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Chapter 8

EPOV

I had to practically begg Bella to go to the hospital with me for the paternity test and at first she had protested but eventually gave in and agreed to go to support me even though she would be sitting in either the waiting room or Carlisle's office. At first I had thought she didn't want to go with me because it wasn't her place since we just started dating last night but I felt like it was something other than that and she eventually spilled that she knew of another possible father but hadn't felt like it was her place to say anything. It was right then that I decided that I better get myself tested before things went any further with Bella. It was kind of humbling to have my cheek swapped for the DNA test and blood drawn for an STD screening but it all had to be done. I had only saw Tanya briefly as she went to have her blood drawn for her portion of the test. No words had been spoken and I didn't think they needed to be until we had the test results.

Now, I was bouncing my knee nervously as I sat in Carlisle's office at our house. He had called me from Bella's house and told me that he had gotten the test results from both my STD screening and Tanya's NIPP test that was performed yesterday. I had hated to leave Bella's side but I wanted to know the results of that test and knew I needed to have a chat with Carlisle and Esme about the whole situation. So, I had rushed home with a promise to come back after I got the results and talked to them. Now that I was here he was on the phone with another doctor from the hospital giving advice.

"Okay, Leo, I have to go. My son is here to speak to me." Carlisle said into the phone.

I picked at invisible lint on my jeans as he hung up the phone. I had adamantly refused to called him and Esme mom and dad so we had settled on pops and ma. I only called them that to their face, when I was talking about them to someone else I used their given names but they had called me son since the day the adoption papers were finalized three months after my parents were buried.

"Okay, I will see you tomorrow." He said as he hung up the phone. "Where's Bella?" He asked as he dug an envelope from his desk drawer.

"She's at home with Alice and Jasper; I'm going back over there after we get done here." I told him. He and Esme had met Bella, Tanya, and I at the hospital yesterday and were instantly in love with Bella. Esme and her had spent the entire time the procedure was being done chatting it up in Carlisle's office, they had hit it off instantly. Bella and I had spent last night together too at her house for a couple of reasons but the most important being that I had needed to talk to her about this situation we were possibly going into so soon into our relationship. "Is this the results?" I asked him as he handed me an envelope.

He nodded and folded his hands together on top of his desk. "Yes, both the screening and the paternity test are in that envelope. I want you to know that Esme and I will stand behind you the entire way if these results show you as the father. It's not an ideal situation but we both know your parents would be proud of you standing up for what is right. You mom especially loved children, she always wanted more children but she wasn't able to after you were born."

I took a deep breath and nodded, blinking rapidly at the sudden sting of tears in my eyes. "I don't know anything about being a father. I just know that it's not right for her to kill an innocent baby and if it's mine I want it. It will be another part of my parents' and that tiny part deserves to live and flourish in this world the way they aren't able to anymore." I told him as I fingered the envelope nervously. The enormity of the situation was not lost on me because this one moment could and possibly would change my entire life from this point on.

"I understand, Edward, we both do. We want you to know that no matter what that piece of paper says we are both infinitely proud of you son. This situation is going to change you no matter what, it will make you more mature and more aware of the world around you." He told me quietly.

I nodded and slid my finger under the flap to open the envelope that held my future in my hands. I took a deep breath, opened the envelope, and pulled the slip of paper out. "I don't know if I can do this. This is going to change everything. I don't want to lose Bella but if this is my child and she's not ready for all of that. But, I don't want to lose the baby either if it turns out to be mine, it will be my only biological family left in the world. I don't know how Bella is going to handle all of this. Hell, I don't even know how I'm going to handle all of this." I rambled as I turned the folded paper over and over in my hands.

Carlisle chuckled. "From what I heard from Esme, that girl isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Yes she is a little overwhelmed by the entire situation but she's not going anywhere, Edward. Apparently Bella isn't ready to lose you just yet considering she just got you. So, I think that is going to be the least of your worried in this situation. I think your biggest concern is keeping Tanya from harming that child."

I nodded took a deep breath and unfolded the piece of paper that was indeed going to change my entire future. "Edward Masen is not excluded as the biological father of unborn child (Denali-Masen). This means that Edward Masen is considered to be the father of unborn child (Denali-Masen) because the analysis shows that they share a paternity relationship." I read out loud as my entire world shifted. "I'm the father." I mumbled to myself as I laid the piece of paper in my lap in shock.

The next hour was one big blur. I had sat in a daze for I don't know how long as Carlisle called Esme into the room to make sure I was going to be okay. We all sat down and discussed what I needed to do because legally I had no rights to the child until it was born and couldn't prevent her from aborting it, legally. As I drove back to Bella's house I was still in a daze about the test results and what my future was going to hold. I had gotten all the way to the stop sign right before Bella's house when I realized I hadn't even looked at the screening results. I quickly pulled them out and let out a huge sigh of relief that I was clean of a long list of possible STD's. The baby was mine; I was going to be a father, and she was going to try to murder it. I was going to be a single father to a child whose mother didn't want it even from the very beginning. I pulled into Bella's driveway and instantly felt my blood boil at what I saw.

Bella and Alice were standing outside in front of the garage looking at the carnage in front of them. All over the garage doors was horrible accusations spray painted in black spray paint. 'You're can't even satisfy your parents.' 'You will pay for this with a life.' 'Betty Crocker wannabe can't keep him.' 'You will NEVER be a mother to MY child'. That last one really got my blood to boiling. I rolled down the window and called to the girls. "Where's Jasper?" I asked them quickly.

Alice's lower lip began trembling but Bella was the one that answered me. "He went to Tanya's house to confront her. He caught her and her friends doing this when he took the garbage out for me." She said nervously.

I nodded. "Get in the car. Both of you." I called to them and began rolling my window up so they couldn't argue with me.

They quickly scrambled into the car, Alice in the back, Bella in the front. "Where are we going?" Bella asked as she fastened her seatbelt as I quickly backed out of the driveway.

"Tanya's house." I told them as I sped along the highway.

Bella gasped. "I can't go face her, Edward. It is only going to make things worse. I told you this would happen. She hates me and she's going to hurt that baby because of me. I can't have that on my conscience." Bella said quietly.

I shook my head. "I am going to put a stop to it. Today. That baby is mine and I warned her to leave you alone. She is going to leave both of you alone. I am going to her father." I told her quietly as I reached over to thread my fingers through hers. "Alice, call the police and tell them to go to 1739 Silverton Lane. The Denali residence."

She quickly dialed the number and rattled off the address before saying thank you and hanging up. "They are on their way. Said it should be about ten minutes."

I nodded. "Good. We will be there in about two." I told them as I whipped through Chicago traffic on the familiar trek to Tanya's house.

"How do you plan to stop her?" Bella asked quietly.

I just laughed. "I plan to tell her father that I will spread what is the truth all around to anybody I come in contact with unless he keeps my baby safe until she delivers." I told them as we turned onto Silverton Lane.

"How are you going to do that?"

"Her dad will do it once I tell them the truth about what she has been doing and that I have people willing to attest to her ungodly actions. They value their social standing more than anything else in this world. A vandalizing whore baby murdering daughter is not what they will want their friends and coworkers to be talking about and associating with them." I told them as I pulled into the Denali driveway and parked behind Jasper's truck.

I quickly got out of my Volvo and headed straight for the front door with Bella and Alice hot on my heels. "Edward, wait, you can't go barging into people's homes. You can get arrested." Bella said tugging on my shirt.

"I don't plan to barge in. I plan to knock and be let in but we have to hurry before the cops get here." I told her as I quickly rapped on the door.

"YOU ARE A TWO TIMING WHORE AND I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO TERRORIZE MY GIRLFRIEND AND HER SISTER JUST BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T KEEP YOUR FUCKING PANTS ON!" We all heard Jasper scream from around back.

"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT JASPER! I'VE BEEN HERE ALL MORNING!" Tanya yelled back obviously from inside the house because we could hear her voice echo through the door.

We all headed around to the backyard to keep Jasper out of jail..

"GET OUT HERE YOU TWO TIMING WHORE! YOU ARE GOING TO TALK TO ME ONE WAY OR ANOTHER YOU BITCH! I CAN STAND OUT HERE AND SCREAM ALL YOUR GORY DIRTY DETAILS TO THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD OR YOU CAN BE STUPID ENOUGH TO COME TALK TO ME FACE TO FACE!" Jasper screamed to the top of his lungs.

"Jazzy, what are you doing? You are going to get arrested. The cops are on their way." Alice told him as we ran up to him.

"Oh thank God, Eddy, please get your brother out of here, he's upsetting our baby." Tanya said from the upper railing that I had climbed many times over the past year to get into her bedroom when she would call.

I just shook my head and grabbed Jasper by the arm to tug him away. "The cops are on the way, Jazz. I will handle this but I need you to take the girls and go sit out in your truck to stay out of the way. That bitch is not getting away with this, this time. That baby is mine and I hope to the good Lord above that it doesn't inherit her craziness." I told him as I tugged him away.

It was then that Tanya noticed Bella standing there. "WHAT IS THAT BITCH DOING IN MY YARD, EDDY?!" She screamed down at me.

I turned around and scowled at her and before I could reply her father, Eleazar walked out the back door. "What is all of this commotion about?" he asked with his hands on his hips and a glare on his face.

Again before I could reply sirens sounded in the front yard. I turned to Jasper and the girls. "Please go tell the cops to come around here. We called them when we were on our way. Do it slowly please, I need to talk to Eleazar first." I begged Jasper, Bella, and Alice who all nodded in return and high tailed it to the front yard to head off the cops.

I turned to face Eleazar and played my cards carefully and quickly. "I hate that it has come to this, Eleazar but I know you don't want this all over the newspapers and spread around town so I am going to give you some options here so please listen carefully." He looked taken aback but I continued quickly. "She is pregnant with my child and is threatening to abort it." I told him handing him the paternity test results from my back pocket before continuing while he looked over the piece of paper I had handed him. "You have two choices here. Send her to rehab or have her locked up somewhere safe so that she can carry my child to full term and turn it over to me as soon as it is born. Once the child is born, I will take full responsibility of it and you will never have to mention this to anyone or have any ties to me, my family, or the baby. That is option one and I hope with everything I have that is the choice you take. Option two is I tell the entire town how your precious daughter has fucked half of the guys in our high school to the point that the paternity to her unborn child was unknown and had to be tested for because it laid between five or more guys. I will also tell them how she aborted our innocent unborn child because she didn't want it to ruin her figure and plans and vandalized my new girlfriends' house because she was crazy. I have guys who will attest to her actions and comments over the past six months. Those are your options. If she aborts my child or causes any harm to him before he is born then the only option you will have will be the second one. I will smear her name along with yours through the mud around the entire town, in the newspapers, magazines, social circles, and anybody else who will listen." I finished quickly and breathlessly as I saw the cops round the corner with Bella, Alice, and Jasper trailing behind.

"Fine, I will have her taken care of before the days end just please keep this among us. Your baby will be safe, Edward." Eleazar conceded quietly.

I nodded and walked to the cops. "I'm sorry officer, I am the ones that had my friend call you. There was a big misunderstanding between myself and my ex-girlfriend. But, it is all resolved now." I told the first cop I came to.

He nodded. "Are you the homeowner?" He asked with his hands on his belt.

I shook my head. "No sir, I'm not." I told him and pointed him in the direction of Eleazar as I walked over to Jasper and the girls.

"Did it work?" Bella asked as I wrapped my arms around her waist.

"Yeah, he said he would have her taken care of by the end of the day and that the baby would be fine." I told her as I kissed her on the top of her head.

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Tanya screeched from the balcony as she tossed the glass vase that was in her hands at us, it landing just a few feet from where we were standing. "HE'S MINE NOT YOURS!

I groaned and shook my head as we watched the cops quickly walk into the house with Eleazar hot on their tails. We stood out in the yard as the cops appeared on the balcony with Tanya and Eleazar. I saw Eleazar talking quickly and motioning with his hands and when Tanya started to screech again the look he sent her shut her up immediately causing her to glare at all of us. After about ten minutes of non-stop talking they all disappeared from the balcony. Eleazar came back outside and strolled to where we stood.

"Edward, can I speak to you for a moment? Privately?" he asked like a broken man.

I nodded and walked away with him. "Is everything okay?" I asked nervously.

He nodded and stopped, turning to face me. "After that little stunt it was either she be sent for a psych evaluation or go to jail for assault. She chose to go for the evaluation. I will use that to lock her up for the next several months until the child is born. I will keep her well monitored until your child is born and I assume you would like updates from all the check-ups concerning your child?"

I nodded. "I would. I hate to do it this way but that is my child, my own flesh and blood, and she is trying to murder it needlessly. This will not be a burden on any of you after the child is born. I promise I will keep my mouth shut about the whole ordeal." I told him honestly because all I wanted was for my child to be born healthy and okay.

He nodded. "I'll keep in touch, Edward. Good luck." He said as he turned and walked away.