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Alex straightened up and said, "Well, my investigation is the disappearance of the mayor's wife, Darcy Malan."

After the two detectives had finally left and Edward was saying goodbye to them, I carefully placed the twins on my bed and Nessie in her room and walked over to the window. I stared out at the sky and was able to see it with much more clarity now as a vampire.

I watched the handful of stars twinkle brightly contrasting against the dark blanket of the sky. I could see clearly the owl perched on the furthest branch away from me and heard the owl hoot, the sound echoing through the street.

I focused on these details and refused to let me mind wander. I tried thinking about the twins and how we needed to go shopping for them but that made me think of how Edward was supposed to be watching them when…

I tried thinking of that vile Alexander Wilbur and how his persistence reminded me of Mike Newton. But that just made me angry and I had to clear my head before I could think of hitting the detective which wouldn't be very good at the moment.

Edward wouldn't have…I mean, he wouldn't do something like…For the first time in my life I was doubting the one person who meant the world to me, someone whom I'd die for. The person who is the other half of me, my mate, my companion, my friend, the father of my children and most of all my husband.

If he did, I'd understand…wouldn't I? I mean, Darcy deliberately hurt me; she endangered my life and my children's lives. Darcy could have been the reason Edward lost us. Darcy caused pain and suffering to this family, of course Edward would want to punish her. I mean, it makes sense Edward that would want her to suffer, to feel pain like we did, wouldn't it? Would that be alright? I was so deep in thought that I almost didn't hear Edward breeze in despite my vampire hearing.

"Finally, I thought they wouldn't leave," Edward said running his hand through his hair. I didn't say anything, I bit my lip to stop myself from hurdling questions at him.

"Urgh, and that vile Detective Wilbur. His thoughts were disgusting, nobody should think about you like that but me. I had to stop myself from leaving Detective Liebert's questioning and ripping off that boy's head," Edward said jokingly and plopping himself on the couch.

I still didn't respond, my thoughts were raging in my head between what was right and wrong, and what the hell justified it! Edward opened his arms to me but looked over worriedly when I didn't join him. He saw the look on my face and became concerned.

"Bella, what's wrong?" Edward asked, his eyes wide. I walked over slowly, hoping to put this off as long as I could, but I did want answers.

I sat across from Edward and took a deep breath before beginning, "Edward do you know why the police was here?" I already was quite sure he knew why the police were here, but it seemed like a good place to start.

"Yes, the detectives are investigating the disappearance of the mayor's wife. That's why Detective Liebert was here, he's been asking everyone in this town if they have any information about her disappearance. That horrible woman, after everything she had done to you I'm glad something happened to her," Edward said bowing his head and clenching his fists.

I tried not to dwell on what Edward's last comment when he looked up and saw the look on my face. Edward suddenly realized what had been bothering me and a flash of understanding passed through his face.

"Bella, you don't think I had something to do with Darcy's disappearance, do you?" Edward asked coming over to sit next to me. I turned away not wanting to look at him as I already heard the hurt in his voice.

"Bella, I swear I didn't do anything," Edward said pleading with me. I wanted to believe him. I loved Edward with all my heart, and I knew what he's like if anyone he cared about was threatened.

"Bella, do you honestly believe I would have left you while you were in transition alone with two newborn babies who were minutes old and Nessie," Edward said pulling me closer to him.

I shook my head and was about to respond when Edward secured my head between his hand and looked me in the eyes.

"I would never do that to you," Edward said slowly pronouncing each word. He said it so sincerely and I knew he was telling the truth, I could easily see it in his golden amber eyes.

If I could cry right now, I would have. I buried myself in his chest apologizing over and over for ever doubting him. I was being stupid, Edward never would have left me to go harm Darcy. I knew he cared too much for me to do something like that.

"I'm sorry," I murmured again.

Edward brushed my hair gently and said, "Bella, I do understand where you are coming from. What it must've looked like to you-I get it."

I sat up and looked at him earnestly, "No, I should have believed you, you're my husband and I should have trusted you. I jumped to conclusion when I shouldn't have."

Edward wrapped his arms around me and I felt so much better. These few days had been hectic and I was glad I was home, with Edward.

The night flew by fast and soon it was morning. Some things looked so different in the morning. The bright day shed a new outlook on life. Things suddenly felt better and easier like there was nothing in the world to trouble us. I could hear the birds chirping and it made me want to follow their example and sing. I didn't though, I wasn't that carefree.

For the first time in a long time I didn't dwell on the fact that there was a witch who chased me from my home and put my family through utter turmoil. There was one reason for this, even though Esther had intended to punish me she had succeeded in doing something completely different. Instead of hurting me, she was able to give me more children. She gave me the twins, my precious angels. For that, I couldn't find myself to be angry at her anymore. Something I never expected to feel was gratitude. I felt truly grateful to Esther.

The twins were a joy and I couldn't help the smile that spread over my face from looking at them. When one awoke it wasn't long before they both were awake and eagerly awaiting their bottle. Neither of them liked it when Edward or I gave one of them special attention so Edward and I had to rotate the two of them between us so they each got equal attention. I am still very insistent that they got that from Edward.

"They're so cute when they're asleep aren't they," Edward said wrapping his arms around my waist and joined me in watching them.

I chuckled, "They're not when they're awake?"

Edward rolled his eyes, "Of course they are, except when they're crying, hungry and fussy, well that's a whole other matter."

A very bedraggled Renesmee jumped into my arms also looking for attention away from her newborn siblings. Nessie, like the twins were growing at a faster rate that humans and despite the trouble Nessie childishness causes, I loved the fact that she could act like a child and enjoy it even with her high intellect.

"Momma, what are we gonna do today?" Nessie asked with her big brown doe eyes.

"Well, today we are going shopping," I answered.

Edward looked up from where he was attempting to feed a very fussy Korra. "We are?" he said raising his eyebrow. Korra noticing Edward distraction flicked her bottle away spraying blood on Edward's shirt.

"Aww man," Edward wined trying to wipe his shirt with a nearby face cloth. I couldn't help but laugh and neither could little Aaden. I nuzzled his cheek and started feeding him too.

"Why are we going shopping?" Edward asked grumbling.

"Well, for one- we don't have any clothes for the babies, two- we don't even have a crib, and three- you need a new shirt," I said winking and laughing at his expression.

I tried to not think of Alice again as it would make me sadder. She would have been doing the shopping with Rosalie and Esme would have been the one to do the nursery. Here, at the cottage we don't even have space for a nursery. I was going to do all of this alone.

We were all finally ready by 10 o' clock and managed to get out of the house without anyone seeing us. The last thing we needed was the nosy next door neighbour. I tried not to think about where we would go after Goodville. We weren't going to be able to stay here much longer now that we had the twins. We were going to have to move again. Would the next town be as awful as this?

The drive was long enough and we had to drive further out to avoid anyone from the town seeing us. We were able to find a large mall in other main town a few towns away. Here, nobody we knew would see us, and there wouldn't be any suspicion about the twins.

In the mall, we were lucky to be able to find a very large baby store in the center. I could see that it wasn't a major designer store, and Alice would have thrown a fit if she saw us buying from here, but I didn't mind it at all.

"Okay the first thing we need is a pram, and then some clothes and…" I said making a list in my head of the things we needed as we walked into the shop.

I could see that Edward wasn't particularly happy about the trip and I didn't think baby shopping appealed to him very much but he did understand we needed to be here and was obliged to allow me to drag him around.

Before I could even make it half way through the store I was stopped by a young sales attendant. By the way she looked at Edward I immediately didn't like her.

"Hello, my name is Lara, welcome to The Baby Barn, how can I help you," Lara said purring. She was chewing gum rather loudly and irritatingly. I couldn't help but notice that she directed her introduction and question only to Edward.

I cleared my throat at Lara, to get her attention and not just Edward's. "Hi, we don't need any help thank you."

Lara noticed me for the first time and just glared at me before turning back to Edward. "Are you sure there's nothing I can do for you," she said in a sugar sweet voice. I wasn't imagining the double meaning to her offer at all.

I could see Edward cringe before answering, "Yes you could actually help me." I almost snarled, I saw anger at the thought of Edward and this bimbo together.

Lara perked up at that and smiled brightly, her bubblegum pink lips stretched over her teeth. "Really? What can I do?"

Edward smiled and said, "You can go away."

The look on Lara's face was priceless. I had to restrain myself from laughing at her, her face fell so fast the moment she heard that. Lara tossed her hair over her shoulder, huffed and marched off. This town wasn't even Goodville and it was still full of horrible people. Sheesh, was Goodville actually rubbing of on this place?