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Chapter: Twenty-Eight – Edward learns his girl inside and out
EPOV

The whole time my grandfather spoke of Bella's past and her life experiences, my heart just beat faster and faster. She's been through so much. I know that I should've been more surprised about whom her Miss Honey and Guido were, but I think deep down I knew.

When I told her that I didn't know who Penny was, that was the only lie I've told her. Penny was a young woman I saw when I arrived unexpectedly at my grandparents' house several years ago. I had walked past a room and she was there, with her back to me. She was sitting on the floor working on something as she sang. Before I could talk to her my grandfather pulled me away.

I just had this pull to her. When I asked about her, all I was told was she was seventeen and her name was Penny. A week later, I had the wet dream about her. I've had those same dreams of her off and on since, until I met Bella. I asked my grandfather about her several times and all he'd say was his Dolce Ragazza wasn't ready to meet his Cosa Nostra yet.

"Show," Bella says bringing me out of my inner thoughts.

I turn Bella, bringing her back flush with my front. I hear a growl, but don't pay it much attention.

"Shit, it's the Volturi," Bella says with a sigh.

"Chaos, let them in then lock all doors and release the sleepy-time stuff," Bella says.

"What the hell is the sleepy-time stuff?" I ask.

"Oh, it's this awesome a mix I developed, it uses a few different sleeping gas chemicals like, dimethylheptylpyran and PAVA spray. But, I also mixed it with some heavily enhanced agent 15, which incapacitates someone almost instantly," Bella say's with a smile. "Ever heard of freeze ray, Stark?"

"What? Wow!" Caius says and I look to him seeing him standing at the door.

"Beaker, you didn't think you're the only accredited scientist around, did you? Hawk, let's go," Bella says picking up her gun from the table Charlotte left it on.

"Oh, where do think you're going?" I ask gripping her arm.

"There seems to be some rubbish in my condo that needs taken out."

"Fine, then I'm coming, too," I tell her and she stares at me.

"You're not invited," Peter says looking at me in disgust.

"Yes, I am, and watch your tone," I say standing toe to toe with Peter.

"Who's going to make me? Not you, you're still wet behind the ears and you are not good enough for my girl."

"Dad?" Jasper says walking in the room in time to hear his father's proclamation.

"She's my girl and I really don't care what you think, but she is mine end of ..." I stop when Bella cuts me off.

"Enough, both of you, and I am right here."

Peter looks at Bella and gives her a smile.

"Come on, let's all do this," Bella sighs.

"Edward, you Peabody, Hercules, Rock and Dilbert, get geared up and let's get this done," she orders and I nod at her.

As we move off, Peter tries to walk between Bella and I, but I just grip her hand tighter and glare at him.

"Once this over, I'm going enjoy kicking your ass from here to kingdom come," Peter says in my ear.

"Hawk, I love you, but if you hurt him, I'll have to hurt you."

Peter just grins and puts his arm over Bella's shoulder.

"Err, dad, what, I mean ... what about mom?" Jasper says as he eyes up his dad trying to be all possessive of Bella.

"They're not sleeping together, he thinks of her as a daughter. He's not sleeping with her," I reassure Jasper.

Peter's head snaps around to look at his son. "You think I would cheat on your mother? I've been with her thirty-five years!" Peter yells.

"Not a word out of anyone for the rest of this, or I swear I will knock you out in the most painful ways possible," Bella says coldly as she runs her hand through her hair.

I pull her closer to me and kiss her head. "I love you," I whisper and she smiles at me.

"Hawk, put your gun away and please stop trying to shoot my fiancé," Bella says to him, but keeps her eyes locked with mine.

"Chaos, give me an update."

"They are all asleep, ma'am."

"Keep tabs on us, keep the gas going until we are five minutes out, and then filter the room, so we're able to get in."

"Yes, Ma'am."

"Chaos, back up all files and combine with Dot Matrix for now, until I get your base moved. Start to transfer all destruct information to Sulpicia."

I hear the sadness in Bella's voice, but before I can say anything Peter—who's really pissing me off—starts to talk.

"Honey, I'm sure you don't need to blow up your condo."

I swallow.

"Yes, I do. It has been compromised, so there is no other answer."

Hawk pulls her to him, and I let her go, because Bella opens her arms to him.

"I'm sorry twinkle toes," Peter says.

"This is freaking you out, too, right?" Jasper says in my ear and I nod at him. "I swear, I didn't know; he never spoke of her. I knew there was something odd about her, but not this."

"She's been protected by our family almost all her life. Your father was the one responsible for keeping her alive. It's a small world," I say letting out a sigh.

"Okay, we're here," Peter says and we're all going to enter fully armed just in case.

I watch as Peter and Bella work together quickly. It's very clear they have done this before. We enter and all of the guys are still sleeping. I watch as Bella injects something into each guy's arm.

"Okay, get them to the warehouse and I'll deal with packing. Guido will be here within an hour and half to pack up the glass. Take this and I'll meet you there."

Peter gives her a nod. "Let's go, Edward," he says.

"Hawk, he's staying with me, take Jasper with you. I really think that the both of you need to talk."

Peter turns and glares at Bella.

"Really, you want to argue now?" Bella retorts, even though Peter said nothing. "Fine by me; I'll tell you what, you get me on my ass, Edward goes with you and I stop seeing him."

Peter swallows shaking his head. "I don't like this and we will be talking," he snarls looking at me.

"Jasper, come on, son."

I let out a breath as they leave.

"Thank God, what's with the daggers he's giving me?" I ask kissing her neck.

"He's spent fifteen years protecting me, and some of that time, I had been hurt. He's just worried about me the same way that Jasper's been on your ass about me."

She stops what she's doing and looks at me.

"Maybe so, but he knows me. I mean, good God, we've met. He's known me since I was a newborn baby."

"I know, Stark, but this is what they live for. Jasper is to protect you at all costs. The only person outside of that is Alice, and I'm sure he's let her down more than once to cover you."

I nod at her, knowing that she's correct about that.

"He is supposed to protect you—all of you—even this," she places her hand over my heart, "it's all he's ever known. When it comes to me, all he knew was I have something big and bad in my past that I lied about. I lied about everything. He knew that I could've been misleading you and he had to stay on the outside. He had to keep that whole 'I'm not sure about her,' because if anything happened, he was keeping his head in the game."

"But, baby, Peter knows me; he's been there all my life."

She sighs and touches my face. "I know – he's just worried about me; watch the films Miss Honey has, it will become clearer."

I nod at her and bring her to me kissing her lips. My hands run down her body and I pick her up. She wraps her legs around my waist, and I walk us to the bedroom.

"How long do we have?" I pant out as I sit on the bed with her still straddling me.

"Enough time," Bella says as she removes her top throwing it aside.

My hands move to her body as I unclasp her bra.

"My love, I don't want to stop," I pant out after several minutes of feasting on her upper torso.

She grinds down hard on me.

"Then don't stop. I need you, Stark, make me yours, complete me."

I swallow gripping her hair and looking right at her.

"I won't let you go. I need you, and I want you. I deserve you, because I love every part of you. I will protect you every day for the rest of your life, and everyone can go to hell, because you asked me to marry you, and that's what I'm going to do. Chaos, is there anyone else in the condo besides me and Bella?"

"No, Stark."

"No one enters, lock the doors. Keep tabs on people and let us know if anyone is coming our way."

"Yes, Stark."

I don't let her talk and pull her head roughly to mine heating up our kiss. I stand us both up and make quick work on removing all of the clothes covering our bodies. Once we are both bare, I take a moment to just look in her eyes.

"There is something you need to know," I tell her, knowing I have to come clean about Penny.

"Tell me," she says huskily as she pushes me back to the bed and straddles my lap.

"Remember you asked me who Penny was?"

"Yeah," She says arching her brow.

"I know who Penny is now. Grandpa confirmed it for me earlier."

"And?"

"You, you're my Penny. I saw you when you were seventeen at my grandparents' house. Grandpa wouldn't let me talk to you, but I saw you. He said your name was Penny. Ask him; ask Guido. I begged him for a long time to introduce me to Penny."

"You did?"

"Yeah, I only stopped wanting her, after I met you. And you're her, but I want that deep brown hair back with those coppery highlights. And, before I make you mine," I say flipping us over, "I want to see your eyes."

She pulls the contacts from her eyes and I move down her body. I work my way back to her mouth and kiss her deeply, while getting lost in those deep pools of chocolate brown.

"How much time do we have beautiful?"

"Enough! Now make me yours."

"There's no going back from this," I say.

"There never was from the start," she replies.

"I love you, my little Albatross."

"Show me, Stark."

"Every day of forever," I say.


Chapter: Twenty-Eight – Bella takes control
BPOV

Making love to Stark was exactly as I dreamed it would be. I've never before felt so complete. I could never want anyone besides him. I know he feels the same, because we both were kissing away the other's tears after we made love.

I can feel Stark's eyes on me as I pick up my clothes from around the room. As my hand reaches for my panties, Stark quickly snatches them and puts them in his pocket.

"If Hawk sees them in your pocket, he'll try and kill you."

Stark looks a little worried as he seems to think over what I've said.

I walk over to him and wrap my arms around his neck. "Don't worry my big tough gangster guy, I'll save you."

He chuckles shaking his head. "You're really more skilled and a better fighter than him?"

"Yeah, I started beating him when I was fourteen."

I look down as I put on my pants. "I told you there's nothing—well, apart from this," I say waving my hand between us, "that I found hard to learn."

I flop down on the bed to put on my socks and shoes and then lay back with my arm over my eyes.

"I think Miss Honey's right, there's just something non-human about me."

I feel Stark close to me and I open my eyes to see him leaning over the top of me.

"You are human, no matter what, your mom, dad, or what they did to you—you are human. So what, you're super smart, got great skills, you still eat, sleep and breathe. From what I've seen, you use your abilities to help keep the people that matter to you safe. You're not out there hurting people, just because you can. I've watched you with my kids, they love you. You're so gentle and loving toward them. I love you, my mom loves you, hell, even Rose loves you, and she can be a real bitch most of the time."

I slap his arm and he chuckles.

"Thank you, just ..."

He covers my mouth and winks.

"I know, believe me, I know. I'm here to help you, to listen to you and to guide you."

He starts to kiss me and I can feel BIM tapping away at me.

"What're you grinning at?" he asks and I can feel his smile.

"You, you're acting like a teenaged boy who just lost his virginity."

Stark sits up and looks at me with a big smile on his face.

"You do realize it has been seven years?"

I swallow and open and close my mouth.

"Seven," I say finally and he nods.

"Yeah, and well, let's just say I can count on one hand the amount of times I've had sex after I turned twenty-five, and still have a finger left over."

Stark turns slightly and pulls me with him, so we keep eye contact.

"I wanted a family. Every time I looked at a woman, dated them, I was always thinking, would she make a good mom? Do I want to wake up with her for the rest of my life? The answer was always no, sometimes he," he says pointing to his groin, "would take over. But when I was twenty-five and looking into different ways to have a kid, I found I used this," he taps his head, "head more. Now that I know nothing happened with Sasha—the last time I had sex with a woman was when I was twenty-five."

"Sorry," I say weakly and he shakes his head.

"I'm not; it was my choice, Albatross. I don't regret or feel ashamed or even less of a man, because I've only had sex four times in ten years, with four different women. However, the fourth woman, I'm planning on marrying and loving for the rest of our lives together. She's perfect for me, and will be the perfect mother to our children."

"You have a way with words," I pull him down and straddle him.

"You're not the first to tell me that."

"Ma'am, Stark, Guido and the security team are approaching with the moving truck."

I groan and pout a little.

"We have the rest of our life for this. Come on, let's get this done."

I nod, letting out a shaky breath and collecting the bits and pieces I refuse to leave behind.

"Chaos, go mainlined with Dot Matrix and to internal power. Everything else make accessible to my cell," I say as I start to shut down my computers.

"You don't mind sharing your computer room with me, until I find somewhere to make Chaos' new home, do you?" I glance at Stark who's shaking his head at me.

"You're marrying me, that means we'll be living together, so there'll be no finding of anywhere needed. I'm sure Dot Matrix and Chaos can share, or we can even get a command center away from the house. This is your area of expertise, I'll go with whatever you recommend and choose."

I'm taken aback by the amount of faith and trust he has in my abilities.

"You trust me that much?"

"Yes, and I always have, Albatross."

He kisses my lips and pulls back just as Guido walks in.

"We'll get everything sorted and taken to Cosa Nostra's, your truck's outside."

I walk to Guido and hug him to me.

"Thank you, Guido," I say and kissing his cheek.

"Always my Dolce Raggaza, anything for you and Cosa Nostra."

I walk out to my truck with Stark on my heels. He just watches as I open my weapon supply area. His face pales as all of my different weapons appear.

"You have a rocket launcher? Why in the hell do you have rocket launcher?"

I roll my eyes at him, for a weapons maker you'd think he'd know the answer to that.

"You never know, and it's better to have it and not need it, then to not have it, but need it. Here," I say handing him some special wrist bands and watches.

I pull some more stuff out and then hide the weapons again.

"Okay, Stark, I've got what I need, let's go. Chaos, make sure you keep an eye on Guido, Rock and Hulk. Dot Matrix you need to keep tabs and follow Stark and I, including inside the warehouse."

"Yes ma'am" Chaos and Dot Matrix reply together as Stark and I get into the Guardian.

"I'm taking you to my parents' house, Bella. The warehouse is no place for you."

I roll my eyes at him.

"You need me there," I say.

"I agree that I would need your input, but that doesn't change the fact that I said I would protect you. You don't need to do this."

"Stark, I'll be fine, and trust me, I need to be there."

Stark lets out a sigh, and nods at me. It doesn't take us long to arrive and we walk in together. We're immediately greeted by Peabody and Hawk.

"Are they awake yet?" I ask.

"The men from Stark's house are, but the ones from your place are still napping."

"Let's start with Black's men then, since they're awake and ready to talk." Hawk nods at me in agreement.

"Ah, who put you in charge?" Peabody asks looking between Stark and me.

"Here," I say handing Peabody some of the wristbands I had Stark hold, not answering his question. "I need you to put one of those on each of the guys, left wrist."

He looks at me as I set up the laptop I brought from my safe room.

"You're giving them gifts?"

"No, this will tell us if they are answering our questions truthfully or not. It does more stuff, but I'll let that be a surprise for you."

Hawk chuckles knowing full well what the wristbands can do. Peabody looks to Hawk and shrugs his shoulders, before he walks away.

"I need a word with you, boy," Hawk says looking at Stark.

"Hawk," I warn.

"No, Bella, it's fine," Stark says as he talks through his teeth.

I widen my eyes as I keep doing what I started on the laptop. As I get on with my work, Hawk and Stark leave for their little pissing contest.

Ten minutes later, Hawk and Stark along with Peabody and the guys that work for the Blacks walk in.

"Hello," I say and everyone looks at me. Looking at the guys, I know who each of them are instantly. I decide to start questioning Scooby first.

"You," I say pointing at him, "are Paul."

I look right at him and give him a smirk to challenge him a little more.

"No, you must have the wrong guy," he says with a grin.

His wristband goes red and his body starts to shake, and everyone looks his way.

"Okay, Paul, that nifty thing on your wrist there is a lie detector. It's the best there is and to be completely truthful, it is infallible. If you lie, it will give you an electric shock, but here's the thing—if you lie five times, it moves up a level on its own. It kind of builds from there, so if you're going to lie, I sure hope you all have high pain tolerances."

Paul swallows as he looks at me.

"Let's try this again shall we? Your name is Paul, correct?"

He shakes his head and receives another shock. Once it stops he looks at me. "Yes, yes, my name is Paul."

I look to Stark and wave my hand saying that he can now question them anyway he likes.

"Those are some wristbands," Peabody says and I nod at him.

"You'd like these watches then, too," I say handing him over one.

"What do these do?" he asks and he almost sounds afraid.

"Well, this one would be made for you. It will allow you to know where your men are at, at any time. It will also tell you if they take off their own, or if someone else is wearing theirs. Each watch will have one owner, and it will get to know that owner. You'll always know if they're okay. Even in an undercover job, you'll still be able to tell if they are safe or not. This one will be Stark's, it's like yours. It will also be linked to your watch and if you press this," I press the little button, "it will give you a view of what his watch can pick up." I move Stark's watch around.

"Oh, wow this is amazing," he says and I grin nodding at him.

"I thought you would like it."

"Stitch, I'm sorry, not that I didn't ..."

I shake my head at him.

"I know your dad, I get it; really I do. You were looking out for him and he was not acting like himself."

Peabody looks down at the ground.

"I didn't need to be an ass; it's just he's never like that. At the back of my mind, I had to wonder what you were up to. Now my only worry is you breaking his heart."

"I'll try not to," I say honestly and Peabody grins at me.

"I know you love him very much, I can see that. But just so you know, if I get all anal, it's just a part of my job."

"You ready for the Volturi?" Hawk asks interrupting me and Peabody's talk.

From the doorway I see Stark looking over Hawk's shoulder at me and Peabody.

"Yes, let's go in and get this done," I say walking behind the guys who are leading the way.


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