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"They say that behind every great man is a great woman, mistress, and probably a gang of mobsters too. Remember that America was built on dreams, courage, passion, sweat, tears, blood, and a little bit of illegal activity. And all that also happens to be the necessary ingredients of a good gangster."
Previously...
"Order six, get whatever toppings, but make two meat lovers'. Paulie and the other boys might be hungry, too."
"Got it." I picked up my phone and walked into the kitchen so I could hear over the action movie Em had blaring in the living room.
I ordered the pizza and sat my phone down, exhaling air. I decided to pour myself a large glass of wine. I would eat, have some wine, and go to bed. I was ready for the day to be over.
"You okay?" Jacob's deep voice floated over my shoulder.
I turned around to find him standing just a few inches away.
"Why would you ask me that?" I countered.
"For a girl talking about planning her wedding with a black card, you didn't look very into it." He raised his eyebrow at me.
"I'm just tired." I said to convince myself really, more than him.
"Okay." He nodded slowly, "I'm here if you need to talk."
Talk? We could talk about how he rejected me, but we wouldn't. It was for the better that way. I loved Emmett. All the crazy just caught up with me. That's all it was. I would just keep telling myself that and Jacob would be on my mind less and less until he wasn't on it at all.
"Thanks." I mumbled looking away from his intense gaze. I picked up my glass and went back to the living room.
"Pizzas are ordered." I sat down on the couch, curling my legs under me.
"Okay. Emmett replied never taking his eyes off the T.V.
One week later
Isabella's POV
"Wow!" I exclaimed walking into the foyer of Mary Alice's new mansion. Hotel was a more appropriate description if you ask me, but nobody asked me.
"Carlisle sure does know how to make up for side pussy, eh?" Rosalie commented her heels clicking across the marble floors.
"Rose!" Esme chided her.
"What?" Rosalie rolled her eyes, "We all know it's true. We're friends, no we're family. It's not like we can't talk about it."
"Just don't say anything in front of Mary Alice. She needs no stress." Esme replied.
"Okay, fine." Rosalie huffed.
Edward agreed to a girls' day, and I was so happy. I loved being with him all the time, but it was nice to be with the girls. My stomach had been in knots over my dad being gone. I just couldn't understand where he and Kate would have gone and why. The station hadn't called looking for him either, so obviously that meant he told them he was leaving, but not me.
I felt at home with Edward. Both of my parents had moved on to new lives. I had a few months until my eighteenth birthday, but by all means I was an adult. I came and went as I pleased. Edward made sure I always had cash. He provided anything I could ask for. He was my life now. My whole world.
I still missed my dad; surprisingly, not my mom. Edward said he would try to find my dad. I had a feeling he didn't want to be found.
"Oh you look so cute!" Esme squealed bringing me back.
"Yea, yea, yea..." Mary Alice greeted with a smile. She stood up showing she was all belly. Pregnancy looked good on her. Alice could make anything look good.
"Shut up, you know you do." Rosalie sat down on the couch. We all took seats around the room and got ready to spend the day doing nothing.
"So how is school?" Alice asked.
"As stuffy and boring as when you were there." Rosalie flipped her hand.
"I enjoy it." I replied, "Helps keep my mind off things."
"Everything will work out." Esme gave me a small smile and squeezed my hand.
"What about you Es?"
"It's good. I'm going to enjoy being a teenager for the last little bit of time I get to be one, and it's easier to not think about Aro going to jail when we're at school."
"Yea, I'll be married before graduation." Rosalie sighed.
"You don't sound happy." Alice raised her eyebrow.
"Just a lot going on. You know how it is. When are you getting married? I'm assuming this monstrosity of a house has bought your forgiveness?"
"Carlisle is dead set on it being before Melania arrives, but I don't want to be pregnant in my wedding dress." She licked her lips, "I'm hoping we can reach a happy medium and it will give me motivation to lose the baby weight."
"That makes sense." I said.
"Seriously, it does." Esme chimed in.
Mary Alice smiled at us.
"How are you holding up, Bella?"
"I'm good, I guess. I still can't understand why my dad would just up and leave. It's a wonder my mother hasn't blown my phone up over moving in with her. Not that I would. I would love to see her try to fight Edward over that." I rolled my eyes.
"Well, enough of the heavy stuff!" Rosalie jumped up and walked over to the bar grinning, "Let's break out a bottle or three and enjoy this day ladies."
We, minus Mary Alice, spend the rest of the day drinking and laughing. We avoided all the serious subjects, as there would be enough time to deal with that later.
And for just a little while, I forgot about all my problems.
Edward's POV
Emmett and I were waiting in my father's home office.
"Having any trouble staying clean?" I asked swirling the scotch around in my glass.
"Naw, Rosie stays on my ass hard about it." He ran a hand through his hair, "Between her with the wedding stuff and work I don't really have time to think about it."
"Good."
We sat in comfortable silence for a few more minutes with my father arrived.
"Ciao i miei figli." (Hello my sons.)
"Ciao padre." (Hello father.) We greeted in unison.
"What is the plan with the pig?" He asked pouring himself a scotch.
"We found Kate. I sent men for her. I'm going to use her to get him to talk. Charlie is tougher than I gave him credit for, but not tough enough I can't crack him."
"Then?"
"I'm going to kill him." I answered collectedly.
"What about her?"
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I'm more than happy to get rid of a Denali; however, I don't want to hurt the baby."
"I understand." he nodded, "Lock her up, give the child away, then handle business."
I had no problem killing everyone in Isabella's family. None of them deserved to live in my world.
Isabella had softened me a little, and I wasn't sure if I could bring myself to give away the only flesh and blood she would have left.
"I'll take care of it." I assured my father.
"The police department hasn't worried where he is?"
"He sent in an e-mail explaining he was taking a LOA for personal family shit."
"Moving on, I've talked with Demetri and Cauis, Frank will be taken care of very soon. The Denalis aren't going to stand in our way any longer. After he is gone, we will take over all of his territory." My father turned to Emmett, "How are things with you?"
"I'm clean. I won't mess up again. Rosalie is planning all the wedding stuff. She doesn't know it, but I plan on house hunting soon."
"I recently bought the properties surrounding our family home, if you wait on children, you could build there. I would like to keep everyone close together. There is plenty of land for all of you children to build on. It would make your mother and I very happy to have our future grandchildren so close." He smiled.
"I'll talk it over with Rosalie, but I like it." Emmett grinned showing his dimples. I knew what his plan was, if Rosalie wouldn't cook, Ma would.
"How soon can we start building?" I asked earning looks from both of them.
"What?" I threw my hands up, "Isabella is the one and she will have my last name, she just doesn't know it yet. There will not be grandkids that soon, but it would be nice to put her in a house and be close to the family, as you said."
"Both of you, pick out plans, and we'll get that started." My father took a swing of his scotch, "As for school, handle that. I don't care either way how it's done, but I expect to see everyone walking on graduation day."
"Yes, sir." I stood, "Are we done here?"
"Yes. Go handle your business."
I nodded and walked out. I stopped and kissed Ma goodbye before leaving. Jacob would be bringing the girls home so I decided to meet up with Aro for some guy time. Charlie could sit in the damp, dark warehouse until my guys returned with Kate.
A short while later, I pulled up in front of Eclipse. Aro was already inside sitting at a table in the middle of the room drinking a beer.
"What happen to the VIP?" I asked sitting down next to him.
"I didn't feel like walking up and the view from here is oh so nice." He grinned.
"Whatever, we're above the common lounge, let's go upstairs. Pick whatever girls you want, but upstairs."
He stood up laughing. He turned to one of the men that handle our accounts and pointed out a couple of girls. I would never cheat on my Isabella, or let Aro cheat on my sister, but he had a point about a nice view.
We arrived in our VIP room and sat back ordering drinks. I needed the down time. Everything had been work, work, work. Don't get me wrong, I loved work, but I wanted all things related to Isabella's family far behind us.
Aro and I spent the next few hours having drinks, enjoying the show, and cracking jokes. We were just getting ready to head home to the women when my phone rang. I shrugged my jacket on and pulled it out.
"Yea?"
"We have her, where do you want her?"
"Warehouse 419." I hung up grinning.
"What's up?" Aro asked.
"Ready to have some fun?"
"Always am." He gave me his signature grin.
I called Emmett after we got in the car and asked him to keep Isabella occupied with Rosalie while I handled the fucking pig.
I drove like a mad man, anticipation running through my veins like fire. Charlie thought he would bring my family down, but instead it was his own. I couldn't believe the woman I loved more than myself was even related to that piece of shit.
We pulled up and there was a large black SUV idling right outside the main door.
Aro and I got out walking over, as my guys brought Kate out of the back of the vehicle. I took in her tear stained cheeks and wondered briefly if her father knew just how much she betrayed him with Charlie.
As we walked through the warehouse to the back room where Charlie was being kept, her whimpers fed my inner beast. I would take pleasure in getting rid of anything that threatened my life, my future with Isabella.
"What's up Dean?" Aro greeted when we reached the door.
"Just standing around." Dean replied.
"Let's get this show on the road." I said reminding them of why we were there. Dean stepped aside opening the door. Charlie sat slumped still tied to the chair. His face was swollen and caked in dried blood. He had only been given water and a little bread just to keep him alive long enough for me to get what I wanted.
"Wake up pig." I spoke loudly.
He stirred and sat up looking around, his eyes stopping on Kate. Finally, there was some fear in his eyes.
He opened his mouth to speak, but I cut him off.
"If you tell me what I want to know, no harm will come to her." Yet.
There was silence for a couple of minutes and Kate began to cry.
"Okay." He croaked hoarsely.
"Okay? Spill." I stood between he and Kate.
"You already know I had a plan to take you down, but since Heather didn't do her job correctly, I didn't get any evidence. You have my cell phone. I'm sure you've already seen that I deleted all my messages to and from her. Anything I would have is on my laptop."
Aro cut his eyes at me silently saying what I was thinking. He talked way too easy, even with Kate there.
"Charlie, I don't think that's all you have." I walked over to Kate reaching in my jacket. I pulled my gun out and stuck the barrel to her temple. "Tell me everything and don't leave out a detail if you want to her to live."
"Okay, okay. Please. She's pregnant!" Charlie was breaking.
I cocked the pistol.
"I'll tell you everything, just please let her live."
"I will." For now.
"At my house, if you go to the pantry, there is a hidden room. All of my unofficial business is in there. There are no extra copies, nothing that would link me to doing business on the wrong side of the law. You can destroy everything, just please let her go!"
I uncocked my gun, returning it to my jacket.
"Take her to another room. I don't want them to speak to or see each other." I walked out of the room to make a call.
I had all my bases covered so far. It looked like Charlie skipped town with his new young girlfriend in the middle of a midlife crisis to everyone but the few that knew what was really going on.
I dialed my cleaners, my guys that would look and find any detail that was available.
"Hey."
"Go over to the pig pen and search for a room behind the pantry. Get everything and bring it to me. Call me as soon as you've found it and confirm it."
"Yes, sir."
I hung up and lit a cigarette. Aro came out to join me. He pulled a flask out of his jacket and held it out. I took it and raised it to my lips letting the liquid burn my tongue and throat. It had been a very long day, and I didn't see it being over any time soon.
"After tonight, this will never be spoken of again. We need to make sure that is completely understood by everyone present and involved."
"Without a doubt." Aro widened his eyes.
I tossed my cigarette down, stubbing it out with my shoe before I went back in the room with Charlie.
"Charlie, Charlie, Charlie..." I greeted.
"What else do you want from me?"
"Just to chat." I smiled.
"About?"
"My plans for your daughter."
He raised his head and glared at me.
"Don't worry. I would never hurt Isabella. I love her."
"Killing her father won't hurt her? What have you told her? Bells would never agree to what you're doing to me."
"I haven't had to tell her anything. When Kate jumped ship, we just had to take some of your clothes and a suitcase to make it look like you ran off together and left her to fend for herself. Good thing I was there to take care of her. She will never want for a thing with me. I will provide for her beyond her wildest dreams. She doesn't know it yet, but she will be my wife and the mother of my children. Children that I would never forsake like you have yours. It's also really funny that Renee hasn't tried to talk to her either. I guess she's just glad to be rid of one of her new man's daughters. Wonder what she do about the other?" I scratched my chin.
"Renee loves Bella in her own way."
"Some fucked up way, don't ya think?" I raised an eyebrow.
"No one is perfect. None of us are saints. In fact, I would bet my last dollar that every man standing in this room is a killer."
"Is that so? Are you, Charlie? Are you a killer?" I asked him menacingly.
"When need be." He answered coldly.
"That's so interesting. Not surprising, just interesting." I paced the floor at a leisurely speed, "So where is all this side money you have earned?"
"Put up somewhere safe for my children."
"Does Kate know where it is?"
"No. Only Bella, but she doesn't realize it."
I nodded and sucked my teeth.
"You shouldn't be difficult. Things would go much smoother and quicker if you just answered my questions out right."
He said nothing. Exhaustion and pain etched his face. I would put him out of his misery soon.
We spent the next few minutes in silence. Neither having anything to say to the other.
I had just lit another cigarette when my phone rang.
"Yea?"
"We have all of it, Boss. Laptops, files, pictures. I took a pic of the room before and after. He has spent some time trying to bring the family down. Where would you like me to bring it?"
"Meet me at my place in thirty." I smiled into the phone before hanging up.
I took a long drag off my cigarette and held it out to Charlie.
He shook his head.
"Afraid of cancer? It won't kill you because I'm going to." I stepped closer putting the smoke back in my mouth, letting it hang off my lips. I pulled my gun and waved it slowly back and forth in front of Charlie's face. His eyes followed the barrel even in the dim light of the warehouse.
"Look at me!" I barked causing him to raise his face up again. "Get a good look at my face because it's the last thing you're ever going to see." I smirked and before his face could form into a shocked expression I stopped the gun between his eyes and pulled the trigger.