TNMC
Chapter 50
BPOV
Edward had been shouting constantly for about 10 minutes, Quil and Seth on the receiving end. His office door was closed but as I paced up and down the hallway outside his voice was so loud I could make out every word. Every other word was an expletive. I was genuinely worried that he was finally going to shoot Seth. "Edward enough," I burst into the office, not bothering to knock. "They were doing as I asked. I was the one who forgot to call and let them know we were ready to come home." I used the term home specifically because I knew it still got to him to hear me call his house my home.
"They don't fucking work for you Isabella," he growled, "They supposedly work for me, something they seem to have a problem remembering." He was stood behind his desk facing Seth and Quil who were stood side by side facing him. I could see his gun was casually thrown on the desk top and I wondered if he had already waved it at them and put it down or if it was there to purely try and intimidate them.
I wanted to laugh at the absurdity of the situation, three grown men acting like a school teacher and two naughty pupils waiting to be caned. As I looked at Edward his face was red and the vein in his forehead throbbing, his blood pressure was probably off the scale at the moment and I needed to deflate the situation without causing Edward to lose face.
"You should punish me not them, I was the one who screwed up, I was sure we'd seen the last of Jarvis. I under estimated the situation" I moved towards the desk and leaned over to whisper in his ear
"I've been a bad bad girl; maybe I need a thorough spanking to show me the error of my ways?" I knew it was low enough that they hadn't heard but the low feral growl that emanated from Edward gave the game away. Seth didn't help matters sniggering like a school boy. Edward roared, picked up his gun and fired. Luckily Seth ducked and the bullet embedded in the wall behind him. The office door flew open and several different people including Emmett all poured into the office guns drawn.
"It's okay everyone calm down," I shouted as general chaos seemed inevitable. Seth and Quil stood stock still never taking their eyes off Edward's trigger finger. He was still pointing the gun at them and everyone was waiting to see what was going to happen next.
"All of you get the fuck out of my sight." He screamed as he finally lowered the gun and flicked the safety back on. Quickly and remarkably quietly the office emptied leaving just the two of us. As the last person left and closed the door I watched him deflate and slump down into his chair.
"Does that extend to me as well?" I wouldn't have been surprised or even offended if it did, I'd caused this whole mess.
"I don't know whether I want to scream at you, fuck you or spank you at this moment?" His voice was low and gruff and I could see he was struggling with his thoughts and emotions.
"I won't do anything like that again I promise, I've really learnt my lesson this time." I sat on the desk top facing him. I was close enough that my legs brushed his arm as I crossed them. He let out a sigh and rested his hand on my thigh.
"Isabella it would have been easy for Jarvis to pick you up again today and take you in for questioning. You have already had a taste of the lengths he will go to to try and make you talk. If I were in his position I would have reasoned that as you were still here, with me, that you had told me everything you talked about and to gain your respect I would have spilled some secrets about my business in return. He will pick you up again soon to see if you have anything to tell him."
"I promise I will make sure I'm accompanied at all times and that I will be on my best behaviour, well outside anyway" I was trying to lighten the mood and calm him down and hopefully it was working.
"Isabella I need to work, I'll see you later, why don't you take Rosie into the theatre room and have a girly evening, she can't have a conventional hen party tonight but you can get Mrs B to sort you out some champagne and whatever, go watch a chick lit or whatever they are called" He was dismissing me and deep down I understood that but I wasn't letting him off that easy. I made my way to the door and as I was half way through I stopped and looked back at him "Do you have any decent porn Rosie and I can watch on the big screen?" I closed the door and as I walked down the corridor I heard him roar my name.
Rosie and I settled down in the theatre room later in our yoga pants and sweat tops. We knew no one would bother us other than Mrs B and she had enough on trying to get a dinner together for the wedding tomorrow. Seth had found a minister happy to come out to the house and perform the ceremony, the paperwork had somehow been rushed though and sorted by Jasper so all Rosie and I had to do was show up in the garden tomorrow at 6.00pm. We had decided we needed a giggle so we were busy looking through the extensive library Edward had both in his private collection and on Netflix. We'd decided on Bridesmaids to start and then Rosie wanted to do the Twilight Saga as they were her favourite films. Just as the first film started Alice breezed into the room carrying two bottles of champagne, a huge box of chocolates and what smelt like a fresh batch of cup cakes.
"Sorry I'm late ladies I only got the message about the impromptu celebration half an hour ago." Edward or Emmett must have called her, I never even thought about calling here, it will take me a while to get used to the fact I've now got two sisters in law.
The evening passed quickly with lots of laughs and drooling over the films. Alice turned Bridesmaids off and told Rosie it would give her nightmares, she brought up Magic Mike instead. The tone of the evening livened up as we danced along with Channing Tatum, taking it in turns to copy his moves. We seemed to get much better as the night went on and the champagne lowered our inhibitions. By the time we were half way through Magic Mike XXL it didn't really matter what was happening on screen, three bottles of champagne, several cup cakes and half a bottle of tequila we found behind the bar in the theatre room made for one hell of a night.
The next morning the tequila didn't seem such a great idea. I wasn't sure how I'd got from the theatre room to my bed but I was definitely in bed and naked apart from my panties. I had a vague recollection of dancing for Edward and stripping off my sweatshirt but other than that nothing. I groaned and looked at my bedside clock, it was 10.00am and I'm sure Alice mentioned something about being at her spa this afternoon. It was too early to even think about that, I took a drink of the water that had appeared by my bedside and snuggled back down for a few hours.
EPOV
I was still laughing after the watching the tapes of what went off last night, the three of them got absolutely smashed and had obviously forgotten about the security cameras. I saw a whole new side to Isabella as she knocked back glass after glass of champagne and then start on the tequila. I wasn't that happy at the films they were watching, I thought she was joking about the porn but apparently not. I'd put her to bed in the early hours after Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle and I had gone over the plans for Jacob Black and were happy we'd covered every avenue that could open up. As we broke up the meeting and had a drink and a cigar with Emmett, one of the security guys rang through and advised us to check the feed from the house. We had quite a giggle watching them stumble around trying to copy some dance moves when none of them even capable of standing up properly. As Alice started to remove her top, Jasper jumped up and raced to stop her, we followed after him to be greeted with the three girls stumbling about and screaming with laughter. It took a while and several attempts but I finally got Isabella stripped off and in to bed. I watched her until she fell asleep and I couldn't help but marvel at how much I loved her. She had bought warmth and laughter into my home and my heart and once again I wondered about whether we could have a double wedding tomorrow.
I was up and out early the next morning. Emmett, Seth, Quil and I were going visiting and just as my mother had taught me we went bearing gifts. The streets around Jacob Blacks apartment were quiet but he had obviously stepped up security. He had spotters on every corner and as soon as we pulled onto the street, even with my blacked out windows, you couldn't fail to see the chain working as the message was passed along I was on the block.
"Boss are you sure you want to walk straight in there, you know part of the deal is you have to die in a botched assassination attempt?" Seth asked as he drew the car to a standstill. I looked along the sidewalk, the area was mainly residential, a few neighbourhood stores, nothing that was a recognised chain. I was surprised the residents hadn't tried to move him on, there were kids playing out and about and elderly neighbours sat outside the local cafe sipping drinks. It was downtime America; we could have been anywhere really.
"I need to deal with this, set an example to anyone else who thinks they can take me out." I was not going to back down from this, I needed to face it head on.
"Okay Boss how do you want to play this?" Quil asked as we watched all of Black's 'gang' coming back to the apartment. The idiot didn't even give any thought to the fact we could barricade the door and burn them all while they sat wondering what I was up to. I wouldn't do that because we knew there were several other families that lived in the block that would be home now. Jasper had been thorough in his research and we knew who lived in each apartment and a basic knowledge of their movements.
"Okay you all know what you need to do, let's get this done so Emmett can get married" Seth and Quil got out of the car and nodded to the second car that had followed us in. Garrett got out and took Seth's place in the driver's seat. We waited until the activity on the street had slowed down and we were sure that all of Black's crew were in the apartment. Emmett sent a text to Seth then crushed the cheap plastic phone, wiped it clean and as we got out of the car he dropped it down the drain. Seth and Quil reappeared and we made our way into the apartment building.
"Everything okay?" I asked as we waited outside the apartment door.
"Just give it another minute or two to reach all of them and make sure they are all out."
Quil placed his ear against the door, "Can't hear anything Boss"
"Okay are you sure it's safe for us to go in, the last thing we need is for us to go under as well?" Emmett was not happy about what we had done, he just wanted to pull Black off the street, but this way we had everyone together. Seth had put a pipe under the door, and had pumped sleeping gas into the apartment. We knew we had about 30 minutes before anyone was able to move and wake up.
"It's safe but just to be sure we wear the masks. " Quil handed out what looked like contractors masks which had a small filter on the front. We all put the masks on and Emmett stepped forward and using this ever present bag of tools had the locked door open in seconds. The scene that met us was laughable. Twelve grown men all fast asleep spread out on the old sofas, the floor and a couple of recliners. We quickly got to work, donning clear plastic all in one cover-all that could easily be discarded and would keep the blood splatters off our skin and clothes. We would burn everything as soon as we were done but in the meantime we kept our hair and skin covered.
"Okay we need to take out Black and five more of the guys under him, Emmett pointed them out and we all nodded agreeing with him. Within five minutes Emmett had cut the throats of all six, one deep stroke for each of them that cut through both the vein and artery on either side of the neck.
The victims never woke up and the blood spray from the five of them made the room look like some acid tripping artist had thrown red paint everywhere. The smell caught in the back of my throat as I watched Emmett at work, it smelt like I would expect an abattoir to. The air was full of the rusty, salty smell of raw meat that anyone who barbeques regularly would have recognised.
"All done, let's get out of here." Quil opened the apartment door and checked the hallway, there was no one around so we calmly left the apartment and Emmett relocked the door. As we got down onto the next landing we all took the masks and coverall off, pushing them into a bag Seth had ready.
Did I feel remorse, Fuck No; they were planning on killing me and Carlisle and for a fucking measly million bucks. This sent a message, I knew what was happening around me and anyone who wanted to mess with me paid the price.
We waited in the foyer for Seth to bring the Range Rover up to the building door and then we calmly left the scene. After a quick visit to the clean up warehouse, we all showered changed every item of clothes we had on and set the incinerator going. Everything was burned, shoes included.
"Right let's get the fuck out of here, I have a wedding to get to" Emmett shouted as he made his way to the door. I looked at my watch, it was 10.30am and we had already dealt with the important business for the day.
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As ever, thank you to the incredible LL for making this readable and putting up with me sending her random questions at all hours of the day.
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