All that is left is the epi!

I walk into the room and see Royce is hanging from the ceiling. "I should have guessed this was something to do with you, Cullen," he sneers at me. "What, you upset with my sloppy seconds?" I just look at him showing no emotion on my face. "I wish I could remember her, all I know is that she was begging for me to take her. Her mouth may have said no, but her body asked for more."

I step forward, throat punching the mother fucker hard! As he gasps, I pull his tongue out of his mouth and cut it off. After stepping forward and punching the mother fucker hard in the throat! Pulling his tongue out of his mouths he gasps, I cut off.

"I don't want to hear you run your mouth as I beat you." I hiss in his ear.

The next six hours are spend beating Royce. It was a little daunting as I had to stop now and again to wake the fucker up. I call in Emmett and Jasper to have him cleaned and dropped off at the police station with the boxes of evidence. One thing I do know is every girl he has hurt should get their chance to get their closure. This is not just about what he did to Bella.

As soon as I am done scrubbing myself clean, and changed, I arrive home in time to watch a still sleepy Bella carrying Sasha into the kitchen.

"Hi girls," I say lightly. Bella's eyes go to me and I see the plead she has to ask about all that has happened.

"Teddy come to school today?" Sasha asks sadly.

"Not today, princess, but we will pick you up so you can pick out what bed you will like in your new room." Sasha tilts her head trying to figure out my words.

"Who will live with me?"

"You'll be living with Bella and me," I tell her as I place her usual breakfast down.

"Who will have daddy's house?"

"I'm not sure, but how about we talk about it later?" Sasha nods and begins eating her breakfast. I look to Bella to see she's not eating anything.

"Eat," I say pushing her plate closer.

Bella and I drop Sasha off and I drive us somewhere quiet.

"What happened with Royce?" Bella asks as soon as the car has stopped.

"I beat him badly." That was all she needed to know.

"So, he's still alive?"

"Yes, I thought he should get punished for what he did. Let the other girls get closure, too. Aro has some friends in every jail in the country, so he will not be having a good life on the inside, I'll make sure of it."

"Thank you," Bella says softly.

I let out a little sigh of relief. I love this girl dearly, but I miss her sassiness, too.

"How do I help you?"

Bella shrugs a little. "Just give me time?" I nod at her.

"Just know, firefly, I'm here always." I'm stunned a little when Bella leans over and kisses me.

"Take me to our new house." I don't reply, but I start the car and drive. We haven't been to our house since Christmas Day. We've made a lot of choices about what we wanted as far as decorations, and the only room left is Sasha's room.

I pull in and Bella's eyes go to what would have been Mike's home.

"Maybe you should give it to Rose and Emmett," Bella says sounding like she's questioning herself.

"Sounds like a good idea," I say and smile a little.

"He would have enjoyed living there. I know of all the things he wanted, he always wanted a garden." I don't say anything back liking that she is telling me about the better parts of her past.

Bella and I walk around the house and just like I was told, everything is done and ready. We collect Sasha and take her out to pick everything she wanted for her room. I paid a little extra to have it delivered the same day.

~VP~

Bella and I spend the week packing and by the weekend, we're sending Sasha off to Jane and Aro's. I was extremely surprised when Aro called and demanded his grandpa time with Sasha. Sasha had overheard and started jumping up and down yelling happily that she was going to Papa's house. We did what we could to get on with our life as a family. I knew we needed to, not pretend nothing happened, but to go on as normal as possible.

~VP~

"This is good," I tell Bella as I dig into the dinner she made the two of us.

"Mike taught me how to make this," Bella says as she stops eating and looks at me. "Do you remember you said you'd pay for me to go to college?" Bella asks shyly dropping her head a little.

"Yes, do you want to go?"

"I would, if it's okay. I'd like to learn this," Bella says waving her hand at her plate. "It's something I enjoy and it's also something I shared with Mike. We would cook together often." I smile at her pleased that she seems to be able to talk more about Mike without crying so this is something more positive.

"Sounds good to me. If this is how you plan on cooking for me, I think I'll fall in love with you even more than what I already have." Bella smiles and jumps up.

"Dance with me." I move up and pull her into my arms.

"I love you," Bella says, and as I go to tell her I love her, too, she cuts me off. "But, you better not be dragging mud in this home like you did at the apartment, or there will be hell to pay"

Bella raises her eyebrow. "And I want to know what you're up to as well. If you have to pick someone up, or if you get hurt, or just need to talk to me, let me be a part of all of you. If you kill some fucker, tell me, because I know now that you only kill when you have a reason or need to." I bob my head unable to say anything. Where I am happy to see some of her old fire is back, I'm worried if she truly knows all that I do.

"I love you, and I'm not going anywhere unless you: a) hit me—which I know you won't; b) hurt Sasha, but again I know it would kill you to even think that; c) if you cheat on me. I don't care what the reasons are, you and I are done, and I'm not only holding kissing as cheating, but also telling another woman, not related to you, that you have feelings for them. You do that then I will kick your ass and leave." I chuckle a little at her matter a fact tone. I love her even more when she talks to me like this

"Noted and I will not hurt you or Sasha, and there's no way I will cheat."

Bella nods at me smiling. "Then we are in this together?" Bella holds out her hand and I take it linking our fingers.

"Together," I repeat as Bella kisses me.

"I'm ready," she whispers in my ear.

"Doesn't have to be today, Firefly; I have waited all my life for you."

"I know – just telling you that I'm ready to take that step if you are." I swallow, but place my lips on hers than pick her up and carry her upstairs.

I slowly remove her clothes as she removes mine. We are not having a fit of passion moment, but yet I can still feel the love between us. Our kisses seem non-stop, and feeling her bare skin rubbing mine, sends chills all over my body. I have never felt such love in my life. I love the taste of her skin—it's sweet. My hands have a mind of their own and they do not stop as I feel her breasts and her very flat stomach.

My mouth finds her perfect tits and I can't help myself. I suck each of her nipples into my mouth and when her body arches into me even more, I know she's okay. I'm able to stop myself before I devour her pussy.

"If it's too much or you get scared or anything, tell me and I will stop." Bella nods and I shakily start to work her over.

Using my mouth and my hands as I taste her. She tastes unlike any other person I have ever been with. If my tongue isn't pleasing her clit, I have my finger rubbing soft circles. I gasp as her legs wrap around my head holding me face first into her perfect pussy. Her whole body arches and she lets out one hell of a moan.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry," she says as she quickly lets my head go and sits up covering herself.

"Hey, it's okay, I swear. To me, that's a very good sign; it says you liked it," I tell her as I move up the bed. "And this is the first time I have gotten rock hard from eating pussy," I say as she blushes at my words. I can't help the smug smile on my face as I watch her look at my cock. The way her mouth falls open makes me smile even more.

"This okay?" she asks as she softly touches me.

"Yes," I say as I swallow hard. If I wasn't watching her hand wrap around my girth, I swear I wouldn't believe it was happening. "You're doing fine, love," I say when she seems to hesitate. Claiming her lips again hoping she will just go with it and not over think. As we kiss, her hand slips off of me and I take that moment to hover over her. I know I need to go slow, but I have never had such an urge to have sex like I do in this moment.

I line myself up with her opening and before I push in, I take a minute to stare into her eyes to make sure there's no sign of regret. I watch her as I push in to make sure there isn't any sign of fright.

As soon as I'm fully in, I stop letting Bella get used to my size. She gets the look of confusion on her face, but then gives me a small smile with a nod, and we seem to move together. Nothing but pants comes out of our mouths, as we stare at each other. When I feel close, I start to rub Bella's clit. I fall over the edge feeling disappointed that I couldn't get her off.

"I swear it will get better," I tell her quickly and she frowns a little.

"It was amazing; you didn't think so?"

I snap my face up to hers. "Fuck, baby, it was the best, but you didn't come, did you?"

"Edward, I enjoyed it, and I did feel that edge. It was both our first time, we'll get to know each other's bodies. Besides, my hand job was not the best."

"It was!" I say right away. "It was from you, so for me it was good." Bella nods at me and just looks at me as if I'm full of shit.

"Okay, I get it, it was good, amazing, because it was us, but I will get you to come," I say as I kiss my way down her body.

Bella screeches loudly making me look up at her.

"You can't do that!" she says with her eyes going down to where I was.

"Why not?"

"Because I'm all sticky," she says in a duh voice.

"So..." I say slowly not getting her point. As she gives me a look as if I'm mental; I jump up pulling her with me.

"Best we get you clean then."

Bella and I spend the rest of the night exploring each other's bodies, and I'm happy to say she did come a time or two.

~VP~

I pull up outside of our home. It's hard to believe we've been here for two months already. Things have been hard; Sasha started to have melt downs three to six times a day just after we moved. But Bella was thankfully ready for it. It took me to the fifth one before I could handle them efficiently. I'm not the one to fully believe in the afterlife, but that fifth time, it felt as if Mike was with me to guide me in what to do and say.

Aro and Jane got a hold of a great therapist for Sasha, and I'm happy to say that it's working, and Sasha is almost back to her old self after two weeks.

Bella and I have been going strong, and we spend a lot more nights talking about our pasts. We are also seeing our own therapist, but through talking to Bella, I feel most of my healing has been done.

Today was a hard session as my mom was with me. I wanted to get the guilt out of how I treated her. To my surprise, my mom felt guilty saying she never would have known how I felt. She said I should have come and said something. She did wish that she told me that Carlisle was not my father, so that I would not have been blindsided so much.

I held her as she cried, wishing she could take my pain away from me. When I left, I felt lighter than I had felt in years, and I also felt a lot closer to her.

I get out of the car and wave at Rose as she smiles walking into her home. Rose waves at me and smiles as she's walking into her home while I'm getting out of my car.

I knew I couldn't leave the house empty, and after both Bella and I talked to Sasha, who was happy with Emmett and Rose living there, in fact, she requested that I buy the other house for Alice and Jasper so that she could have all her family close by.

Rose is now working full-time at Alice's school, and is doing very well. I know there are a few men that have recognized her, but haven't said a word, as they know they'd be in deep shit with their wives.

I walk into the house and look in on Sasha seeing just like normal, she's asleep with Twilight tucked under her arm.

Twilight has become very useful in the fact that she picks up on most of Sasha's episodes before they blow. She also has started to bark near Bella, then go to her blood kit when her sugar levels go too high or low.

After I quietly close Sasha's door and move to Bella's and my room. Unlike what I see in books or films after our first time, Bella and I didn't change into sex addicts. We do have sex, and are slowly building up, but we are concentrating on our relationship, and learning each other's wants and needs.

Leaning against the wall and watching as Bella paces up and down our bedroom. I often wonder if she knows how much she and Sasha have changed my life. In the past I used to not want marriage; now all I think about is having her as my wife. Even accepting that she has no plans to leave me, I still want and need her as my wife. I want that piece of paper; need it bound and sealed.

Moving to her and pulling her back against my front. "I remember that you said you would marry me if I brought my ass back safe and sound," I say pushing her hair out the way so I can kiss her neck softly.

"Yeah, I did say something like that. Do you want me like that?" She pants a little enjoying my soft kisses.

I turn her to face me clasping her chin. "You are my heart. I don't feel like the monster I once thought I was." I still feel like a monster, even with me now accepting that I'm nothing like him. I know I have done a lot of stuff that would classify me as one.

"I thought Sasha was your heart?"

I shake my head at her. "No, she is my light."

"So, I am your heart and Sasha is your light?" I nod at her. "Do you have room for one more?" I look at her puzzled and she brings out something from behind her back. I take it from her seeing it's a positive pregnancy test.

She looks at me with worry. I move closer to her holding her inhumanly close. "They will be my salvation," I say placing my hand on her tummy.

I kiss her softly and pull back a little. "Will you?" I ask sincerely.

"Yes," she says simply with a smile.

I grin at her pulling her back to me kissing her, showing her just how much I mean it when I say she is my heart.

I make sweet, slow love to her before we fall asleep in each other's arms. My life is looking a lot brighter than it has ever looked before.