Thank you all for waiting patiently for an update, i just wanted to note something that no one had brought up yet, in the first chapter I noticed I named Aro as head of the Vulturi family, that was a mistake, Garrett is head of the Vulturi Family, Aro is a Cullen, i will be fixing that as soon as I can restore Chapter one as it somehow was deleted from my files, enjoy the story, blessed be!

Alice POV

I tried in vain to smooth down my disheveled hair, I glared at the demon sitting on Jasper's lap in the passenger's seat, I had been right, once in the exam room shadow had made a nuisance of herself and hopped all around the room, refusing to let anyone catch her. She had knocked down half of the equipment, ripped a part of the vet's coat, tripped anyone who tried to grab her around the middle, pee'd on the assistant who made the rookie mistake of grabbing her By her backside. Pooped on the vet's shoes,

Then somehow escaped the room leading us to search the entire clinic for her, before we finally got back to the original exam room ONLY TO SEE HER SITTING RIGHT ON THE EXAM TABLE!

The vet had done the exam while Jasper fed shadow a grape, when she finished she all but threw us out of the clinic. Now that demon was sitting there, happy as can be because she refused to get into her cage.

Ten minutes later I parked in front of the entrance to B's place, I looked directly at shadow trying to come up with a way to get the demon to behave. Suddenly I had an idea, "Shadow, you had plenty of grapes today, now, if you're a good girl and get in the cage without a fuss, I'll give you one whole orange slice, I know you haven't had one in months." I offered, Grapes were shadows' favorite treat, however, she was almost obsessed with oranges, B had stopped giving them to her because she couldn't trust herself to give them in moderation when shadow looked at her with wide bunny eyes.

The demon wiggled her nose slightly before quietly hopping into the back and backing herself into her cage. I smiled, success!

Bella's POV

After finishing dinner I laughed when Edward suggested we become a cliche and finish the date with a movie. I had a better idea. "Do you have Hulu?" I asked. "Yes, why?" he asked. I smiled happily. "I'm addicted to Amish haunting," I said. He looked confused. "What's, Amish haunting?" he asked.

I gasped in horror. "You don't know what Amish haunting is? It's only the best show ever, closely followed by Supernatural, and it only beats out the hottie brothers cause it's real stories and not a show revolving around legends." I said seriously. I was shocked that he had never heard of it, but that only meant that I had the chance to educate him on all things Amish haunting.

He rolled his eyes. "C'mon, you can't really believe in all that ghost crap can you?" he asked. I glared at him. "Yes, I do believe it, are you one of those idiots who believe that spirits never enter our world or some such rot? I'll have you know I had a friend in middle school, Lina, we weren't super close, and she moved away before high school began but her house was haunted.

Her best friend Sarah and I stayed over at her house one night, we decided to dye our hair with kool-aid, and while we were putting it in her hair we heard someone climbing the stairs, Sarah went to check but no one was there. then later there was knocking on her door but there was no shadow coming in from her hall, we were so freaked we all slept in her bed and surrounded the bed with salt. Then the next morning she told us that that stuff happened all the time." I said seriously.

He still looked skeptical, but it was obvious he didn't want to upset me. "Agree to disagree, let's go back to my place and watch your show then," he said diplomatically. I huffed but knew I wasn't going to win this one, privately I resolved that if we had a second date I would research some famous haunted locations in the area to

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The next day I woke up and felt something small and cool wiggling on my face, i grimaced and opened my eyes to see Shadow quite rudely sitting on my chest and nuzzling against my face, I checked my phone and saw that it was 10 am, "Fuck!" i said under my breath as I sat up slowly, being sure to hold onto my demanding Angel.

After setting her on the floor I rushed to the kitchen and quickly put together some salad, diced up tomato and hay for her to eat before hopping into the shower, I had a few cases of Merlot coming in today as well as some new kitchen equipment that James had suggested for the kitchen, and I only had an hour to get ready, I also remembered that Victoria and Emily were coming in as well so i could see which position suited them, while we hardly needed two more workers but the bar could afford it and if i could get one on bar and one on tables than we certainly would be speeding up our service, not to mention after what had happened last month,

It wouldn't hurt to have the extra hands if we ever got an unusually large crowd like we did that Friday. I also had to have a little talk with Alice about her and her Beau trying their hand at matchmaking, I understood that she was just trying to do something nice, but that was no excuse for tricking me on the date, it didn't matter that the date turned out to be fine, baring the walking STD that was our hostess, I even somehow avoided the temptation to jump Edwards bones at his house, it helped that i was focused on educating him on good television. It certainly didn't help that he was sex on legs and had unbuttoned a few of the top buttons on his shirt. I shook my head, how did i go from thinking about having a word with Alice to Edward's sex appeal?

I really needed to get my head together. After finishing my shower I quickly choose an outfit for the day, i looked through my closet and eventually settled on a mint green peasant blouse with flared sleeves and black tights, as the blouse was long and stopped just past my ass I added a thick black belt and brown lace-up ankle boots.

A quick glance at the clock told me I only had ten minutes to be down at the entrance of the bar for my deliveries, so i quickly brushed through my hair and left it down as i hurried downstairs. While locking my door I huffed in frustration as I once again felt as if someone was watching me. Taking out my phone I acted like I was fiddling with it as i opened my camera and turned it to face me, angling it so i could just see over my shoulder i checked the area

my eyes narrowed as I noticed a disheveled looking man fidgeting and staring at me from around thirty paces away, he was poking his head out from behind one of the large trash bins, clearly trying to be stealthy and failing at it, I turned around but by the time i looked he had put his head back, i debated going and confronting him before deciding against it as i didn't know if he had a weapon, i slowly turned back around and hurried towards the bar entrance, while i kept a gun in my purse i almost never loaded it unless i felt the need to,

When the staff came in I would warn them about this lurker, he was probably a petty thief looking for a soft target, i also made a mental note to warn my tenants, the family had small children and one of the college kids was rather petite, just on the off chance he was something worse

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Edwards POV

I slammed my fist on the table as I dismissed another one of my men, that fucker Diego had the balls to send another of his street rats into my club, this is just what I didn't need before a meeting with Garrett, the Head of the Volturi family, i took a deep breath to calm myself down, the Vulturi Family had been friends with my family for generations, they had even moved our Organizations over from Italy together, but now their ways were interfering with the running of my businesses.

Before I could start thinking of a plan of action Garrett came strolling in, he was a few years younger than my father yet never quite managed to fully act like an adult with three grown children, everyone knew his wife Kate was the disciplinarian in their relationship, despite that, he was a damn good head of house.

"Edward! Good to see you, young man, Now, what can I help you with, hmm?" he asked in a cheerful voice, i rolled my eyes, sometimes i thought he and my grandfather were cut from the same cloth, except Garett was a bit more on the sarcastic side at times. "It's about that penny pushing wannabe Diego, he's sent his street rats into my clubs twice now, I know you have dibs on him, and i respect the fact that you have your own way of doing him in, but I can't continue letting this go unanswered, now I'll be sending him a little message in the form of his rats dick in a box, with the suggestion that he fuck himself.

That would let anyone with brain cells know that I'm not going to take their crap, but I'm quite sure Diego has no brain and so I'm warning you that if he sends one more of his rats onto my property again, i will conveniently forget that you have a prior claim and put a bullet in him." I said calmly as i Pinned Garrett with a hard stare.

Garrett pinched his lips in a tight scowl before letting out an angry sort of huff. "I can't very well blame you if you do end up shooting the fucker, tell you what, I still want to kill him my way, but if he sends another rat into your business or anything like that, I'll give you leave to deal with him, our family alliance is more important than drawing out that idiots death," Garrett said.

I nodded my thanks, suddenly Garrett grinned, "So, what's this I hear about you having a girl now, hmmm? Ben will be so disappointed." Garrett teased, i snorted and rolled my eyes, Ben was Garretts Eldest son and next in line to take over the family since his older sister Bree had passed up the throne, he was also about as straight as a double rainbow,

He was a good friend and would be a better one if he stopped jokingly complaining about the fact that I was straight every time we were within ten feet of each other. "Yes i do, Ben will just have to get over it," I said as i rolled my eyes.

Bella's POV

I rolled my eyes at Alice, "You're being ridiculous, it was one date, we're not getting married." i said. Alice huffed. "All I'm saying is that you two are perfect for each other! You could be soul mates!" she squealed. I shook my head as I wiped down the table, we were currently an hour from service and everyone was getting ready, i had Leah helping Vicky learn the ropes and I had Rose helping Emily learn a few of our most popular drinks

"Alice, have you been reading trashy Romance novels again?" I asked. The pout on her face told me all i needed to know. "But B, I'm serious! You guys just Click, like magnets!" she exclaimed i looked skyward, Circe knows why i put up with this demonic pixie. "Look, the first three weeks of our acquaintance consisted of me rejecting him then taking his money-" here Victoria snorted from two tables over and I shot her a mock glare. "- that's hardly an indication of star-crossed lovers," i said dryly.

Alice opened her mouth to reply when suddenly we heard a scream rip through the bar, my head shot towards the entrance where the sound had come from, my eyes widened as i realized some psycho was manhandling Leah just outside the doorway. Without skipping a beat i ran to the bar and pulled out my gun, glad i had loaded it after coming in this morning.

"Hey!" i shouted, pointing my gun at him, The psycho looked up and scoffed. "You don't have the balls to shoot me, princess, do you know who i am?" He asked arrogantly, my face hardened as i cocked my gun, "Yeah, you're the dumb ass motherfucker that's about to become a stain on the pavement if you don't let her go, now," I growled, stressing the last word.

He glared at me, "Look, doll, this is between me and Leah, so why don't you put that thing down and- FUCKING BITCH" he yelled as I pulled the trigger, he quickly released Leah to double over and clutch at his manhood, or what was left of it. James who had hung back quickly rushed forward and tackled the Douche. Before James could restrain him, some punks that I assumed were the psycho's friends rushed up and got involved, one of them pushed James off of the psycho while the other two grabbed the psycho around the middle and hauled him over to a waiting van, I shot at the one closest to James and nailed him in the shoulder.

"Fuck! Let's get out of here! This bitch is crazy! That whore ain't worth it!" he yelled, before I could get another shot in they all scrambled into the van as it began to drive off, I was more concerned with my friend. I unloaded my gun before sticking it in my bag and rushed over to where the other girls and James were comforting Leah

A few hours later, the cops that Victoria had the decency to call had just left, they probably would have been here longer if the responding officers hadn't realized that i was Charlie Swan's daughter, apparently, my dad often helped than out with 'Tips' in regards to certain offenders and now they were eager to help out "Charles' little girl" I didn't really care, as long as it got me out of any trouble i might've been in for firing my gun.

Luckily we only had to open up a bit later after I cleaned the blood up. I sent Leah home early, she had gotten a shock and was eager to see her kid, Eric, I wasn't an idiot, I knew that asshole had to know Leah, he seemed way too familiar with her, but that shit wasn't any of my business, for all i knew he was just some psycho ex, nothing special happened during service, and I tried to tell myself i wasn't disappointed that Edward and his friends hadn't come in as they had been for the past few weeks, maybe i would call him tomorrow, I had decided earlier that we wouldn't open tomorrow, I was sure everyone needed a day off after what had happened earlier.

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I awoke to a very annoying knocking on my door. I had no idea who it could be waking me up at, I looked at the clock and groaned, " Alright I'm coming!" I shouted, whoever it was had better have a damn good reason for waking me up at one in the morning. I opened my door and gaped at the sight in front of me,

There stood Leah, wearing sweats and a thin coat holding her son who was fast asleep in her arms, Iwith a bag slung over her shoulder, she looked disheveled and dead on her feet. Mindful of the sleeping child i quickly, and quietly ushered her into the room. "Ok, first, go put Eric down in the guest room, it's that door on the right," I said, pointing in its direction, she nodded and smiled gratefully at me as she walked past.

My mind was going a mile a minute, wondering what was going on, why she looked like she would just topple over from sheer exhaustion any minute and how in the hell did she get into the building. A moment later she came back and silently followed me as i gestured to my couch, once we sat down she started talking without my prompting.

"I'm sorry I showed up here out of the blue, but i didn't know where else to go, two weeks ago Diego started showing up at my aunt's house and raising a fuss, he said some shit about how all the big mafia men had families and how he needed one too to be taken seriously, I slammed the door in his face, after years of no contact he finally wants to be in Eric's life, and on top of that, he wants to drag Eric into the middle of all his crime shit with the drugs and whatever the fuck else he does.

I couldn't believe his audacity, but he came back the next day, and the next, and the next, My aunt was getting fed up but i told her I'd handle it, I thought everything would cool down and after a few weeks, Diego would see that having a family wouldn't somehow shoot him into the top echelons of the crime world.

Shows what I know, earlier today he broke into my aunt's house and trashed the place demanding to know where I was, she only knew the address of my day job, he went there and caused a whole scene, yelling at and harassing workers until someone told him i worked at your bar in the evenings, that's how he knew where to find me.

I only found this out earlier today, when I went home after I left, my aunt had packed up all of our stuff and left it on the sidewalk, by the time i got there a lot of our clothes had been taken, especially mine, I didn't even bother to take what was left before I knocked on the door, my aunt opened it, told me what happened than told me to take Eric and get the hell out of her house, Eric was on the couch crying his eyes out, I went and called around at the hotels but none of them had any rooms i could afford,

I then got a call from my day boss, informing me that I was fired, and maybe I should leave the psycho boyfriend at home when I found my next job. I called Alice but she's currently staying with her boyfriend while her apartment is being repaired after her upstairs neighbor let the water overflow. Alice knew I didn't have a car to drive to rose's so she told me about the spare key you keep under the rock in the flower pot,

That when i came here, please, if you could just let us stay for a few days until I figure something out…" she trailed off, I was pissed, I was pissed at her fucking aunt and that cocksucker Diego, and whoever her other fucking boss was. " I took a deep breath and stood up. "Let's get you in the shower and then into some clean clothes, then tomorrow we'll co out and get a key made for you, you and Eric are going to be staying here until you can fully get back on your feet, no ifs, ands, or buts about it," I said sternly

Her eye's widened a fraction, "Bella, no, I can't afford to pay you any rent-" here I cut her off. "Did I ask you if you could afford to pay anything? Not that I'd ever let you, you need to do what's best for Eric, and what's best for him is for you two to stay here, that's final." I said, narrowing my eyes at ner. Tears welled up in her eyes as she rushed forward to hug me.

"Thank you," she said softly. "Anytime/" I replied as I led her towards the bathroom, I would also get into contact with a security company to fit a new system into place throughout the building. I'd be damned if I let some wannabe druggie get in here and harm one of my girls, or tenants, let that Diego come sniffing around here if he wanted if I ever saw him again, the next bullet was going between his eyes