Chapter 4: In Trouble

Carlisle's POV

If I were alive I would have had a heart attack because of immense fear by now. I have never felt so much fear in my life, both human and vampire, than I have right now as I heard my wife's footsteps thundering up the stairs.

The fear that Carly felt was written all over her facial features. I wanted to protect her and comfort her. I wanted to assure that Esme would never hurt her. Then I realized that Carly had yet to meet my wife and therefore knew nothing about her usually kind and calm nature.

The door flew open and banged so hard against the wall that the door left a dent in the wall. She was breathing very heavily; like a raging bull about to charge at it's target. Her facial expression had contorted into one that could only be described as furious. Actually, furious is the understatement of the century. Even the word murderous might be an understatement.

"You!" she screamed as she pointed a finger at me. "Come with me now!" she added.

I looked over at Carly who had hidden underneath a blanket and was now quivering in fear.

I reluctantly got up and followed Esme who looked ready to kill me. What had I gotten myself into?

She grabbed me and started pulling me down the stairs. A quick scan of the living room told me that all of my family had left as fast as possible. For some reason, this made me feel more scared as my wife dragged me outside of the house and into the forest at vampire speed now.

We stopped somewhere and she finally let go of me. She turned around to face. I mentally prepared myself for the wrath that was about to come.

"I have never in my life felt so angry before! How can you do this to me?! Why did you lie to me about having another family, another wife before me! You have no idea how hurt and betrayed I feel right now!" Her voice got louder and louder with each and every word. I wished that she would keep her voice down.

"Well!?" she screamed.

"Can you please keep your voice down so we can talk about this calmly?" I said.

She just got even angrier, which I didn't even know was possible.

"Calm down! You want me to calm down! I cannot and I refuse to calm down and lower my voice right now! Honestly the children won't even need their super hearing to hear exactly what I am going to say to you! Now answer me!" she commanded. "What possessed you to lie about something so important?! Enlighten me because I do not understand!" she shouted.

"It was an arranged marriage. They were very common back in those days. I didn't love her. It's true that I had a son with her; a little boy that I loved so much. But I did not love my wife. It was an arranged marriage, and I just didn't think it was important to mention her" I said.

"You didn't think that it was important!" she screamed. "You didn't think that it was important to tell me that you had a baby with another woman! Instead you let me believe that I was the first woman that you'd ever been with!" she screamed so loudly that I was sure that humans all the way to China could hear.

"You know what?! I can't even look at you right now so I am leaving!" she screamed.

She left me there feeling dejected. I deserved it though. Looking back I realized that it was a stupid and huge mistake to keep this a secret from everyone; especially my own wife. Nobody knew about my first family, I had not told a single soul. Not even Edward knew because I made sure that I never thought about them around him.

I slowly made my way back home. I wasn't in a hurry to get back and get another reaction from my family. Once I did make it back home nobody was talking. My family all just sat around. They all stared at me. I could see the judgment behind their eyes.

I went upstairs where Carly was. I needed to check on her again, and I wanted to be with the only person in this house that would actually talk to me right now.

She laid there peacefully asleep, and I just sat and watched her.

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