The Gift

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Chapter 12 The Truth Is Finally Out

EPOV

"Edward," she said quietly still looking outside.

"Yes love," I answered her. Something was on her mind, and I didn't know what to do.

"Carly," she started to say before taking a deep breath. "Carly is not Mike's daughter. Her biological father is you. Carly is your daughter."

I dropped my arms from around her and walked back. What the hell?

"What do you mean," I said shocked.

"It's time that you knew the truth," she said turning around. "I can't keep this from you any longer. You are Carly's real father."

When I heard her say those words everything came rushing back to me. Listening to them in the kitchen at the house, and Mike never wanting anything to do with her. The real kicker was when Carly told me she had overheard Mike telling Bella that he wasn't her real father.

"Why would you keep this from me," I told her. "How could you?"

"I'm sorry," she said walking towards me.

"You're sorry," I said getting pissed backing up some more. I didn't want her to touch me right me. "How long have you known the truth?"

"From the very beginning," she told me honestly.

"You didn't think to tell me that I had a child," I said raising my voice at her.

"What was I supposed to do," she said raising her voice right back at me.

"Gee I don't know tell me from the start," I said running my hands through my hair. I was beyond pissed at her right now. She knew from the very start that I wanted to have children. To have her hide this from me killed me.

"How was I supposed to tell you," she said again. "You had just broken my heart and gotten engaged to someone else."

"You could have still told me," I said to her. I knew deep down that getting engaged to Tanya would kick my ass somehow one day and it certainly has. "I would've helped out, gone to your appointments, and been there to support you."

"Are you sure about that Mr. Cullen," she spat out. "Would your lovely wife allowed that to occur."

"Don't play innocent," I told her. "I wasn't the only who got married for the wrong reasons."

"At least I wasn't doing it to protect someone," she said taking a breath and wiping the tears off her face. "Someone who shouldn't let there younger brother pay for."

"Don't start that shit," I interrupted her walking out into the hallway. How could she say that about Emmett? She knew that I would anything and everything to protect my family.

"We're not finished," she yelled following me into the hallway.

"Yes we are," I said opening the door and turning to her. "You really screwed up this time. I could expect this from other people but not you. I'll never forgive you for this Isabella."

I didn't give her time to say anything else as I walked out the door and slammed it shut. When I got into the Volvo I punched the steering wheel a few times out of frustration. Why would she do this to me? I couldn't sit here any longer at her house. So I started my car and headed home. Why her? Why would she break my heart like this? She knew that I loved Carly as much as I loved her. If she hid this from me, what else is she capable of hiding from me. I could say one thing she would never have the chance to hurt me again. Walking into the house I slammed the front door shut, threw the keys on the table, and left my jacket on the floor.

"Edward," I heard my mom yell from the kitchen. "Is that you."

"Yeah," I yelled back before running upstairs. Walking into my room I managed to slam the door shut. I could tell you this I was on a roll for slamming doors tonight. I picked up a picture frame of the two of us from high school and threw it at the wall. When the frame hit the wall the glass shattered and hit the floor in tiny pieces. I slide against the wall and tears started to fall. "How could you?"

"Everything okay," Emmett said popping his head into the room.

"This is all your fault," I yelled at him.

"My fault," he said coming in. "What the hell is going on? How in the fuck is it my fault."

"If you wouldn't had fucked Tanya," I said standing up getting pissed off once again. "Then I wouldn't have had to marry her to keep your sorry ass out of jail. Bella and I would still be together raising our daughter together."

"I didn't force you to marry Tanya," he said pointing his finger at me. "Plus you and Bella are together again now."

"No we aren't," I said turning around to the window.

"What happened in the past hour," he asked. "Wait a second. What do you mean raising your daughter together."

"Carly is my daughter," I told him. "I ended it because she had known all along and hid it from me."

"Fuck me," he said shocked. "I'm sorry dude."

"Just get the fuck out," I said still staring out the window. He didn't stay anything else as he left my room.

How could things go from great to worst in a matter of minutes. My heart was breaking and a piece of it wanted to know. Wanted to know if this is how she felt that night I hurt her. Was this to get back at me. I don't have a clue any more, but I can say this. I lost the one person I loved more than anything for good this time. I looked out the window at the clear night with the moon shinning bright. I let the tears fall slowly wishing that things were different.

BPOV

"We're not finished," I yelled following him into the hallway.

"Yes we are," he said opening the door and turning to face me. "You really screwed up this time. I could expect this from other people but not you. I'll never forgive you for this Isabella."

When he slammed the front door shut I jumped. I had never seen him this mad. I knew that he meant it when he said that we were finished. I knew it because he called me Isabella, and that was something he never did. I slide against the hallway wall and cried. I cried for the fact that I lost the person that I truly love. I cried because this was all my fault. After sometime I got up from the floor and reached for my phone dialing a number.

"Hello," the voice said when they answered.

"Daddy," I managed to say between sobs. I couldn't say anything else because I was trying not to cry.

"I'm on my way," he said before hanging up.

I put the phone down after managing to stop crying and walked up the stairs to check on Carly. Edward and I had been yelling at each other and I was worried about her. I didn't need for her to be scared of him, because of our fight. I opened the door to find her still sleeping tucked under the blankets. When I saw this sight I started to cry again. She didn't deserve any of this and it was all my fault. It was my fault that Edward left. It was my fault that he hated me now. My fault that Carly will never have a father who loves her.

"Bells," I heard Charlie say opening the front door and walking in.

"Dad," I said walking down the stairs with the tears falling.

"What's the matter," he said pulling me into a hug. "Is Carly okay?"

"She's fine," I said trying to stop crying but it wasn't working. "I told him the truth. Dad he said that he would never forgive me."

"Sweetheart," he said leading me into the living room. "He's just upset. Give him some time for it to settle in."

"He really meant it," I said sitting down on the couch. "I've never seen him that mad before."

"It will be alright," he said sitting down on the couch beside of me and pulling me close to him. I hadn't needed Charlie like this in a long time. Even when my marriage to Mike fell through I didn't need Charlie. If I remembered correctly the last time I needed him was when Edward broke my heart years ago. "Sue and I are here for you no matter what."

"Dad," I said when something came to my mind. This thing scared the living shit out me and I didn't want it to happen. "What if he takes me court? What if he tries to take Carly away from me?"

"Carlisle and Esme would never let him take her from you," he said rubbing my arm trying to calm me down.

As I sat there on the couch with Charlie I thought to myself. I thought about how happy we were one minute. Then look at us the next minute I'm in tears sitting on the couch with Charlie trying to comfort me. Carly's upstairs still sound asleep in her bed, and Edward is somewhere hating me. After all the tears finally stopped I closed my eyes to a dark dreamless night.