Summary: Bella is visiting her dad and friends in Seattle for Christmas Break. After a grueling semester she just wants to enjoy her break before spring semester begins. Edward has been working for his adoptive father, Carlisle. While it has been a great opportunity for him, it has also been quite stressful. A short vacation is exactly what these two need to start the New Year.

Rating: M. WARNING: The story will contain some violence, language (lots), and some adult content.

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Taking over the family company has been hard. I was twenty-eight and was being groomed to become the next CEO. My father, Carlisle, wanted to retire early and spend some time with my mother after so many years being the head of the family.

I knew that it would take a lot of energy and sacrifices on my part, but my father had made it seem easy. The family has owned the company for many generations. My great-grandfather started it years after he had emigrated from Ireland.

I was not the only one being groomed for a position in the company. My brothers were also involved in the company day-to-day goings.

Carlisle and Esme adopted Jasper and me. We had met Carlisle on the street one-day when he was conducting business. We were running from a couple of bullies that wanted to mess with us, when we had accidently bumped into him.

He had taken a look at us and told us to wait for him, I don't remember what had happened but I do know that after we told him we didn't have any family he took us in.

His son Emmett was a year older than both of us, but since we met we were all good friends. Nobody messed with us and anybody who dared would have to deal with all three of us.

From that day forward we were all groomed to take over Carlisle's company. Originally Emmett was supposed to take over as CEO, but he was better as Chief Financial Officer. He had a knack for numbers, even though he didn't seem like a guy who had a brain. He was proud of his large size torso.

Jasper was better suited for the Chief Information Officer. That left me with learning the ropes from Carlisle. Not exactly something the family was happy with, but Carlisle wouldn't change it. He had the final decision at the end.

The company is a front for the real dealings that the family had going on in the streets. There were several questionable dealings that the family had been involved in for several years.

AN: I will not always post Edward's Point of View, but there will be times that he also gets a say in this story. I hope you like this story. I had posted this story in the past, but I have re-worked and change some of the wording and the way it was written.

I do not think the chapters will be long. They will probably be a bit bigger than this chapter but not much larger.

Hope you enjoy.