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Bella POV

"Bella," Dad said in a warning tone.

Edward was an off-limit topic for him.

It had been since the night I left.

I would call home and ask if he had seen him, if he was ok and Dad refused to say anything in response. His go to answer was if I was truly interested, I would come home and see for myself.

"I just need to know…" I began only for him to shake his head while remaining silent.

I knew Dad still spoke with him.

I knew Dad was there for him after I left and that he was even there at his college graduation.

I knew for every bit that Dad worried about me, that same worry applied to his son in law,

"I know you still spend time with him," I reminded him and watched him roll his eyes in response.

"Irina said that you just had dinner with him at the dinner," I said with a soft laugh, hoping like hell that would be enough for him to know I still followed Edward too.

"Hell, you're probably invited to his wedding," I said softly as I looked away, hating how much it hurt to say those words when I was the one who let him go.

I listened to my dad's loud snort of cold laughter and turned around to face him.

"Is he ok?"

Silence and a blank expression were the answer he gave me.

"Bella, I told you the night you left for his supposed good," Dad said pausing to roll eyes as he always did when he mentioned me leaving for Edward. "That I was out. I would never tell you about the kid again."

"But Dad…"

"No buts," he said firmly attempting to end the conversation as I refused to listen.

"I just need to know…" I countered as I watched his face go red with anger.

"Need to know what?" he yelled, causing me to jump back in surprise. It had been years since he had yelled at me so my immediate reaction to his anger embarrassingly was tears.

"You need to know that the decisions you made for the boy were the right ones?"

"I swear to god, you are no better than Carlisle over this," he muttered as he looked down at the floor instead of meeting my gaze.

"No," I whispered as I wiped at the tears that had escaped down my cheek as I attempted to look in my dad in the eyes.

"Ok, yes," I admitted, hating that he was right.

"I told you…" he began.

"What choice did I have, Dad?" I yelled as I turned away from him.

"He would have…"

"It wasn't your decision to make, Bella," Dad corrected me once more for what had to be the millionth time in the last seven years.

"But he would have…"

"You don't know if he would have dropped out of college," Dad practically spat at me as I cringed in response. "And so, what if he had?"

"Dad…"

"You gave him no choice in the matter on how to grieve, how to move on or how to even exist without you here," he rambled as he stood up and walked away from me.

"It was unfair, Bella," he said softly. "And just plain cruel to leave him to the wolves like that."

"I only wanted for him…"

"I know you only wanted for him to be ok… to not lose his father's support, and he would have, without a doubt that asshole would have cut him off if he stayed with you. We all know that he had already done that, but it should have been his decision to make, not yours," he said as he turned to face me once more with a disappointed look on his weathered face.

"Now," he said while taking a deep breath as if to cleanse the air around us.

"What's for dinner?" He asked officially ending all talk about Edward for the night.

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