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Chapter 29

EPOV

January 8, 2009

We had no idea what was happening as we rushed to Bella's room. The doctors and nurses out in the hallway were tending to a nurse who appeared to have been shot.

Oh god, no!

Please tell me Bella and my baby are alright!

Emmett made it into the room first and I heard him screaming for Rose. When did Rose go back to the room? I will never forget the scene that I saw when we entered that room.

Bella's monitors were going crazy and she was leaning over the side of the bed gasping for air. Emmett was holding Rosalie in his arms while she was bleeding from a gunshot wound to her hip.

I ran to Bella. Emmett was calling out for our father. My screams came right after his. "Dad! Get in here please! They need help! HURRY!"

I turned my attention back to Bella. I was assessing her for injuries when Dad rushed into the room with the rest of our family. Emmett was in tears. I had never seen him look so broken before in all of my life. He was always the strong one.

He was sobbing, "Rosie, wake up. Come on baby."

"Emmett, you have to let go of her, so I can assess the damage that I am dealing with, son."

"Dad! You have to save her! Please don't let her fucking die on me! She's pregnant! I can't lose her or our baby."

This was a shock. No one knew that Rose was pregnant. She and the baby had to be alright. Another doctor and a nurse entered the room to tend to Bella. I felt Bella grasp my hand and whisper, "Go…he needs you."

I knew what she meant.

I went to my brother's side and placed my hand on his shoulder. Dad and a couple other doctors that had now come into the room were getting Rosalie up on the gurney and rushed to another room.

Emmett hugged me and sobbed. I had never seen my brother like this. It was scaring the shit out of me. "I can't lose her, Edward. I won't fucking survive this life without my Rose."

I pushed him away from me so I could look at him. I grabbed his shoulders firmly and shook him. "She…will…be…fine…Emmett! You have to have faith! Rose is not ready to leave us. We all know that! Now…you've got to be strong for your wife and your baby!"

He nodded.

"I'm going to go see where they went and find out what is happening," he told me.

"I'll come with you."

"No, you should stay with Bella. The cops are all over the place and everyone wants to know what the hell happened here."

"Okay, you're right. Let us know how she is doing."

"I will, brother."

Still EPOV

Several Hours Later

Things had finally calmed down in Bella's hospital room. She was being moved to a new room since her previous one was now a crime scene. Tanya was dead. I was a widower. I could not help but rejoice. I knew it was horrible of me, but she had caused so much pain in our lives. She had kept Bella and me apart for too long.

This also meant that I would not have to deal with a messy divorce from her. Bella and I would be able to be married sooner than we had even expected. I was thrilled!

Everyone was waiting on news about Rosalie. Mom, Jasper, and Alice were lined up along the couch in Bella's room, sleeping. Charlie was on the other side of Bella's bed, holding her hand. He was worried he would lose his baby girl. He had not left her side since the incident this morning. Tanya's stunt had shaken all of us.

Bella and I were just discussing baby names with Charlie when Emmett walked into the room. He looked like he had definitely seen better days. His cheeks were red and tear-stained. "She's going to be okay," he said softly.

The sound of his voice woke up Alice. That girl is the lightest sleeper that I know. She pulled her pregnant self from the couch and crushed her body into our brother. "I'm so glad she's alright, Em! We've been so worried."

Bella was crying. "Em, how's the baby? I will never forgive myself if…"

Emmett stopped her words and pulled himself from Alice's arms. He made his way over to the bed and hugged Bella tightly. "The baby is fine Bells. They are both great. Rose wanted me to tell you that you are not allowed to blame yourself for this or she will personally wheel herself up here to kick your ass. She wanted to protect you and she would do it all over again if she was given the opportunity."

Now, my poor Bella was completely sobbing. This day had just been too much for her. I did not want it to stress out her or the baby any more than had already been done.

"Shhh, Bells. It's alright. Everything is okay."

Jasper and Mom were awake now. "Emmett? Can I go see my sister?"

"Of course Jasper. She was asking for you." Jazz bolted from the room to go check on his twin. Emmett continued telling us what happened. "Dad was amazing you guys! He saved her! He was able to work quickly and close up the wound. He had to remove the bullet. It was intense. The wound was clean so there shouldn't be any lasting damage. I am so relieved."

"We all are sweetie," Mom said to him.

There was a knock on the door. "Come in," I said.

Seth popped his head through the door and said, "Look what I found out here!"

He opened the door further and pulled Kate fucking Denali in behind him.

You have got to be kidding me! I was about to remove myself from the post at Bella's bedside to attack this girl when my tiny, pregnant sister beat me to it.

She marched up to Kate and slapped her across the face. "You treacherous bitch! Your psychotic sister almost killed both of my sisters! I will have your ass for this!"

"I found her snooping around outside the hospital room. She was nosing around the nurse's station. I stopped her before she could do any harm," Seth said proudly.

Kate was crying. "I was not trying to do anything you nimrod! I was trying to leave a note for Bella and Edward. That's all I wanted. I wanted to…apologize."

We all looked at her as if she had sprouted a second head.

"Excuse me?" Bella asked her.

"Bella…I am so sorry. I knew Tanya was sick and disturbed…but I had no idea her mind was as messed up as it was. I loved my sister but she was insane. Most of the time, I went along with her crazy scenes because I was scared shitless of her. She started this whole thing back in high school when she saw you guys at your prom…"

What the fuck was she talking about just then?

"Wait…prom? What are you talking about, Kate? We did not go to school with you two!"

"No, but we attended your prom with boys from your school. She saw you that night and decided then and there to make Edward hers."

I could not believe what I was hearing. Everyone else had the same shocked expressions on their faces that I did.

Kate continued. "She made it her mission to figure out everything that was happening between you and Bella. When she heard that you two had decided to attend separate colleges she was ecstatic. That was when she hatched her plot that she would follow you, Edward to UCLA, and Bella, I was to follow you to Purdue. I am so sorry.

That night, when I found you crying about Tanya telling you that she and Edward were together…I pushed you to do the things you did afterwards…on purpose. We figured if you cut off your cell phone and got a new number, Edward would take that as you did not want anything else to do with him and give up on you. Which, he did."

I was fucking stupid…so very stupid. They had been playing us even longer than we thought. Bella and I had wasted so much time. We would not be wasting any more.

BPOV

January 30, 2009

The last few weeks had truly been a whirlwind. After the revelations we heard from Kate in the hospital, Edward and I were finished wasting our time together.

Exactly four days ago, we drove to Las Vegas and were married. It was the happiest day of my life…so far. I was officially Bella Cullen.

Alice was not very happy about the quickie wedding but Edward and I did not care one bit. In the end, Alice was just too thrilled about us officially being sisters to concern herself with the fact that she did not get to plan a huge affair.

All of our family was there and that was enough for us.

Today, we were finding out the sex of our baby. I was currently around eighteen weeks. Edward and I were so anxious to find out if we should be narrowing down boy names or girl ones. We did not care either way as long as the baby was healthy.

We were all shocked when we heard all of the things that Kate had told us. She assured us that she was headed back to her family's estate with Tanya's remains and would never bother us again. They had a family burial plot where they wanted her laid to rest. It sounded horrible, but I really could care less. The psycho bitch was gone and that was all I was concerned about right now.

I got my man. He was sitting right beside me, driving in our Volvo, to find out if we would have a son or a daughter. Life was perfect.

"Ready love?" Edward asked from his position beside my door. I was so lost in my own mind that I failed to notice we had arrived at the hospital. Edward was standing beside me, my door was open, and his hand outstretched in front of me to help me from the car.

I nodded, taking my husband's hand and getting out of the car.

We walked hand in hand into the office and checked in with the receptionist before we sat in the waiting room. Edward pulled me close to him on the loveseat and placed his hand gently yet firmly on my swollen abdomen. His other hand held my own as he rubbed soothing circles into my skin.

"Names," I murmured as I watched two small children, a girl and a boy playing with a set of blocks in the corner. Their mothers were both here and they were farther along in their pregnancies than I was.

I wondered briefly if our baby would look more like Edward or me. Would the baby have my eyes and Edward's bronze hair? Or would our child have Edward's emerald eyes and my mahogany hair? Either way our child would be beautiful. Genetically speaking our baby had a better chance of having my dark eyes than Edward's, but my mother had blue eyes so you never know.

"I thought we already decided this when we were in high school, no?" Edward asked, pressing a kiss into my hair.

I sighed, content with my lot in life. "I know…but that was a long time ago. Besides, my thoughts on our girl name might have changed some considering recent events. So…I have a suggestion if it is a girl. However, if we have a boy first, we can go with the name we picked out in high school. Then, with our next daughter we can use our high school name."

"How many children are we having Bella?"

"As many as God would like to bless us with and you want to impregnate me with, honey. I believe I told you that already," I said smirking at him.

Edward chuckled. I had made it perfectly clear that this was to be the first of several children for us. Alice had grinned when she overheard our conversation one night while Edward poured over blueprints for the house he was planning on building for us on his grandfather's property.

"You'll make cute babies! You have to have more than one. I want at least one of each from you two and Em and Rose," Alice had demanded that night. I had assured her there would be not be any protests from me.

"What is your idea for the girl name, Love?" Edward asked as we waited.

I had been thinking about our girl name a lot in light of the Tanya incident. I felt the name I had come up with now was just perfect for our daughter, if that was what we were having.

Before I could share my stroke of genius with my husband, we were called back to the room.

We walked, or I should say Edward walked; I waddled, to our examination room where we would get our ultrasound and hopefully find out if Alice would be decorating in blue or yellow. I had vetoed pink almost immediately.

"Ms Swan," our technician came in as I settled into the examination table.

"That's Mrs. Cullen as of four days ago," I corrected her with a grin.

"My mistake. Congratulations! Well Mrs. Cullen, Mr. Cullen let's see what you two are having shall we?"

I pulled up my shirt and the tech slathered on the cool gel, making me jump slightly before placing the wand on my stomach.

A few minutes passed and the tech talked about what we were seeing. The baby was healthy and growing as expected. When she asked if we were ready to see the sex we both nodded emphatically.

"Alright, looks like your having a…"

EPOV

The last few weeks had been a whirlwind.

Rosalie had recovered beautifully and Emmett was running around with his chest puffed out telling everyone who would listen to him that he was going to be a daddy.

Jasper, Emmett and I were even enjoying the three a.m. ice cream runs. We were all loving life and doting on our pregnant wives. We even carpooled once when the girls decided they wanted to have a ladies' weekend at Alice's house.

Sometimes I think they coordinated their craving runs.

I didn't mind though. Anything for my baby.

We ran off to Vegas four days ago, although 'ran off' really wasn't the right term since our families were present and accounted for at the ceremony. But still, we got married in Vegas and could not have been happier.

Construction on the house was going as planned and I was working with the construction company to put a rush on it so we could have it complete in time for Bella to come home to after the baby was born. Right now we were still camped in Alice's spare room.

We had tried renting an apartment to stay in until the house was finished. My sister saw the renter's circulars on the kitchen table one morning and threw one of her Alice Cullen fits. She refused to let us waste money on renting an apartment while the house was being built. She used those damn puppy dog eyes on us and there was no hope. It did not matter how cramped we were in that spare room anyway; it gave me an excuse to be even closer to my gorgeous wife, all the time.

Life was great.

The only hang up was baby names.

Yes, we talked about them in high school. Yes, we were partial to several, but still, nothing seemed to fit. Our child was going to be Baby Cullen when it was born if we didn't get our act together.

Now we were in a darkened room, the gentle heartbeat of our child was resounding through the room as the tech searched for evidence of our child's sex.

"Alright, looks like your having a… " the tech paused, double checking the screen. "Girl. Congratulations! A bouncing baby girl for the Cullens."

A girl.

A daughter.

I was going to have a daughter.

I looked at my wife and found a matching grin plastered to her face.

We looked like the biggest fools on the face of the Earth, but I could care less.

We were having a girl!

"A daughter," Bella whispered quietly, nearly reverently. I nodded before pulling her in for a gentle kiss.

Soon we were leaving the hospital with print outs of the ultrasound in hand. Bella sat in the passenger seat staring at the picture the entire drive home.

We arrived home for the first time in four days and I pulled Bella into the house and up the stairs. Alice and Jasper were gone to work and I needed my wife now. I had to show her how much I loved her.

I knew she would not protest. Her sexual appetite had been insatiable.

Entering the room we had been living in for the past few weeks I pulled Bella to the bed, our lips were moving together gently. I laid my wife back against the pillows and ran my hands down her sides. Bella moaned softly against my lips.

Slowly we undressed each other, taking our time and savoring each touch and every caress. I trailed slow kisses from her mouth to her full breasts, capturing a nipple between my lips. Bella moaned softly as I switched sides, paying equal attention to her other glorious breast.

Bella on any given day was beyond compare. She was always beautiful and perfect and the epitome of lovely. But Bella swollen with child…was absolutely exquisite.

I ran my hand down her torso, placing a gentle kiss on her swollen abdomen before traveling further down to her hot, wet heat.

"Edward," she moaned as I licked and nipped and sucked till she was a withering, orgasmic mess beneath me.

I gave Bella a chance to recover before pulling her up and I slid beneath her. Bella was splendid and perfect above me as she slid down on my cock. I groaned as I thrusted into my true home, we stayed like that for a moment before Bella, and I started a slow, easy rhythm.

We locked our eyes on one another, trying to portray our love to the other one without words. I could see my soul, my future, and my heart in her eyes. We were truly one, each and everytime that we made love.

Much too soon we were both crying out as our simultaneous releases ripped through us as we whispered our love to one another.

It was sweet and gentle and just what we needed.

BPOV

As Edward and I lay in bed after our afternoon delight, I suddenly remembered my stroke of genius.

"Edward, I never got to tell you my perfect idea for our daughter's name," I murmured quietly.

"What is your stroke of genius, Love?" Edward asked as he held me close.

"Roseanna Allison…in honor of her very protective aunts. Think about it, we would not have her if Rose had not of come into to the hospital room that day. We would not be here together if Alice and Rose had not of meddled like they usually do. Think about everything that has happened. If it were not for those two, I certainly would not be Mrs. Cullen. You would still be married to that harpy and I would be dead or in Mexico."

Edward was silent for a moment before I heard the smile in his voice.

"You are rather brilliant, Mrs. Cullen. I sure am glad that I married you."

"Why thank you Mr. Cullen…I am rather brilliant." I turned and made my way to straddle his waist. It was a little difficult to get around now that my belly was getting bigger and bigger on a daily basis. "And you better always remember that you are glad you married me. I am quite the catch."

I could feel Edward getting hard again already beneath me. "Yes, I am fully aware of what an amazing catch you are, my love. I will never be dumb and let you go again," he said in a whisper.

I shook my head and said, "No sadness Edward! Do not be sad and do not regret. Everything happens for a reason and everything that has happened led us here to this moment right now. If we had stayed together…followed each other to college as originally planned…who knows what would have happened?

We probably would have started popping out kids sooner than we were ready for, ended up hating each other, and divorced by twenty-one. I refuse to regret anything that has led me to where I am right now with you. I love you and I will never stop. You have always been my heart and my soul and I intend to keep it that way from now until forever."

I saw the tears in my husband's eyes. I felt his thumb sweep underneath my eyes. I did not realize I was crying as well when I said my little speech to him. "Oh Bella. I love you, baby."

I crashed my lips to his. This kiss was urgent and full of need. I pulled back and grinned at him mischievously. I leaned down, close to his ear, and purred, "So…Mr. Cullen…are you ready for round two? I am not going to take it so easy on you this time."

I could see the lust in his eyes as he pulled me to him tighter and growled as he said, "Oh Mrs. Cullen….do…your…worst!"

He wanted my worst…hunh? I could handle that. I knew in this moment… that everything was finally perfect. Nothing would ever come between us again.

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