A/N: and another chapter is here with only one or two more chapters to go till the end of this section.
Hope you enjoy :)
Eventually we all get hungry and with all the extra mouths Dad and I decide to order food in, but I get caught by Bella as I try to order dinner.
Leah and Bella look horrified, followed by all the other women when they realize what I am about to do.
I try to work out what I've done wrong until Bella and Leah look at each other slyly smiling at each other.
"Watch out troublemakers on the loose." Seth shouts causing Emmett, Jasper and Jake to snicker.
Leah glares at him and slightly growls at him.
While Bella grins and rubs her hands menacingly together.
I watch as she looks at Leah and then fists the air grinning wider than a Cheshire cat.
"Kitchen party time." Bella squeals as she tries to transfer on her own to her wheelchair but stumbles in her excitement.
Amun chuckles as Bella starts dancing in her seat while mum pushes the wheelchair and Leah, Sue and the rest of the women stand up and follow Bella into the kitchen, chatting animatedly about rice dishes and puddings.
I look on nervously, unsure if I should follow as all the men stay in the front room with some of the older children.
After ten minutes I decide enough is enough and stand up planning to head towards the kitchen.
"I wouldn't follow them Edward." Amun replies shaking his head with a smile from his corner playing with little Marie.
I look at him puzzled until Seth walks over and leans down.
"The Women tend to go a little crazy and start talking about sex, periods or when they are pregnant what it's like. When we told the family about Emily being pregnant they dragged her to the kitchen and started telling her about body changes, nausea and mood swings. Then they started comparing boob growth, stretch marks and back pain."
I blanch at the thought of listening to the women's conversations and just trust in Bella's decisions.
"Whatever you're thinking it's worse. I walked in last time and had mum, sister, and wife ask which I preferred pre pregnancy sex or post."
I instantly look at him wide eyed in shock.
No fucking way was I going into that conversation..
"There are some things a man should never see or listen too." Seth says shuddering.
I hear several men mumble their agreements to Seth.
"Amun, would you like to join me for a whisky?" Dad says in his mafia voice.
I watch as Amun looks at Seth and both nod their heads.
I look at Dad and my brothers who all nod their own heads.
One instant sit-down coming up.
We leave the rest of the men in the front room with our guards as Amun, Seth, Dad, Emmett, Jasper and I walk into my office.
The minute we are in the office the door shuts and I can see Seth and Amun looking at each other apprehensively.
"Amun, I need you to be honest with me." Dad says and we all turn to Amun.
He looks at Seth and then turns to me.
"I will answer any question you have honestly." He turns to Dad and smiles. "I owe you my Sue's happiness."
"Sue's not your sister is she?" I watch as Seth places his hand on Amun's shoulder and nods in confirmation and support.
"When I was seventeen, I was sent to college in Seattle.
In my first year here I met a young woman and we fell in love.
We spent many nights together till I went home for summer break."
I watch as he shakes his head and keep listening as he seems to disembody himself from his voice.
"When I went home I was told my marriage was arranged and I would be marrying my first wife when I finished college.
I got angry and jumped on the first plane back.
I wanted to marry the girl I was in love with.
When I got back I went straight over to her place.
What I found broke my heart; she was on the bathroom floor crying.
I thought she was hurt but when I calmed her down she kept apologizing then told me the greatest news in the world.
She was pregnant with my child."
I watch as Amun smirks at the wall and leans back looking off into his memory as Jasper walks around with a whisky and hands us all a glass.
"I loved her with all my heart ..." His voice changes to one of a devoted lover. "and she was blessing me with my first child.
I stayed by her side the whole time through thick or thin.
Every late night craving run I did willingly, every appointment, every development I was there.
Eventually I got called to go back home.
I had been putting it off finding excuses each time but they eventually ran out.
So in her sixth month of pregnancy I returned home with every intention of telling my father I was marrying the woman I loved not his choice."
I watch as Amun's body shakes and his fist clench before he slumps back into the chair fisting his hair.
After a few minuets of silence he looks at my father again and I watch as his whole body slumps down.
"When I finally got home my plans were thrown in the air.
I walked in my father's office to be faced with photos of me and my love as well as doctors reports.
My father told me I was to leave the girl and finish college then come home for the arranged marriage. I told him no I would only marry the woman I loved.
He pulled out his gun and said I either went through with the marriage or my child would never breathe it's first breath because IT's mother would meet an accident."
He growls out when he says 'it' his voice full of tightness.
"I ran out of the house and jumped on the first plane back to Seattle. I didn't call her."
I watch as he takes a deep breath and it slowly stutters out.
"I was foolish so, so, foolish I never imagined that he would go after her.
When the plane landed I dived in a car and went straight to our apartment.
I entered the apartment when she should've been home it was dinner time so I should of found her listened to music and dancing in the kitchen instead I was greeted by silence.
I had pulled out a gun slowly and found her crying in a corner of the panic room in the flat I bought her.
She told me she had a visitor that told her she either left me or they would kill her and the baby."
I can see Seth is just as captivated as we are in the story.
Amun just looks at him and slightly smiles in reassurance before looking down at the whisky glass on the table.
"I was so angry I called my father and shouted at him.
He would not be reasoned with.
That night we sat down and tried to find a way out of it.
I finally confessed about who I actually was and what my family did for a living.
In the end the only thing we could think of was to go with my father's plans.
I would finish college here and then go home to marry the girl my father picked, on the condition that Sue and our child's safety was guaranteed and that I was allowed to support them and visit when I was in this country.
My father agreed.
It was our happiness over the life of my child's.
He agreed and I stayed to wait out the pregnancy and finish college."
I turn and raise an eyebrow at Dad.
He notices before looking at Amun with sympathy in his eyes.
"When my eldest was born I wanted to run to the roof tops and scream with joy.
I didn't care if it was a boy or a girl, just that we had created a child from love.
A child that would be a good part of me."
Seth pats Amun's shoulder as he tries to regain control of his emotions.
I watch as he wipes at his eyes before looking at me.
"I stayed with both of them till the day after my daughter's first birthday I left and then went back to marry the woman my father chose three days later.
I stayed in contact and sent them gifts on a weekly basis I managed to visit them three months after the wedding and stayed for a week.
It was three months later that I got a call.
My child was missing and my love had been attacked.
I was in the middle of a meeting with my father and panicked but the guards wouldn't let me leave the room.
I stopped when my father threw his head back and laughed I realized then that he had something to do with it.
He then told me he had taken her and hidden her away.
He gave me three months to get my wife pregnant or he would hurt my daughter by putting her in a sex auction and then film it for my pleasure."
I feel my stomach churn at the thought of it being one of our children.
I look over at Dad and Emmett who are both staring wide eyed at Amun.
His father would have sold an eighteen month old into the auctions but not just any eighteen month old, his own granddaughter.
"Two weeks later my first wife came to me and admitted she had been having an affair with one of her guards and was pregnant.
I told her that she would tell everyone the baby was mine and that if she told anyone else I would kill her lover.
When she left I sighed with relief and called my father and told him my wife was pregnant.
He then told me once he had proof I would get a call in forty eight hours and be told where she was ready and waiting for my collection.
I called my love and made arrangements to go home.
When I arrived I got a call to say she was at the zoo.
We drove like lunatics and arrived at the zoo to find my little girl in the first aid office crying.
She was fine and we found out my Dad had made the men look after her properly."
I watch as he shakily takes a deep breath in and wiped at his eyes as he flexes his fists.
"That night I found out why he did it. He had found out my love was pregnant with our second child and had gotten pissed off because I should have been producing children with my wife not the whore as he call her."
He shakes his head in grief and sorrow but I can see the hint of anger.
"I spent a couple of weeks with my family and I sorted a stronger security system and better body guards for her and our children.
At this point I decided to do the worse thing ever and act as if I didn't want any of them anymore."
He says staring at the ceiling.
"I managed to create a background story that meant she was always protected.
She had a live in body guard who pretended to be her husband.
Every time I came to America I would sneak away to visit the two of them.
Then one day I got the call that she was in labour and by the time I got to her my son was entering the world.
At this point we decided it was best that we didn't meet in public so I went away knowing I may never know my own children.
She had also agreed to marry her guard to help deceive my father that I was over her and vice versa.
It was a business arrangement. That hopefully meant I could at least see my children."
"The woman is Sue isn't it?" I asked putting the pieces together.
"Yes it was.
On one of my trips back I met Bella and fell in love with her.
I saw her as one of my children.
After a few more years of visits I got a call.
Sue was frantic as she told me Bella had gone missing with her father.
I sent men out to look for her but they couldn't find anything.
I came back to check on her and the children.
By the time the plane landed my trusted childhood friend and their bodyguard told me that the house had been set on fire whilst Sue and the children slept.
Sue had gone to the hospital with the children but when they were discharged she found out Bella had gone.
I was furious and went to the house to find out Sue had moved the children into the summer house and they were waiting for Bella to return.
She refused to leave till we tried to find Bella and even then she refused.
Her answer was that Bella knew where she was.
The guys told me Sue's place had been set on fire on purpose.
After the debrief I decided to break into Charlie's to see what I could find out.
After we broke in we found out that Bella had managed to pack some of her most prized possessions including a pair of photos."
We watched as he opened his wallet and put two photos down on the table. Leaning over I recognize the photos instantly as the same photos in Bella's story book.
"We also found evidence that Charlie had been paid to burn the house down and he got extra if the children had died in the fire."
I am flabbergasted at the life Amun has been through.
"Your father's death wasn't an accident was it?"
I can hear the accusation in my voice but I now believe theres more to his fathers death.
I look at him remembering his father's death ten years ago.
Ahmad was shot on his way to a sit down.
His convoy had gotten attacked and almost everyone had died.
"No, the day of the fire I decided I had no other option than to see to my father's death myself.
If I carried on waiting eventually he would kill Sue or the children.
The catalyst was when Sue told me she was pregnant with Tia.
I had to keep them safe.
I should have done something earlier but it took me time to make sure I had all bases covered and that Sue and the children were protected."
"Amun, why did you get angry over the manuscript we showed you?"
I ask curious as to why a man that deals in women and treats them as slaves could be so concerned over one girl.
"Because I know the owner of the sex den she was hired out to.
The details in her file are identical to what my father would do and he liked the girls young."
I stare at him in rage as he jumps up and starts pacing the floor in front of us.
His father did that to her and he expects us to work with him?
"I begged him to help me find Bella and he said he could find nothing on where she was or who had her.
If I had known he knew where she was the whole time I would have killed him sooner.
My father knew my marriage was just a play marriage.
My heart belongs to Sue.
He wouldn't touch Leah to get to us so went after Bella." He growls while saying Bella's name.
"But you treat them the same!" Jasper barks furiously as he widens his stance behind my father's chair.
"No he doesn't. That is just what the families are led to believe."
Seth growls pointing his gun at Jasper while Amun clenches his fists and stares at Jasper.
I watch Dad, Jasper, and Emmett pull their guns pointing them at Seth and Amun.
"Seth." Amun whispers before patting Seth's shoulder to remind him where he is.
"What do you mean?" I ask signalling that everyone is to drop their guns now.
"My father did the things he did to women against their will.
The things the women do in my operations do it willingly.
They are given good homes, paid a lot of money and extra if harmed so badly they can't work."
He looks up and shares a look with Seth that confuses me.
They are clearly having a silent conversation. But about what?
"The baby factories are where women fleeing abuse or are unmarried mothers can come for help.
We run an orphanage and hospital for those in need.
I try to help as many as possible from their lives to settle down or get better.
I do not like killing or raping women and children!
I only do it when I have no other choice, and that is mainly when the girl is bought with the client and we can't get her away from him.
It sickens me to do it."
He says as he covers his face with his hands and I notice the slight tremble in his arms.
I look at Amun trying to work out if he is telling me the truth or not.
That he is not the man I thought he was.
"I have been trying to find a way out of that side of my business for years but I need help and no one has my ethos.
I'll happily shoot a guy if I have to but women and children should be left out of this world."
He says staring at me with finality and desperation.
"How do we know this is true?" I ask leaning back to watch what he does.
I'm hesitant on the words he has said not holding much belief in them.
"Because MY Emily was one of the women fleeing abuse."
Seth says glaring at me with his balled fists at his side.
"So you say?" Emmett snarks accusingly while moving next to me crossing his arms over his chest.
"It's true." Amun butts in before Seth continues.
"Emily was running away from her father.
He had been raping and beating her.
I was working at the center when she came in and helped her build her life back only this time without her family.
Over the months she hid with us I got to know her.
Then one day her father turned up demanding she go home with him that she was his property.
I held a gun to his head and told him to leave my wife alone." He stutters.
I watch as he closes his eyes and takes a deep breath he opens his mouth to talk again until a new voice over talks him.
"He pointed the gun at Seth but before he could pull the trigger I shot him."
We turn to see Emily in the doorway glaring at me her face red with embarrassment and anger.
"They are not lying." She shouts pointing at them.
"They do everything in their power to look after the women and children in both the hostel and the hospital.
The girls that sell themselves only do what they want.
If a client is too much the girl just needs to speak up and she is no longer hired to that person."
"Love." Seth says shakily as he walks forward and wraps her in his arms.
"Don't Love me, Seth Clearwater." She snaps and we watch as he surrenders and stands silent next to her.
I look at Amun to see what he has to say or do about a woman being defiant to her husband.
I expect him to snap at her but he just grins at her in pride as if she is a child taking her first steps into the independent woman she could be.
"These men not only gave me my life back they gave me a family.
You come over to ours any day and talk to us you'll see exactly what we are like."
She barks at us as Seth puts his arm around her.
"I refused to go back to a life of abuse and neglect.
Seth and Amun rescued me.
You need to understand they are my family now and they are all I have."
She smiles at Amun before looking back at us.
"For some of us girls his family is all the family we now have.
Amun and his centers saved my life.
My body has been damaged so badly by my father that we were lucky to have our child.
Any more we get will be a miracle."
She growls the end of it and I smile as I see some characteristics that remind me of Bella.
"Emily, can we help you?" My father asks gaining her attention.
"Oh yes," She snaps back to her angel tone.
"I was sent to tell you dinner's almost ready." She says before walking out the room.
"Seth, gentlemen, I suggest we adjourn this meeting till after dinner."
"Amun, I'm going to grab some food before everyone else eats all the good stuff." Seth mumbles as he leaves the room the minute the door shuts Amun looks at us.
"Seth doesn't know and he will not hear understand?" We all nod.
"We've suspected Bella's been in Seattle for a few months.
When we came a few years ago we couldn't find anything, then when you invited us over I had already decided to bring Sue, but we got word someone that looked like her had been spotted so we pushed our deadlines up on the off chances we could find her."
He looks at Dad.
"We got a report six months ago that she was definitely found but was in danger.
We didn't come then but I had guards watch her till we were sure she was safe then Sue had her stroke. I want to help protect her tomorrow."
Amun pleads with me.
"She is my children's sister and I may not have been part of her but she deserves some peace and happiness. She is my daughter."
"I suggest we go and eat dinner before we get into the really heavy stuff like looking after Bella tomorrow." Dad says and we all nod in agreement before leaving the room.
We walk into the dining room to find the table laden with food and people walking around it before going to huddle in little groups nattering.
I grab some food and then head to Bella watching as she smiles at everyone.
"Hi Beautiful." I say kissing her deeply.
She kisses back before grinning and leans into me.
"Edward," She says quietly I lean forward before she says anything else.
"Can you help me get to our bedroom?"
She whispers while looking down at her hands that are wrapped around her bump.
I feel like head butting the wall for being an idiot and letting her get over whelmed.
I hand her my plate and excuse ourselves from the nearby little crowd.
I signal Dad as we go past to tell him we are heading to our room.
The second we are through the doors I watch as Bella slowly removes her hands from her waist and looks up at me.
"I have family that cares Edward." She whispers as she wipes away tears that are finally falling.
"Charlie told me they were dead all these years I thought... I had murdered them and they were still alive and in their old home."
I can't help but wrap her in my arms.
"All I had to do was go and visit their home.
Go and remember them or pay my respects."
I feel as she buries her head in shame and cries into my neck.
"Baby, you weren't even in a good place then." I whisper pulling her head out of my neck and her chin up to look into her eyes.
I take a deep breath and let it out as I see all the pain and guilt.
"I should have gone back even if I went to pay respects to them. I...I would of found them alive." She wails before going off into tears.
I sigh deeply before lifting her up and carry her to the bed.
I settle her onto the bed and then hold her close as she buries her head in my neck and shakes with every sob.
"Oh Baby. It's okay." I whisper in reassurance as I gently pull on her hair to place a gentle kiss on her cheek as she keeps crying in my arms till she falls asleep.
I leave the room with her on the bed and join everyone else in the front room.
We get chatting and it's a couple of hours later that Ben reminds me that Bella needs to take some 'Magic Smarties'.
I look at Seth who's snickering in the corner.
"What funny?" Sue asks looking at him.
"Bella still takes Magic Smarties." This causes Leah and Sue to cover their mouths as they snicker.
"Mum started Magic Smarties many years ago. It was the only way to get Bella to take her medicine. Bella was a pain to take medicine." Leah says doubling over as she grabs her sides laughing her head off.
"Oh god was Bella a pain." Seth says smiling. "Bella and sickness was always an awful mix."
"Tell me about it Edward and Bella make the worse patients ever." Mum says looking at Sue.
"Both of them got tonsillitis once and they were miserable little shits." She glares at me.
"They had to make all of us miserable. They're worse on anesthetic." She growls pointing to my arm again.
I decide to quietly leave the room to gather Bella's medication together and hide from the embarrassing stories Mum's about to share.
I get into the bathroom and gather them together then head to our room what I find makes me gasp as I see little Marie curled in bed with Bella.
I stand still and watch as Bella has her arm protectively over Marie and pulls her tighter to her body.
I smile imagining Bella doing that with our children after they've had a nightmare or when they're poorly.
"Marie…...Marie….. Marie!" I hear Leah shout her voice slowly getting more panicky and louder.
I walk down to the end of the corridor and look up the stairs to see Leah half way up them still calling out for Marie.
"Leah." I call to her, she turns to look at me and I smile gently before I point behind me.
"Marie is over here." I watch as Leah comes down the stairs and follows me.
She smiles when she walks into the room and sighs as she looks on at Marie in bed with Bella.
I watch her hug herself before walking forward and picking up little Marie.
She smiles at me before walking past with her little one in her arms silently crying.
I wake Bella up for her meds and then help her into her chair as we go into the front room again.
The minute we enter the room the women are swarming around Bella rubbing her bump and smiling as they wheel her away.
"Bella," I shout smiling at her.
She turns around and looks at me.
"Don't forget you and babies have an important day tomorrow." She glares at me and I hear several men snicker behind me.
"You need your beauty sleep, we get married again tomorrow." I hear all the women squeal as I grin at her and she stares at me with tight eyes and pursed lips.
I lose sight of her when the women surround her asking her questions about the wedding and what she has planned.
Of course her answer to everything is 'I don't know' but she does tell them about our private wedding at the hotel a few weeks ago.
I walk over to Dad and Amun talking in the corner.
At around seven I watch as the women heard the children towards the library and I raise an eyebrow looking at Seth and Amun.
Both answer by hunching their shoulders and watching the others leave.
We give it twenty minutes expecting them to return but they don't.
I head to my office and turn on the surveillance cameras to find all of them in the library with pillows and blankets.
I leave the office telling the men where the women are and we all walk their way.
I smile as I hear all the women telling the children to settle down.
Fifteen minutes later I'm sitting with the rest of the family listening to Bella reading the children a bedtime story of Beauty and the Beast.
By the time Bella has finished all the children are asleep and we leave the room quietly.
We all go back to the front room and talk some more with drinks.
Until Bella yawns and we start talking about bed as we get to the crux of the conversation we find that no one wants to leave after only just finding Bella again.
After a few minutes of rearranging several of the women sleep in the library while Leah and Seth stay here in the spare rooms, Emmett and Rose take my room while Mum, Dad, Amun, and Sue, go and stay at the parents place across the road.
We decide not to disturb the children and keep the kids bunked in the library - apparently a family tradition - the remaining men are put on guard patrol and some of the women bodyguards and nannies are kept in the library with the children.
I'm shocked when I find out that Amun has several female sharpshooters, bodyguards, and hand to hand combatants amongst his protection detail.
He only ever allows one lead family member at a time either the mother or the father can join the protection service and the other looks after the children.
The children are bought up by the whole family not just the parents.
They try to make sure no child loses both parents but that doesn't always happen.
There's one girl's story that broke my heart as she lives with Amun and Sue.
The father was killed in a bomb attack six months before her mother died from cancer.
Her mother was one of his hostel refugees.
The family unit seems to be so strong but I need to see more of their dynamic before I'll change my opinion.
He is slowly changing my opinion of his work but I need more evidence.
Once everything is settled and our extra protection is in place I wheel Bella into the nursery room and then dive into the bathroom starting a bath for us so we can relax a little.
Once the towels are on the warmer I head to the bedroom to get Bella and find her back to me as she is sitting in the library doorway looking in on the camping children.
I walk up to her and gently press a hand to her shoulder.
"Hey." I whisper gently to Bella as she sighs and I look down to notice she's rubbing her bump.
"A penny for your thoughts." She smiles up at me as she keeps looking in on the children.
"In a few years time our three will be holding camp outs in their library with all their cousins."
"That sounds like bliss to me." I say smiling at her. "Their cousins will have them camping in their equivalent rooms too."
"If the kids take after their parents Alice's lot will host the camping in wardrobes and Emmett's will be in a gym."
Bella quietly snickers before looking up at me.
"When they go to Seth's they will probably be sleeping in a room filled with model trains and Leah's will be in an art studio and painting the walls will be their entertainment each time they go."
"Let's go for a bath before bed we have a long day tomorrow." I say and shut the doors before dragging her into our room.
Shutting the next set between us so we have a sound proof barrier between us and the kids.
"Edward." I instantly stop and move in front of Bella
"What's the matter love?" I ask and look into her face as she starts to cry.
"Thank you." She whispers. "Thank you for bringing my family back."
"I just wish we had known about them sooner Bella." I say looking down at our joint hands my body filling with remorse and regret.
"I don't." She says bringing my face up to look at her.
"If you had I would have lost you and these three would never be here."
She says placing my hand on her stomach while looking at me with a smile.
"Bringing my family back to me like this is the greatest gift in the ... the world." She yawns out sleepily.
I smile and rub her bump.
"Bath time?"
"Sounds great." She says smiling at me before I get behind her and wheel us into the bathroom.
We have a quiet soak enjoying our time before Bella starts to doze off.
We get out and I help Bella dry off before getting up and pushing her the rest of the way to our bed.
I help her get in and settled before I curl up next to her.
I can't help but look out the window into the garden thinking about our actual wedding that happens in a few house times.
I grab my cufflinks again and fidget trying to get them right.
"Stop fidgeting you're fine." I look up and smile at Mum.
"I can't help it." I say sheepishly.
Just as I look up Amun and Dad walk in to the dining room.
Amun is standing still looking serious but relaxed with his hands in his pockets.
Dad on the other hand is glaring at Amun.
"What's happened? Is Bella okay? The babies?" I watch as Dad smiles and shakes his head before looking over at Amun.
"Can I have a word please?" Amun asks looking at me nervously.
"I'll leave you boys to talk shop." Mum says as she smiles before kissing Dad's cheek and glaring at Amun.
"Shall we take this into my office?" He nods his head and all three of us leave the room and enter the office.
Dad is still glaring at Amun but now showing his gun that is attached to his hip.
"Edward, I want to make a claim." Amun says looking at me nervously.
I growl in anger as just yesterday he declared to not want to make the claim.
"You what?" I growl at him angrily.
"Not in that way Edward." He pleads with his hands up.
"I want to publicly claim Bella as a member of my family."
I open my mouth to answer only to close it again after a few minutes lost for words.
When they finally find me my composed godfather persona has been thrown out the window.
"You want to what?!" I just look at him as he smiles and Dad chuckles.
"As far as Sue and my eldest two are concerned she is their daughter and sister.
Seth feels the same way and wants to claim her as his sister."
He looks over at Dad and then back to me.
"As we all know Seth can't claim her as a sister in front of the families.
But I can on behalf of my family and that in turn offers Bella our family protection and Seth the right to protect her in front of the families."
"I need to talk to Seth." I say deciding I need the answer straight out of Seth's mouth.
I watch as Amun grins widely and I decide to put Amun in his place.
"That does not mean you are given the right to claim her as family."
He looks down and pulls a phone out and types on it before pocketing it.
A few minutes later there's a knock on the door and I shout enter to see Seth and Leah enter my office.
"Leah?" I ask in question.
"Seth and I want to put a claim on Bella as our sister." She says crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at me.
"She's our sister." Seth says as he and Leah look at each other before turning to me.
"She is special to us and we want her back in our lives but the only way we can do that is if Dad claims her." Seth says pointing to Amun.
"And if Dad ever wants to see his grandchildren he bloody will claim my…" She points to herself as she glares at Amun. "Sister."
I look over at Amun and raise an eyebrow in question that he is letting a woman talk like that and he just smiles and shakes his head, raising his hands in their direction.
"I can't argue with them all," He says looking at me, "it's ten against one."
I raise an eyebrow in confusion.
"My granddaughter and nieces have said if I don't get Aunt Bella to visit or arrange for them to visit her they will be very upset." I shake my head and sit down on my desk.
"So this is a claim on making her family then?"
"Yes" is shouted from several mouths.
I can't help but laugh.
"You do realize that means you are claiming my children as your nieces and nephew?
That you have to help us look after all of them.
Do diaper duty, protection detail and any other nasty responsibility we deem necessary."
I state crossing my hands over my chest raising an eyebrow at them.
"Yes, that also gives us the right to protect Bella from you." Seth sneers.
"Edward, if you ever lay a finger on Bella, or cheat on her, or break a promise to her or my nieces and nephews, I'll be here before you know it putting bullets in you till no one can recognize your body if they can even find it."
Leah hisses and I smile recognizing the protective sister in her.
"That's if I don't get to him first!" Seth scoffs.
"Actually you'll find it will be my wife, me, his brothers and Tegan first." Dad says cockily from his corner swirling a brandy he has some how acquired.
"How about you lock him in a warehouse and wait till we get here then we can all torture him." Seth says while Leah nods her head in agreement.
I look over at Dad slouched in the seat with his brandy in his hands before looking at me smiling mischievously.
"I think we better sit down and start negotiating then." He says pointing to the table in front of us.
You never do negotiations standing, a table gives you some protection and control.
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