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Summary: Bella and Garrett are in love before she moves to Forks to be closer to her Uncle Charlie. Garrett has to go away on business for Aro, so she attends high school. Question is...what is Bella? And why does a certain bronze haired vamp believe she is his?
Twilight AU; pairing Bella/ Garrett Rated M
Warnings: violence, lemons, language, attempted rape (may contain triggers), non-sexual spankings. Dominant Garrett
Love Me!
Chapter 3 Garrett POV
As I make my way through the crowds in the airport to the luggage claim, I am thinking about my mate and wondering how she is settling in at Charlie's and how she likes her new school. I know she really did not want to attend, but I told her she should enroll to get out of the house during the day and get some time to herself away from the responsibilities of the boys and taking care of the household. Yes we have staff to help out, but my Bella loves doing everything herself. I grab my luggage and make my way outside to find Felix waiting on me at the entrance.
"Garrett, man, it's good to see you. How are you?" he says as he gives me a man hug.
"Felix" I return the gesture. "I am doing well. I am wondering why Aro chose this week to have me come here, when he knew we were moving. Bella was not happy to have to set up the new house on her own."
Felix asked, "How are the Princess and the boys?"
I respond as we get into the dark tinted Escalade, "Other than being annoyed with her Uncle, she is doing great. She went ahead and went to Forks on Sunday and started school on Monday. She has to stay with Charlie until Saturday when the house is ready. She will have the staff there with her though. As for the boys, Jaxxon and Alexander are still a handful, but they are doing good as well. Right now, they are with their God parents driving them crazy."
"Or in the Captain's case, even more crazy than usual" he laughs.
I laugh as well. It's a running joke among us that the Major must have dropped him on his head a few times during the transformation. We love him though, the cryptic bastard. We drive the rest of the way from Florence to Volterra in companionable silence. When we reach the city, Felix drives to the underground garage and parks. There I see Afton and Heidi working on different cars. Many people believe that Heidi is just a pretty face, hence her position as being the "fisherman", but that's not true. She loves working on cars, especially muscle cars, like Peter does.
"Afton, Heidi" I greet them with a head nod to which Afton returns before going back to his work.
"Garrett. It's good to see you again" Heidi says as I kiss her cheek. "The Kings are in the main library. Go on up and Felix will take your bag to your room."
"Thank you both" I say as I make my way to the East Wing to the main library. I knock on the desk of the secretary, Gianna, as I pass her. She jumps, startled, but quickly composes herself.
"Prince Garrett!" she addressed me formally. "I didn't hear you come up."
"Gianna, what have I told you about calling me 'Prince' outside of Council meetings or any other formal gatherings, and when we are alone?" My father-in-law and his brothers insisted on crowning me 'Prince' when I mated with Bella 70 years ago. My Bella hates being called 'Princess' as well.
"Sorry Sir, force of habit" she replied.
"That's okay. I'm just headed to the library to meet with the Kings. See you later!"
"Bye!"
I continue my walk to the library at a brisk human pace. I reach the cherry wood double doors and lightly knock before entering and closing the door behind me.
"Good morning Marcus, Aro, Caius" I greet the three kings of the vampire world.
"Morning son" Marcus replies.
"Morning nephew" Aro and Caius reply together.
"Before we get down to business," Aro started, "How is my favorite niece and my two little great nephews?"
Marcus and Caius share a look and roll their eyes at their brother before Caius smirks and says, "She is your only niece Aro!"
Aro huffs and gestures wildly with his hands, "To-ma-to, Ta-ma-to. She is still my favorite, brother."
I just shake my head at them. They may be ruthless leaders, but behind closed doors with the family, they are very much typical siblings. I answer his question after some more bickering between the two younger siblings.
"She and the boys are doing great. Bella's at Charlie's until Saturday when the house is complete. She was not happy with you, Aro, for calling me out here when you knew we were moving. Now she has to set up the house herself. The boys are with the Captain and Lieutenant until Thursday of next week. Bella wanted something to do during the day outside of the house, so I suggested she go to high school. So she started yesterday."
"Well, I am sure she will love it there" Marcus stated while the other two were trying to hide their smirks and snickers.
"Okay, let's get down to business shall we?"
The week and weekend flew by with me working on many different real estate biddings and closures, tax information, and other business and personal contracts that the brothers' and guards had for me to do. I talked to Bella every night and so far she sounds like she is having fun there with Charlie and the kids at the school. The only thing is I feel like she is hiding something from me. I think I will talk to Marcus about it. I walk down the hall from my suite to his study and knock on the door.
"Come in Garrett"
"Hey Marcus, are you busy?" I ask. He is sitting by the fire place reading a thick tome. He gestures for me to sit in the large leather chair across from him as he puts the heavy book down.
"No, I am not busy and I am never too busy for my family. What's on your mind son?"
"Well, the last phone call I had with Bella sounded…off. It's like she was hiding something from me. And it sounded like it was something big, because she was almost stuttering and sounded nervous" I explain in one quick breath.
He looked thoughtful for a few minutes and then asked, "Have you called Charlie to see if he knew what was going on? Because we both know Bells only stutters when she knows she is in big trouble."
"No, I haven't thought to call him and see what's going on with her."
I pull out my phone and dial the familiar number to Charlie's house and then put it on speaker phone for Marcus (even though he can hear both sides without the gesture).
Ring, Ring
"Hello" his gruff voice answers after two rings.
"Hello Charlie, its Garrett and Marcus is here with me also. How are you doing? How are things there in rainy Forks?" I ask.
He chuckles, "Slow down Garrett, human hearing here. I am doing well and things here are boring, (meaning good) as usual. Gotta love being a small town cop sometimes. Oh, hey Marcus, how are you and everyone doing over there?"
"Hello Charlie. Everyone here is well. It's business as usual."
"Charlie, we called to see if anything was going on with Bells since she's been there. The last time I talked to her, which was yesterday, she sounded off and was stuttering. I just feel like she is keeping something from me."
"Well did she tell you about the Cullen boy? Or about the accident? I told her to tell you Garrett and she promised she would or I would have called one of you myself."
By the time he finishes talking, I am fuming and by the looks of him, Marcus is as well.
"She didn't tell me any of those things Charlie. Please tell me what happened" I say when I can control my growls and hissing.
"Well her first day at school, she came home and told me that in her Biology class, she is the lab partner of one of the Cullen boys, Edwin…Edmund or Edward. Anyway, she said when she was about to sit down, he tensed and glared at her like he was about to jump her and drain her right there…"
He had to stop right there due to all the growling and hissing coming from me, Marcus and Aro and Caius. I guess they came in sometime during the explanation.
"Sorry Charlie, go ahead. What happened after that and what's this about an accident?"
"That's fine, I understand. Well, she told me that when she sat down, he held his breath and moved his chair over as far as possible at the lab table. He then held his breath the whole hour and glared at her the whole hour as well. She never spoke a word to him. He left town that day and didn't come back until Monday. She said he acted like that last meeting was her imagination and struck up a polite conversation with her during class. The accident happened on Tuesday of this week. A kid hit a patch of black ice and lost control of his van. Bella was in the path of it and would have been crushed between the van and another car (as far as everyone else knows) if Cullen didn't run at vamp speed and knock her out of the way…"
"WHAT?" was shouted from all of us in the room.
"He used his speed in front of humans in broad daylight?" Aro asked.
"Yes Aro, did. He also stopped the van with his bare hands. She was taken to the hospital and Carlisle said she just had a knot on the side of her head due to hitting it on the pavement when he knocked her out of the way. Bella said no one noticed him running to her and she covered for him saying that he was right next to her and pushed her out of the way. So far no one is suspicious of that story. And he is ignoring Bella now, because she is acting like she doesn't know what he is and that she saw him over by his car, which was several cars away and that she saw him stop the van with his hands. He is using her head injury as an excuse that she is delusional. But other than that, nothing else has happened that I know about. I am sorry Garrett, Marcus; I would have called you and told you myself if I had known that you didn't know."
"It is okay friend, we are just glad to know now. Please keep an eye on my daughter until Garrett gets there this weekend. Peter should be there with the kids tomorrow sometime" Marcus says to Charlie while I try to calm down.
"Okay will do. I have to head back to the station now. I will call one of you if anything else happens" Charlie says.
"Goodbye friend" We all say at the same time.
"Goodbye all" Charlie says and hangs the phone up.
I close the phone and look around at the pissed off faces of the brothers and say," Well, when I get my hands on her, she won't be able to sit for a week!"