No More
Epilogue
5 years later…
"Mike! Come here now!" I yelled as Alison and Anthony squealed happily in their highchairs.
He came bounding down the stairs with Sir Barks A Lot, yes that was our dos name, a huge Mastiff that Edward and Mike had to have. "What momma?" he asked sweetly. "Who ate half the pie?" I asked sternly. "I don't know mom. Really." He smiled sweetly, so sweetly I couldn't tell if he was lying or not. "Fine. Go to your room, I'll discuss this with your father when he gets home." I sighed and finished feeding the twins. Edward came in shortly after looking exhausted. "Tough day?" I asked. "Long day!" he exclaimed as he picked up Alison who was toddling around the kitchen. "Oh, so I made this pie yesterday and when I went to bed it was all here. Any idea what happened to it?" I asked. "Oh, um, did you ask Mike?" he asked sheepishly. "Yeesss." I said drawing it out, knowing now that he had eaten it, most likely before he left for work. "OK. Fine! I ate it. I couldn't resist! If I could have fit it in my lunchbox I would've eaten the entire thing! Damn you're good woman!" he kissed me deeply, trying to distract me. "You do know that was for dessert tonight when Rose and Emmett come over?" I said. "Oh, shit! That's tonight? I'm exhausted." He ran a hand through his hair. "Edward! Language." I reprimanded him. "Ugh!" he sighed and Alison mocked the noise.
Edward and I had gotten married six months after he'd declared his love of Mike and I and we'd been happily married since. We had our twins 16 months later and loved every minute of it. I left the FBI and became a full time mom. I didn't want a nanny raising my children, when I was capable and we could afford me staying home. Of course I'd wrote two books and was working on a third in my downtime, so that helped too. We put all those proceeds into the children's college funds.
Edward officially adopted Mike when we found out I was pregnant with the twins, we didn't want him to feel left out. Mike never batted an eye about it, to him Edward was dad. Paul wanted nothing to do with him and gladly signed all rights away.
"Bella, have I told you how much I love you lately?" Edward kissed me after the kids were in bed.
"No, it's been a while." I sighed. "Oh, well then by all means…" he trailed off as he kissed down my body, whispering "I love you" as he kissed down my body.
Edward and I were doing great, we had a solid relationship and loved each other more today than we did when we got married. Our sex life was equally as awesome and Edward worshipped my body every time we had free time, and with his schedule as Chief of Staff now, it was rare, but he was home when he needed to be and to me that was more important than my sexual needs, so I cherished it.
I'm so glad I listened to Rose all those years ago and let go of Edward, only to get him back and better than before.
I've always loved him, but I had to let him go, for both of us to figure that out.
The End!
AN:
I'm sure most of you were expecting more, but this story was just not in the same place as me now…
I started writing it when I was going through a divorce and I put it on HIATUS for quite a while… It's one of the last ones I had to finish.
I hope you enjoyed it and will read some of my other stories as well.
Thanks so much for the journey!