packing slips. I typed up, and printed out, instructions for Barb, then took a deep breath and moved to the next step in my plan.  Emmett.

It took several minutes of deep rimming, ass kissing compliments and pleading to get Emmett to agree.  But, by the time we hung up, he had agreed to cover the shop for the next three weeks.

It was only going to cost me a grand worth of products and free babysitting for life, if and when he and Rosalie procreated.

It was totally fucking worth it.

My next call was to my contact for high end erotic jewelry.  I described exactly what I wanted, and the size I needed them in, and he promised it would be ready to be picked up in the morning.

That left the call to the airlines and we were set.  I Googled the remaining information I needed and walked out of The Den, with fucking pogo sticks strapped to the bottom of my shoes. Figuratively people.

I arrived back at his place less than ten minutes later.  He opened the door, operatic strains that I vaguely recognized drifting from behind him, dressed in my favorite outfit... nothing.

Night-time sharpens, heightens each sensation ...
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination ...
Silently the senses abandon their defenses ...

I was on my knees as I shoved the door closed behind me before he could say ‘hello.’  My lips, and then my tongue, wrapped around him tightly, forcing him to buck against my face.  I gave him a gentle bite and he bucked again. With each pass of my lips over his cock, he thickened and swelled in my mouth. I continued my attack on his length, his scent and taste affecting me like a cat that has found the mother load of catnip.

Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams!
Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before!
Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar!
And you'll live as you've never lived before ...
Knowing he was close, I pulled off and stood up.  “I need to feel you, love. Please, for the love of Ron Jeremy, fuck me now!” I begged with no shame.

“Ron Jeremy, huh?” he said as he grinned sexily at me and I nodded desperately.  “He’s got shit on you, love.  Please...”

“As you wish, buttercup,” he growled as he hooked my left leg over his right arm. His slick head was pressing against my ass and I was beginning to open to him when he stopped.

“Is this what you want, Edward?  My thick,” he pressed his lips to mine briefly, “hard,” his tongue flicked against my lips and they parted in response, “throbbing cock,” he rocked forward, that bulging head breaching my outer ring, “buried, oh. so. deep inside you?”  With each word he pressed forward, sinking deeper into my ass until I finally felt his balls smushing against my ass.

Let your mind start a journey through a strange, new world!
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before!
Let your soul
Take you where you long to be!
Only then can you belong to me ...

“Oh fucking hell, Jasper!” I cried out as he withdrew slowly, so excruciatingly slowly.  I just wanted him to fuck the ever loving hell out of me as my back pressed against the front door and he wanted to tease me.

Payback was going to be delicious hell.

“Yeah, babe?” He grinned dangerously at me.

“Fuck me.  I so need you to throttle my ass with your thick cock!” I barely got the words out before he was slamming back into me, yanking himself almost out and then thrusting forward as my body erupted in electrical surges of energy.  My fingers and toes went numb as he pummeled me.  My eyes rolled back, his lips dropped open and the dirtiest words I’d ever heard from him, spewed forth as his hand found its way around my throbbing member.

He jerked me in an uncontrolled manner as we rocked against each other, each desperate for our own pleasure, but not caring about it as we strived to satisfy the other.

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication!
Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation!
Let the dream begin,
let your darker side give in to the power of
the music that I write - the power of the music of the night ...

My swollen cock bulged and throbbed in his hand just before gooey, white globs began shooting from the gaping eye that split my purple head.

I dropped my head forward, licking my lips each time my spunk hit them as he started jack hammering me and then abruptly stilled as my ass stretched impossibly tightly against his swelling cock that then pulsed as my ass filled.

You alone can make my song take flight -
help me make the music of the night ...

My heart was racing, my vision was blurry, but as his lips sought mine, everything came into focus. 

He slipped out of me, carefully lowering my leg before taking my hand.  Silently, as the song came to an end, he led me to his shower where we worshiped each other with only the touch of our hands and the look of adoration in our eyes.

Of course, the thought that I was pretty sure Andrew Lloyd Weber did not have this particular scene in mind when he wrote those lyrics crossed through my head... but I kept it to myself and just enjoyed my man.  

My love.

~Chapter Twenty-Two~

JPOV

I was miserable.

I was even more miserable than when I had been with Maggie, and that was fucking saying something.

It was the night before I had to go away for a few days and I hated the fucking clock.

It kept on ticking away, second by second, telling me how much time I had left with Edward before my plane would take off.

I should have been more grown up about it, knowing that it was only for a few days and that I could cope with that, but I couldn’t.

Since the second I had walked into his shop, he had owned me, body, heart and soul.

“Go to sleep,” he groaned in my ear sleepily as I stared up at the ceiling.

Our first official sleepover in my new bed, in my own house and I was still awake, despite the amazing sex we’d had against my front door.  Hell, the way his bar had felt wrapping around my dick... shit, now I was getting hard again. 

“Okay, enough. Tell me what’s wrong or I’ll fuck it out of you,” he rolled over onto his stomach and propped himself up onto his elbows.

“And that’s supposed to make me tell you? I’d prefer to keep my mouth shut and deal with the consequences,” I laughed as he rolled his eyes.

He was so damn beautiful, even with just the street light across his face.

“Okay, so how about I won’t fuck you until you tell me?” He smirked as he scooted closer to me and ran his tongue over my nipple, getting it to harden expertly.

“Damn,” I hissed as his teeth grazed it gently.

“Hmm? Gonna tell me?” You couldn’t miss the playfulness in his voice.

“I don’t want to go. For the first time in my life I want to quit my job and stay in bed all day and I know I can’t do that.” I frowned as his face became serious.

“Of course you can quit. You can come and help me run the store. I’m sure we’d have plenty of fun trying out the new stock,” he winked as he deposited a kiss just under my belly button.

“Be serious, Edward. You’d have no stock left and spend all your profits on Anal Eaze cream,” I joked, but in reality, I kinda liked the idea of being around him all of the time.

“Well, it’s something to think about,” he smiled as his mouth latched around my now aching cock.

Damn, the man had mad skills.

After round two, I finally passed out, snuggled in Edward’s arms.

~*~

EPOV

As comfortable as I was when I woke up, I knew I needed to get going.  Today was going to be a big day... huge... and I needed to get it started just right.  Couldn’t have my man telling me ‘no’ because it wasn’t special enough.

I slipped Jasper’s arm off my waist, quickly tucking my warm pillow under it to replace me.  As if I could be replaced by a mere pillow.

I grabbed my things, found a note pad to leave him a quick note in case he woke up, and was out the door.  I was finding I rather liked driving his truck.

I fumbled through his tapes, yes tapes, needed to upgrade him to a CD player pronto... and shook my head at the amount of ‘old school’ stuff.  Where was Linkin Park and Tool?  I found one that had promise and popped it in, turned it up and raced off to my meeting with Mr. Brandon.

You rocked my world, you know you did

And everything I own I give (You rocked my world)

The rarest love who'd think I'd find

Someone like you to call mine (You rocked my world)

As usual, I found that Mr. Brandon had gone above and beyond.  When I arrived at his jewelry store, he had put together a selection for me to choose from.  I’d thought I’d wanted a single diamond, but when I saw the channel set diamonds framed in black platinum, I knew that was the one and I couldn’t wait to put it on Jasper.

I paid him, grinned like a fool as he congratulated me and practically skipped back out to the truck.  Next, I drove over to the small family owned diner that had been around since I was a kid, Alice’s Diner, and picked up two cups of their southern pecan iced coffee along with two servings of their charlotte russe cake.  Cake for breakfast is okay when it’s ladyfingers and fruit.

When I explained to Charlie, the owner’s daughter, what I was up to, she insisted I also take a couple of the fresh red roses she’d brought in from her garden that morning. In thanks, I insisted she bring her fiancé’, Jacob, around to the store for some free shopping.

The cleaners were on my way back to Jasper’s apartment and I pulled in.  They had two of my suits, one black, one pinstripe, which I’d been lazy and hadn’t picked up since taking them in after Emmett’s wedding last year.  I was hoping that one of them would fit Jasper since we were fairly close in size.

All that was left was to get back to Jasper and the start of our future.

JPOV

The body I was snuggled against was too soft, and my eyes flew open in panic that the last weeks had all been a dream.  The confusion continued as I found myself alone in bed, until I saw the note leaning against the clock.

I was just coming out of the bathroom when the front door opened and Edward came in, his arms full of... stuff.

‘What the hell, Edward?  You have a sudden urge to run errands or something?” I joked with him as I hurried over to help take some of the stuff. When I saw the bag from Alice’s, my stomach growled loudly.

“Patience, love,” he said, pecking my lips and moving to the couch to lay his dry cleaning over it.  “All will be revealed in time.  First, let me feed you,” he said suggestively and my dick jumped. 

Viagra sperm I tell ya.

“Edward, as much as I’d like nothing more than to have a leisurely breakfast with you, I’ve got to get ready... my plane leaves in four hours,” I said sadly.

“No it doesn’t.”

“It doesn’t?’

“Nope.”  He was grinning at me as he took a drink of his coffee.

“Care to explain?” I asked, having a feeling that he was playing with me.

“Sure,” he grabbed my hand and led me to the table, “right after we eat.”

We actually behaved and ate... our cake.

My belly sated, I looked up at him expectantly.  “Well?”

His laugh was magical and I swooned a little at the way his eyes shined... like diamond eyes.

The story is just beginning
I say goodbye to my weakness, so long to the regrets
And now I see the world through diamond eyes

Yes, Shinedown tumbled in my mind at the thought.

He rose from his chair and extended his hand towards me. “Come along, my impatient one,” he crooned at me.  I followed him back to the bedroom where he had me stop in the center of the open space.

“I need you to trust me, Jasper.”  I nodded, feeling my heart rate beginning to pick up as he prowled around me, divesting me of my boxers I’d pulled on when I woke.

“Your flight isn’t leaving in a few hours, because our flight is leaving tonight,” he said as he kissed across my shoulder blades.

“You’re coming with me?” I asked excitedly and he snickered.

“Over and over if I have anything to say about it,” he replied cheekily.  I heard a slithering sound and felt something cool and smooth against my back.  Edward came around the front of me, a red satin sash in his hands.

“Um, whatcha gonna do with that, babe?” I asked, my voice thick.

“I want you to focus on my voice, my words, for the next few minutes,” he started as the red material was placed over my eyes, “so I’m going to ensure you do just that.”

Once he’d tied the scarf behind my head, his lips trailed heatedly down my neck as he took my hand and led me to the bed.  I waited patiently until he guided me to sit between his legs, pulling my back against his chest as one arm snaked around my stomach and the other wrapped around the top of my head.

“Jasper,” I let him turn my head towards him and delighted in the warm air against my ear as he went on. “I know we’ve only just met.  But in the short time I’ve known you, I have run the gauntlet of emotions that only could come from the heart. This may be too soon, but I don’t think it is, because of what you did for me.” His hand traced my ink tenderly.

“I love you, Jasper. I unequivocally love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you by my side.” His voice was beginning to crack with emotion and before he said the next words, I knew what they were going to be and had my answer ready.

“Marry me, Jasper.  Say you’ll be my husband, my partner, for forever.”

“As if I could say no, Edward,” I whispered reverently, unable to get my voice any louder as the feeling of pure unadulterated love washed over us.

He inhaled sharply, squeezing me briefly, before he slipped out from behind me, whispering ‘thank you’ over and over. I listened as he moved around and grinned when I felt him kneel between my spread thighs.

“Will you wear my ring, love?” he asked softly as his fingers stroked my inner thigh and I nodded rapidly.

“With honor, Edward.”  I waited for him to take my left hand to slide the ring in place, instead, he surprised me when I felt his mouth begin to engulf my dick. Confused, I untied the sash and looked down at him.

Something hard was in his mouth and he was using his tongue to work it over me as I slid deeper and further into his mouth. 

“Oh fuck, Edward,” I panted when he swallowed around my tip and then backed off with a proud smile, revealing the diamond cock ring he’d left behind.

“Oh wow.  That, that is so fucking sexy, babe,” I laughed and reached down to touch it, groaning when my hand came in contact with my now swollen, and trapped, dick.

Of course, we had to take action to deflate my dick... possibly the best two hours we’d spent together so far.

After a quick shower, I briefly wondered if there would be a way to keep my ring on at all times without being rock hard.

Not that I minded, but it would get a bit distracting after a while.

We both dried off quickly, but as I went to grab a tee from my drawer, Edward stopped me by holding up one of the bags that he’d brought in from the dry cleaners.

I took it slowly, confused as to why he was holding it out for me, but when I unzipped it, my jaw hit the ground.

A suit.

With a rose in the buttonhole.

“Today?” I gasped as I looked at him in awe.

“Today,” he smirked.