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Chapter Thirty-five
The Naked Truth
BPOV
Reaching in and gently taking my crying baby girl from her bassinet, I pulled her close to my chest as I sat down in the rocking chair. "Shhh, it's okay sweetheart", I whispered all the while trying to stop my own tears from falling. I could still hear them in the other room, Edward was yelling—screaming. I had never seen him so angry. It scared me.
"You're fucking using her!" He bellowed. His accusation followed by a loud crash, I think it was the crystal candy dish on the coffee table.
"Edward, it's not what you think. I truly care for Bella."
Carlie's cries had started to fade, which gave me the opportunity to put a pacifier in her mouth. She loved those damn things.
"It's okay, sweetheart. Daddy's just upset; he didn't mean to scare you. That's my sweet girl, go back to sleep." Her eyes lids slowly lowered until they closed completely, she continued to suckle from her binky.
I am not mad at Edward for his reaction, or being so vocal about his feelings that he woke up our sleeping infant, after all he did just walk in on his ex-fiancé giving his father a blow job. Emmett had invited him, Jasper and a couple of other friends over for a video-gaming marathon. Rosalie was out of town visiting her Aunt in Seattle, she had taken Henry with her. He had only been gone an hour when he returned home and headed down to the cottage Carlie and I were now staying in.
Needless to stay neither of us expected him to be back that soon.
"Elizabeth has been dead less than a year and you're already replacing her…with my fiancé!" Edward yelled, though not as loud as before.
"Edward, Bella is no longer your fiancé." Carlisle stated, his voice rose slightly, I could tell his patience was wearing thin.
"It doesn't matter," Edward huffed. "We have a daughter together you… you can't just… Carlie is your granddaughter for Christ sake!"
My eyes drifted back down to my baby girl, who was now fast asleep. Standing, I walked back over to her bassinet and softly placed her inside. I just hoped Edward didn't wake her again. Wiping my tears from my cheeks I sat down on the edge of my bed.
The voices in the other room grew quieter until the sounds of their voices were muffled by the walls between us. There was a pause of silence followed the Edward shouting, "Fuck you, dad," and then the slamming of the front door. I heard my baby girl whimper at the sudden bang, but thankfully she didn't wake this time.
I looked up as my bedroom door creaked open and my husband walked in. He let out a long sigh before sitting down beside me. "It wasn't supposed to happen that way."
"No," I sighed, placing my head on his shoulder, "it wasn't."
"We should tell your parents soon, it would be better coming from us then Edward… or some other source. You know how quickly rumors spread in this town."
Boy did I ever, I could just imagine Charlie's reaction if he found out I was seeing Carlisle from the check out girl at the Thrifty-Mart. It's going to be dramatic enough as it is, especially considering Victoria is already aware Carlisle and I have a past. That was another concern, the possibility that once she hears of our current relationship she could easily bring up what happened at Rosalie and Emmett's wedding.
"Perhaps we should visit them tomorrow." Carlisle suggested.
I just nodded and closed my eyes.
"It will be okay, Bella," he whispered placing a kiss atop my head. "No matter what we will still have each other."
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EPOV
It had been nearly four hours since I witnessed the girl I once wanted to marry, with her mouth around my own fathers cock. I was still in shock. In the back of my mind I always wondered if the reason Bella broke off our engagement was because there was another guy, but never in a million years would I have that the other guy would have been my dad.
I hadn't really wanted to go to Emmett's to begin with, but Bella said it would be good for me to get out of the house for a bit, now I knew why. I had only been there a short time when I decided I just couldn't fake being interested in killing computer animated Aliens anymore and headed home. I had even stopped by Cho-Lin's and picked up some Chow-Mein thinking we could maybe watch a movie while we ate. The last thing I expected to see when I walked through the front door of the cottage was my dad sitting on the sofa, his pants around his ankles, Bella kenneled in front of him, her beautiful mouth giving him pleasure she had previously only ever given to me.
My reaction had been to drop the Chinese food on the floor followed by a loud, "What the fuck is going on!"
"Edward." Bella gasped, after she had released my dad dick from her mouth. "What are you doing home?"
My dad then scrambled to pull up and fasten his pants, his expression equally shocked.
That was when I went off, I screamed and yelled, using every known curse word I could think of. I even threw a candy dish across the room, shattering it against the wall.
While my dad briefly explained, between my screams of rage, that he and Bella had gotten together after Elizabeth's death, that she had been there for him, comforted him, helped him though the pain, I couldn't believe him, I didn't want to. He went onto say that they tried to deny their feelings, but in the end they simply couldn't stay away. I called him a liar, accused him of using her. He said that I was overreacting and that was when I knew I had to leave before I did something I really regretted.
So after rushing back to the main house, quickly packing a bag, I headed back out to my car. As I peeled out of the driveway I pulled out my phone and called a person I knew, despite my faults, was always there for me and always would be… Tanya. She picked up on the second ring. I gave her a brief summary of what happened, that I had left and I that I just couldn't be there right now. She readily agreed to let me visit, she even offered to pay for the plane ticket. I didn't give a second thought about accepting her invitation, though I wouldn't allow her to pay, instead I used the credit card my dad gave to me in case of emergencies. Not wanting to waste his hard earned money, I rarely used it, but at the moment I could care less.
I was now on a flight to Alaska that was due to land in less the thirty minutes. Tanya would be at the airport waiting for me. She had told me I could stay as long as I needed, and at the moment I had no idea how long that might be.
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APOV
I was sitting in the living room watching desperate Housewives when I heard the front door open and then slam shut. I knew my dad had gone down to the cottage to see Bella, though I had no desire to even fathom what he went there to do with her. Turning I caught a glimpse of my brothers wild bronze hair before he rushed up the stairs.
"Edward?"
He didn't reply but continue storming up the stairs.
"Edward." I called after him again, this time pausing my favorite show and going after him.
Obviously he was upset. Had something happened at Emmett's? Reaching the top of the stairs I saw as him fling open his bedroom door and stomp inside. "Edward, what's going on?" I asked as I reached his room.
"Go away Alice," he sneered, pushing open his closet door and grabbing an old duffel bag.
"Going somewhere?"
"No, I mean… I-I don't know, maybe." His voice was shaking as he paused his packing long enough the run his hand through his hair but then continue haphazardly tossing clothes into his bag.
Okay, whatever was going on I was starting to realize it was serious, but what could have possibly happen at Emmett's to upset him so badly.
"Edward, please, your worrying me."
After tossing a pair of jeans into his bag, his green eyes reached my own. I had never seen him look troubled… lost. With a deep sigh he sat down on the edge of his bed, his gaze moved to his lap.
"I decided to leave Emmett's early and surprise Bella with Chinese food."
Oh.
He went to the cottage.
While dad was there.
Shit!
He must have noticed something odd in my reaction because he cocked his head giving me a confused look.
"Alice… ?"
Sighing I sat down beside him. "You walked in on them, didn't you?"
His eyes widened before he nodded, "You knew?"
"Yes, I figured it out." I knew they had plans to tell him, to tell everyone, but it had only been a few days since they had promise to give an abridged version of their relationship the rest of our family and friends and were still waiting for the right oppertunity.
"Oh God," he groaned, once again running his hand through his hair. "H-how could I have missed this?"
"I didn't see it right away either, but please don't beat yourself up about it Edward, trust me, it won't do you any good."
"So, what," he huffed, "I'm just supposed to be okay with this, with our dad dating my ex-girlfriend, your best-friend."
"Oh Edward, of course not," It took me days to come to grips with the situation, and Edward was in this a lot deeper then I was. He had a daughter with Bella, which made this whole thing more than just weird, it became complicated. "But I want you to know", I said placing a comforting hand on his shoulder, "that I'll be here for you, no matter what. If you want to cry or scream or just talk, I'll be more than happy to be your shoulder.
He gave me a small smile as he stood from the bed, "Thanks Alice; and I might take you up on that, but right now there's someone else I'd like to talk to."
"Oh, okay. Emmett I'm guessing." He was the only person I could think of, or possibly Jasper. At one time he probably would have gone to our mom, but that was before.
"No, actually, I think I'm going to go visit Tanya."
Well that certainly wasn't what I was expecting him to say.
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TPOV
I could hardly believe what Edward was telling me, Bella and his dad—together! That was, well, weird, to put it mildly. He was clearly very shaken up over the whole thing, not that I could blame him, walking in on your own father getting a blow job from your ex was more than a little shocking. Disturbing was more like it. I mean, Carlisle is good looking for a guy his age, but he's like twenty-three years older than her, gross! Though I guess some people are into that type of thing. I know some guys that prefer cougars because they have more experience in bed.
Of course I told Edward he was welcome to come and visit and to stay as long as he needed, though I wouldn't imagine he would want to be away from his baby girl too long.
So here I am, standing between the escalator and baggage claim, waiting for his flight to arrive. I have to admit, I'm excited about the possibility of spending some time alone with him, no, the circumstances aren't the best, but this is the first chance I will have seen him since his daughter was born and I planned to take full advantage of it.
"Flight 352 from Seattle is now arriving at gate 19."
My eyes darted to the escalator at the announcement of his flight arrival. The love of my life was finally here, now if only I can get him to realize he feels the same for me. I know deep down he does, he admitted to me that the only reason he left me for Bella was because she reminded him of his mother, or at least that was what he had told me shortly after they had broken up.
When Edward first left me, when we were still in high school, my heart literally felt like it had been broken in half and in all honestly I didn't think I would ever fully recover from it. That was until about a month after our beak up my sister Kate said something to me that gave me what I needed most at the time, hope. She said that if Edward and I were truly meant to be together, then it would work itself out, even if that was years down the road.
Maybe this was the right time, my chance to have my Edward, once and for all, this time… forever.
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A/N: So Edward knows the truth, running off to Tanya to find comfort, will she give him what she needs, find out next chapter. Also next up Carlisle talks with Charlie about his feeling for Bella.