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Author Note: Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans!

Chapter 22

BPOV

It was the day before the wedding and I was getting a little nervous. I wasn't nervous over the fact of marrying Edward. I was nervous about getting through the ceremony and reception. Also the rehearsal dinner was tonight. Oh did I mention I was being a thrown a bridal shower today? And the day before the wedding? So a lot of things going on in a 48 hour period and I'm supposed to remain calm? Yeah no problem….

Well to be honest I was also nervous about the wedding night. Edward wasn't pressuring me. We had also an unspoken agreement to hold off sex till we were married, and even then Edward was fine with waiting if I wasn't ready. Well truth be told, I was ready, damn it! But I nervous because I wasn't really sexually experienced…

"BELLA!" I heard my name being called which snapped me out of my thoughts

"Uh yeah?"

"Have you not been listening to me? You also looked like you were in pain... Are you okay?" Alice asked.

"Um yeah. Just thinking." I rambled.

"Well I am almost done with hair. And I was asking if you have gotten to meet all of the famiglia?" She asked.

She was referring to the Italian relatives that had flown in a few days ago.

"I've meet all the great-aunts and some of the cousins, well the female cousins. I haven't meet any of the men. Edward says they have been meeting a lot with Carlisle. I've meet majority of the kids... I think.."

Alice giggled. "Yeah it's a lot. Carlisle's father had 8 siblings who married and each couple had about 6 kids a piece and they had children and those children had children." She said. dramatically.

"It's a lot of family. Is it expected to have so many children?" I asked slowly.

"No, it's more of an Italian thing. Esme only had three. Rosalie and I will probably stop around three also." She said causally.

"Oh okay…" I said quietly.

"Why? Do you already have baby fever?" Alice said with a smirk.

"Uh, no. I mean I wouldn't mind a baby.. I…just…" I was tripping all over my words and blushing.

Alice just laughed. "It's fine."

Alice finished my hair and doing everything else to make sure I looked "fabulous" for the bridal shower. Her words not fine. Personally I think she just liked using me as a life sized Barbie. I'm not sure how much time passed before I heard her exclaim that she was done.

Now off to the bridal shower…..

Alice, Esme, and Rosalie had decorated the place really nice. I think some the Italian relatives had a hand in to, but I wasn't sure. It was being hosted in the Cullen building of course. Cullen building it what I referred to this place as. All the Cullens lived here(an entire floor for each couple and kids), they had a gym, shooting range, dining hall, and a bunch of other stuff that I was still finding out about. Edward and I were getting married in one the many spaces.

The space we were currently in for the bridal shower was bigger then I expected. On the far end, the wall was entirely glass. On the other side of the glass was a room where all the young kids currently were. Esme had assured me Liam would be fine with nannies. With the glass we could see everything happening. It designed so they couldn't see us unless some switch was flipped. I wasn't crazy about having a stranger watch Liam, but Esme said the nannies had rigorous background checks and been with the family for awhile. Alice then brought up that I was to enjoy the bridal shower and wouldn't be able to if I was worrying non-stop about Liam.

The shower soon started and we got to work on the finger food first. Everyone chatted and conversation flowed nicely. Alice then announced that we were going to play a game. She handed out pens and worksheets. There were a series of names and the object was to match up the famous couples. After the game was over, Alice said we would open a few gifts. I got a few traditional Italian gifts along with marriage advice books. I then opened a box and inside was a beautiful necklace that looked very old. I was dumbfounded and then heard Esme.

"It's one of the family heirlooms. It originally came from Italy."

"Thank you Esme. Wow." I said

One of the older Italian relatives spoke up, "Alice hand her the gift from me, it goes along with Esme's"

Alice then handed me a wrapped box, and inside was a earrings that matched the necklace.

"Also a family heirloom. Since you are marrying the oldest son I thought it would be appropriate for you to have them. I may not live to see another generation get married so it was time to pass it along. I would love to see you wear it tomorrow for the wedding" She said sweetly.

"Thank you. I'm honored. The set will go perfect with my wedding dress." I said while smiling.

We took a break from gifts and played another game. Alice insisted with games. I thought it was a little funny that a bunch of mafia wives were playing games like Purse Scavenger Hunt.

Alice then dictated that it was time for more gifts. The first one she gave me was a bag that had French writing on the outside with tissue paper sticking out. I looked inside and immediately started blushing.

"Come on Bella, show everybody."

I took out the lingerie, very revealing lingerie.

"There's no need to be shy." Esme said.

Uh… your going to be my mother-in-law and here I am opening expensive lingerie that your son will see me in. Yeah no need to be embarrassed.

The next 5 gifts were lingerie. I'm pretty sure I looked like a tomato by the end of it, with the way I was blushing.

Now I understood why the kids were in a separate room.

After we finished with the gifts, Alice passed out what looked to be cardstock. She told everyone to right there best marriage advice and that she was going to put them all in book for me and Edward.

After that we chatted and soon the bridal shower was coming to an end. I got Liam and Alice had someone gather all the gifts to be sent up to me and Edward's floor. I thanked everyone and then went up to the apartment since the person with the gifts couldn't get in until I was there with the card key.

EPOV

It was the day before me and Bella's wedding and I could tell Bella was nervous or stressed with it all. When I asked her about it, she said it was just that there a lot going on and a lot that she had to attend to for the next two days. I gave her a kiss and told everything would be fine.

Well everything was going fine until I got a call from a very stressed Emmett. He said I needed to get Jasper and come to the hotel. I assumed he meant the hotel we had put Jessica in. I pulled Jasper to the side and told what was going on. We excused ourselves from the company, as we had been with Carlisle and numerous Italian family members, and went to see what the fuck was wrong.

It had to be important well it had better be important. It was the day before my wedding and we had the rehearsal dinner tonight. Also I had been trying to be polite and talking to the family members I never saw. As the next Don, I needed to be on their good side and also I could learn a lot from them.

Jasper and I got to the hotel and meet a stressed out Emmett in the lobby.

"What the fuck was so important?" I said, maybe a little to harshly, but I didn't care.

"Can't discuss it here" Emmett said and then headed for the elevator.

Sure enough he took us to Jessica's floor. He then lead us to the bathroom and saw something I was not expecting. Jessica was in the bath tub, clothed, with her wrists slit. It looked like she had killed herself.

"How the fuck did this happen?" I yelled.

"I don't know! She didn't appear suicidal, even then I don't know where she would have gotten a knife, or scissors, or anything that she could have cut herself with. We made sure she didn't have any weapons." Emmett said, sounding distressed. He knew I would be pissed about this. Jessica was part of the plan to take the Volturi, and was no good dead. Emmett was also head of security and something like this didn't make him look good.

"Jasper check the cameras. She how she got a weapon. I also want to know who has had contact with her recently." I ordered.

"You think she had help?" Jasper asked.

"Maybe. I'm not also convinced it was a suicide." I said.

Jessica was a lot of things. Slut. Gold digger. All Around Bitch.

But I didn't think she was suicidal.

I barked more orders and left to go home. The rehearsal dinner was tonight and I couldn't fuck that up.