Chapter 3,

Clay's POV,

I was stood with my arms still around my queen, hoping above all else that Isabella would get on well here and be happy. I didn't know whether to tell her all about me and the club, I knew she would be here a lot of the time and possibly see things of even hear things she obviously isn't used to, such as the croweaters and sweetbutts she would certainly see some questionable woman walking around here and I didn't want her to think bad of us because of it so she would need to be told about them straight away and I would make it clear to her that she had nothing to worry about when it came to them she is my daughter which means she is the princess of SamCro she has more standing here then any of those whores. I mean she had been living with Charlie who is the chief of police so compared to us she is probably an Angel. Instead of thinking on it, I'll just ask Gemma she would know what to do, I move back but keep my arms around her.

"What do you think I should tell Isabella about us and the club?"

She smiled at me and thought for a moment,

"I think maybe you should bring it to the table and ask the guys, I don't think you can me this decision without them as it concerns them too."

See my queen always knew what to say, she did have a point though this did concern the others as well as me. I just want everything to be perfect for when she gets here, I grabbed my cell out of my back pocket I pulled up a fresh message screen entering all the guys numbers, so it went to all of them at once.

All-I want you all in church in 10 minutes.

I didn't need to get any messages back as I knew they would all be there, I kissed Gemma and then walked out of the office walking straight into the club house where I grabbed a beer off Sack and walked into the room with the Reaper table in, I took my seat at the head of the table waiting for the others.

I didn't have to wait long before Jax and Tig walked in, Tig took the seat on my right as he is my right-hand man, the Sargent at Arms and Jax took the seat to my left as he is club VP, due to him being my step son, and his dad John being the former president and one of the first 9. The rest walked in shortly after, with Juice being the last one in, he closed the door and took his seat next to Bobby on the left side of the table.

"I called you all here to discuss what you think I should tell Isabella about the club, she's gonna be here a lot of the time. We're gonna be training her t defend herself as well as how to handle a gun, but I also wanna teach her the family business, I don't want to make any decisions without you guys having an input too because this isn't just my club bout ours! I know I'm president, but I won't make this decision without asking you all what you think about it first."

I let them think it over while I lit another cigar, I didn't wanna make this decision for them because what I would tell Isabella would involve them too it wasn't just my secret but ours. Besides if it was turned around and it was one of them telling the secret without talking to us first I would flip my shit switch at them, I was brought out of my thoughts by Chibs speaking up.

"I think she should know everything, full disclosure! You don't want her accidently finding out and then hating you for not telling her or her finding out cause she didn't know to be careful and watch her back and gets hurt because of it. None of us would forgive ourselves if that happened."

After he said that I got tense because I knew he was right, I didn't even think about her possibly getting hurt by being here, getting hurt because people found out she was my daughter. Being president of the Sons of Anarchy I have made a lot of enemies over the years, the only way for them to hurt me now would be to hurt my family and Isabella is the most vulnerable member of my family right now even more so because she didn't know what she was walking into. I looked up to all the guys and could see they were all thinking the same as me, I knew without even asking Isabella would be well protected by all these guys. We may not be blood family, but we were family, these guys are my brothers and like I would for them they would do anything for me, that includes protect my little girl! I was once again brought out of my inner ramblings by Jax speaking up,

"I agree with Chibs, but I'd also like to add, and this goes without saying but I'm saying it anyway. Isabella will be safe and protected with us, we would never let anyone hurt her and we would always make sure her back is protected, for the first few weeks she will need an escort anyway to show her around, so we just make sure one of us is always with her."

"If we tell her, she could never leave Charming not once she knows, plus her phone calls to her police chief step daddy would need to be monitored. Do you think she could put up with that?"

That came from Tig, I knew out of all of them he would have a problem with telling her only cause he doesn't trust easy especially outsiders and right now Isabella was an outsider even though she is my daughter he just doesn't know if he can trust her or not. You could tell from the way he said step daddy that he had no respect for Charlie or even liked him and I didn't know if that was because Charlie had kept my daughter from me or because he is police or both. I knew once he met her and got a read on her he would like her and find that he could trust her, but even if he did have a slight problem once meeting her it wouldn't matter because no way in hell would I let my daughter go once I had her here. I have a years' worth of regret, I should of gone down to Fork's a year ago and got her I should never of let Charlie talk me out of it. She is my daughter; she belongs here with me, and I have missed enough of her life I refuse to miss anymore.

I looked at my watch and saw it was a quarter to eleven, so I decided to move this along as Isabella's flight would be leaving Seattle soon and I wanted my phone, so I knew she got on the plane ok, I took a deep breath.

"Ok, let's vote all in favour?"

Chibs-Aye

Juice-Yay

Bobby-Yay

Piney-Yay

Jax-Hell yeah

Opie-Yay

Tig-Yeah

It was unanimous my princess would know the family business, I picked up the gavel and wacked it down. It was done, with that we all stood up and left the room, we collected our cells from the pot and sat down waiting for the prospect to bring over the beers. I was anxiously waiting for news on her, I wouldn't relax until I knew she was on her way. I had a feeling Charlie would do all he could to stop her from coming, but I had a feeling that Isabella wouldn't be told what to do or not to do.

I heard my phone ding alerting me to a text, I grabbed it and took a look, once I saw it was Isabella I read what it said, and a big smile spread across my face.

From Isabella: On plane now see you soon. X

To Isabella: Ok princess, I'll be waiting this end to collect you. X

I didn't get a message back, but I didn't except to, she told me she was on the plane, so I knew she was ok and probably turned her phone off, I looked up to the guys who were all looking at me.

"She's on the plane."

There was shouts of hell yeah and woos all round, I knew they were just as excited as me to meet her I had told them as soon as I found out about Isabella and they all told me to go get her that I shouldn't be listening to Charlie as Isabella is my daughter and now I wish I had listened to them. We continued drinking, me getting lost in my thoughts again I had decided to stay here for the night as I needed to be up early and leave to pick Isabella up and I didn't want to wake Gem up or take my bike as we would need the truck for her belongings. I didn't want to take Gem as I didn't want the first time meeting my daughter with my wife the woman who I got with while with Isabella's mother, so I looked over to Jax and knew he was the one to come with me, he was staying here anyway as his bitch of an ex-wife was staying in his apartment.

"Jax?"

He looked over to me, so I nodded my head calling him over, he walked over and sat down next to me.

"What's up prez?"

"Will you drive me to the airport and pick Isabella up? I don't want to take the bike as she will have her belongings with her, and you know I hate driving the truck."

With that a big smile stretched over his face,

"No worries prez!"

With that said I downed my beer and put it on the table, I stood up stretched and then made my way to my dorm room, I looked behind me before I turned the corner and said.

"Keep the noise down I've got an early start and so does Jax."

I then walked down the corridor to my room, I reached into my pocket for the key, unlocked the door stepped inside and shut the door behind me. I didn't even bother to change just laid on top of the covers, I made sure to set my alarm for 3am and I was asleep once my head hit the pillow.

Bella's POV,

I was sat on the plane bored outta my brain, I didn't bring any books with my cause I wanted a fresh start and that means no more stupid romance novels or so-called classics that Edward deemed worthy enough for a female to read. I had always hated those sorts of books, I loved fiction but once Edward came into my life all that changed because he deemed them worthless said I should be reading things I can learn from. What he meant was I should be reading a how to guide! How to act like a damsel from the Victorian era who always did what the man said!

I built so much of my life around Edward and his family, I don't know why I even thought I was in love with him! I was the parent growing up always making sure the bills were paid and food was on the table yet I let this asshole come into my life and completely change who I was so I could fit in with him and his views of how women should act. I became so dependant on him and his family for every decision, things I had been doing all my life now became something I had to ask permission for such as what clothes to wear, who to talk too, what music I should listen to and what food I should eat. I had always been a fan of Linkin Park, loved their song Bleed it out, then Edward came along and deemed it unlady like told me I should start listening to classical music.

Told me Linkin Park was not appropriate music for me to listen too, then started playing his stupid classical shit, really not for me but I put up with it cause I thought I had to change who I was for someone to love me, now I know that true love will happen no matter what and that person will not try to change who you are they will love you in spite of all that, that is what unconditional love is.

He acted like I should actually give a fuck about what others deem lady like or not, I mean seriously we live in the 21st century where women could listen to whatever the hell they wanted. But he was brought up to think himself above others especially women, Carlisle treated Esme the same always telling her how to live and I thought at first it was romantic, but I was as deluded as Edward is! A man should never dictate to a woman, now I know better it pisses me off that I actually let him treat me that way like how low was my self esteem to let him do that to me?

(I'm going to do a time skip here cause let's face it writing about a plane journey is not gonna be fun to do or to read. So, the plane is just landing now.)

This five-hour flight felt like the longest journey of my damn life, we've just landed thank god, the doors opened, and everyone started rushing to get off, so I just stayed in my seat until it was clear enough to get off without bumping into anyone or being pushed and shoved. It didn't take long for the plane to be clear enough, so I stood up got my bag from the overhead and made my way off the plane over to baggage claim. I wasn't stood there long before my suitcases came around so lugged my heavy cases off the belt and dropped them to the floor pulling the handle up so I could pull them behind me. I made my way over to the pick-up point wondering how I was gonna find Clay, not knowing what he looked like. I kept my head held high and was looking around me, when I saw two men stood to the side, both had on a leather jacket of some kind, one man was more mature then the other with the other having long blonde hair. But fuck me if I didn't stop in my tracks and want to run my hands all through that hair of his, he had this look of fuck me written all over him and fuck me if my lady parts didn't scream hell yeah right the fuck back.

I looked to the other man and saw he was holding a sign saying Daddy's princess in bold with Isabella written underneath, that had me giggling at making my way over to them trying not to struggle with my suitcases. I started making my way over to them with a big smile on my face, I was nervous as hell, but I knew this was my dad I just had this feeling inside me that was pulling me towards him. I caught their eyes as I got closer, Clay saw me and smiled which made me smile bigger then I ever had in my life. I stood in front of them thankfully Clay was the first to speak.

"Hey princess!"

I giggled then smiled at him, throwing my arms around his neck, I couldn't be angry at him as it wasn't his fault I wasn't in his life. Being near him now I could see in his eyes how much he had wanted to be in my life, the relief I was finally here was palpable. I would eventually at some point ask about my mother but right now I was more interested in getting to know my father,

"Hey dad,"

He tightened his arms around me then let go, pushing me back slightly so he could look me over, he pushed some lose hair off my face and smiled at me, that was when I looked to the other person stood there watching us with a smile on his face, dad saw where I was looking and chuckled he grabbed the suitcase from my hand and the other guy grabbing the other suitcase,

"Isabella…

I cut him off before he could finish,

"Dad can we stop with the Isabella thing? I hate the name, please call me either Bella or Iz."

The other guy smirked at me, so I smirked back.

"Ok Bella, this is Jax I'm married to his Ma, Jax this is my daughter Bella or Iz."

Jax stepped forward grabbing my hand and kissed my knuckles all the while smirking at me,

"Pleasure Darlin."

Oh yes this man could make my toes curl, I bet he could even make me cum just by speaking.

"Nice to meet you Jax."

"Come on you two Gem's waiting for us at home,"

I took my hand back from Jax reluctantly, really not wanting to lose contact with the gorgeous man at all! I followed behind my father to the truck, they both put my cases in the truck bed, Jax going to the driver's side while my dad opened the passenger door and waved me inside, I got in and sat in the middle seat dad getting in after me. Jax started the truck and off we went, I was looking around seeing the view of what Charming had to offer or well as much as I could cause it was still dark out, it didn't look like much but with small towns that was kind of expected. After about twenty minutes Jax started a conversation with me,

"So Iz, did ya leave any broken hearts back in Fork's? Any ex's that would be brave enough to turn up and try and claim ya? Begging for you to take them back?"

I giggled to that,

"Is that your way of trying to be subtle in finding out if I'm single or not?"

"Maybe if you answer Darlin."

I took a deep breath and decided in that moment I was gonna hold nothing back, I came here to know my father and his family, and I couldn't do that if I kept secrets from him, they needed to know, and I wanted to tell them.

"No, no broken hearts left behind as for my ex he won't care enough to come back for me, he broke up with me a few days in the middle of the forest the dumbass! Who breaks up with someone in the middle of the forest that's like doing it over text message! He told me I wasn't good enough for him, that no matter how much work him and his family put in to me I would never be good enough for him. I was to rebellious when it came to his wishes, I was too independent for him he was tired of trying and so was his family. Like the last nine months meant nothing to him, he said he had only been pretending to love me then walked away from me leaving me lost. It took thirteen hours for Charlie to find me with a search party."

I felt both of them tense beside me, I look at both of them Jax first than my dad with a raised eyebrow I could understand why my dad was angry, but Jax had just met me, but it was nice to know they would both defend me if needed. Jax broke the silence,

"This asshole what's his name?"

"Why? You gonna hunt him down and kick his ass for me?"

"Yeah, too fucking right I will Darlin my mother brought me up to respect woman not treat them less then me like that! This asshole doesn't deserve to live, who the fuck does he think he is?"

Before I could say anything back my dad jumped in,

"This dickhead needs more then an ass kicking, my daughter is too fucking good for him not the other way around and if he does by any chance turn up I promise you now he will get his ass kicked."

I just sat there smiling to myself, these people have only just met me and all ready their willing to kick people's asses for me. I put my hands on their arms getting their attention and hoping to calm them down as well,

"Guys it's ok, I was upset when it happened but then I realised I didn't even really love him I just thought I did. He tried to change me to much, it started with subtle things, then went on to telling me who I could and couldn't talk too, what to eat what music to listen too and how to fucking dress. I realised that I am so much better without him it's not that I'm not good enough it's that his not good enough he will always be wrapped in that bubble wrap his father has brought him up in to realise that women don't need to be coddled."

With that being said I slid my hand down to my dad's hand and grabbed it tight, which had him looking at me in surprise, but he smiled and tightened his hold on me I left my other hand on Jax's arm.

"What about you then Jax? Any broken hearts?"

He looked at me from the corner of his eye and smiled,

"Nah Darlin, I was married but we separated a while ago she's pregnant with my baby, so we still have contact. I had my heart broken a few years ago, thought she was the love of my life, but we wanted different things, she wanted too leave Charming and I didn't, so she left me behind."

I felt for him he obviously thought he felt something for this woman, I squeezed his arm where my hand was and got a smirk on my face,

"What's the bitch's name and do I get to kick her ass if she comes back?"

He looked at me shocked until he saw the mischievous smile on my face, he burst out laughing,

"Her name's Tara Darlin, if she comes back you are more then welcome to kick her ass!"

I smirked at him then looked back to the front of the truck when I felt dad move so I looked at him,

"Can you kick her ass? I wouldn't of thought Charlie would of taught you anything like that!"

"Oh, he didn't, he hated knowing I could fight he didn't want me to know anything like that but living with Renee in Arizona she said a woman should know how to defend herself and put me in self-defence classes, I loved it so much I signed up to martial arts classes also. I know how to shoot a gun too; her new husband Phil took me to a shooting range told me a female should know how to use a weapon just in case I really needed to use it. Charlie only knows about the self-defence and he wasn't happy about it said I didn't need to know shit like that cause I would never be alone to use it said he would always be around but I had a feeling he didn't want me to know so I would never leave him, there's a lot about my life he doesn't know, he never had a lot of contact with me growing up when I was younger and used to visit Fork's he would drop me off with his friends son and baby sitter while he went fishing came back in time to take me to the airport."

"We won't need to teach ya much then princess!"

Before I could say anything more we were pulling into a driveway, where I saw a woman stood waiting. From what I could see she was beautiful, black hair with blonde highlights, I couldn't really see what she was wearing but I could see a tattoo on her chest. Dad got out first, so I followed him with Jax getting my cases from the truck bed, dad offered me his hand which I gladly took, and we made our way over to the woman who was smiling at us,

"Bells this is Gemma my wife, Gem this is Bells my daughter."

With that she's grabbed me in a hug,

"Hey Darlin,"

She pulled back and before I could speak Jax was there kissing her cheek.

"Hey Ma,"

"Hey Darlin, well let's not stand out here come on in Bella this is your home now."

She took my hand and pulled me inside, to say this home was beautiful was an understatement, this is amazing.

"You have a beautiful home,"

"Thank you Darlin,"

We all sat down at the table, Gemma asking me if I wanted a drink,

"Just water please?"

She got me a glass and sat down with us, I looked at dad and Gemma and could see how happy they were together, this was new for me as Charlie and Renee had split when I was a baby. I wondered if she would mind me calling her mamma so I decided to just go ahead and ask her she can only say no and I really didn't want to be the shy girl anymore who was scared to speak up,

"So, since you and dad are married can I call you Mumma G?"

She beamed at me with that question,

"Darlin I'd love you to call me that,"

"Awesome thank you,"

Jax stood up bringing our attention to him, he kissed Mumma G on the cheek and placed his hands on dad's shoulders, he then looked at me smirking.

"Iz it's been a pleasure meeting you, I've got a feeling you're gonna be trouble."

He pulled away from dad and grabbed my hand kissing my knuckles again, which had me smirking at him.

"Oh, you have no idea how much trouble Jax."

I winked at him which had him smirking even more at me, he shook his head and looked at us all.

"I would stay but I have to get the truck back to the shop for Opie in the morning, see you all later."

With that he left, I looked to dad and Mumma G smiling at them both which is when I got a good look at Gemma's clothes thinking how I would love a new wardrobe, leaving the old me behind and even a new hairdo.

"Mumma G, would you mind taking me shopping later? My wardrobe is lacking personality it's what my ex brought me so it's really not me at all plus most of it is for Fork's where it rains all the damn time, I'd like a new hair style too."

"Darlin I'd love to take you shopping, how about I show you to your room you get a shower and freshen up. I'll leave some clothes on your bed for you that you can borrow for today, then we're go shopping once Clay leaves for work, we can go to the garage after we finish where you can meet everyone else? I need to do some paperwork in the office later anyway maybe you can help?"

"Perfect!"

I decided to talk to dad later about me finding a job as doing paperwork wasn't really me, but I would help out today as she was taking me shopping. We both stood up at the same time, I leant towards dad and kissed his cheek,

"I'm really glad I'm here."

I then followed Gemma down the hall, she opened a door to a room that if I'm honest I'd say I had died and gone to heaven. The bed was a double gold framed with roses carved into the frame, it was a four-poster bed with lace gold curtains all around it, the bedding was crimson red with gold roses on it, it was safe to say I loved this bed!

Gemma pointed to my own bathroom, and left telling me everything I need is already in the bathroom, dad would bring in my suitcases and she would bring me some clothes. I knew from that moment I was gonna be happy here, that I had made the right choice by coming here and I couldn't wait to see what would happen. I had a feeling with Jax around life would never be boring.

AN, So I have updated this chapter, thank you to Blistful2006 for pointing out the confusion and the mistake I had missed. I hope you like this new edited chapter; I hope you stick with me I am currently working on chapter 17 now.

Much love to you all,

V