A/N: There is quiet a bit changed in this chapter and it's a long one sorry. As always it's Unbeta'd so please forgive my grammer and spelling
I wake up the next morning and we have a quiet breakfast before I retreat to the office and drink more whiskey.
While sitting in my office I pick up a nearby book and start reading it.
"This is something you've clearly picked up from Bella." I look up to see Mum standing in the doorway.
"What do you mean?" I ask taking my feet off the couch and putting my book down.
"You were never into books till Bella came along and now…" She looks at me deep in thought and shakes her head before walking up to me.
"When she's stressed lonely or sad she dives into a book. She was worse when she was away from you." I look at her flabbergasted.
"Really?"
"Yes Edward." She replies rolling my eyes as if I didn't know. "The first few weeks you were away at college she became depressed.
She ate, slept and breathed in your wing of the house. It wasn't till you came home that first time that she picked up. I wish I knew what you did to bring her back."
I chuckle before throwing my head back laughing out loud as I start remembering that visit home.
****Flashback****
I walk into the hall and hear silence.
"Hello anyone home?" I shout and get no response.
I've been at College for the last term and come home for the Thanks giving break.
Deciding I have time to leave a prank in Bella's library shelves I leave my bag in the hall cupboard and start formulating a plan starting with taking all the dust jackets off Bella's books and putting them back on the wrong book in the wrong place.
I'll also put her current reading books on a shelve she cant reach scattered through out the library.
If I have the time I'll turn her paper shelf around so she cant see the spines.
I chuckle mischievously only to groan when I walk into the usually immaculate library.
The place is a tip with blankets all over the sofa and chairs with mugs and junk on every overflowing surface I can see.
I walk further in and turn a corner to find a heart breaking sight in front of me.
Bella is sat on the floor in the middle of a blanket fort looking thin, and drowning in clothes I know fitted her perfectly before I left and miserable.
I look to her left knee and see her phone which is blasting out Lionel Richie Dancing on the ceiling from the tiny speaker.
I pull my phone out and dial Bella's number to watch a hand fly out before the first ring is over.
"Hello Edward." She says in an enthusiastic tone but I can tell she's using a phony tone.
"Hiya." I say loudly hearing the thud in my ear and from the tent as Bella's phone drops against the wooden floor.
I watch as her face looks up and I see a melancholy, scruffy clothes, greasy haired head poke out the entrance of her stronghold to look at me.
"Edward!" The sound barely leaves her lips as she stares at me wide eyed.
I smirk as she gets up destroying her stronghold and running into my arms.
"You've been off school for week you need a bath!" I say bluntly wrinkling my nose at the smell I don't think shes changed clothes in a few days either.
****End Flash back****
"I told her to get her boney ass into gear or I'd burn her library." Mum gasps as she looks at me, shocked, as I try to get my laughter back under control.
"I took one look at her and the minute when the shock wore off I yelled at her.
I could see she was struggling to eat and was looking ill. She looked like when she moved in with us.
I told her it worried me that me being away would make the Bella I cared about fade away.
I also told her she should be taking the opportunity to be seen as her own person."
Bella spent many years hiding behind mine or my siblings backs trying not to be seen.
"That I was trying to make something of myself and the fact she was wasting away worried me.
I told her that I missed being home, I missed being around the family but it was expected of me to go to college just like it would be when it was her turn.
We agreed that if we were both unhappy by the time the first year of college was over we would step in and do what we had to make each other's lives happy."
Mum looks at me confused and opens her mouth before she could say what she wanted to I continued,
"We found a way to step into each other's lives without the other knowing.
We would send gifts, notes, and play tricks and leave just our calling cards.
Mine is the white rose and Bella's is the purple Germini. It was our way."
"The bouquet?" Mum asked looking up at me with pride.
"Yes, the greatest trick of all, a wedding she never expected nor will ever forget."
I snicker joyfully.
"I never thought we would get away with it but we did." I confess honestly to her.
"And what you and the girls did truly made it the most perfect day ever."
"Why the Germini in her bouquet then?" Mum looks at me and I smile sweetly.
"Because she played the greatest trick on me by stealing my heart all those years ago and for me to never know."
I smirk at her as Mum falls back into the sofa and looks over at me
"I never realized that the feeling and pain I'm in when I'm away from her was because I loved her; You and Dad knew the whole time didn't you?"
"Edward, you are like your father in every way.
When a Cullen falls in love it's for one person for life and nothing more.
Their hearts belong to the wives and the children they bear.
You only need to look at your grandfather. Your grandmother died and within two months your grandfather passed on.
He couldn't survive without his soul and heart when they had been together nearly fifty years." She looked at me and smiled before tapping my cheek.
"The men look after the bodies while us women look after the hearts and souls."
We hug and I realize it's lunch time.
"I'm surprised Emmett hasn't come up here all grumpy over waiting for lunch." Mum bursts into laughter.
"You get ready, I'll make sure Emmett has left us some lunch." I look at her shocked that lunch was served without us.
"I did a buffet as the girls and I are sorting food out for the dinner and your wedding day snacks."
I shake my head as I head to my desk and quickly check my email before checking my phone messages.
I've got no messages and smile knowing Bella's safe and secure.
Once down stairs I find Emmett stuffing his face with food.
Dad and Jasper standing and whispering in one corner, while the other corner has the girls in it nattering and rubbing stomachs.
I go to the table and fill a plate with food before joining Dad and Jasper.
"Amun's bringing someone with him?" Jasper asks, shock filling his voice.
"Yes, a woman that's all I know. Apparently they have a lead on her goddaughter that has been missing for years and she's desperate to find her."
"What would any woman want with that man?"
"No idea but we will find out more later, she hopes we can help her."
I nod my head and carry on eating.
After lunch I head up to my room grabbing the CD from the alarm clock and head back to the office.
I place the CD in the player and decide to sort through everything we currently know from Charlie's phone.
As I go through everything I open up my email and see one labeled 'urgent' from Siobhan.
'Is it true? Siobhan. '
I chuckle as I type a reply trying to work out what office gossip she's on about now.
'What's true?'
'Bella's Pregnant? :) I need to know if I need to go shopping.' I laugh as Siobhan demands to know if Bella's pregnant.
'I have no idea what you're on about. Get back to work.' I send back and get back to reading before the phone goes off.
I pick it up without looking at who has called.
"Is Bella pregnant or not?" Siobhan barked down the phone.
"Shouldn't you be working?" I reply back listening to her huff in irritation.
"I am working I'm trying to find out if my bosses girlfriend is pregnant."
"No, you're trying to be nosey." I taunt enjoying the small talk.
She promises that I will tell her tomorrow or risk bodily harm.
I hang up the phone laughing at the fact I won't need to say anything because tomorrow she'll see it all for herself.
An hour before Amun and his men arrive the house is silent but a flurry of activity as we all prepare for his arrival.
We sent Bella away to hide with Sam, Jake, and a squad of our most loyal guards.
The only difference is Bella thinks she's gone to the Mary's palour for a pamper and chill session with Mary and Tegan.
I down a glass of whiskey and lock down my computers before I go to my room to get ready to meet with Amun.
An hour later I'm standing at the top of the stairs watching as Mum and the girls finish getting themselves sorted in the foyer to greet our guests.
"Amun, Welcome to our home." My father says trying to sound as friendly as possible the minute Amun walks into the foyer.
The women are rewarded with a sneer mainly aimed at Mom.
All it does is make me want to pull my gun out a put a bullet through his head.
"Thank you Carlisle, I'd like you to meet my good friend Sue Clearwater." He said with a nonchalant expression at the tall dark haired woman behind him.
She looks so fearful at us but I think she is more overwhelmed until she looks at Mum who walks forward and shakes her hand smiling.
"Welcome to our home Sue." Mum greets warmly but so gently that it puts the woman at ease.
As Sue looks up she gasps and starts shaking.
"Sue?"Amun speaks quietly as he moves to her.
Sue slowly walks forward pushing past Mum and grabs a photo from the wall.
A photo that I realize is an old one of Bella, Alice, Emmett, and I at our graduation party.
A photo that someone has forgotten to remove and hide.
"Amun, this my Bella." She crys grasping the photo and wobbly spinning around to look at us.
He grabs her shoulders and steadys her before he looks into her eyes.
I watch as he gently wiping some tears away from her cheek. "Are you sure love?"
"This Bella Dwyer is she not?" She demands looking at Mum with her finger pointing to Bella in the family photo.
"No." Mum replies apologetically. "She is called Bella though." I watch as the woman crumbles in Amun's arms.
Taking a leap of faith I walk forward.
"Who is Bella Dwyer to you?"
"She my goddaughter. Her father ran away with her. I promised Mother to look after her but he left in middle of night with her. I was worried then."
She looks down and stares at her feet taking a deep breath before wiping at her face then looks up into my eyes.
"I spend years looking for her. I knew... something wrong. I planned to take her but I didn't get chance."
I look at the woman who has crumbled in Amun's arms.
I look at Dad and raise my eyebrow in question. He nods his head and I point to the photo Bella.
"This is Isabella Marie Swan. Her mother is Renee Dwyer."
This just makes her cry out in anguish sharply.
"My Bella. My Renee." She points to her chest before looking at Amun.
"MY Bella. I find my Bella." Amun wraps her in his arms and picks her up before we guide both into the front room.
"Is this the Swan girl I'm going to visit?" Amun asks clicking his fingers at a man that walks up to him with a file while he keeps his hands on Sue.
He opens the folder and I see a picture of my Bella.
"Is this Bella the same girl?"
"Yes." I say sitting down on the coffee table.
"She's my girlfriend." Amun looks up at me while Sue stops crying.
"Girlfriend?" She asks quietly and I decide to address the woman and ignore Amun.
It will do him some good, that, and he looks like he is about to shoot someone.
"She met me many years ago. Her father Charlie Swan is a drug addict and did whatever he wanted. She was abused and neglected. A few years after we met I went over to her house and took her from him..."
"Good on you. I never like Charlie even at beginning." She looks down quietly before looking at me.
"Do you have photo of Bella?" She asks quietly and I can't work out if it's because she doesn't want to overstep or is scared I will say no.
I smile and see that she is genuinely interested in her and concerned for her.
"Follow me." I say as I hold my hand out for her.
She instantly puts hers in mine and gets up.
We walk out of the room and to my office.
As I walk in I guide Sue to the sofa and see everyone else has followed us.
I watch for a few minutes as Sue's eyes travel over the wall of family photos.
She smiles as she looks at some of them and wipes a tear away from her face.
I grab the newest photo on my desk of me and Bella smiling at the camera with my hand on her stomach.
I walk back over to Sue who is now quietly sobbing in Amun's arms.
"Amun, I found Bella." She doesn't even realize the danger Bella's in or the life she's lived. "She look so happy. So much like mother."
"This is Bella." I say gently showing her the photo. "We got married in secret a few weeks ago." She looks up at me smiling brightly.
"She look happy." She says pointing at Bella. "You look happy."
"Bella is pregnant with my children." I say and she looks up at me smiling even brighter before turning to Amun.
"I grandmother!" She says proudly before turning back to the photo.
Then looks up at me in confusion. "Children?"
"Bella's carrying triplets." I say smugly.
Amun just fists his hair as he looks at Sue.
Before I can say anything Sue starts laughing.
"Just like Renee, she had sister and brother. It miss Bella line." I look at her gobsmacked, Renee had a brother and sister.
"Renee was a triplet?" Dad asks as I keep staring on.
Sue nods her head before speaking again.
"Renee was adopted. Got separated from brother and sister. She look for them but never find." Sue said sadly. "She never find them."
We all remain quiet as this new information sinks in and Sue keeps looking around the room for more photos of Bella.
"Why don't you come with me I can show you loads of photos of Bella." Mum says looking down at the woman.
"You have more?" Her eyes shine brightly at my mother.
Mum nods her head and holds her hand out to Sue who looks at Amun.
"We also have video footage of her from her first dance recital to her last one four months ago."
"Ballet?" Sue inquires quietly with a hand over her mouth.
"Yes." Mum says before she cries again.
"Renee was dancer. Danced from early age." Mum holds a hand out and I notice she is crying too.
Clearly Bella meant the world to Sue at one point in her life.
She keeps shaking as she wipes tears away from her face.
"Go." Amun says gently to Sue nudging her forward before turning to Mum.
"Thank you." He says and I have no idea if this is for her letting Sue see the family photos or for finding Bella.
Mum, Rosalie, and Alice leave the room with Sue.
The room stays silent for a few minutes till Amun talks again.
"Bella was as much as Sue's daughter to her. Leah, Sue's daughter and Bella were best friends and played all the time. You couldn't find one without the other."
He says looking off into the distance as if reliving a memory.
"Sue helped bring her up until her father left with her when she was eight. He left in the middle of the night with no warning. It killed Sue and Leah. I looked into it but couldn't find anything about why he would leave or where he went. Sue has been searching ever since." He looks at my father.
"She never gave up looking for her. We had all the paperwork ready so Sue could adopt her."
"You do realize that is the same girl you are going to collect from." Dad says as we all look at Amun.
"Not anymore." He says firmly. "Anyone or anything that can make my Sue feel happy again is all I care about. When that bastard took Bella away he ripped out part of her heart."
He shakes his head before looking down.
"Sue never gave up looking for her. Every time we thought we had found her or we got a lead she would be on the first plane. The last time Sue was close she missed Bella by ten minutes."
"Sue had a small stroke a few months ago hence her broken English." He turns to me and smiles. Then looks at me seriously.
"You do not have to worry I will not claim Bella. I will go after her father as soon as I find him." He growls fiercely.
"Amun, I'm going to be honest with you."
I say and wait for him to nod his head.
I look up as Dad walks to the liquor cabinet and pulls out the folder on Bella and brings us some glasses and a bottle of whisky.
"Charlie Swan has sold Bella to many different families. These are all the contracts we know of so far."
I say and Dad hands him the folder.
Amun opens it before taking his drink from Dad.
After about twenty minutes of silence Amun jumps up and starts pacing as he shouts what I can only presume are swear words and profanities in Arabic.
"That bastard!" He finally growls. "When I get my hands on him. He will suffer greatly." I look at Dad and smirk.
I can see our arrangement not taking too long to sort out.
Amun turns to the man next to him who is obviously his capo.
"Put the order out I want Charlie Swan found now and I want him found alive." He growls out loud.
I can't help but look over and grin as I ask silently Dad
'Do we peroceed?'
Dad answers with a grin but then minuetly nudges towards Jasper and Emmett who both slowly nod too.
"We have Charlie Swan in our warehouse." I say smugly.
"I want him!" Amun demands as he spins around looking at me.
"He has made my Sue spend years looking for her. The whole time she was looking he was selling her like a piece of trash." He growls fiercely.
"We were actually planning to tell you tomorrow after the family wedding. We want to gift him to you on condition." Dad says in his business tone.
"What conditions?" He demands in the same business tone.
"Bella is a published author and she wrote a novel about her life before we took her away from Charlie. In this book she details what he did to her."
I watch him sink into the chair shaking his head.
"We want you to make him live her life. The life he sold her to." I say grinning while I look at him.
"We want him beaten, drugged, raped and abused. We want it slowly drawn out and for him to suffer hard for it."
Amun looks at us as he grins.
"That is my promise." He says before turning to his capo
"Tell Sanders to prepare for the new delivery. We must get him ready for his big debut." I watch as his capo smiles.
I'm about to give him the address of where Charlie is when my phone goes off.
'Bella got an anonymous call. Caller said you're all mine before hanging up. Am moving Bella and girls. ~Sam.'
I can feel the sweat before I call Sam.
The phone rings only to go to voicemail.
I try three more times before running out of the office.
"MUM!" I scream as I run down the hall back to the front room.
She comes running towards me with Sue, Rosalie, Alice and Alec.
"Someone get hold of Bella or someone with her now." We all start calling numbers but no one picks up.
As I keep moving towards the door I grab a gun from the coat cupboard.
"Edward, I am coming with you." Amun says loudly as I hear tyres screeching outside and get down before I run to the door and see a black car outside.
"Come on Edward." Amun says as he walks past me and to the car.
I follow him while another car pulls up, which Dad and Jasper get in with our drivers.
"Amun, what wrong?" Sue calls as she tries to run down the stairs after him.
Amun smiles at her as I get in the car with Emmett.
"I'm going with Edward to get Bella so she can come and see you."
He says affectionately which turns her face into a huge grin as she cries.
Mum walks forward and grabs Sue as she sits on the stairs crying.
When Amun gets into the car he looks me squarely in the eyes.
"I will do anything to make that woman happy including getting her daughter back to her or murdering anyone that hurts her."
He states firmly before barking at the driver
"Follow that car." Pointing to Dad's car down the drive.
"I will not lose her now. Not after so much searching." He growls under his breath as the car speeds through the gate.
As we pull on to the road and get half way down it I notice two more cars behind us one I don't recognize.
"The Black SUV. Is that yours Edward?" Amun asks looking through the tinted window.
I take note of the license plate.
"Yes, but only the one." I said worried that we have a tail.
"Good that means both cars tailing us are ours." He says turning forward. "So where do we go?"
Before I get to answer the phone rings showing me Dad's number.
"Edward, we got hold of Sam, he and the girls are at his wife's place."
"Why the hell didn't he pick up the phone?" I snap angrily but grateful we found them.
Until I remember Sam's gay and doesn't have a wife.
"Edward, Jake's visiting Ben." I punch the headrest in front of me as Dad tells me in code that Jakes been shot and they are in lock down at Sam and Jake's flat.
Shit who ever did this will suffer.
I feel all the rage in the world pour into me as I hear about Jake.
"Is Bella alright? When does she need me to get her?" I ask panicky whilst covering the conversation with Dad.
"I'm going to pick up some new bells. Then head home but Bella says yes please to a pick up." I can hear the worry in his voice.
I'm confused for a little bit about the new bells bit until I realize he means Mary's place and her parlour New bells Tattoo's.
To us our men are family not just workers.
Especially Sam who has no one else to call family.
Both Sam and Jake's families disowned them when they told them they were gay.
Both were heartbroken and after the families disowned them they were fearful we would do the same.
They hid it as best they could but we eventually found out.
Once we found out we gave both of them a sit down and made them talk to us.
We welcomed them with open arms but put them under the same rules as us, they couldn't be in the same team.
Our priority had to be their safety and if something happened to one the other would run on emotions and not logic.
Both were highly thought of by the family and we didn't want to lose either of them.
"Okay I'll go and get her now. Thanks Dad." I say before hanging up the phone and telling Amun's driver the address for the penthouse.
The penthouse the family bought Jake as a birthday present when he turned twenty one.
Sam and Jake wanted somewhere to live together and this is what we lived for, a family that cared and loved each other.
Twenty minutes later we arrive outside Jake's condo and storm through the doors heading toward the penthouse lift.
The minute we are in the lift I let out a breath before I hit the number. The second the lift stops at the top we are met by a hostile shout.
"Put your hands up." I watch as Amun looks up and gives me a hostile stare.
He and his men draw their guns as I shout the code word.
"Blamingo." I shout and walk out the lift to see both Jake and Sam's men lining the corridors.
"Boss." Paul says coming up.
I grab his face to have a better look at the cut above his eye. "Doc says it's okay."
"Are you okay?" I ask making note to give him a few days off.
"Yeah, a headache but I'm fine." He looks at me smiling. "We got Miss Bella out. She's fine. They didn't hurt her or the babies."
I smile at him calling Bella by her respected name, Miss Bella.
Bella hated being called Miss Swan so she made everyone call her Bella.
Paul from his customs has always called her Miss Bella.
I asked Jake about it once and he explained it was something to do with respect.
You always call a girl by their surname and it was a mark of respect.
Thankfully Bella and he came to an agreement where he called her something she could live with.
After Paul, everyone picked it up so they now all call her Miss Bella.
It's just as I'm about to ask him where Bella is when one of the side doors open up and I'm looking at a blood covered Sam.
"How's Jake?" I ask hoping he's not dead.
"Jakes getting the bullet removed now. He got shot in the shoulder.
Ben says it will be months of physiotherapy before he can hold a gun or lift anything heavy. But he'll recover." I send up a prayer in thanks that we've not lost Jake.
"Are you okay?" I ask looking at him as he nods at me
"When this is over you and Jake are going to the island for a few weeks okay?" I say and he nods his head before wiping tears away.
"Tell Jake to get well soon and you take some time off and look after him." I say giving him the chance to go back to Jake.
As I look at Paul I ask the next big question.
"Where's Bella?
"Miss Bella is in there." He says as he points to a door behind him.
I head towards the door Paul pointed out.
I knock quietly knowing that just walking through the door could get my brains blown out as several people will be armed with their guns.
"It's me and guests." I shout so they don't shoot Amun.
"Edward." Tegan says as she opens the door.
"What the hell is going on?" She hisses as she looks over at Amun and eyes him with an evil glare.
"Who the fuck is he?" she says pointing to Amun.
"Amun meet Tegan. Tegan meet Amun." Amun smiles and holds his hand out to her.
"It is a pleasure to meet you but I would like to talk to Miss Bella." He says firmly.
I nod my head and smile which results in Tegan opening the door wide so we can both enter.
"Edward." Bella calls as she wheels herself towards me slowly.
I watch as Amun looks down at her smiling.
"I know you?" She questions looking over at Amun.
I freeze fearing he maybe one of the ones Charlie sold her to or abused her.
He smiles before going for his pocket and pulling his wallet out.
He opens it and removes a piece of paper that I realize is a photo.
A very worn out photo.
"This is my sister Sue and her children Leah and Seth." he says showing her the photo.
She holds her hand out and takes the photo.
The second she sees it she gasps and then starts crying.
+"Aunt Sue! I miss her so much." I watch as the tears flow down her cheeks. "She was such a lovely person."
"Bella, Sue is at the house waiting to see you." He says looking at me.
"No you're lying. Sue, Seth, and Leah died over thirteen years ago." She whimpers before looking at the photo again.
"Bella, what do you mean?" I ask concerned. "Who told you they were dead?"
I can see the rage in Amun's face appear but my concern is for Bella and the babies first.
"Charlie woke me up in the middle of the night panicked when I was seven. He gave me twenty minutes to pack a bag and that we were leaving forever.
When we got in the car he told me someone had come to Sue's house and shot them all dead."
She cries out.
"Charlie told me they were after me and because I visited them so regularly. I ... I.I.I killed them and made us have to go on the run."
Her cry is painful before she hugs the photo to her chest.
She never told us about Sue or the family she clearly adores.
I feel awful that she had some sort of family waiting for her out there and we didn't do enough to reunite her with the few people that wanted her back in their lives.
I add this as another thing to make Charlie suffer for.
She looks up and gasps again as Amun's capo walks in.
He walks forward and I watch as Amun moves away and his capo gets on his knees in front of her.
"Hi Bellsie." He says in a broken voice with a smile looking at her before placing a hand to her cheek.
"SETH!" Bella screams as she grabs him and drags him to her in a tight hug.
"I missed you." She cries loudly and I watch as he lovingly holds her tightly to him.
After twenty minutes of sniffling and crying between whispers of long unsaid words.
I watch as he pulls away and looks at her again.
Before grabbing the phone from his pocket.
"How about we get this show moving and get you back home. You have a niece waiting to meet you." He says lovingly.
"A niece?" Bella squeaks in shock, Seth nods his head as he types away before pocketing his phone again.
Seth walks behind the chair and starts pushing her to the lift.
I watch as a weak looking Jake moves to the lift with Ben and everyone else.
"Jakey." Bella cries as we get near him. "Are you okay?" She asks looking up at him before taking his hand.
I watch as he leans into Sam and smiles.
"I will be. Doc wants me to come and stay in the summer house with him for a few days." Jake says looking down at her.
"But the Summer house only has one bedroom." She says looking puzzled.
"You can sleep in one of our spare rooms." She says looking sternly. "I will not have either of you two on a damn sofa."
I chuckle as we go straight down to the garage and then pile everyone into cars.
We drive through the town with Bella and Seth just holding hands.
At one point Bella grabs Seth's hand and places it on her bump.
"Wow!" He smiles before looking at me. "You are one lucky bastard dude."
"Seth Clearwater!" She reprimands as if they've never been apart.
"What? It's true. You were supposed to marry me." He says sulkily. "You promised to marry me."
"I was five years old." She growls back.
"And you're lucky I'm not a jealous man." He barks looking at me before winking.
"So do you know what you're having?" Seth asks rubbing Bella's belly.
"Two girls and a mystery." She says proudly.
"Well you're fucked." He says and turns to me.
"Don't you swear at me Mister." Bella interrupts then crosses her arms over her chest and looks out the window.
Seth smiles sheepishly then turns to me.
"If they are anything like their mother you'll be shooting the boys from when they start to smile and shooting your girls from when they learn to walk. With a mother like her... " He points over his shoulder to Bella. "They will get themselves into so much trouble."
"That's why I have a boy in there." I say pointing to her bump. "A spare set of hands to look after his sisters."
"What the fuck!?" Bella squeaks and I turn to the window and see we are home but the drive is full of cars.
"Oh goodie they're all here." Seth sings in a sing song voice.
"Seth, what did you do?" Bella demands as Seth just grins.
"Nothing." He says looking at her innocently.
We get out of the car and Seth jumps behind the wheel chair and wheels Bella into the house.
He sees a man at the door, who points to the front room where there's loads of chattering and squealing.
He just grins bigger and moves quicker towards the front room and I stare in shock as I see twenty people in the room and ten little ones.
"Hello family!" Seth shouts joyfully.
He is answered with a scream and I watch as everyone moves out of the way as Sue rushes to Bella with tears running down her face.
"Sue!" Bella screams and holds her arms out when the two meet they hold each other tight as they cry.
I watch as Seth pats her shoulder before walking over to a small woman standing in a corner and looking around nervously.
He kisses her head and takes the newborn from her arms and drags her into his free arm kissing her face and whispering into her hair.
"I miss you." Sue says looking at Bella while both women wipe the others tears away.
"Come meet family." She says and I step forward to grab the handles of Bella's chair only to be batted away by Sue who steps behind and slowly pushes the chair into the room and over to the sofa.
When they get to the sofa Bella asks for help to transfer her to the sofa.
Dad and I help her onto the sofa and I watch as Sue sits down and holds Bella's hand.
They smile at each other and Bella starts looking around the room at all the different faces.
It's then that I notice all the faces looking at Bella.
Every single one of them is filled with love and admiration.
"Hello." Bella says quietly looking at everyone.
"Bella." Seth says as he walks forward. "Meet your niece Isabella Leah Clearwater." He says quietly and places her in Bella's arms.
"Oh Seth." She says crying quietly.
"She's beautiful." Bella whispers as she strokes the baby's cheeks.
"And this is my wife Emily." He says pulling the woman forward who shyly hides behind Seth.
Before she can say anything we suddenly hear screaming from the hallway.
I get down and throw my hand behind my back to draw my gun.
"Where are they?" The voice shouts desperately.
"LEAH!" Bella shouts as fresh tears run down her face and Seth takes the little one off her, crying himself this time as he presses a kiss to baby Isabella's head.
I turn around and see a tall Native American woman with tears running down her face and a little girl holding onto her hand.
"BELLA!" She screams as she lets go of the little girl and runs forward pushing people away from her.
Bella stands shakily and slowly walks towards Leah when the two meet they grab each other and I watch as half a dozen men jump forward and catch each of the Women and helps them to the floor as they both cry in each other's arms.
It feels wrong to watch but I can't tear my eyes away from them.
I'm pulled away by a small hand tugging on my sleeve.
I look down to see the little girl trying to get someone's attention.
"Can I help you sweetie?" I ask as I start to get down to her level.
"Is that my Aunt Bella?" She asks when I'm finally kneeling in front of her.
"What's your name sweetheart?" I ask quietly trying to hold my own tears back.
"I'm Marie Tiffany Call and that's my mummy." She says pointing to Leah.
I can't help but smile at her.
"Yes that is your Aunt Bella and it makes me your Uncle Edward." I say.
"Oh." is all she says as we all look back at the two women.
Leah waves at little Marie and she runs forward to her mother.
"Marie, this is your Aunt Bella." Leah says wiping tears away from her face and pointing to Bella before she smiles and then turns to the man near her.
"Bella this is my daughter Marie and this…." She says pointing to the man near her.
"is my husband Embry." He smiles down at her and holds his hand out to her.
"It's nice to finally meet you Bella. Leah has told me a lot about you."
We spend the rest of the evening sitting with Leah, Sue, Seth and Bella.
Sharing stories of their past together and their lives apart.
We discover Sue had another daughter just after Bella was taken named Tia, who marries her long term partner Benjamin in four weeks time.
Leah's pregnant with her third child and Isabella is Seth's first little one and only four weeks old.
We don't talk about work or family business as we all seem to watch Bella engage with her family.
You can see how even after thirteen years they are so close to each other.
It just rubs in the guilt that we didn't look harder for Bella's family.
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