BPOV

I hate Carlisle Cullen.

Let me rephrase it.

I hate Carlisle Cullen so much that I'm wishing for time travel to go fifty years back and find the boy who bullied him as a kid and I plan to give him some pointers.

Right now, I'm waiting for Edward to get all our suitcases on the car. We both are going to stay another week with my mother. Again. Just when I got back home!

Why? Well, because apparently we can't handle a week on our house without making a mess.

Firstly, on Tuesday, I was at our house. Studying for an online test. I had 'til noon to send it, but I was taking my time studying. Well, I kinda took my time and waited 'til the last-minute to send it. Sue me.

Then my dear Father-in-law (please insert sarcasm) arrived to my house. I thought he wanted something from Edward's office so I led him there. To my utter surprise he asked me to change for some 'adult clothes'. Well, hello, Hello Kitty pj's are great for pregnant women lounging in their living room while studying for a test.

Then he looked at his watch and exclaimed we didn't have time , we'll find you something to wear. It's just that you're so fat.

One would think that a man with Carlisle intelligence should know better than to call a pregnant woman fat. Obviously he was blind to my murderous glare and kept going on.

"We need to leave now, the board meeting will start in forty minutes."

I pulled my hand from his grasp and told him.

"Stop Carlisle! I have a test now. Maybe I could be there for the end of the meeting or the next one."

He looked at me like I was crazy.

"Bella, I'm not asking. We have to leave right now."

"But, my test!"

"Nonsense. You have your priorities wrong. You will come with me. I'll talk to your professor to give you a chance to take this test later. This meeting it's pretty important."

He took my hand and ushered me through my door to his car.

When we were on our way, Jane called to tell us that everybody was already there.

Carlisle told her to ask Heidi to find me some decent clothes, but I protested.

"No Carlisle! Let Jane do it. I don't think you would like Slut-r-us pregnant ladies line."

He laughed, but asked Jane for the clothes instead.

When we arrived, Jane was there and she took me to Edward's office to change my clothes.

I found it very amusing that all the employees were absolutely excited to see Carlisle. His confident smile and pleasant demeanor were a sight to behold... until I remembered how he brought me here. He was an ass to the family.

Jane told me I had 15 minutes to change, and she said, 15 or he will come for you.

I wouldn't chance my luck.

So I changed quickly and walked to the meeting room.

As soon as I got in, everybody looked up to me. I saw my husband sitting on one corner, and smiling besides him guess who was seated? Right Kate. I walked directly to him, but a red-headed amazon woman came to me.

"Here you are. I'm so pleased to meet you Mrs. Cullen. Come, have a seat with me. This chair will be so comfy for you."

Edward stood up and stopped her.

"Sorry Victoria. I'd like to have my wife by my side."

Kate didn't waste any second.

"But Edward! There's no room for her in this corner! I'm sure Victoria will set her in one of those special chairs, you know the big ones."

What's wrong with people telling sweet pregnant women that they're fat. I have a baby inside! Ugh!

Believe it or not, Carlisle was the one who settled the argument.

"Kate, come to sit over here. Bella has to be with her husband; it's part of the reason for this meeting."

Both women glared at him, but complied to his orders. Meanwhile, my dear hubs gave me a chaste kiss and held my hand over the table. The left one, the one with rings. Yeah, right bitches. Mine.

"Good morning everyone. I'm very pleased to introduce you to my daughter in law, Isabella Cullen. The reason why I asked her to be here, is to make an important announcement."

Everybody murmured 'hi' or 'nice to meet you' but I was bewildered. What announcement? He would be thinking to say anything about our baby, right? If he planned to announce the sex of our baby he was so wrong...

"Well Isabella, why don't you give them the good news?"

Edward was unaware of my anger, so he patted my hand and told everybody. "The good news is that in two and a half months we're having a girl."

Everybody congratulated us, except Kate who was glaring at me, and Victoria who had a blank look on her face.

"Well Isabella, that's all for today. Go with Jane to the office. Now Edward, we have to discuss the results of the last projections..."

And with those words I was dismissed.

I lost the chance to take my test for this?

I was so angry!

My dear husband, just obeyed and gave me a hug. Then he proceeded to talk about numbers and results, ignoring my slowly depart from the room. Jane, God bless her, came immediately and took me outside. She was the only one who noticed my mood. I took a last look over the room, and sure enough, Kate tried to put her hand over my husband's thigh; just to be slapped away by said husband who better had to get acquainted with his right hand because he won't be receiving any nookie from me in the forseeable future.

To make things worst, the next day I was alone at home and fainted.

When I woke up, I was alone and disoriented. I called Edward's phone, but Heidi answered and just told me they were busy at a meeting so she asked me to call later. She never asked if I was fine or the cause of my call. Damn gold-digging bitch!

I called Jane, and she calmed me down and sent Rosalie to take me with Dr. Gerandy. She promised to find Edward and tell him, after she kicked Heidi's ass.

Rosalie was worried sick, and offered to take a couple of days from work to stay with me. She was so ashamed of the distance that was growing between us, which led me to cry the whole way to the doctor. I thanked and hugged her. She was my bestie after all.

Dr. Gerandy said it wasn't unusual given my low blood pressure and something about hemoglobin, or something like that. He said it would be better to stay with my mother because she had Phil and a nurse at home. I wouldn't be alone and someone would be taking care of my sorry anemic ass. Apart from iron, bleh, he prescribed me vitamins and to take my blood pressure daily. He asked me to contact him if it lowered again. But the baby was fine.

When we returned home, Edward was there. Rosalie checked that I got inside and ran to her car, asking me to call her later. She was ready to kick Edward's ass but I told her how I planned to punish him and she let me have my fun.

My poor husband didn't know I was sick, because Heidi never told him I called and Jane never had the chance to reach him, which was strange. He thought I was dinning with Rose.

"Bella, how was dinner with Rose? I'm glad you're reconnecting again with her."

"Edward, I was with Dr. Gerandy!"

My poor husband froze.

"What? how? When? Why?"

He ran to me, and hugged me. He checked my forehead in case I had a fever.

"Sweet girl, are you fine? How do you feel? Is our baby fine?"

I told him all about how I fainted, how I tried to reach him, Rose coming and taking me to the doctor and what he suggested.

He checked his phone, and guess what? Heidi erased my call.

"That bitch!"

"Which one?"

"Heidi erased your call, and probably the ones from Jane."

"Why did you give her your phone?"

"Hmm, well, hmm."

Ok, he's stalling.

"Edward, what happened?"

"Well, you'll see. After you left, Victoria began to argue that I should take some time off, until our baby is born. She said I'm so easily distracted and not giving my one hundred percent."

"Ok, and then?"

"Carmen and Kate support her, and the other people at the meeting doubted my capacity to lead the company. Any indication I gave, someone tried to refute it. Later Dad had a few words with me. He asked me to leave my phone with Heidi, just like him. But we never thought something like this would happen..."

I hit him.

"You" hit "never" hit "do it" hit "again!" another hit.

"What if I faint? Oh wait, I fainted! Where do you keep your brain? Your phone is for emergencies! And now I'm forced to stay with my mother, because guess what? I'm anemic and that is dangerous for the baby. Which should be your number one priority. But I guess Cullen Enterprises is far more important."

At this point, I was crying, and I didn't want to see him, so I left for my room and cried my sorry ass to sleep.

EPOV

Oh God! What was I supposed to do? I threw my glass of water to the wall, where it broke and made a mess bigger than the one I already was.

This was the week from hell.

I've lived like a zombie, acting just by force of habit. At work, Carlisle spends most of the time over me, telling me how he wants me to act, what decisions I have to make... what he expects from me is to be his clone, his puppet!

Then I have to be checking all the steps Victoria takes; and try to mend what she mess with. She makes the worst decisions and then she brown-noses her way to my Dad's good graces.

I'm doing the double of work!

Oh, and then when I asked help from my uncles... they told me to keep the façade, they would put someone to follow Victoria. Right, because that would fix her fuck ups.

Let's don't forget that someone has to check on my wife because we're sure someone is following her. Now I have to be in like four places the whole time!

That meeting in the morning was the best example. Dad brought Bella to announce the sex of our baby, without consulting me, mind you. And you know why? Because Carmen told him yesterday that she was planning a big baby shower, with our female employees and the wives of a few clients and investors. A PR stunt. And she found it imperative to announce the sex of our baby to give the guests time to buy a gift. Very nice. Except that Dad knew we wanted to announce it to the family this weekend. But what we wanted was not as important as Carmen wishes.

Oh and Kate! Kate had followed me wherever I go. Even to the bathroom. It was great to give my dick a shake to lose the last drops and find Kate ogling me from the door. I'm considering to file a harassment complain, to hell with whatever my uncles had planned. She's always trying to touch me, always standing too close, and I'm worried because someone sent Bella those damn pictures!

I told Jasper, but he has another kind of problems. He has Maria. It seems that my mother had caught the matchmaker fever, and she'd been trying to set him up with Maria. She brings him coffee in the morning, picks up his clothes from the cleaner, brings him lunch... no, she hadn't caught him in the bathroom but it's just a matter of time. And it's driving him crazy. He never knows when she's gonna show up.

And now my sweet girl is sick and I'm an asshole for not being here for her.

I didn't notice that I was crying, until my tear drops fell into my hand. How could I fix this?

I tried to open the door to talk to her, but she locked it and I could hear her snoring. Yeah, one of the perks of pregnancy. She has the cutest soft snore. Like a kitten purr.

I had my pity fest for an hour and then decided that it was enough.

I jiggled with the lock on the bedroom and opened the door. Voilà! My sweet girl was curved in a ball on the center of the bed.

I couldn't hold it anymore, I ran to her. I cried holding her in my arms. Until her soft hand caressed my face.

"Baby, are you crying?"

I was man enough to nod.

"Edward," she sighed, "we can't go on like that. We have enough problems to add fighting between us to the mix."

"I'm so sorry sweet girl. I was swamped in work and then I let Dad control my movements. I'm so sorry."

"Edward, what are we going to do?"

"Well, we may start with going to your mother's apartment again."

She nodded.

"Yeah, that one doesn't make me happy. Last time she was sleeping the whole week. She wasn't feeling well. I'm worried they'll keep her at the hospital before and after the chemo."

"Baby, what if I hire a nurse to stay here with you? Someone we could trust."

"Edward, why don't you promise to keep an eye into your phone? I want to stay here. I promise to report every couple of hours. We can buy one of those gadgets to take my blood pressure."

"Anything you want my sweet girl. I don't want to fight. I was so scared when you told me..."

"Just promise me you'll be available. If you have to drop your phone, give it to Jane."

"Ok, but I'm worried about your blood pressure. And you said you are anemic. Why don't we both go a few days with your mother?"

"But I'm feeling better."

"Just a couple of days, while I change a few things at work and then we can go back home. I want to be able to come home early, and I want to be with you."

I kissed her and I poured my soul with that kiss. She had to know how much she means to me.

"Ok, tomorrow I'll call Mom, and I'll ask her if we could stay a few days."

We made love slowly, just enjoying being together.

The next morning the madness continued. My phone rang at quarter to six. It was still dark.

"Hello?"

"Edward! I need to see you at my office in fifteen minutes. Victoria had excellent news about your friend. I think we can make a bigger deal. Perhaps you'll have to travel this weekend."

Ugh! Dad has the worst timing.

"Dad, I'll be there at noon. I have..."

"What? Are you sleeping? You left early yesterday, I don't care what you're doing. You have to come. Period."

And he ended the call. Well, if he didn't hear me...

I turned around and noticed Bella was awake.

"Are you going?"

"No. We have more important things to do. You come first."

Thirty minutes later, my phone had seventeen calls and thirty messages. I'm beginning to think he doesn't sleep.

Bella's mother accepted us with open arms, but she asked us to bring more clothes. She said she didn't think my father would relent.

She was right, but now I know I have to be firm with him. My priority is my wife, not the company. And a few hours wouldn't make a change. So I turned off my phone, and carried our suitcases to the car. I have to take care of my wife.

Hi!

I know it's been too long. What can I say? RL, work, movings, computer crashes... a lot of things got in the way of writing this story. Now I'm back.

I'll be posting a recap in the week, and then I'll be posting new chapters on weekends, so I don't mess with my other stories posts.

Now, we remember how much we hate Carlisle, right? Or maybe this chapter reminded us how self centered he is.

I want to thank my two readers who cheered me up to continue with this story. :) You know who you are.

See ya.

May