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Taking Care of Business

Bella POV

I inhaled and I knew it was his scent, his hand wrapped around my waist holding me to him. This dream felt a lot more real than the others. I snuggled closer to my pillow fighting waking up from this dream. The pillow under my face was a lot harder then I remembered, a lot warmer and hairy? I open my eyes and smile seeing the most perfect chiselled chest I've ever seen was my pillow. He really stayed the night and he wasn't a dream, I thought as I slowly trailed my finger over his chest hair. I could hear his heart beating and his even breaths, he was still sleeping. I looked up at him and my smile widened, he was gorgeous. I tossed my arm over him and snuggled closer. I felt his arm on me tighten pressing me to his frame and a little moan released from my lips just from the pleasure of being this close to him did to me.

Then his phone started to ring ruining this moment. I wasn't sure where it was but it sounded as if it was coming from his pants pocket. He started to stir and I looked up at him, wondering if he would have regrets for staying the night last night. We hadn't done anything but hold each other, it was intimacy in a way I've never known it could be. His left hand came up and rubbed his eyes as they slowly opened. He looked down at me and gave me my favourite smile.

"Good morning Beautiful."

He said and I blushed as if I was some sixteen years old girl. I placed my hand firmly on his chest and smiled back, "Good morning, good looking." I say and he laughs tossing his head back against the pillow. His phone stops ringing and I'm thankful because I didn't want to leave his arms for him to go answer it. He runs his fingers through his hair then asks,

"What time is it?"

I look over on his side of the bed to my nightstand and look at the clock, "A quarter after nine." I tell him and he groans. "I haven't slept this late in three years." He tells me and I place my head back on his chest.

"Then maybe you should start taking better care of yourself."

"That's what I have you for."

He tells me and I pinch his side as we both laugh. His phone rings again and we both groan, "I need to get that." He tells me and I nod my head against his chest and slowly pull myself up from him. He sits up and he's looking at me for what felt like forever. Then he pushed my hair over my shoulder and placed a kiss on my neck and climbed out of the bed. I watched as he went to his pants that were draped over my chair. He pulled out his phone and answered it with a harsh,

"What?"

I slowly climbed out of bed and as he talked on the phone and went to my closet. I figured Edward would want to take a shower and put on clean clothes instead of the ones from yesterday. I knew Jacob usually left some clothes here for when he did come to visit. I wasn't sure if he had taken them with him last time he was here but I was about to find out. I checked the back of my closet and found a pair of jeans and white t-shirts and a black hoodie.

"Jessica, did they fax it over?"

I hear him say into the phone and I place the clothes on the bed. I walk to my dresser and pull out a pair of yoga tights and a camisole, and some underwear. I then proceed to walk out the room to grab him a wash cloth and tooth brush and to take a quick shower while he was on the phone. When I walk past him he takes my hand and pulls me to him and places a kiss on my forehead. I smile up at him and mouth that I was taking a shower and would be right back. He nods his head in and I continue to walk out of the room.

I enter the bathroom and close the door behind me. I took my shower and washed my hair. I then cared for my other morning hygiene needs and dressed. I grab a wash cloth and tooth brush for him from my hall closet. When I walked back into the bedroom Edward was sitting on the edge of the bed still on the phone. He was laughing this time,

"Em, I swear I don't know how people ride coach."

He said I shook my head giggling and he must have heard me because he looked up at me. I watched his jaw go tight as he looks me up and down. "Yes she forgave me; no she didn't slam the door in my face." He said with a smile on his face and I laughed again as I hand him the wash cloth and tooth brush.

"Yeah, I'll see you when you get here then."

Edward says then he hangs up the phone. "Emmett says hi and that you should have slammed the door in my face and made me beg. So let me point out that I am very grateful you didn't do that." He says with my favourite crooked grin.

"Maybe I'll do it next time."

"Are you anticipating me messing up again?"

"You are an Ass by nature."

I reply and he tosses his head back and laugh. "You can take a shower the bathroom is up the hall and to your right; also those there are some of Jake's clothes he leaves here. I just thought you would rather put on clean clothes instead of a dirty suit." I tell him and he places both his hands on my hips,

"Thank you."

"No problem, how soon do you have to leave?"

"I'm waiting for Emmett, and seeing that he's just now leaving New York, I have at least three hours."

He replies and I look at him with a raised brow, "You, Edward Cullen, CEO of Masen Enterprises flew from New York to Chicago, on coach without your body guard?" I asked and he laughed and ran his fingers through his hair, I was noticing he did this when he was either nervous or annoyed.

"I told you, I am everything but in control when it involves you Isabella."

He says and I smile, "Go take your shower, I'll make us breakfast." I tell him and he nods his head and stands up. He takes the things I gave him and leaves the room. I grab my cell phone and head down the stairs in my loft and go to my kitchen. I pull out the ingredients for French toast, Pepper omelettes and because he was a man I pulled out the bacon as well. I made the egg and milk mixture first for the French toast and then pulled out my griddle. I didn't run a restaurant like Angela, but I learned a lot from helping her so I found cooking fun, but never something I would do as a career choice.

I heard the shower cut off and I thought about the fact that I had a wet naked, Edward Cullen upstairs in my bathroom. Just that image made my knees weak. I looked up towards the bathroom and was never more grateful for the fact that I had the perfect view from the kitchen. The bathroom door opened and he came out in jeans barefoot and shirtless. He slowly walked down the steps pulling the shirt on over his head and I could see some drops of water were still on his chest. I inhaled and swallowed hard as I watched up walk towards the kitchen. The t-shirt clung to him and I bit my lip slowly mixing the spoon in the bowl.

"Need help?"

He asked me and I closed my eyes and tried to pull my head out of the gutter. "Do you know how to make French toast?" I asked and he gave me that crooked grin and shook his head no, "How about omelettes?" I asked and again he shook his head no.

"Edward have you ever cooked anything in your entire life? Boiled water maybe?"

I ask him teasingly with a smile on my face, "Nope." He said popping the 'P' and I laughed shaking my head at him. I guess when you entire family is rich enough to hire a cook, cooking yourself is unnecessary.

"Come here, I'll teach you."

I told him and he smiled and walked around the kitchen island. He came up right behind me and I smiled with my back to him. I open the loaf of bread and take out two slices.

"First you have to soak the bread in this mixture I made. It's milk, egg and ground cinnamon."

I explain and he places his hands on the island on either side of me trapping me between him and the island. I inhale and proceed to place the bread into the mixture; I'm having trouble concentrating because I can feel his breathing on my ear.

"Make sure you get both sides of the bread and never leave it in the milk too long."

I explain and he places a kiss on my shoulder, "Edward you're not paying attention." I tell him with a laugh and he chuckles placing a kiss on my other shoulder, "Sorry." He says and I know that he's not but I continue showing him how to cook placing the slices on the griddle. I make the first batch and then place them on a dish after they are cooked. I face him leaning against the kitchen island and tell him that its' his turn.

"You do it so much better than I do."

"Flattering will not get you out of this."

I tell him looking up into those green eyes that were bound to swallow me whole one day. He cupped my face and I watched his face come closer and closer to mine. Our foreheads touched and we both inhaled taking in the others scent,

"Do you have any idea how beautiful you are Isabella?"

He asked me and I didn't answer I couldn't. For whatever reason when his lips was this close to mine I could never think of coherent things to say. He brushed his lips across my face initially avoiding my lips and I swore I was going to die if he didn't kiss me soon. He placed a kiss on my jaw then my neck slightly parting his lips and I felt the tip of his tongue and I moaned. I felt his smile against my skin then he sucked gently and I had to grip on to the Kitchen Island for support.

"Jesus Edward, just kiss me."

I say before I can stop myself and he chuckles lifting his face from my neck, "Gladly." He says then his lips come crashing down on mine and I sigh in satisfaction. My god he tasted like nothing in this world, it was taking me everything not to beg him to forget about me asking him to take things slow and to just fuck me in my kitchen. His hand gripped the back of my neck his fingers dancing along my hair line as he pressed his body into me and then I felt it. We both groaned from the friction and I quickly wrapped my arms around him pressing myself tighter against him. Our mouths move together passionately and I feel his other hand wrapping around me. It slowly slides over my low back and then he stops just over my ass, as if waiting for permission. I take his hand and place it on my ass and I moan when he grips it pressing me harder into his erection.

Our kiss deepens and I feel like I'm going to drown in him and I honestly didn't care. His tongue traced my lips and my tongue followed. He sucked in my top lip; I took in his bottom lip. The last thing I want to do is stop kissing him, but I pull my lips away to take in a breath of fresh air. Edward placed his forehead on my shoulder and all that could be heard was our uneven breathing.

"We should finish making breakfast."

I say not wanting to but knowing if we didn't we would have went a lot further than either of us were ready for at this point of our relationship. Relationship? Is that what we had now? I asked myself but was too afraid to ask him. I proceed to cooking and I laugh when Edward pulls the slice of beard out the batter mixture and it's soggy.

"That's why you're not supposed to leave it in there too long."

"This is why I don't cook."

He says with a smile and I laugh. When I tried to show him how to make an omelette we lost two, to my beautiful kitchen floor. Watching Edward trying to cook was literally one of the funniest things I had ever witnessed in my entire life. He even burnt the bacon and curse like no body's business when the grease popped on his hand. I took his hand and kissed where he was rubbing.

"To avoid wasting anymore food, I'll cook breakfast from now on."

I tell him and he laughs pulling me to him. "If you were anyone else I would not have been doing this." He tells me and I bit my lip smiling up at him.

"Good to know I get special treatment."

I tell him and he grins and places a quick peck on my lips. We sit down to have breakfast though we have the same thing we end up feeding each other. I never wanted to come out of this bubble, he was sweet, playful and I loved every minute of it.

"Isabella can I ask you a question?"

He asked looking at me with sincere eyes. "Of course, anything." I say and he runs his fingers through his hair. He was nervous about asking me whatever it was he was about to ask me. "Yesterday you told me your ex called you worthless because you couldn't have children. Did you ever get checked or did you just believe it to be true because you never got pregnant by him?" He asked and I sat there speechless. It was like being blindsided by a huge defensive tackle on a football field. I wasn't sure what I expected him to ask but it damn sure wasn't that.

"I never got checked while we were married, but I believed him because he had a child from a previous marriage. It wasn't until after we divorced I that I finally went to see a doctor and they told me I had a ten percent chance of ever conceiving a child. That hurt so much more because I also knew he had gotten his mistress pregnant while we were trying."

I replied hating the pain this all still caused me. I looked away from Edward not wanting him to see the tears that were now welding in my eyes. Whenever I thought about the fact that I would never be able to do the one thing women were literally here to do, it made me feel less than a woman. "Maybe James is right, maybe I am worthless." I say to myself biting down on my lip as I felt a tear hit my cheek. God I hated James for making me feel this way.

"That son of a bitch isn't right Isabella, you are everything but worthless do you hear me."

Edward said from next to me and I realized I must have said that out loud. I can feel his eyes on me like fire but I can't bring myself to look at him. I didn't want pity or anyone saying how sorry they were, how they wished they could change it, how god has a plan or any of it. I heard this speech from Rose, Jake, Angela and my parents all the time and I was sick of it. The truth was it was never going to change that I felt empty sometimes; knowing that if I fell in love and got married again I would never be able to give him a child. Edward turned my face to his and I looked at him. I looked into his eyes waiting to see pity but there wasn't any,

"Isabella you are priceless and if I have to make you believe that every day by telling you every day I will. If I have to send you flowers, chocolates, books and anything else your heart desires then so be it. But I will not allow you to sit here and think for one second that you are worthless."

He tells me and I feel two more tears fall from my eyes. He wipes them away then kisses my lips holding my face to his. When he lifts his lips from mine he places another kiss on my forehead.

"Thank you."

I tell him wiping the tears off my face, "You don't have to thank me, it's the truth." He tells me and I nod my head.

"I feel like an idiot, we were having a nice breakfast and I had to go and ruin it with my tears."

"Isabella you didn't ruin anything. I just wanted to know if you thought you couldn't have children because of what he said or because it was true."

He tells me and I want to ask him if this will change anything between us, but I don't. We haven't given each other relationship labels, so asking if me not being able to ever give him a child would be a problem felt like it would be inappropriate. We sat there quietly for a moment neither saying a word while he held my hand in his.

"Want to know something that's really messed up?"

"What?"

He asked me, "James's mistress, well fiancée now works for you." I tell him and he looks surprised, "In what department?" He asked me rubbing his finger over the back of my hand. I was really starting to love when he did this.

"She's the company's P.R."

"Victoria?"

He asked in shock and I nodded my head. He lets my hand go and jumped up from his seat. "Edward what's wrong?" I ask him but he doesn't answer, he rushes upstairs back to my bedroom. I bit my lip wondering what the hell just happened. There's a knock at my door and I quickly get up and go to answer it. When I open it Emmett is standing there with a huge grin showing the deepest dimples I've ever seen in my life.

"Hi Emmett"

"Hey Bella, is the Sire still here or did you put him out?"

He asked me and I laughed stepping to the side allowing him to come in, "He's upstairs and would you care to tell me how you got in here without being buzzed in?" I asked him, I meant to ask Edward also but I was more than sure the guard probably just let him in when he saw Edward Cullen at the gate. Emmett laughs,

"You'll be surprised how scared people are seeing a large man walk up behind them when they are coming into their apartment building."

He tells me and I shake my head. I notice the duffle bag in his hand and I'm more than certain that it's for Edward. "Is that his clothes?" I ask Emmett and he nods his head, "I'll take it to him." I say taking the bag. I tell Emmett to make his self at home and I head upstairs. I can hear Edward talking and then he yells,

"What the hell am I paying you for if you missed that bit of information?"

I walk into the room and he looks at me, "I'll be at the office in an hour, be there." He says then he presses the end button on the phone and dropped it on the bed. I watched him run his fingers through his hair.

"Um Emmett's here, he brought you a change of clothes."

I tell him placing the duffle bag by his feet. He took my hand into his and pulled me into his lap. "I'm sorry I jumped up like that." He says and I nod my head but say nothing.

"As you know, Masen Enterprises have been experiencing information being leaked. So with you telling me that Victoria is about to marry a paparazzi sleaze like James then there is a chance she's the mole."

He explains and I now understand. "I didn't even think about that, but Edward you can't fire her by who she is associated with. The last thing Masen Enterprises needs is a law suit and a huge scandal because you fired the woman about to marry the man that sued you a year ago. You need to find away to confirm she was the source and as a journalist I should tell you that they will never give up there source." I tell him and his jaw goes tight. I take his hand into mine,

"Look Victoria talks a lot of trash but she's scared shitless of losing her job. When she saw me on the elevator she freaked the hell that I was there interviewing with you for her job. If you want to scare her ass straight confront her about James and let her believe I will replace her if you find out she has deceived the company. If you want I'll be there to make it believable."

I tell him and he looks up at me, obviously surprised by what I am saying. "You don't have to do that Isabella." He tells me and I shake my head.

"I want to Edward; I know how important this company is to you and I want to help anyway I can."

I reply and he gives me that crooked grin. He places a soft kiss on my lips and tells me we need to get dressed because we have to be at his office soon. We both change our clothes and I can't help but watch him as he puts on a grey suit. Goodness the man really looks good in anything, I say to myself. I dress in a black sleek sleeveless shirtdress, with wooden buttons and a faux-leather belt at the waist. I blushed seeing Edward was also watching me as closely as I watched him. After we finished getting dressed we then head back down stairs and I laugh catching Emmett place a fork full of food in his mouth.

"Bella this is the best French toast I've ever eaten."

He says with a mouth full of food and I laugh, "Thank you Emmett." I tell him walking over to my laptop to check my email. "I'm telling Heidi you said that." Edward says with a smile and I shake my head as they began to taunt and tease each other. Once my laptop wakes up I yelp remembering Edward is on my desktop. I quickly slam it shut.

"Is everything alright, Isabella?"

Edward asks from behind me and he's wearing a large stupid grin. "You saw that didn't you?" I ask him and he gives me a smile. "I remember that day; it was 4th of July weekend. My family always has a huge cookout." He tells me and I cover my face with both my hands and he chuckles.

"It's alright Isabella. I'm flattered, but I think it's only fair I get a picture of you for my desktop."

He says and I drop my hands, "Teasing isn't nice Mr. Cullen." I say and he steps closer to me. "I'm serious Ms. Swan; I would love to see you on my computer screen every minute while I'm at work." He tells me and I inhale deeply.

"You guys ready?"

Emmett yells to us. Edward smiles and then takes my hand. We leave for Edward's office and I warn him that we can't hold hands in the parking garage. He grumbles something about buying my apartment building.

Edward POV

When we make it out into the parking garage to where Emmett parked his car I hear Isabella curse under her breath. I turn to look at her and see her eyes are fixed on something. I follow her line of vision and see a man standing by her car.

"Bella! Well look at this, I was out here with the plan to follow you to see if you were secretly meeting with Cullen and you walk out of the building with him. I guess it turns out the rumors are true after all."

The man says and for the first time ever I hear Isabella growl. "Fuck off James." She says and I look at the man again. I truthfully had no idea what the man looked like, when I punched him I was grieving with my grandfather's death so truthfully he was just something to relieve some anger off on.

"So are you going to tell me why the two of you have been meeting in private?"

He says and Emmett jumps into bodyguard mood and guides us to his car. "Come on Cullen? Are trying to steal her from KBC?" He asked and I don't answer.

"Aww don't be so sour man, she's my ex-wife you can tell me."

He says with a smile, "She's not much to look at and after a fine piece of ass like Jane I don't think you would really go for someone like Bella so come on tell me what's with the private meetings." He says and I take a step towards him ready to rearrange his face for talking about Isabella that way. Emmett stops me and James smiles,

"Upset I called you're ex a fine piece of ass?"

He asked and I really wanted to bash his face in because it was obvious he didn't think he insulted Isabella just now. Emmett opens the back seat and I guide Isabella inside then climb in after her. I watch Emmett say something to James that makes him turn red and he walks away after getting a picture of Isabella and I in the car and Emmett taking a step towards him with his fist balled up. I look over at Isabella who still looks pissed off.

"Say the word and I will go kick his ass right now."

I tell her and she looks at me and shakes her head, "He would love that, then he'd get to sue you again. Parking lot video cameras, remember." She says and I take her hand into mine. "I can get Emmett to do it, then." I tell her and she laughs placing her head on my shoulder.

"James is like a leech, he feeds off of my pain and if I give it to him he keeps coming. I just have to ignore him."

"Isabella, he's a fucking prick and if he comes near you again I'm going to rip his head off."

I tell her and she giggles, "He is more talk than anything else Edward trust me ok." She says and I inhale and bring her hand to my lips. Emmett climbs into the car and looks back at us.

"Are you alright Bella, I swear I can take care of him and make it look like an accident."

Emmett says and she laughs again, "I'll keep that in mind." She says and he smiles then starts the car. We leave for the office and I hold Isabella's hand the inter ride. When we pull up outside the building I climb out with Isabella behind me. The paparazzi snap pictures and the speculation is about me trying to take her from the show because KBC wouldn't sale it to me. I really didn't care what story they came up with as long as it didn't disrespect Isabella.

The moment the elevator doors open on my office floor Jessica was already at the door waiting for me. "How was the graduation Mr. Cullen?" Jessica asked walking quickly next to me. "It was nice Jessica, are they all in the conference room?" I ask her heading there even before she answered me.

"Yes Mr. Cullen, Mr. Jenks and the…"

She pauses causing me to stop walking and see what made her stop talking. She was looking at Isabella; at least I knew I had Jessica's loyalty.

"You can talk in front of her Jessica."

I tell her, "The Volturi arrived also and Victoria is on her way up." She continues and I nod my head. Isabella is looking at me with a questioning look but now is not the time to answer any questions. We head to the conference room and Samantha is standing at the door.

"Welcome back Mr. Cullen."

She says and I simply give her a nod of my head. I proceed into the room and then I hear Samantha tell Isabella it was employees only. "Isabella have a seat next to me." I say and she smiles looking at Samantha then walking past her. "Samantha go take calls, and I am to not be disturbed unless it is my mother." I tell her and she sucks in a deep breath then walks away. Emmett comes in and takes a seat,

"Jessica stand out there and wait for Victoria when she comes up let me know before bringing her in here."

"Yes Mr. Cullen."

She says walking out of the room. I guide Isabella to the seat opposite of Emmett's and I then sit between them.

"Now did you find anything implicating Victoria leaking company information?"

I ask needing to get straight to the point, "No. If she told him anything it was in the privacy of their bedroom." Aro says and I watch Isabella shift in her seat. I inhale because without proof I cannot fire Victoria over it, and Isabella was right the last thing I needed was a wrongful termination suit.

"What about the leak of the embezzlement?"

"More than hundreds of news channels had the story at the same time. So trying to pin point one source would be impossible. You just so happened to be watching the station James use to work for."

Marcus tells me and I run my fingers through my hair annoyed. "John is there any way I can let her go without being sued for wrongful termination?" I ask John Jenks; since the other lawyers were being investigated by the Volturi I used John as the company's lawyer for everything. He pulls out what I assume is Victoria's employee agreement,

"No but you can demote her."

He tells me and I figure that could be safe, everything she does would have to be approved. Which means I would have to find someone loyal, to look over everything for me.

"Mr. Cullen, Victoria has arrived."

Jessica says and I smile because I just found Victoria's new supervisor. "Alright Jessica give me a minute will you." I tell her and she nods her head then exits back out of the room.

"Do any of you have news on anyone else?"

"Yes, Veronica had some strange activity on her computer yesterday…"

"Strange how?"

"Someone was trying to get onto the company's financial records."

Caius says, "Why someone? How do you know it wasn't her?" I ask him and he shifts in his seat. "Because, it's impossible I was having lunch with her and some other employees." He answers and I nod my head.

"So did they get in?"

"No Riley shut it down, also Royce was caught snooping through some files and Benjamin's activity has also been questionable."

Marcus says and I run my hand through my hair again. This was why I felt like I could trust no fucking one. "Benjamin was at the station trying to buy the show, he said it was for the company but Alistair said he wanted to talk to you about it." Isabella whispers in my ear and I look at her questioningly.

"That's where the rumours about the company buying the show came from?"

I ask her and she bit her lip, "I guess so I mean Alistair told me this yesterday." She says and I growl and tell the Volturi to look into Benjamin and to watch Royce closely because if he was looking for files he could have also been the same person that stole the netbook plans. I hated that I couldn't just fire them all without getting sued like shit, or worse having them leak everything they know about this company off to my competitors. I tell them they can go and they all get up and leave at the same time. I sit back in my chair rubbing my head and Isabella takes my hand into hers.

"Do you need anything?"

She asked me and I looked at her and saw how concerned she looked. I sit up and lean into her, "All I need is this…" I say then place a soft kiss on her lips and bite softly on her lower one. When I pull back she smiles at me with that pink blush touching her cheek,

"John when Victoria comes in we will be pretending that I am considering replacing her with Isabella. I need her to understand she is on thin ice."

"I understand Edward, it may help. Put her on probation which is her being demoted."

"Yes that's what I was thinking and make it so that she has to have everything looked over and approved by Jessica."

Emmett starts laughing hysterically as well as Isabella, "She is going to spit fire when you tell her that." Emmett says and I smile,

"Good. Let Jessica and Victoria know they can come in."

I say and Emmett nods his head and gets up. He opens the door and second's later Victoria and Jessica walk in. Emmett retakes his seat and Jessica sits down a seat away from him. Victoria is glaring at Isabella with what could only be described as the death stare.

"Victoria, I do not normally get involved in my employee's personal life. But when my Public Relations rep fails to mention that she is engaged to the fucking paparazzi during time information is being stolen and leaked from my company I have to question their loyalty."

"Whatever she told you she's lying because she wants my job."

Victoria snaps and Isabella snorts. I stand up placing my hands firmly on the desk. "Victoria you will not stand in front of me and lie to me, or so help you god I will make you regret waking up and coming to work today." I tell her and watch her swallow hard. She looks over at Isabella then back at me,

"I was engaged to James…"

"Was?"

Isabella says from next to me, "Yes was Bella. He left me last night if you must know." She says then looks down at the floor. I inhale deeply not in the mood for bullshit,

"You're on probation Victoria, all of your work must be approved by Jessica."

"What? The secretary?"

"My secretary, yes and technically in my eyes she already ranks above you."

I tell her and she inhales a deep breath, "What did you do, fuck him Bella?" Victoria asked and my nose flares and I go to respond but feel Isabella's hand on my forearm.

"Victoria not everyone works on their back like you do. You think I don't know you fucked Benjamin so he would hire you, instead of me. So let me ask you a question why did James leave you last night."

"Screw you Bella."

"That's what I thought."

Isabella says and I look at her feeling stuck. How is it she knew something I didn't know about my own damn employee's? "If Mr. Cullen hires me for this job it's because I am better qualified." Isabella continues and I look back at Victoria.

"Mr. Cullen, I am sorry for everything including this lack of professionalism just now. I will prove my loyalty to this company because I do not wish to be let go."

Victoria says and I nod my head and sit back down. I look over at Isabella and neither of us says anything. I tell Victoria she is excused to go but warn her that if I find out anything else she was out on her ass without a pot to piss in. Once Victoria leaves, John lets me know he recorded the conversation and I nod my head. He leaves next, "Jessica are you alright with this new promotion?" I ask her and she looks surprised,

"Uh yes of course. I can still do some of my regular duties but I may have to relieve some onto Samantha."

"That's fine. But just in case start looking for a replacement for Samantha."

I tell her and she nods her head and gets up and leaves the room. I turn to Isabella and ask the first question on my mind.

"How the hell did you know she slept with Benjamin for this job?"

Isabella laughs, "I didn't know, I've just known Victoria for a long time. I tossed the bait and she took it." she says and Emmett laughs.

"I really like you Bella."

He says and I glare at him, "Back off she's taken." I tell him making both of them laugh. She takes my hand and interlaces our fingers. "Honestly I don't even know who interviewed her; I just know I was interviewed by Benjamin so I said his name first." She says and I run my thumb over the back of her hand.

"Isabella I didn't even know you applied for a job here."

"That's what happens when everyone else does the hiring and not you or your grandfather. I saw the two of you that day; you were both walking to the elevators."

"I think I remember that vaguely you were wearing a blue pants suit and glasses?"

I asked and she blushed placing her head on my shoulder. "Yes, I was such a horrible dresser before Alice came along." She says with a giggle and I kiss the top of her head.

"I should fire him for not hiring you."

"Nope you should thank him, because if I worked here we couldn't do this…"

She says then places a kiss on my lips pushing her fingers into my hair. I groan as always enjoying the taste of her on my tongue. I hear Emmett pretending to gag and Isabella pulls away slightly and tells him to close his eyes then.

They are so cute together *smiles*

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