EPOV

I pulled out my phone and checked once again which meeting room I was to attend to. Room 113. I pulled on my suit jacket, put my phone in my pants pocket and left the hotel room. The meetings were being held in the lower level of the hotel. I took the elevator down which ended up picking up a few more people on the way. All of them dressed in business attire similar to my own.

I got off and walked in the direction of the room. When I walked inside I saw many of the figureheads I had met either yesterday or earlier this morning. The meetings so far today had been extremely boring and I knew that this was to be no exception.

I took my seat around the long table and others filled in around me. I was not to present during this meeting I only had to listen and find out more about what I was to do with the company over the year to come. Soon the "big boss" stood up and began speaking. I felt myself zoning off into space.

I paid attention at need be but as the time dragged on, I found myself daydreaming.

I watched as Bella picked up Aiden and cuddled him into her chest. She slowly rocked back and forth trying to get him to quiet down.

Bella was sporting her pale blue pajamas. It was only 3:00 am. I slowly walked over to her. "Bella I can take him."

She turned around. "No it's fine. You have work in the morning you should sleep."

I gently pried the baby out of her arms. "And you my dear only got out of the hospital 2 days ago. You need your sleep as well."

I had Aiden settled in my arms and he was still fussing. Bella looked exhausted. I leaned forward and kissed her forehead. "Well I am a bit tired. But maybe he's hungry and that's why he won't go back to sleep.

"I got him. See he's starting to drift to sleep again. Babe you fed him not even a half hour ago. He's just a little restless." She wrapped her arms around my waist and leaned her head on my shoulder.

She took her finger and touched the side of Aiden's face. Aiden reached his hand up and grasped her finger. She looked up at me. "He's perfect isn't he?"

I was abruptly taken out of my reverie when my phone vibrated in my pocket. I forgot to turn it off before the meeting began. Knowing that I wasn't allowed personal calls I ignored it with the press of a button and quickly turned it off before I was caught.

The more I thought about it the more I realized that Bella understood I couldn't receive phone calls right now. I began to worry. She wouldn't have called now if it weren't important. I took a deep breath and relaxed. If it were anything too big they would get a hold of the secretary. If they were only calling my phone it wasn't a big deal.

I focused back in on what was being said at the front of the room. "You see if we pursue our potential clients in this fashion it should increase the profit margins by almost 15%." It figures they were still rambling on about the same thing they were talking about a while ago when I zoned out of the conversation.

I heard a knock at the door and Kayla the secretary walked in. I felt my heart rate increase at the thought that something was going on but she simply placed a coffee on the table next to the presenter and walked back out the door closing it quietly behind her.

I took a deep breath relieved. A few more minutes passed. I listened to how they wanted us to do financing and how many accounts each branch was to confirm for the year. They were about to move onto genres and such that were going to be big for the season when Kayla reappeared through the door.

"Kayla…can I help you with something?"

"I'm sorry Mr. Boudaggio. There is an Alice Hale on the phone wishing to speak with Mr. Cullen." She looked apologetically at me. Probably afraid of getting me in trouble but all I could think about was what had happened at home.

"Well tell Ms. Hale that he is busy in a very important meeting right now and he will give her a call as soon as we are finished." He moved back into the lecture but Kayla didn't move from her place.

He eventually turned around again. "Yes?"

"Sir I've already tried every excuse I can think of. She's very persistent that she speak with him immediately. She says it has something to do with his wife."

I felt the air leave me when I heard these words. Bella being Bella probably disobeyed her bedrest laws and was doing too much. I stood up. "I'm very sorry Mr. Boudaggio but I told my family about this meeting. I don't think they would have done this much to contact me if it weren't an emergency." I pleaded that he would let me get on the phone and talk to my sister.

I looked at him. "Well alright, be quick I will be continuing without you." Every eye in the place was on me. I'm sure no one had done this before not to mention someone that had been CEO for less than a year.

I got up and moved to the phone at the back of the room. "She's on line 4 Mr. Cullen." Kayla told me before exiting the room.

I picked up the phone and hit line 4. "Alice what the hell is going on?" I whispered harshly.

"Geez you don't have to be rude I wouldn't have called if it wasn't important."

She sounded stressed and that only made my inner nerves a bit more frayed. "I know that." I tried to calm down. "Please just tell me what is so important."

"Well it's Bella. Now don't freak out but she's in labor." I groaned and leaned against the counter. I pinched the bridge of my nose.

"Where are you at?"

"Well we got her to Mercy Hospital. She's in a room right now."

"How far along is she?"

"Only 2 ½ centimeters. The doctor thinks that she may be in for the long haul."

"God she's probably freaking out. I'll see what I can do to get out of this meeting, without losing my job. Tell Bella that I love her and she's amazing."

"I will just hurry. Oh and Edward she's not very happy with you."

"Thanks fine Alice I'm not very happy with me. I'll be there as soon as I can." I hung up the phone and turned back to the meeting however I didn't take my place again.

Eventually Mr. Boudaggio noticed me and stopped his lecture. "Well Edward what is happening that you aren't returning to your seat.

I took a deep breath. "Well sir it seems that my wife has gone into labor." I heard a few gasps and noticed that the few women around the table were shaking their heads in sympathy.

I stared at him and waited for an answer. After a minute he threw his hands up in the air. "Well what the hell are you standing here for? I know you can't control it. A baby comes when it's good and ready not when its convenient. Trust me they never arrive when It's convenient." He looked me straight in the face. "Go. Tell Kayla to make the arrangements and you get to the airport."

I didn't have to hear it twice I was out the door and quickly over to Kayla. She sat at a table covered with phones and papers. "Kayla?"

She looked up at me. "Oh Mr. Cullen. Is everything okay? That woman on the phone seemed a little worried."

"Everything will be fine if I can get home. My wife is in labor."

"Oh dear, yes go catch a cab get to the airport I will get you a ticket back to Minneapolis on the quickest flight possible. I will text you the flight number."

I was gone before she finished the sentence. I ran past the elevators thinking stairs would be much faster. "Thank you!" I yelled as I started up them.

I was soon in the lobby and out the front door. There was a cab sitting there. The hotel always had one at hand just incase. I got in the back. "The airport please!" the cab took off quickly.

"I'm sorry sir but are you in a bit of a hurry?"

"Well yes just a bit. I live in Minnesota and am here in Colorado on a business trip. It just so happens that this is when my child decides it needs to come out."

He nodded. "Well then I will get you there as soon as possible and drop you straight at the entrance."

"Thanks." I took a breath and rested my head on the back of the seat. I couldn't do anything else until we were in the airport. As soon as I was in the airport I went through security as quickly as possibly without causing a scene. The last thing I needed was for them to think I was a terrorist of some sort.

"No luggage sir?" I looked at the security officer who had asked the question.

"No it's all being checked." It wasn't a total lie since all of my luggage happened to be sitting in a hotel room. I had to remember to call Kayla and see what she could have done about that.

"Right through here sir." I walked through the metal detector and was set free. I pulled my phone and belt out of the bucket on the conveyer belt. I decided not to put it back on considering that would take more time. I opened the phone however and found Kayla's message. Flight 242 west. I headed in that direction.

When I came to it I heard someone on the intercom, "Mr. Edward Cullen this is your last chance to board. The flight will be leaving shortly."

I ran to her and pulled out my ticket that I had printed earlier. "That's…me." I said completely out of breath.

She looked me over a little confused. She scanned my ticket and motioned for me to head into the tunnel. I went in and found that I had a seat in first class. I stepped on and went directly to my seat.

"Excuse me sir. Would you like anything before the flight leaves?"

"No, no thank you I'm fine." I said to the flight attendant. I pulled out my phone and texted Alice before I had to turn it off for the next hour or two.

Alice,

I'm on a flight see you soon!

-E

I turned it off and replaced it in my pants pocket. I buckled in my seatbelt.

"Good afternoon passengers aboard the straight flight to Minneapolis. We have a flight scheduled at approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. Please fasten your seatbelts. The captain will put on the overhead light when conditions allow. At that time you will be allowed to move freely about the cabin. Anytime you are seated please remain with your seatbelt on for at anytime we may experience bad flight conditions. The other flight attendants and I are hear to help at any time. We hope you enjoy your flight with us today on Northwest Airlines."

The plane began to move and soon we were taking off. Soon the pilot came on the speaker. "Hello passengers aboard flight 242, I'm your pilot Josh. It appears that our course should be right on schedule. No bad weather appears to be in our flight route. It is currently 82 degrees in Minneapolis and the sun is shining. I will be back with more updates as we get closer to landing."

I relaxed into my seat and looked out the window at the clouds that now surrounded me. The weather was good through to Minneapolis is what the pilot had said. Well thank god something was going to go right today.

A/N So I tried my best. Hope you liked it. Let me know what your thinking with a review.

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