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Chapter 15

BPOV

Release

It was so hard to make Edward leave. I just wanted him to take me into his big strong arms and tell me everything was going to be okay. As soon as Emmett and Jasper followed him out that door I started ugly crying in the worst way.

Rose and Alice rushed to my side and helped me waddle to the couch. Rose held me in her arms while Alice stroked my hair back from my face. "Oh Bells, are you sure you made the right decision?" Alice asked softly.

I felt Rose's grip around me tighten for comfort as she said, "You know we support you no matter what your decision. And I am so not taking that buffoon's side but he looked very destroyed, sweetie. I'm not sure I've ever seen a man look more broken."

The sobs came harder. It should make me feel better that they thought Edward looked as wrecked as I thought he did. But it didn't. No matter how much pain he caused me, I never wanted him to feel any kind of pain. I loved him too much for that.

But if I truly loved him…why would I cause him the pain of keeping his children from him? He just said things had changed and I wouldn't give him a chance to explain. If I was being honest with myself, I was being completely selfish. I knew in my heart the only reason I would keep them from him now is to avoid the hate he will feel for me when he learns the truth. But how is that fair to him or our children?

Maybe it was time for him to know the truth.

It wasn't long before Emmett and Jasper were back in the apartment. They must have seen the state the three of us were in on the couch and decided to leave us be because the guys were silent and went straight to the kitchen to work on devouring the food they had brought.

My tears were finally starting to fade for now, when I heard my door open again. "Hey Em, Jazz, can you guys head downstairs and grab the rest of the paint? I bit off more than I could chew trying to get it up here by myself," I heard my mom say.

Mom made her way over to where we were on the couch as the Emmett and Jasper made their way to get the paint as she requested. "Ladies, would it be alright if I pull my daughter into her room for a little mother daughter chat?"

We all nodded and Rose released her hold on me and they helped me up from the couch so I could go spill everything to the woman I hoped beyond hope would have all the answers for me. Flighty as my mother could be, she always had great advice to give me my entire life. Certainly she would be able to help me now.

She helped me get comfortable in my bed and then crawled in beside me and held me in her arms, stroking my hair as she always did when I was upset as a child.

"Bells, that man on the steps downstairs that I just met, he's the father of my grandbabies, isn't he?"

I closed my eyes and let the tears begin to fall once again as I nodded.

I told my mom, everything. Everything about how Edward had a wife when we were together, how we carried on for six months knowing what we were doing was wrong, how careless we were with protection, how Edward did not want children, just everything. She did not speak while I told her what a whore her baby girl had been sleeping with a married man. I saw no judgment what so ever in her eyes. She held me tighter and listened to every word I had to say. She waited a few moments after the last thing I said before she finally spoke.

"Oh sweetheart…that man loves you."

I shook my head aggressively as I raised my voice, "No…he doesn't. He couldn't Mom. I was his second choice! He never wanted me the way he said he did. He chose her! He wanted her! He loves her! We just are not meant to be. Our relationship was tainted from the start because of how it started. I was so stupid! I was his second choice!"

"Honey, then why is he here? If you are his second choice, why is he here now? Look, I'm not condoning the way you two started things in any way! I will scold you for that at a later time when you are not in such a delicate condition. But it seems to me if he truly loved his wife and had chosen her with all his heart he would not be here begging for you to talk to him. I didn't see a ring on his finger Bells."

No, he wouldn't have one. The message he sent me before said he was finally free of Tanya that it was finished. They had gotten divorced.

"They got divorced," I said softly.

"Does he know he's the father of the twins?"

I was completely silent. My mother was not going to be happy when I told her I had refrained from sharing that crucial information with Edward.

"Bella?" My mom pushed.

"No," I said so quietly it was barely a whisper.

"NO!?" Renee screeched in a raised voice. "Isabella Marie Swan! How could you not tell that man that he is the father of these children? No matter what has happened between the two of you he at least deserves to know he is about to be a father! I suspected this might be the case but I kept trying to tell myself my daughter would never be this deceitful about something such as this!"

How could she be mad at me for this? I told her how Edward never wanted to be a dad.

"Did you completely miss the part I told you about Edward not wanting kids? What would be the point in telling him he is going to be a father when he has NO desire to be?"

"The point? Isabella, the point is your children deserve to have a father! And their father deserves to know they belong to him. If he doesn't want to be in their lives, that's on him. But it's not fair at all for you to not even give him the chance to know he is going to be a dad. I'm so disappointed, Isabella. Charlie and I never raised you to be so selfish."

As much as I wanted to disagree with everything my mother had just said, I couldn't. She was so right. But now I was not sure how to get myself out of the mess I had made. What if Edward found out and hated me? Or worse…what if he found out and wanted to take them from me? I had to seriously think about this before I opened up a can of worms that I wasn't prepared to handle.

"Mom, I want to get some sleep now. I'm extremely tired. Can you ask everyone to leave please? We will have to work on the room another day."

I removed myself from her embrace and rolled over to my side and closed my eyes. I felt her kiss my forehead as she said, "I love you sweetheart. Get some rest and we will talk more tomorrow. But I'm not letting this go. Edward deserves to know the truth. And I'm sorry to say Bella…but if you don't make the right decision to tell him…I will." I felt her place a kiss on my belly and then heard her leave the room closing the door behind her.

How could she threaten me with telling Edward the truth? That was my truth to tell…not hers! I just needed to free my mind of everything. I was getting agitated.

I heard the hushed tones of talking out in the living room and tried to ignore the fact that everyone I loved was out there talking about me like I was nowhere in the apartment.

Ugh, I rolled over to my other side away from the door and placed one of my pillows over my head so I could drown out their voices. I couldn't make out what they were saying but I wasn't stupid enough to think they were not out there talking about me and my choice to not tell Edward.

My phone on the bedside table vibrated and I looked at it to see it was a message from Edward.

I love you…I've always loved you since the day we met. I'm not giving up on us. There is so much I need to say to you. I will find a way to make you see we are perfect for each other.

I couldn't deal with this right now. I had to clear my head and make a decision before my mother took away my options. I just sent him a simple message asking him to please stop for just right now.

All I wanted to do was go to sleep and have sweet dreams of my beautiful babies and the wonderful life the three of us were going to have together.

I was awakened by the sound of a baby crying…make that two babies crying. They were sounding off in unison and I was trying to get to them. I ran towards their nursery for what felt like forever.

By the time I got into their room, their cries were silenced. I rushed to their cribs and I did not see them in there where they should have been.

Where were my children?

"Bella," I heard Edward say.

I spun around and saw him standing in the doorway holding a baby in each arm. How did he get past me? Where did he come from?

"Edward, what are you doing here? Give me the babies!"

"No Bella, they're mine."

No this wasn't happening.

"NO Edward! They are mine! I brought them into this world and I am raising them. Give me my babies NOW!"

"I don't think so Isabella. You kept them from me intentionally. Now it's my turn to keep them from you!" With that, he turned and left the room with my sweet boy and beautiful girl. I stood there frozen. I could not budge from where I was.

Why couldn't I move?

Work legs, work! I've got to go after them. I have to get my babies!

Finally, I was able to will my body to fucking move and chase after him. Before I even understood what was happening I felt my legs come out from under me. I was rolling down one…two…three…four flights of stairs.

Where the hell did all these stairs come from?

When I finally reached the bottom all I felt was this mind numbingly horrific pain. I felt like my body was being ripped apart.

What was happening to me?

I jolted up from my position in my bed screaming out in pain, holding my stomach. I tried breathing in and out, in and out. No…no…no…this couldn't be. I couldn't be in labor. It was too soon wasn't it?

I grabbed my phone from my bedside table and dialed my mom. She lived the closest to my apartment, conveniently one street over.

"Bella, its three in the morning, are you okay?" is how she answered the phone.

"MOM! It hurts! I need you!" The pain eased up and I dropped the phone and collapsed back down to the bed to try to rest. If this really was labor I was going to need all of the rest I could get.

I heard my mom barreling through the apartment and bust into my room. "Sweetie, are you okay."

"I'm fine Mom, just in…so…much…pain. But it comes and goes and then it comes again. It feels like I'm being ripped apart."

She chuckled, "Oh sweetie, you haven't felt anything yet. Honey, you're in labor. Where's you're go bag? We need to get you to the hospital. The babies are coming! Yay!"

"NO! They can't come yet, it's too early. They have to stay in Mom!"

"Bells, twins usually come early. It's perfectly fine. The babies will be great! YOU will do great! But we have to get you out of here."

She tried helping me up from the bed once she had my bag over her shoulder. "Mom, wait! You have to call Dad, and Leah, they have to be here. Oh no, you have to call my friends too!"

She laughed again, "Bells we will take care of this from the car. Right now I need you to breathe and I need you to help me get you into the car. I really wish Phil was here! But he is out of town with the team damn it. He could just scoop you up and carry you to the car."

We both were laughing when we finally made it into her car. As soon as she was driving she began dialing everyone.

My dad and Leah were coming as fast as they could. They called the airlines and were told that there may be a delay in them getting a flight due to some plane issues. But they were working on getting here as soon as possible.

Mom and I both had to cover our ears at the squeal Alice let out when we called them. "My niece and nephew are on the way! I can't wait to be an Auntie and spoil them rotten! I'm shoving Jazz awake now and we will be on our way!"

My mom tried to tell her that it could be soon or it could be awhile, you never know with babies apparently they have a mind of their own. But Alice had already ended the call and was most likely on her way.

Rose was equally excited and said that she and Emmett would be there as soon as she could get him awake enough to get out the door.

It wouldn't take the four of them long to get to the hospital and I would have Mom right by my side.

Unfortunately there was one thing missing that I was needing so desperately.

Edward.

Author's Note: I'm going to try my best to post updates this weekend so I don't leave you hanging. But I do have a teaser ready to go as well.

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