Sorry it's been a while, i've changed Chapter 1 also just so you know, hope you like it, and i'll try to update as soon as i can.
Twilighterheart xxx
Chapter 2
Jack had left Bella and Edward with Elizabeth, they thanked him for looking after her and then he went straight to the cemetery.
He sat on the dry grass as he looked at the marble stone in front of him, an angel looking down at the words with her hands in shape of a prayer.
Elizabeth Masen
Devoted sister
Beloved wife
Loved Auntie
An Angel on earth
Rest in Piece
"I miss you sweetheart, everyday" he set his drink aside and leaned on his elbows onto his knees. "Everyday I think about your smile, how you used to make fun of me as I tried to sing or dance but then stroke my hair softly and tell me I was really good, I miss feeling your arms around me, if only I was around when you were…" Jack broke off fighting back the sobs which threatened to erupt "When you were killed" he stroked each letter of her name slowly, as if he was caressing her "I love you Elizabeth, very deeply, always have and always will"
He sat in silence with his head down and cried.
"How is it looking?" he looked at the joint which was getting painted up, he saw furniture being taken into the house.
"Good boss, another two weeks"
"Good"
He walked into his car and drove off until he was at the canary's club. He got out and went in, their was a couple of waiters here cleaning the tables for tonight, one of them with sandy coloured hair saw the man and approached him
"Can I help you sir?"
The man reached into his pocket and pulled out a drawing
"Give this to Edward Cullen and him only"
"Certainly sir"
The man nodded before walking out of the joint
Bella tried to get her daughter dressed so they could go to the park with Rosalie and Alice, her daughter was blowing spit bubbles and laughing
"Come on Sweetheart be good for me" Bella begged her daughter, it was like trying to dress a fish, Elizabeth seemed to be all wiggly this morning, she blamed Edward and Jack this morning getting her excited.
"There" Bella sighed in content as her daughter was finally dressed; she picked her up and placed her in the trolley Rosalie had bought her.
Bella heard a knock at the door, she carefully set Elizabeth back on the couch where she knew Elizabeth couldn't fall while she played with her toys and went to open it, she saw one of her bodyguards waiting there with a bushel of flowers
"These were delivered here Mrs. Cullen"
"Thanks Rich" Bella took the flowers off him and closed the door while he walked away.
She set them on the counter and smiled, Edward always did too much for her there was a small card which was nestled in between the beautiful bellflowers it just had the simple initial
D
She placed the card down uncertain, d? She didn't know anyone with that name. She rushed to Elizabeth just as the door knocked
"Bella its Victoria"
Victoria smiled as Bella opened the door but quickly frowned
"What's wrong?"
Bella shook her head "Nothing, come in"
Victoria examined the room, she saw Elizabeth playing with her toys on the couch giggling and a large bushel of flowers standing on the kitchen table. She saw the note and looked at Bella
Bella just chuckled but it didn't sound a happy chuckle "It's nothing, I'm just freaking out over nothing"
"When your husband is in the business he's in, it's not nothing, relatives and friends leave their name not some mysterious one letter word"
Bella walked to Elizabeth who had begun to stir on the couch
Victoria opened the door and called one of the guards "Get a hold of Edward and the crew"
Edward sat across Vito and Antonio, his crew, apart from Victoria, were also here
"I want to expand the business, I want to start with other diamonds from other countries, Rio, France, Italy if possible"
Vito nodded for him to carry on
"I also want more men, trusted men, I'm going to ask Alec, one of my guards, he's been with me now for the past 15 years, I trust him with my life and I think he'll be a fine addition to us, but I want to know what you think"
"Well he's already in it, he knows about us" James stated
"But he'll also know everything, which places we're hitting, the deals we make" Emmett spoke up "What can he bring?"
"He can bring information, Jack wants to retire, live a new life, I've granted that to him, so I need someone new, I can do it myself for some bits until I know he can get the information as good as Jack"
Jasper leaned forward and nodded "I also trust Alec, I'm with Edward, and he'll be a good addition"
"All in favour?"
Everyone raised their hand
"Good, Alec will be the start, we'll progress from there, now Vito want's to talk to us"
Everyone turned their attention to Vito, Edward couldn't help but admire him, everything about him made you easy yet terrified his calm manner could switch before you could blink
"Thank you Edward, I've come here today to tell you I will also be stepping down" Edward frowned "Mine and my brothers time had passed, it's time for a new generation to come, I want that generation to be you Edward, it's normal for a heir to be the next Don but my other children don't want this life and I don't want Bella running this organisation, I turn to you, you will be the head of the family, you will meet with the other mafia lords, you'll have to travel certain places to meeting, you'll have more people coming to you asking for help, you'll be the holder of the money, the houses, the business myself and my brother have invested in these many years, you'll also begin to…murder more if you must, you'll make a lot of enemies, enemies which will not stop to kill you just because your new, the first year will be rough for you, your family and friends, I'm giving you a week to talk this over with Bella, this is a joint decision, I wouldn't want my daughter unhappy or my granddaughter"
Edward was more than shell-shocked, he would be taking over not just his own family but Bella's family, he would become a mafia Don, even his friends looked at Edward with new fond eyes.
Someone knocked twice before opening the door
"Boss"
"What Alec?"
"Victoria asked for you all to come to your house, there's a situation"
Edward was out of his seat before Alec could finish his sentence.
Edward examined the flowers, he heard what Bella had told him but he was furious, Vito had said people send flowers as a message. Bella went upstairs with the girls, Rosalie, Alice and Bella's mother and relatives had been called to look after her. The men in the family, which was a bloody lot, all sat or stood in the living room of Edward's and Bella's house. Edward was in deep concentration while people talked around him and then his head snapped up to meet Vito's gaze
"What is it?"
"The man at Bella's joint" I whispered
"What man?" one of Vito's cousins asked
"I was informed a crasher had come into the party, I had him removed but… you remember Vito"
He nodded "I still can't place the face, it's very familiar"
Antonio looked to his men "Ask around"
I told them what he looked like and they were off.
Everyone left shortly after that, Elizabeth was settled safely into her crib, sleeping, while Edward and Bella lay in bed, she held him tight to her and he did her
"I'll figure it out" he whispered to her in the darkness, he kissed her forehead "I promise"
"I don't want you hurt, it could be nothing" she whispered back
"Your lying to yourself" he replied back "otherwise you wouldn't have freaked"
She sighed and lay her head on his chest "Just be careful, let me help"
He said nothing for a while but then said "I promise"
The message had been delivered while he sat in his joint drinking his whisky
"Nearly time Cullen's"
The next day Bella and Edward took Elizabeth to the club, everyone cooed about her and Elizabeth was soaking up the attention. Bella was talking to one of her staff about the new times of the club when the blond bartender who he recognized as Mike tapped him on the shoulder
"I was asked to give this to you"
Mike walked away while Edward opened it and gasped, he quickly walked into the back and into Bella dressing room, he sat on the chair and looked at the picture and then reached inside and held the little toy
"Edward?" Bella chased her husband with Elizabeth in her arms, she opened the door and set Elizabeth on the floor Elizabeth giggled as she held her new toy which was given to her by one of the staff members, Bella placed pillows around her so if she fell suddenly she wouldn't hurt herself, she sat in Edward lap as his eyes held tears
"What is it?"
He handed her a picture, a picture of a striking older man, you could tell, even with the sepia coloured photograph the man's hair was blond, next to him was a woman with striking hair and a big smile on her face as she hugged the little boy, the little boy held the mans hand as he beamed at the camera
"Who is it"
Edward sniffed as the tears fell "That's my parents and that's me when I was ten" he grabbed the small toy car "That was the present which my dad promised me he would buy me, I was excited 'be patient son, it'll be worth it' he chuckled at me, my mum rolled her eyes as they set out, each giving me a kiss as Jack looked after me, he let me stay up later than usual"
Edward went quiet as Bella stroked his hair
"It wasn't just a random shooting" he whispered deadly, he looked at her with anger "they were murdered, because when they went out to go food shopping he would have bought this as they were coming back, this is a souvenir for the bastard whoever killed them"
"So" Bella began hesitantly, her hand stopping "The flowers, the man and now this…"
"The man who came in to the club the other night is the one who is doing this, I know that for sure, sending you flowers and giving me this, the man who is doing this, is the same man who killed my parents"
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