A/n: As if I even HAD to ask...you ALL wanted MORE MORE MORE tonight...just remember...these are the last 2 prewritten chapters.

This one has A LOT of background info on E/T...no abuse though...tissues might be necessary

CH21

I sat there unsure of what to do or say, I'd never seen such a powerful man brought to his knees before.

But, I knew a grieving father, so I got up and went to him. I hugged him and allowed him to get it all out, all the while my own tears fell for my own reasons.

A short time later, he pulled back and attempted to apologize. I held up a hand to silence him.

"Don't, Dr. Cullen, I understand your pain, more than you realize." I answered as I stood and made my way back to the chair.

Dr. Cullen began to speak, so I sat quietly to listen. I hoped that Dr. Cullen could provide more answers than Edward himself had. "Edward was always a quiet and shy boy so we were completely perplexed when he decided to go to Law school. But, we supported him when he explained his love for the law and what exactly he wanted to do with his degree. As we come from a family that has always been thrust in the spotlight, it made sense that his love for helping the underprivileged was so ingrained in him." He said as he wiped his face with a handkerchiefhe'd retrieved from a drawer.

"He hated the spotlight and chose to keep a very low profile. He never dated in high school so when he met Tanya his second year of law school it was like a whole new experience for him. She chased him, hard. He was completely smitten with her at first which perplexed his mother and me, because she was nothing like him. She was boisterous and outgoing, always into the latest fashions and very showy. You've met Edward, he is the extreme opposite of any of those things." He walked over to a small fridge and grabbed two bottles of water, handed me one and then sat back down.

"I don't know what she did to him, Bella. I honestly don't. We had always been very close, he talked to me about everything but once she came into the picture that all stopped. He only came around when it was required and always for public functions, which he deplored. But, she was always there on his arm so he could show her off to society. At first, we were very leery of her, but she eventually showed us that she cared about him, softened a bit, tried to fit in and tone it done, we thought maybe they were a good match. They evened one another out." He took a drink of water and checked his phone and grimaced.

"They are putting him on a vent because of his lung, we're waiting on the CT results now and apparently she's done enough damage to his penis that they've had to cold compress it after draining blood from excessive swelling." He put his phone down and rested his face in his hands.

"What did that bitch do to my precious child? How did I allow this to continue for so long?" His words were haunted and my heart constricted with my own painful memories and new pain for that amazing man that fought for his life downstairs.

"Carlisle, we need to put security around him. I suspect she's been paying someone in the hospital to keep tabs on you and him. She seems to have been checking up to make sure that he had no public contact with you within the hospital." I hated to bring this up now but it needed to be done, immediately.

He picked up the phone on his desk and called someone, "Jared, I need to speak to Sam urgently." He paused as I assumed he waited for this person to pick up the phone.

"Sam, Dr. Cullen here, my son has been admitted to critical ICU, I need tight security on him. There is a woman, Tanya Denali, who is responsible for his injuries, she is to be immediately escorted from the premises should she show up. She is not family and has no legal means to be anywhere near him." He paused in his conversation and I could hear the faint murmurs of Sam in the background. Dr. Cullen nodded at the statements that Sam relayed to him and suddenly spoke again, "And, trust me she will try everything to get around you."

He answered a few yes or no questions and hung up.

"What else?" He looked at me and asked, like I had all the answers.

"My private investigator, Jacob Black, is on his way over with the information that he's retrieved so far. We'll know more when he gets here, which should be soon." I pulled my phone out to text Jake for his ETA.

Just then Carlisle's office door flew open. Alice and Esme ran in and they all three hugged and cried together.

"Carlisle, is he okay?" Esme begged him for information. He relayed what we knew and told them that I was already working on his case.

"Carlisle, I need you to finish telling me their history." I gently said as they all took a seat on the couch.

"Well, this all happened while he was in Law school, but once he graduated, things began to change." He took a deep breath and released a sigh upon his exhale. "He began to make large withdrawals from his trust fund that he'd received upon his twenty-fifth birthday. I knew this had to be Tanya's influence because Edward has never cared about his inheritance before then." Alice and Esme both nodded their approval at that statement. "They bought a modest house, which enraged her, she thought that someone of 'their' wealth should live in a multi-million dollar mansion. Again, that wasn't for Edward, that's the one thing that I was proud of him for sticking to. However, she insisted on driving a brand new BMW, which he bought her. There were large jewelry purchases. She went through close to five million dollars in less than a year. I was afraid that she would spend his entire trust and then leave him, so I told him I was putting a cap on his expenditures. Tanya was furious, as you can imagine. She blew up at me one night over dinner saying that Edward was an adult and that it was his money to spend as he saw fit. The problem I pointed out was that it was not Edward spending the money, it was her." He paused and stood up as he ran a hand through his hair. He walked over to stand in front of the window and looked lost in a painful memory.

"The next night, Edward showed up at the house. He demanded full control over his trust fund. I refused and begged him to see that she was nothing but a gold-digger. He was adamant that she was the love of his life and that he was adult. He demanded I sign it over to him or he would be forced to cut me out of his life, for good. When I wouldn't relent, he told us that we were no longer his family and walked out of our lives." Carlisle's shoulders slumped as he broke down again. Esme ran to his side and they consoled one another.

Alice looked at me with such sadness in her pale blue eyes.

We sat there and witnessed their parents heartbreak. These people had never stopped loving him. I'm not sure that they really gave up, either. But, they didn't know what to do to help.

They whispered softly to another another before he turned back to the window.

Carlisle continued while Esme returned to Alice's side, "She came by the house the next day and informed us that Edward would no longer take our phone calls or see us publicly or privately. She also demanded fifty-million dollars to make this all stop. I turned her away and she told me it would be a cold day in hell before I got my hooks in him again. Tanya made my blood run cold that day when she informed me that she had her hooks in so deep that if I tried anything behind her back he would pay dearly, as well. When she walked out of my office that morning I immediately called the bank and stopped all monies to his account. I refused to let that evil witch have another penny of my famiys money. I left the eight million dollars that was already there in it, because I couldn't leave my son penniless, but I took both of their cars and had the deed to the house settled into his name and out of the trust fund's account." He sighed and sat back down at his desk, his phone back in his hand as he checked it for an update.

"Any news?" I asked, wearily.

"He's got a brain injury, they felt it best to put him into a medically induced coma." He said as the tears fell down his cheeks. All three of them sat in their own grief, all three were devastated by the current turn of events. It was obvious that they loved Edward very much. I included myself in that group as I noticed that tears poured from my eyes as well.

A/n: One more after this then I'm all tapped out...I'll TRY MY BEST to get the remaining chapters completed within the next 24 hrs BUT I cannot guarantee you anything...I'm sorry.

I have a shit-ton of stuff to do tomorrow to prep for surgery and being that I have to stay w/ my parents over the weekend since I won't be able to drive I've got to pack bags, do laundry, clean some house, etc...SHEESH there is NEVER enough time in the day;(

Let me finish the edits and I'll get ch22 posted quickly:)

Kyla