Chapter 17 Hot vs. Cold Vampire vs. Human Dominant vs. Submissive

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As Edward warns Bella…Now I am warning you.

Master Edward is very vocal in his playroom and he curses up a storm.

He is also an Obsessive Compulsive Dominant

Master EDWARD is addicted to the following:

Bella's blood, Bella's toy collection, Bella's Boots, Bella in leather,

Spoiling Bella, Spanking Bella, Office Bella & Submissive Bella,

& his Beloved Innocent Bella

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Edwards Eternal Kiss

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Chapter 17

Hot vs. Cold

Vampire vs. Human

Dominant vs. Submissive

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~x~x~x~BELLA~x~x~x~

"I swear I am in the Twilight Zone. I can't believe I am sitting at a table in the kitchen with five vampires eating a chicken salad and an apple." I mumbled.

"What is the Twilight Zone?" Rosalie asks.

"It was a TV show." Emmett snorted. "Damn woman how can you not know this?"

"I don't watch TV except when you subject me to sports!" she scowled.

"Yes you do! Don't you remember when we used to watch Buffy and the Vampire Slayer?" Alice looked at her surprised. "Angel was so dreamy." Alice's eyes glazed over in lust.

I just sat here listening to Edward's family banter back and forth and I could not understand why the fact that I was around vampires and there was even one focused on hunting me for his next meal that didn't send me running for the hills or at least put me in some state of shock.

My eyes moved over to find Edward who was sitting next to me and when I looked at him, I felt my heart flutter.

Maybe that is why?

At that exact moment, his head tilted to the side curiously, as he looked at me and I wondered if he heard it, I couldn't help but smile as I blushed furiously.

"You do that to me." I whispered looking up at him through my lashes knowing he had to have super vampy senses. I would need to find these things out and ask at some point.

With his head cocked to the side and that look of adoration in his eyes as they gazed at me he whispered, 

"Really?" So he did hear it.

 "Really." I smiled and my eyes remained fixed on his. A slow smile spread over his lips and he looked down at my apple in my hand and back to me. His icy cold hand slowly moved towards my hand as it sat on the table and his fingers reach out and rub circles over the back of it tickling me. My skin rises in goose bumps. Now that I understand the cold…his touch is just….wow.

I take a bite of my apple and I know he is still watching me. I turn to look at him again and his eyes haven't faltered. He sits there with the most mischievous look in his eyes right now as the juice dribbles down my chin and I wipe it with the back of my hand.

"Dude let the poor girl eat." Emmett says from the other side of the table.

Edward's eyes snap to his brothers and he glares at him. "Don't you all have some place else to be?" he hints.

"No not really." Rosalie says looking at Jasper and asks, "You got someplace to be Jazz?"

He shakes his head and says "Nope. Nothing for me." He turns to Alice and asks Alice, "You got any plans Ali?" he smirks. Alice perks up and says, "Nope nothing going on with me, what about you Emmett you got any place to be." She looks at him curiously.

"Naw I don't have nothing to do." Emmett then looks over my way and says "You got someplace to be Bella?"

"I can think of a few places I would really like to be. A certain playroom…or bedroom overlooking a forest with a big canopy bed…or…maybe an office…heck I am an adventuresome girl." I say shrugging looking down at my apple as I nibble it and smirk to myself.

"Emmett knock it off!" Edward snaps and I giggle turning to look at Edward.

"What? I didn't do anything!" he says defensively and we all watch Edward's expression when he just gets it.

His mouth drops open ever so slightly, his eyes widen infinitely, he swallows thickly, and I see him start to look out of the corner of his eye at me as his head slowly turns towards me. I am sure my face is blazing redder than a coal on a fire and I can hear snickering from the others at the table.

My bravery surprised even me and that is when Emmett's booming voice fills the room.

"Okay time for us to high tail it out of here now before they throw down on the kitchen table or one of us ends up with a ball gag in our mouth dodging paddles." Emmett jumps up and so does the rest of his family. Neither Edward nor I even bother to look at them because now we are both just so totally lost in each others gaze.

God could he be any sexier?

Without breaking eye contact, Edward asks his sister to go by my house and pack me some things I may need. I tell her the key to my house is on my key chain with my purse. She laughs. "Don't need it sweet pea! Be back in a flash!"

Before I know it, I hear the front door slam and its quiet now. Edward's eyes are taking me in and it feels like he is studying me, memorizing my face.

"I can't believe your actually real and your still here with me after everything I have told you." He whispers his voice sounding sweeter than a pot of honey. "You stayed even knowing what I am…I can't believe….that….you actually…you stayed." I can hear the emotion in his tone that seems to be affecting him as he breathes out the words.

His expression says it all. It is a cross between relief with a hint of awe. My heart flutters again and he gives me a soft smile. I look down at our hands and the heat of my blush floods my cheeks again.

"I really like knowing that I affect you that way." His voice is low and oh so sultry!

"Please every female you have ever met must be affected this way." I rolled my eyes at him.

"Why do you say that?"

"Oh god you're breathtakingly gorgeous are you kidding me! Don't tell me you don't know the kind of effect you have on women. You have been around for decades as you say. You're beautiful."

He watched me curiously and his brows shot up in surprise before he chuckled.

"No I am not. Not in comparison to you." The humor gone suddenly and he was looking at me again with that look of adoration. I struggled with that. I didn't understand why he looked at me like that. It didn't make any sense but I did sense some of it only because I was seriously enamored with him.

I mean he was really too breathtakingly hot to not be allowed the choice of beautiful women he had at his beckon call. How do you compare to that?

I cursed the heat that flooded my face. It was pretty noticeable that he always seemed to react to it. Damn blush! Edward swallows and it always looks difficult when he does it so I asked thinking that maybe I made him uncomfortable.

"You swallow hard because of me don't you?"

His eyes dart down to the table. "Uh yeah. Sorry I can't really help it. Your scent is so mouthwatering."

 "I am sorry."

"Do not ever apologize for that sweet scent Bella. You are not the one that is to blame. It is I. I am the one that should not be experiencing it!" His eyes looked at me intently.

"Is that clear? No apologizing!" I just nod silently as I just let my eyes take in the beauty of his face. His lashes are ridiculously long and I want to suddenly reach out and touch them but I don't. Then in typical Bella fashion, I blurt out, "Why don't you have fangs?" Edward started laughing. Full on hard belly bursting laughter. I narrow my eyes at him.

"I am sorry. We don't need them our teeth are very sharp. That is a myth, one of many."

"Oh. Just like the sun you can go out in it, but no one can see you or they will know."

"Yeah. Garlic doesn't hurt us, we photograph, silver does nothing but tarnish around us just like it does you, and a wooden stake through our heart would just leave a hole in our shirts which can sort of piss us off." 

He smiles teasingly.

I laughed.

We are quiet for a moment and then his tone is serious now, "Bella the reason I swallow is because I have another weapon to use on my prey."

"What?" I asked and he sighed heavily.

"My eyeteeth have an area behind it where I produce very deadly venom."

My eyes widened when my thoughts go to that of a snake.

"It only works if it enters your blood stream." He reached up, rubbed his eyetooth, and pulled his finger out and there was one solitary drop on his finger of a clear thick liquid.

"Venom paralyzes our prey but it also helps to produce others like us."

"Like you said your father changed you?"

"Exactly."

"You told me you were an only child. What happened to your parents?"

"The influenza struck my father first, and then a month later my mother and I were taken ill. I lost both of them. Dr. Cullen was our doctor and my mother begged and pleaded with him to do whatever he could to make sure I survived and for his own reasons he made the decision to change me. Then came Esme, then Rosalie and Emmett. Alice and Jasper came to us already transformed but Bella; all of us were sick or dying. Carlisle wouldn't change someone if he didn't have to. He is the most compassionate man I know. He is one of the reasons we are in such control over our thirst. None of us want to be less than the humans we once were."

"I really like your family." I stated.

"They like you too." He smiled, "My parents look forward to meeting you someday."

"Where are they?"

"They are preparing the house in our next location, a small town outside of Medford, Oregon."

"Your next location? So then Jessica was right you are leaving Los Angeles." My heart ached suddenly my eyes dropped to the table.

 "We can't stay in one place for too long Bella. People notice when we don't age. I am not leaving now though."

My eyes moved back to him. "Why?"

"I can't." He answers as if I should know the reason.

"Why can't you?" I ask pushing further.

"I just found you! Do you think I can just walk away now?" he looks at me incredulously.

I sit there and I just stare at him. I felt like he was going to disappear and he should be but he was staying for me? What was wrong with this picture? What was I not getting?

"Are you done eating?" I nod and he stands up and takes my hand leading me through the house and upstairs. I am actually a little surprised when he takes me right to his bedroom and he shuts his door. I turn around and he is smiling as he moves across the room in a blur. He walks over to the crest pushing buttons and opening up the system and I assume he is securing the house. "I just want to be aware if someone enters anywhere in another wing of the house. My senses are pretty acute but when I am around you I tend to get a little distracted." He grins impishly.

"Yeah that was pretty impressive what I saw out back. You're strong and uh…agile." I muttered.

He gives me one of those crooked smiles and he asks "Are you sure your not afraid of me?"

I smile at him. "Nope." I said popping the p., "You're too cute to be scary."

His brow rose up high on one side and he smirked. "Did you just call me cute?"

"Uh yeah." I giggled.

"Bella…puppies are cute. Kids are cute. I am a vampire for crying out loud. Vampires are never cute." He said trying to feign horror but I could see the playfulness behind it.

I put my hand over my chest and cried out feigning horror. "Oh no it's a big scary vampire who has locked me into his tower of…." I stopped suddenly giggling and then laughed as he stared at me half-smiling.

"Continue by all means…His tower of…?" he says teasingly.

"Oh god!" I stopped laughing and blushed furiously not wanting to finish at all!

"Come on Bella what were you going to say?" He suddenly crouched and my eyes widened. He was being so playful and I wanted to make fun of his little playroom.

"Your tower of loveeeeeeee." I sung out and then in the blink of an eye, he pounced and I was now lying in the center of his bed giggling like a little girl as he laughed hovering over top of me straddling me his hands on each side of my head holding him up.

We both stopped laughing and there was another look in his honeyed fourteen karat eyes that made my damn heart flutter again. He didn't respond to it as his eyes were now focused right on my lips. He was so close and the scent of his breath blew over my face. I could bathe in the scent of him. My heart was speeding up, his eyes moved down to my neck, he watched my pulse, and then his eyes were drawn back to my lips.

"Can I kiss you again Bella?" He asks his eyes now focused on mine as he waited with the most innocent of hopeful looks on his face and I could see the seventeen-year-old boy that he was frozen as so long ago. 

His upbringing is obviously deeply buried in his psyche as he asks for permission before he just does it. It is a startling contrast to the man that has a room full of paddles and whips and a collection of sex toys that any porn star would envy. This Edward right here above me is heartbreakingly even more breathtaking than the Edward that wears those sinful seductive leather pants and is shirtless barking commands of his coven.

As I stare at him, I realize how so very easily I could fall absolutely head over heels in love with both of them.

My lips curve up and I let my hands slowly and cautiously cup his face and nod yes pulling his face down to mine.

"Careful." He breathes out. "I have to be so careful of you Kitten. I could hurt you."

I looked into his eyes, said without a doubt, "How can you hurt me when you look at me the way you do. I don't think you could hurt me Edward. I see it in your eyes."

I closed my eyes and pressed my lips on his and I let him kiss me. My lips mold around his, he kisses me the softest, and in the most loving way, I have ever been kissed. It is very clear that this boy can motherfucking kiss like no one else.

He has had a lot of practice Bella. 

My inner voice reminds me.

This kiss grows with intensity and the pressure increases and I realize he has now lowered his lower half of his body down onto me slightly. My fingers move from his face and lace up into his soft hair and I bury my hands in it as the kiss grows more frantic. I slightly open my legs a little and he follows my move by laying his lower half fully onto me now.

His lips trail off along my cheek and his words blow me away as his lips never leave my skin.

"God you taste sinfully good. I could just lay here and kiss you all day long. You are wrecking me completely…but I don't want you to stop." His breathing has turned to heavy panting along with mine as I inhale the much-needed breath.
I can feel the heat between my legs get warmer with his words "So fucking soft." He whispers, "And god you're so warm."
He pulls back looking into my eyes and he watches me in utter fascination as he is giving me these god damn bedroom eyes that just melt me right here underneath him.

I gasp out and can't help but thrust my hips up into him, when I feel his erection growing against me now.

"Oh god you're so hard." I blurt out and can't believe that I said that aloud.

He huffs out a little laugh and his voice purrs on my cheek "You affect me too Kitten. Does that feel good?" 

He pulls back to look at me waiting for an answer.

"Does what feel good?" I asked as he gives me a half smirk.

"The friction you're getting using me for."

"Oh god!" I was totally oblivious to the fact that I was dry humping him. I am completely mortified of the fact that I am such a slut!

"Don't be embarrassed love. I certainly am not complaining. You're welcome to use me however you see fit." His breath is husky and cool as his tongue licks the shell of my ear.

"Edward." I say his name in a breathy voice…my god I want this man!

He moves so fast as he flips us over and I am now on top of him.

"You have my permission to use me to get off Kitten." His hands slide up the back of my thighs, I notice the hem of my skirt is now being slowly pushed up the back, and his cold hands are now on my lace covered ass cheeks. He presses me down on his hardness and I groan out in pleasure grateful for that friction.

I sort of welcome the Edward of this era excitedly, but they both are adorable.

His lips are kissing little kisses along my ear and he whispers "I can help you love or if you want I can put my hands on the headboard…your choice. I am just dying to see you come again. It knocks the breath right out of me." He pants and nuzzles into my neck.

"Oh god I like your hands where they are." I press down onto him and he groans.

"I like where my hands are too but it would be so much nicer without these."

And just like that, he has ripped my panties right off me and tosses them. I gasped, "Edward!" and he chuckles.

"They were in the way and I have spent the last two weeks watching this little ass shake in front of me. I have been dying to get my hands on these cheeks." he shrugs and his hands squeeze my cheeks.

"God your body does things to me. Such a perfect little ass. The things I want to do to you that have been playing out in my head are so naughty. I want to hear you scream my name and make you come until you're begging for me stop." He stares deep into my eyes, then his lips crash into mine and he is kissing me deep and frantically. Our tongues chase, catch, and lick as I moan in his mouth. I move my hips forward and gasp at the feeling of my clit rubbing right along the length of him.

I silently curse the layers of fabric between us.

"Oh god." I groan out.

"That's it right there isn't it?" He pushes me to move ever so slightly up along his very hard length and down again. I find myself chewing on my bottom lip getting lost in the sensation of the contact that I am getting from him.

I want to just let go and feel what I am feeling but it seems so juvenile to be doing this with him but my god… I can't even think straight to come up with a word for what he looks like laying here underneath me.

I want to give into him and I really want to see how much I can make him lose his own control. I look into those fourteen-karat eyes, the friction feels so good, and I press harder and mewl out a whimper because I want more.

More.

More.

More!

The sensation is heaven and my body takes over where my head is still thinking too damn much. I get brave suddenly and I move to sit up on him straddling him planting each knee on the side of his hips. I hear his breath hitch as my full weight is now centered between us. He is watching me that look of awe in his eyes and the sensation causes my head to fall back and I close my eyes while I just dry hump and grind against Edward's hardness teasing us both.

"Fuuuuuuckkkkk." He grunts out his hands on the front of my bare thighs under the hem of my skirt. I feel the cool air as it hits my thighs bunching up. I realize any second Edward is going to get an eyeful of my bare sex if it goes any higher and I don't fucking care now. I want him to see me. I am losing myself in the act between us and I tell him.

"Mm…god it feels so good Edward…so sensitive." I drop my hands on his chest and look down at him. I suck my bottom lip in and chew it, which is stupid because I am not even nervous but I can't seem to help it as I feel that sensation and I grind harder yet. I pant in shallow breaths and gaze at the most gorgeous man in the world and my inner slut comes out of me when I ask for his permission, "Can I come please?"

The most breathtaking smile spreads across his face and he nods, "You can do whatever you want love so long as I can watch."

I pick up my pace and press down on him harder. His hands grip my hips and he pushes his hips up.

"Oh God Edward. Soooo…good."

I am now fisting his t-shirt and looking down at him grunting and I tell him "God I love how hard you are…It's so good…I'm gonna…Oh god Edward I am gonna come please keep doing that…yeah…that oh yeah!" I cry out and he thrusts his hips up. "How is that Kitten? God your beautiful when you're fucking coming."

My body tightens up and I can feel the pulsing deep inside of me as I explode in what has to be the best orgasm I have ever had in my life. I sure as hell could never do this to myself and even my beloved toy couldn't live up to what it is like to dry hump Edward Cullen until you come! I feel my body shudder and I fall forward and collapse on his chest feeling his lips kiss my ear and my temple as he whispers, "There is nothing in the world that can be absolutely as breathtaking as that Bella. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did."

My eyes close and I lay there thinking to myself that I just dry humped a vampire and I start to giggle. I mean full out giggle with giddiness. I can feel Edward's chest chuckle underneath me but by now, I am cracking up as I came up with my own superhero title.

"What do you find so amusing?" he asks as his fingers of one hand are threaded through my hair and his other hand is still resting on my bare ass caressing it.

Edward smirks and watches me in fascination as I entertain myself. I finally gain my composure and tell him. "Instead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer you can call me Bella the Vampire Humper."

Edward's whole body starts shaking with laughter now also and he rolls me over laughing and is now above me when he stops laughing abruptly and he stares at me with this look that melts me, "Could you be any more adorable?" he whispers into my lips and kisses me into oblivion.

I laid there while Edward and I kissed for god….I would swear hours. There was not one part of my mouth that he didn't explore with that icy cold tongue of his. His lips feathered kisses over my cheeks, my brows, my ears, my neck and even my nose. He inhaled my scent and this is not at all the man I thought he would be. I expected Dominant Edward and if he was trying for normal, he was failing miserably because this wasn't normal.

This was fucking blissed the fuck right out!

His caresses had me falling asleep with his lips planting little soft kisses against so much of my bare skin.

~X~X~X~

I wake up and find that I am alone and a chenille throw is covering me. It smells like him and I wonder why he has a blanket. Does he get cold? I have a thousand questions and I notice the night has fallen into darkness. I get up and turn the lamp on next to the bed. I don't see Edward and I look at the clock to find it is only ten thirty at night and I make my way over to the restroom and notice that Alice brought my bag back as it's sitting on the chair.

Once I am freshened up, I walk out of the bedroom and begin to make my way down the stairs to seek out Edward.

I can hear his voice in the distance towards the office and I walk along the long corridor towards it. I can hear his conversation as I approach and I slow down some.

"She is going to be staying with me for at least a couple of weeks."

"No if it were up to me I would move her in tomorrow for good, but that isn't my decision it is hers."

"Mom…I understand. Yes. I promise the first chance I get I will bring her to meet you, if she wants to come."

"Esme you're going to love her. She is….trust me you are going to fall in love with her. Everyone else already has." I can't help but smile.

"It is a little soon for that."

"No mom I never thought that I would experience what everyone else had."

I stop listening and just keep heading towards the door and walk in to see him pacing in front of his desk, his eyes shoot up, and a huge smile spreads across his face.

"Mom I need to let you go. She just woke up. No, you can't talk to her maybe next time. Goodnight Esme and say hi to my father."

He hangs up and says "Hi there." And holds his arm out for me. I practically run to him.

"Mm…hi…I woke up and you were gone." I cuddle into his chest.

"My mom called and I didn't want to wake you up speaking to her so I took it down here. Did you have a nice nap?"

"Yep."

"Are you hungry?"

"Not for food." I Growl he chuckles and I look up at him.

"Mm…god I love the heat of your body." He groans as I move my lips over his neck up along his jaw, stand on my tiptoes, slide my hands into that silky soft hair, pull his face towards mine, and kiss his lips licking and biting his bottom one.

"Kitten you are insatiable."

"Uh huh." I start unbuttoning his shirt.

"What are you doing?" He asks.

"I need you." I can't keep my lips away from his skin.

"Bella can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"If I am willing to try this, would you allow me to introduce you to submission one night a week? If it isn't something you want to pursue then we can stop."

I stood there pondering this.

I was overwhelmed and in the reality of it, I had this bizarre desire to please him.

Maybe it was my way to say thank you.

Maybe it was my desire to try this lifestyle. I wasn't fully sure.

"So long as we compromise." I stated.

His brow shot up and he leaned against his desk crossing his legs and his arms to listen to my plan. "Let's hear it." He smiled with a gleam in his fourteen karat golden eyes.

"I want to start tonight in your playroom." I offered even though I was a little apprehensive.

The smile that spread on his lips told me he was very pleased.

I walked over to the rug and got down on my knees putting my head down.

"I will do anything you ask of me Mr. Cullen."

I knew I was not allowed to call him Master yet if at all, and I knew instantly he was hardening in front of me as I could see it even though my head was cast down.

"Oh Bella, you don't have any idea my little kitten what your asking. But I must say it pleases me a lot to see your willingness to submit to me." He came over to me and held his hand out "Come with me".

I stood up and I took it and remained behind him until we approached the room. He entered the code on the keypad and the doors slid open.

We walked in and he approached another keypad and quickly entered numbers in it.

An entire wall dropped down into the floor and the room opened to expand to what was now his playroom/bedroom.

I just gaped as he smiled and pulled me to him his lips on my ear.

"Bella—I will do as you wish, but know this my little kitten—no sub has ever entered this part of my world and you will be the first. I have secret's kitten. Secret's I have longed to share. Now undress and kneel at the foot of my bed."

I did as he asked and I could see in his expressions how happy this made him.

He wanted me naked. Shit. I realized instantly that this is how this would go. I didn't hesitate. I stripped slowly still a little bashful and once I was naked, I kneeled for him.

"Look at me Isabella." His tone was soft.

I looked up at him as he stood over me. His eyes fixed on mine and he asked, "Are you sure Kitten?"

"God I have never been any surer in my life about anything. Yes I want this and I know you do too." I look up at him through my lashes, his eyes are smoldering golden, and they are sparkling.

His icy hand moves slowly down to cup my cheek as he leans down. His face is now just a breaths distance from mine, his cool breath flutters over my lips, and he bemoans out in his sweetly scented breath,

"Fuck….Kitten you look so god damn innocent and I know I am going straight to hell for this, so I might as well do it thoroughly. The naughtiest thoughts that have filled my head of all the things I imagined and now plan to do to you baby are already so fucking worth it!"

His fourteen-karat golden eyes are focused on my lips as if he is going to kiss me.

Here I am, kneeling for an ill-fated angel and offering up my virginity to him without a second thought. I barely know him at all, but I do know that the feelings of desire that are coursing through my body for him are overwhelming, exciting, and so new to me. I cannot believe I want him so badly because no one has ever brought out this desire inside of me and I want give him all of me.

His lips finally moved closer to press lightly to mine and he smiled softly pulling back to stand up over me again. He let out a sigh before he turned around with his back to me. Edward slipped into his Dominant persona, his velvety voice and his stance flipped off as if it was controlled by some invisible switch. When he spoke, his voice was powerful and damn if it wasn't still so unbelievably sexy as his words turned me on even more when he uttered them. He is so in control and I want to squeal when he turns to make his demands on me. Dominant Edward is fuck me sexier than I ever could have imagined in my own head!

"Isabella, in thirty minutes you will be standing in front me in my playroom. Wear whatever you like my love, but I want your hair down, no ties, and no clips. If you call me anything other than Master, I will punish you. You are not to speak unless you are granted permission. If you speak without permission, I will punish you. Do not show any disrespect in my playroom Isabella. If you do, I will punish you. I also have the right to make up a rule during our playtime should the need arise. If that rule is broken during that time what happens Kitten?"

I am staring up at him with these huge starry eyes not even willing to dare an answer. His lips start to turn up at the corners. "Perfect." He whispers.

"Again if that rule is broken during that time what will be happening Kitten? Answer me."

"You will punish me Master." His eyes widen in alight just for a brief second. I get the intense feeling he likes hearing me call him that.

"My god…you're not even in my playroom yet and your Master is already so very fucking pleased." He took my hand and pulled me up towards him. He stepped in and lips moved right next to my ear, and he whispered, "Close your eyes Isabella and do not open them until I am gone, and just so you know, I decide all your punishments love and you now have twenty nine minutes to get that perfect little ass into my playroom!"

His cool breath and the essence of him left with him. I literally felt the void of his presence. He just left me standing there with my mouth slightly open and panting for him.