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…TEC…
EPOV
He could just sit across from me, look me in the face and not recognize me. I realize that I was two when he left but this was the same fucking face that he sees in the mirror every day. He looks enough like me that- well- hell we are related.
I looked to Bella with my eyebrows knitted as she grilled Robert. "Oh okay. I completely understand what you're saying." Mr. McCarty nodded smugly. She pulled the pad from my hands and read over it before staring at him with her jaw clenched.
She was beautiful.
Even though she looked like she was going to flip over the table break off the legs and smash them into his crotch.
Repeatedly.
"So you are telling me that there is absolutely no one that could possibly want to kill Mr. Volturi?"
"Now wait a second-"
She made a buzzing noise. "Wrong answer. You know why? Because he's dead. So obviously someone wanted him dead! Right?"
"You aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead."
"I don't recall speaking ill of him. I was calling you out on your stupidity. Why don't you just give us a fucking answer?" I squeezed Bella's knee.
"You can't assume that I know something and get mad when I don't." Robert Puffed angrily.
"We don't assume things, Mr. McCarty." I spoke up before smirking at Bella. "We're cops."
"Who are notorious for?" He lifted an eyebrow.
"For putting asses like you away for murder?" He turned to me and smirked slightly. He had been doing that fucking smirking thing since we sat down. I didn't know what his fucking issue was, and it was always directed towards me. Never Bella.
Even though she was the one bitching him out.
Bella lifted an eyebrow at me and I shook on the inside, worrying that she heard me. I smiled bashfully and she mouthed 'What?' to me.
"I would appreciate it if you two would stop making googly eyes and get back to business. I have a family to return to." My head snapped in his direction and my jaw clenched as he smirked in my direction. I shot out of my seat and slammed my palms against the table.
"Do you have some kind of fucking problem with me, McCarty?" The man's smirk fell and Bella's head snapped towards the double mirror as Emmett spoke softly in our ears. "Then why don't you shut up and let us continue. Because last I heard we were running this not you."
"Masen, Do you need to leave?" I turned to the mirror and shook my head before sitting down.
"Calm down, son." My nostrils flared and he smirked again when Bella laid a hand on my arm.
"You would make it a hell of a lot easier on the both of us if you would just fucking answer what we ask. You are aware that we can question you for however long that you want and then we can hold you here, until the two of us-" I pointed to Bella and then myself. "decide that we're ready to do this again."
"Are you threatening me?"
"Depends on how you take it." I smirked grimly.
Bella smiled widely at me. "A literal will always see things negatively."
"Are you a literal Mr. McCarty?" I cocked my head to the side and he glared.
"Unless you are actually taking this somewhere… which I doubt… Shut the hell up and get back on track." I turned my head to the double sided mirror and raised an eyebrow before seeing Bella subtly rub her cheek with her middle finger. I turned back to Robert and leaned back easily in my chair.
"You can start talking, Mr. McCarty."
"What does this have to do with being a literal?" He blanched and I smirked before settling my hands over my stomach.
"Nothing at all." Bella answered smoothly. We all sat in silence for about three minutes with Emmett growling angrily in our ears. He threatened to come in to the room and shut this all down before I started talking again.
"I know that you know of someone that had it out for Mr. Volturi. The more information you with hold, the longer you're kept and once we find this guy the more charges you have against you." He rolled his eyes.
Cocky fuck.
"How about this? The less I say the less you have against me."
"How about this? We have another component to the case who says that you are directly related to the murder of Mr. Volturi." I lied easily. Robert tensed in his chair and nervously pulled at his ear lobe.
So fuck… you.
"There is always someone wanting to murder someone else." Robert wrung his hands under the table.
"Oh I know."
"Leo is dead. I can't bring him back and neither can you so why are we still talking about this?" He said suspiciously.
"Here's the thing. Leo has an heir. Alec. Then there's you. The more you help the longer you live. Capiche?"
"No. I don't follow."
"Gee for a murderer you sure are dense."
"I'm not a murderer." He said fiercely, his resolve crumbling quickly under his façade.
"You do realize that if it wasn't you that killed Leo, someone is after the business. If they get past Alec then your next."
He visibly shook, "I can't help you."
"Robby. We know there's someone that wouldn't blink twice at the chance to own a company. This is the same person who will be locked up for not only murder but attempted murder as well. Is that person you or someone else?" Bella leaned forward.
"What if I told you I knew of someone? And if I told you… I could be in really big trouble."
"You're in trouble either way, McCarty." Bella smiled sweetly. "There is always witness protection." She shrugged and he immediately started over flowing with information.
"What about my family?"
"They go with you."
"If you were in my position, what would you do? About your family? I just want them to be safe. I won't fuck with their safety, even if it means I'm locked up for a while."
Fiercely loyal this time around huh?
"If it were me. I would talk and pack up." I said before looking to Bella who nodded in agreement.
"You are sure that they'll be okay?"
She shook my head, "There is no telling but we will try our best."
"There is a man back in Chicago. We worked with him briefly and he was always a little bit harsh, he and Leo never got along. The rivalry got really big when they lost some of their biggest clients to Volturi Inc. They were a company that isn't afraid of underhand dealings." He thumbed sweat off of his eyebrow.
"What is this company called, Robert?" Bella asked before jotting more down on the legal pad she held.
"You should speak to your elders like that dear."
I rolled my eyes and my jaw ticked. "Answer her fucking question."
"Patino Inc." He said with a smirk.
"Why the fuck are you smiling at me? What the fuck is so funny you fucking bastard?"
"Woah you kiss your wife with that mouth?" He smirked again.
"As a matter of fact I do. Answer my question."
"You just look familiar."
"No shit, Sherlock." Bella grumbled and I choose to ignore the comment.
"Young woman, do you have an issue with me?"
"Yes." She said straightening in her seat.
"And what would that be?" He asked before shifting in his seat as well.
"We aren't here to play Dr. Phil, guys."
"No but we are here to get answers, Emmett." Bella sneered at the window and Robert gave her a shocked look. I shook my head at her and she huffed in return. "I need a fucking break, Em."
"You're name isn't Emmett...?" Robert said before pointing at me, I shook my head and rolled my eyes as the large metal door unlocked and Bella grabbed my hand, tugging me to a standing position. She tugged me out of the room as soon as Emmett showed up to keep McCarty a bit of company. She pulled me into the family bathroom and I furrowed my eyebrows, I never saw the need for one of those in a police station but…
Hey… if a family of crooks needed to take a leak we wouldn't want to be unprepared.
I pulled the door closed behind me and she paced the floor before looking up and meeting my eyes.
"You know what? Fuck him. Fuck him and his new family." She wrapped her arms around my waist and hugged herself tightly to my chest. My eyes widened as I hugged her back, I hadn't expected such a passionate reaction from her but it is Bella so being around her was always a gamble in terms of her emotions. Her tears soaked the middle of my shirt- thank god for black- and I buried my face in her hair.
"Come on, Baby." I said softly. "Don't go soft on me." She smiled against my shirt before looking up at me.
"I almost knocked all of his fucking teeth out when he called you son." She spat the word and pulled away before going back to pacing. "Then he had the nerve to walk up in there looking just fucking like you and say you looked familiar? Fuck you and your fucking family jackass!" She waived a fist at the door adorably. "You know what? Forget him!" She put her hands on my shoulders and kissed me deeply. "I love you. Ellie loves you and Seth loves you that's all that matters right?"
"Right, I love you too, Honey. But you have to calm down." She ran a hand though her hair and yanked my face to hers kissing me roughly again.
"I'm so fucking mad right now."
"I see. Hence the calm down." She grabbed my shirt and pushed me towards the sink so that I leant against it. The she jumped on me, resting her knees on the sink and her arms around my neck. She slid down my body and settled over my dick before twirling her hips.
"No. Bella stop." I pushed her hips away and gave her an incredulous look.
"Fucking hell. I don't know what to do with myself." She ran a hand through her hair again. "I hang out with a one year old all day. This is just a big ass mind fuck to me. All the old people and the killing and what not." She fisted her hands in her hair and I smiled.
"You're doing great okay?" I cupped her face and made her look at me. "Keep calm for a while and then once we get what we need, you can stab his hand… key his car… anything, okay? I'll even help you." I pecked her lips.
She smiled in my palms, "You're so good to me." She laughed softly as did I and she covered my hands with her own. She grabbed my chin and pulled my mouth down to hers again, "I love you… You're so strong." She whispered and then she ran her hands over my biceps so I wasn't sure if she was talking to me about emotional strength or physical but I shrugged and kissed her chastely on the mouth.
"I love you too. And don't let the fact that you spend your days with a baby and a dendrophiliac make you doubt your skills." I smiled widely.
"I couldn't invite her to my house around the Christmas season…" She murmured sadly as the door behind us was banged roughly on.
"You two better not be having sex!" Charlie thundered, Bella blushed.
I pulled open the door and Charlie's eyes were closed and covered with a hand.
"Yes, Dad. Because we would do the nasty in a public bathroom and then open the door butt-ass naked." Bella snorted before pushing past him, he gave me a warning look.
"She's so eloquent. Wouldn't you say?" I smiled and he growled at me to get into the interrogation room. The metal door locked as soon as I approached it, but Bella was in there, I went to the viewing room and what I heard when I entered made me freeze.
"I suppose I have a lot of Birthdays to catch up on gift wise." Mr. McCarty's voice rang out and it was silent, in both the viewing and interrogation rooms. I froze as I stepped farther into the room and took in Bella and Robert sitting across from each other. Bella gave him a blank look and he sighed. Emmett's hand came down on my shoulder, and I realized that the rest of the team was gone.
"She asked me to lock you out for a while, so that she could get something out of, McCarty. Have a seat." I huffed and fell into the nearest chair. Bella and Robert were still silent. She was always trying to fix shit. I just wanted to ignore this for a while… I didn't want to bring any Baby daddy drama into the already fucked up situations.
Is that so bad?
"I'm not following." Bella lied, quite obviously.
"I know who he is. You're partner."
"You don't know a thing about him." She growled protectively.
"I know that he's my son. Isn't that all that matters." Bella's breath hitched as did mine.
"There is no way you both missed that." Emmett spoke up, "He damn near looks like your twin who just happened to come out twenty years prior." I shook my head.
"We weren't sure he knew." I sighed and he nodded.
"Then what the fuck is your issue?" Bella asked irately.
Robert leaned in a little too close to Bella, even though they were across the table, and I restrained myself from jumping through the fucking mirror. "I choose not to be a part of his life thirty years ago. Did you expect me to open my arms and have him call me Daddy?" I clenched my jaw.
"First of all back the fuck up because I will tear your shit up." He sat back and I smiled. "And no. I wasn't expecting a fucking movie reunion, but you don't have to be an ass to him." Robert rolled his eyes.
"Why are you so concerned about him?"
"Aren't you supposed to be concerned for your spouse?" She pulled her gaze up from her hands to glare at him. "Oops, forgot who I was talking to for a second. We obviously we believe in two totally different concepts of family."
"I have my own fucking family you know." He bared his teeth and she rolled her eyes.
"Yes, two of them in fact!"
"You don't know what you're talking about, Agent Masen."
"Well I was twenty and scared shitless, alright? I had big things planned and I wasn't going to let him, or his mother get in the way of them."
"You selfish bastard." He smirked and shook his head.
"Regardless of the past I'm glad he's okay. How is his mother?"
"She passed." The prick didn't look the least apologetic. I ran a hand through my hair, tugging roughly on the ends.
"So about these birthday presents…"
"We don't want anything from you."
He pulled out his wallet and both Bella and I grimaced, "You two have kids?"
She nodded, "Two." I didn't like how personal and easy going this conversation was getting.
"Names?"
"Doesn't matter. What the fuck are you going to do with their names? Think about them for thirty more years?"
"You aren't afraid of going for the low blows are you? I just want to know my grandkids names." Bella started laughing.
"They aren't your grandkids, you incompetent dick. You are funny though." She wiped at her eyes and he groaned. I stood and pressed the button to unlock the metal door that sat in front of the double sided mirror. I quickly entered the interrogation room and sat down. Bella and Robert remained in a staring contest. I stopped it by pulling Bella's chair closer to mine and wrapping an arm around her.
"Tell us more about this Patino Inc." I grumbled, choosing to diverge from the topic.
"See." Robert looked at Bella and gestured towards me. "He can take this whole father thing like a man. So why do you continue to bitch?" My jaw tensed.
"Watch the way you talk to my wife, Jackass. I'm not addressing the father thing because I would like to ignore the fact that I am related to the biggest prick to walk the earth." I turned to Bella. "It's sickening when you think about it." She comically shivered and we both turned to McCarty.
"So tell us more about this Patino Inc." Robert looked disgruntled but he rattled off his information about Chicago.
"Looks like we're going to Chicago, Boys." Emmett murmured in the mic, there was a squeal of protest from Tanya that was heard through the double sided mirror and Bella glared at Em through the thin glass. "And Tanya and Bella."
…TEC…
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