Chapter 52

"Isa, I will be more than happy to remarry the two of you my dear. However, the law does state there is a twenty-four hour wait time after the marriage certificate is issued for your license to be issued. It can take a couple of weeks for it to be issued," Aro said. To his credit, he did sound remorseful.

"There's nothing you can do to expedite the service?" Edward asked him.

"No, I'm sorry," he told us.

"How did the divorce get finalized that quickly then?" Edward asked him. I was wondering the same thing.

"It came across my desk and I signed off on it," he said with a sly smile.

"But there wasn't even a court date," I wondered out loud. "Why would you sign off on a divorce if you didn't talk to them first or seen them in court?" A flash of irritation went across Aro's face when I asked that. I didn't know that could happen.

"Neither one of you were contesting anything and you both signed the papers," he said with irritation.

"Thank you for your time, Judge Vulturi," Edward said as he stood and held his hand up for me to grab. "Let's go apply for our second marriage license." Edward decided he'd rather get a marriage certificate from Washington. He didn't want any person's name from New York on our marriage certificate. Once at the apartment, he jumped on the lap top to start doing research on what we needed. While he was doing that, I ordered us some Chinese take out.

"We'll have to go to the court house in Seattle to apply. They'll mail the license to us then we wait three days and then go to the court house. It could take a few months to be married again," he said. My tears were falling when he told me. I felt extremely guilty because this was all my fault. He reached up and wiped my tears away. "Baby, it's okay. I'm not angry with you. Please, don't feel guilty. You were being taken advantage of. Besides, it's just a piece of paper. It has nothing on what my feelings are for you. I just wished I knew how he got it through that damn fast."

"I don't know, he's crooked I guess. James definitely has Aro on his payroll. It makes me sick to my stomach." Felix buzzed the intercom to let me know the food was here. I told him to send him up. Edward got the door when the guy knocked and paid. Of course he wasn't going to let me pay for it. I spread the food out on the coffee table as Edward grabbed a beer for him and a glass of wine for me.

The rest of the evening we just sat on the couch holding on to each other. The TV was on but neither of us were paying it any attention. "Babe?" I called out.

"What is it Baby?" he asked me.

"Why don't we go to Vegas and get married by Elvis? You know that is the wedding I wanted to begin with but gave in to the Rents and Alice. We already had our traditional wedding and there is no waiting period in Vegas. We can go get our certificate and take it to any of their chapels." I told him of my sudden burst of inspiration.

"Are you sure?" he asked with his brow cocked.

"Yeah, we can even invite Emmett, Alice, Rose and Jasper to come down. I think some of the chapels even have Facebook Live feeds that others who can't make it can watch it."

"If that's what you want, then lets do it." Edward grabbed the lap top again and started researching Elvis weddings. We signed up for a twelve hundred dollar package that included a small concert, reception with cake, pictures and bouquet. The only thing we needed to provide was my dress and his suit. We argued over who was going to pay for the trip and wedding but I had won that argument. After all, it was my fault that we were no longer married and I wanted to pay restitution for that. I felt like I needed to make it right. Not only that, but I had about seven grand in savings so why not?