BPOV

"Do you think I can meet her at least once before you leave?" Edward asked.

"No." I said.

"Okay." he said.

This was his fifteenth call in the last two weeks. I wasn't sure since he had got such a patience to keep hearing 'No' from me and not react at all!

I didn't think I was ready for him to meet Carlie yet.

I was still too shocked with what happened with my family. My life had completely turned upside down in the last two weeks. I hadn't even got enough time to grieve properly. There was so much going on. I just resigned from my job, and I needed to move back to LA from London. There was so much to handle here. James' business, Dad's business, their investments, their properties... And the list went on! I wasn't even sure how I was going to handle everything!

So there was no way I would be able to handle my daughter meeting her father. She'd have so many questions! No! I wasn't ready for this. Everyone was judging me anyway, but I didn't care about anybody else!

"Look... You're testing my patience now." he said, "It's not fair. Everyone gets to meet her. Why not me? I'm her father, for God's sake!"

Okay, here we go!

"I'm not ready to tell her yet that her father is an asshole." I said.

I knew it was going to piss him off, but that was the fact!

"Look... Don't piss me off now. I'm warning you." he said, "And she seems to be doing fine with an insecure mother. I'm pretty sure she'd do well with an asshole father."

"Edward, can you please answer one question? Are you aging in reverse? Because I'm pretty sure you used to be more mature." I said.

"Naah! I was always like this." he said, "I had tried to change myself for you, but you made me realize that it wasn't worth it. So yeah, this is who I am."

I wasn't expecting him to say that.

"Bella, you had three plus years to tell me about her, and you didn't!" he said, "Why would you do that?"

"I tried to tell you... But you said you regretted loving me." I said, "I thought..."

"Yeah, you conveniently decided to believe that, yet you found it very hard to believe me when I told you again and again that I loved you." he snapped, "You had three plus years!"

"I tried..." I said, "I thought of telling you when she was born..." Maybe it's because I was already going through so many emotions right now, but remembering about it was making me feel so vulnerable. "But I got to know that you were engaged."

"And?" he said, "Ever heard of a thing called co-parenting?"

Yeah, I thought about that, but I wasn't ready for that.

I was too possessive of him to have him in life when he wasn't mine!

It wasn't fair to him, but it was too late when I realized it.

"You decided everything on your own," he said, "We had known each other all our lives, and we were in a year long relationship, yet you do this to me!"

"You had decided to move on after the break up. I didn't want to hold you back." I said.

"And who was responsible for our breakup?" He snapped.

"You're acting as if you weren't at fault at all!" I shook my head.

"Because I wasn't." he said, "I have fucked up plenty of things in my life, but if there was one thing I had given my hundred percent, it was our relationship. I gave my everything, and I didn't do anything wrong! You can't convince me otherwise."

"I don't even want to try to convince you." I said. There was no point.

"I'm not sure why we're discussing all this now. There is no point." he said, "Look, I will give you time till you move back. If you don't allow me to meet even then, you will see the consequences."

"Are you threatening me?" I said, "What are you going to do?"

"Yes, you can take it as a threat." he said, "I've been fighting a divorce battle for a year now. I don't mind fighting another court battle for child custody."

A/N: This is my fifth attempt to post the chapter! Hope it goes through!