Edward's Point of View
"I love you so much." She sobbed into her cellphone.
Did she think that I'd let her go that easily? I wanted to hug her and tell her she didn't have to do this— we could still find a way from Renée. There were other opportunities that she just couldn't see after taking more than enough stress from everyone.
"Bella—" The line got cut off and I gripped my phone hard, feeling my hand twitch towards my gun. All I saw was red and I punched my wall, leaving my hand feeling numb and the wall cracked. I dialed Rosalie's number. It didn't take a long time for her to pick up.
"Hey, Cullen," she said, sounding as if she was in a hurry. "Have you heard from her?"
"She just called me and broke up with me," I told her. "You're good in I.T. stuff, aren't you? Can you track down Bella's phone for me?"
"That's what I'm trying to do now. Bella called Alice just now and told her that we're not gonna go to Monaco. She's cutting off all her connections with us permanently and I think she's given up." She replied, distracted by something.
"No, she can't give up on us now. God, what was she thinking?!" I shouted.
"Cullen, calm down okay? I've got her already. She's in Terminal Seven now, boarding her plane right now. Edward, I don't think you can make it if you go there. It'll be too late." Rosalie warned. "Oh shit. She's switched to airplane mode for her phone. I can't track her now."
"I'm gonna get a flight there now. Rosalie?"
"There won't be any use of taking a flight there. Bella never told us a specific town of where she'll be staying, so it'll be difficult. Stay here until morning, at least. Just give me a few hours to sort all of this out. I'll look into the properties Renée owns and see whether I can cut down the results."
"Morning... I can't wait until morning. That'll be too slow." I shook my head as I ran my hands through my hair in frustration.
"Cullen, she's not going anywhere anymore. She'll just be staying at a house with her mother, and I'm assuming the house will be a mansion or something. Renée has always had a taste for expensive things." She said. "It'll be three in the morning here when they land in Heathrow. It'd be nice if you can bring over a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks when I arrive at your house." She told me before hanging up.
I rolled my eyes and looked at one of my men, Felix. He stood cooly at the wall, looking at me as well. "Get a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. I have a visitor coming." I ordered, and he immediately complied, nodding. He went down the elevator and disappeared.
It wasn't long until I got a video call from the reception downstairs saying that I had a visitor. I asked for Rosalie to just come up straight to my apartment and they sent her up.
She was armed with a laptop bag in baggy sweatpants and a long-sleeved pyjama shirt under her black coat when I saw her. She gave me a frown with her lips mashed together in a thin line.
"Where's my PSL?" She asked.
"It's coming. Just look for Bella now, can you?" I showed her to the ottoman and she took a seat, taking out the latest MacBook model from her laptop bag and booted it up.
An alarm went off in my house and I winced, the sudden loud alarm ringing in my ears. I received a call from one of my men, Alec. I groaned and picked it up. He was in charge of my family's and home security.
"Boss, someone just hacked into your WiFi," he informed me.
My eyes instantly stared at Rosalie who was focused on her laptop, but had a disturbed look on her face. She sensed my gaze and looked up. Her eyes widened as she furrowed her eyebrows as if she was innocent. "What did I do?"
"Can you seriously just not hack into my WiFi, but ask for the password? Jeez," I grumbled.
Her lips were shaped into an 'O' in realization and then she rolled her eyes at me incredulously. "Hacking's much more fun, and I can't believe you put an alarm for your dumb WiFi too."
I gave her a glare and she sighed, looking back at her laptop. "Never mind, it's just my guest. She likes hacking, apparently." I told Alec.
"Whatever you say, Boss." He replied, then hung up. The alarm stopped and I heaved a sigh of relief.
"How is it that you don't seem affected by Bella's sudden cut off from all of us?" I asked Rosalie.
She shrugged. "I mean, I am affected, but I know her inside out. She's been my best friend ever since we were nine. I know how she feels about certain things, and I think that she can still survive without us even though she's fragile. She's not only made out of glass, Cullen. There's fragments of diamonds in her that makes her tough."
"She might be tough, but she's also prone to breaking under pressure. The phone calls from her are just teasers of what's to come." I told her.
The elevator came up with a high-pitched bell sound and our heads snapped up. Felix was back with a grande cup of pumpkin spice latte, just like what Rosalie had asked for. Her eyes lit up as they focused on the Starbucks label on the cup.
"Ooh, thank you." She went over to take it from his hands and smiled at him, sliding twenty bucks into his hands. He gave me a look and I dismissed him. She finally went back to her laptop and raised her eyebrows. "The system's finally found all the properties that Renée has," she announced, her face faltering. "There's no property based in the UK owned by her."
"So where did they go?" I paced around the room with my arms folded.
"I assure you, their flight was to Heathrow, but it's kind of strange that Renée doesn't have a house there." Rose said. "Unless she bought the house under an alias, then it would be possible."
"Why would she want to put it under an alias?" I frowned.
"She probably knows that I work with computers, so she didn't want the property to be found by using an alias..." She trailed off, then her eyes widened and she sat down on the ottoman again, her fingers tapping on the keys at the speed of light. "No, wait. There's apparently a secret file under her name and there's a code to unlock it, but it would take months to break it down."
"We don't have that much time. Call Alice and ask her to let us know if Renée gives her their new numbers." I said.
"Why don't you call her yourself? I have codes to crack." Rosalie threw her phone at me and I caught it, unlocking the screen and finding Alice's number. I dialed it and Alice picked up immediately.
"Rose?" Alice said. "Have you heard from Bella?"
"It's me, Edward." I told her. "No one's heard from Bella, and she just broke up with me over the phone."
"What was she even thinking? God," she exclaimed. "My mom's just pressurizing her. Don't listen to what Bella told you. She still loves you and I don't think she really wanted to break up with you."
"Rosalie's at my place now, and we're trying to figure out where they're staying. If your mom or Bella gives you their new numbers, could you tell us? Then Rosalie can hack into the phone company's database and figure out where they live." I told her.
"I will," Alice replied with a promise underlining her tone. "Call me if anything comes up."
"Sure," I said before hanging up.
It has been four months since Bella went to England.
Rosalie had been trying whatever codes she could think of, and I really didn't think there was that much to last for months.
"Hey, apparently, there are a lot of codes, okay? It took me another six months of learning every code there is after graduating from recruit school." She told me with a glare that could cut through diamonds.
Soon, she did run out. There was nothing else we could think of, and even Alice didn't have Renée or Bella's new numbers.
"She's not going to keep in touch with me, either." She said to me when we were all gathered at her penthouse. "I may be her daughter, but she probably loves Bella more than she loves me. She might know that I have some tie to you and that's probably the reason why she didn't even give me her number. My dad doesn't know it too."
"Well, shit." Rosalie suddenly said, making Emmett's, Alice's & my heads snap up. She looked at us from her laptop with a slight panic in her eyes. "I... I've used all the codes that I know, and none of them worked. That means that this... program that she used to protect this has no right code to access the content. We know what's inside, but we won't know how to access it."
"So we've wasted months on this... impenetrable file?" Emmett asked her.
She sighed, wincing as she ran her hands through her long blond hair. "I'm so sorry, guys. I'm not the best computer programmer and hacker on Earth, but I did try my best."
"So what do we do now?" Alice looked at all us in expectation.
"We'll just go to every first-class town there is in England and find for her. That's the best we can do right now." I suggested.
"But that'll take too long," Emmett shook his head. "We can just—"
Alice's cellphone starting ringing violently in her pockets and she froze. "That's my dad." She said before going to her bedroom to pick it up.
"Rose, book for all of us the earliest possible flight to Heathrow. We'll start our search at the nearest towns around London." I told Emmett & Rosalie.
I heard a door click and looked at Alice who emerged out of her bedroom with a blank expression on her face. She looked at me with her big eyes.
"My father just got a call from my mom." She said. "Bella's been pregnant for four months and Edward's the father."
Hey there, so one of you asked for Edward's point of view, and I just figured I'd write it all. Anyways, keep those baby name suggestions coming in! I know what I'm gonna name it, but I just wanna hear what names you guys would give to your kids, maybe. I'd name my kid something Greek since I love the culture.
Love you all and see you guys next week.
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