EPOV

Today is my meeting with Bella and Aro…

The last week has been hectic to say the least. After Bella killed James, which by the way was sexy as, I had to have a cold shower after that before I saw her. I am so thankful to Carlisle that helped to smuggle me into her room, by requesting help to bring in his equipment and picking me from 'random' to help.

We both knew that she would need me after something like that, he said that her hormones could mess with her normally being able to mentally handle killing someone, but for me I could see on the camera that she was taking everything out on James and was emotionally at breaking point and I just got a feeling that she needed encouragement and comfort from me.

That shit has never happened to me, I have never gotten those feelings for anyone other than Alice when she was very little and some little shit had made fun of her and she beat the shit out of them. It was then that I told dad she needed to be trained a bit to handle herself in those situations and not just snap and lose control and of course she could be a good secret weapon as everyone thinks because she is small and pixie like that she couldn't hurt a fly – HA seriously the last person to think that isn't breathing anymore and I didn't have a damn thing to do with it.

Hell even Jasper crossed her once and that's sort of when he fell hard for her, I laughed so hard the day Alice almost handed him his balls, but he treats her the best and that's all I can ask for my little sister.

Anyways, while I was hidden in that room watching Aro touch my Bella was so hard. There were several times I almost lost it and almost ran out to strangle that creepy fucker, but I knew I couldn't do that because he would put up a fight that could have hurt Bella by accident and also because we needed him to sign his fortune away to Bella and I and leave for good, I don't know who he is still on good terms with and the last thing we want is a beef with the Italian mafia.

So I gritted my teeth and just thought of Bella and I being home once this is all over with until Aro left, but then Carlisle almost gives me a heart attack like I think he did with Bella pausing to go humming until he announces that we are having twins!

I was beyond happy, but then it made me want to be with Bella even more and I could see that she just wanted Aro to go so she could clean up the filth and muck that was James' bodily fluids in her hair, but the fucker just wasn't going! Thankfully I didn't have to wait much longer and as soon as he left my uncle closed and locked the door so I could reveal my presence to Bella.

I knew the moment she saw me and the look on her face was absolutely the best look and it filled me with so much love and elation at being reunited once more, even if it was only briefly. Once I had gotten her to calm down, which I wasn't completely prepared for seeing someone as strong as Bella is normally being so overwhelmed and fragile however, I surprised even myself with the mushy stuff that came out of my mouth.

It was all from my once cold dead heart and I meant every word I uttered to her, somehow it did the trick and I got to see that spark within her big brown doe eyes that over the course of this mission had started to dull a bit and I didn't like seeing there normally bottomless pits become shallow and lifeless.

Then when she suddenly moved my hand to her belly and I felt that flutter, oh boy was I unsure what emotion I was feeling right then. I knew the main was pride and then there was amazement, I know happiness was there and I fell more in love with this brown eye woman even more in that moment and for the rest of my life I will spend every day trying to be worthy of her and our children.

I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that we are having twins. I asked Carlisle later how was it possible to have only found out now that Bella was with Twins and not before and he simply told me that sometimes one child hides behind the other and because the Doppler is closer to the dominant baby not only does their heartbeat drown out the sound of the other, but the baby closer to it casts a shadow that hides the other. The other thing too that made it a little harder was the portable machine wasn't as accurate as the full proper one at his practice or at ultrasound imaging places and with how far along Bella was when we first discovered she was pregnant would have made it harder to see as he already mentioned.

He went on to say something about twins being easier to pick up really early on in the pregnancy due to the foetuses being so small and there being much more space or around how far Bella is right now due to the fact there is less space in this stage Bella is at so they can't hide as easily. Then again we both think it was more the issue of the portable machine not being 100% accurate.

Still when I had shown Emmett on my way back to the kitchen, yes he was here too although he mostly did shift work on the grounds as well as making sure every person who flipped on James and the Volturi's are kept in their places and not messing up, he had patted me on the back and said congrats man quietly.

Jasper was much the same when I got to the attic room, although he was even more amazed that Bella had done such beautiful work with the whip while pregnant let alone with twins. When I got home yesterday so that I could be seen arriving today through the main gates, which I had to do as it would have been hard to fake especially as we guessed Aro may want to be the one to greet me at the front door, I first told Alice and she flipped her lid in happiness.

It was to the point that my father heard her and came to see what was the matter was and then she shouted at him and showed him the ultrasound picture I had given her; I don't know how I expected my father to respond, but I do know that I wasn't expecting a big huge hug from him.

He has never hugged me, that was left to my mother and aunt and uncle to do that, even then it was only from my mother and aunt on a regular basis. After the main shock wore off he pulled back and congratulated me, he went on to tell me that he had been a twin however, his twin died before his mother was even out of the first trimester and that it was something that happened every second or so generation and it looks like I was blessed with it.

He also walked off mumbling something about how wonderful this was for our family ties with the swans and how he was going to have to break out the cigars and good whisky to have with Charlie. Seriously I think my father is going senile in his old age as he is getting far to sentimental that it almost creeped me out.

Anyhow, I think I got a little off topic there. Sorry about that, but that is how my head has been for the last week since I learned we were having twins and James' death. I made sure I kept my promise that evening to visit her and I made sure everyone was asleep, sadly though so was she however, as much as I didn't want to wake her, I knew that if I didn't and she found out, she may have handed me my balls with her messed up hormones.

So I gently woke her up and spent a few hours with her just cuddling and telling each other sweet nothings till she fell back to sleep in my arms. I had to leave just before dawn as I didn't want to be caught sneaking around by Aro or his family.

This last week has gone so fast, Aro has really been eager to get the fuck out of this country. James had fucked over a lot of people and a lot of those people wanted to be appeased somehow. Bella and I are going to have one hell of a mess to clean up after this and I think Aro knows this and wants to get out of dodge before these people go after his head.

Luckily I think a lot of the people James had pissed off will be happy to know they were dealing with me and Bella, well once they know she killed James and I have the video proof. Bella doesn't know that I recorded the security footage, but I foresaw that someone may want proof that he was dead with more than just a death certificate as those things can be forged.

Hope she won't mind when I get to tell her about having recorded it, then again I have never gotten aroused watching someone being tortured and killed before watching Bella whipping the hell out of James.

'Seriously now is not the time to be thinking about that and getting a hard on before your meeting! Get your fucking head in the game Mason!' my inner voice tells me and I sigh because I know he is right. I need to get my head in the game.

I look out the window just in time to see us drive through the gates, Aro doesn't know that it is just me and that I didn't bring Rosalie with me. I know what I am looking for and if I think something is funny I just won't sign, but then again Bella decided to email a draft copy of all the documents that Aro had her draw up and I showed Rosalie who said they were pretty standard.

I made sure she added a few extra things so that there is no loop-holes for Aro to hide in or behind, he may not like that but I don't give two shits at this point. I just want this over with and I know that Bella does too and if Aro wants to leave this country as quickly as he seems desperate to do, he will take everything on the table.

The car pulls up at the front door and as I get out of the car, I see Aro standing at the door. I make sure my face is blank and emotionless as I approach him, he holds out his hand and says in a professional tone

"Edward Jnr it is a pleasure to finally meet you. May I say that you look like your father did when he was your age, shall we get this meeting underway?"

"It is a pleasure to meet you to Aro, I just wish it was under different circumstances."

"Yes yes, well you're here now and without further delay please follow me to the office where young Isabella will be waiting for us."

"Of cause, please lead the way." With that he turns and starts to walk to the main staircase and I follow behind him. I see his wife and Daughter in the sitting area next to the staircase they look briefly our way, but then look quickly away after looking at Aro.

I internally shake my head as I continue to follow Aro to the upstairs office. When we walk in, I see Bella rise from her chair and face the door. She is wearing her hair up in a high pony tail, light make up on her face, a white jacket with matching pencil skirt and a blue blouse that actually shows her slight baby bump that looks like it grew a bit since the last time I saw her.

She looks very professional and no-fussy bullshit; I have to stop myself from smiling knowing that this no-fussy bullshit was for Aro and not me. Speaking of the devil, he walks behind the desk while I walk over to stand next to Bella, I made sure to not look too much at Bella until Aro has introduced us as I didn't know if that would be insulting to him or not with how he thinks she is his daughter.

"Well Isabella, this is Edward Mason Jnr. Edward, this is my Isabella." With that I look to Bella who I see has her hand out and I take it, I have to ignore the familiar tingles that I have always felt when touching Bella and I give her a small polite smile and say

"Nice to meet you Isabella." I made sure my tone was light and polite as well as professional. The last thing I want is for Aro to get pissed at me for being rude to his pregnant heir. She gives my hand a slight squeeze and then responds in the same tone as me

"It's nice to meet you too, Mr. Mason."

"Please call me Edward, Mr. Mason makes me feel old." I reply with my crooked grin that I know she loves so much, I see her struggle to compose herself for a moment and then I let go of her hand just as Aro laughs. We both look over at him, puzzled at his sudden laughter and he simply says in way of an explanation

"Oh don't mind me, I just remember your father once saying something similar Edward and also I am glad that you two seem to be getting along already. Makes what we have to discuss here today so much better to bare."

With that he sits down and motions for us to do the same. Once seated Aro starts sifting through paperwork, like seriously is he stalling or something because these formal business mannerisms is a little over the top, not to mention boring as well.

Before I could say anything Aro sighs and then starts talking again.

"Well I am glad you agreed to meet today Edward, I have no idea what we would have done without your kindness and mercy. As you know, my son is now dead and buried and his widow, which is Isabella, is now my heir. When I last talked to you on the phone I told you she was pregnant with my grandson, however what we only learned a week ago was that she is with twins!"

I make sure I looked surprised at both Aro and Bella and then say

"Congratulations, Isabella and Aro that wonderful news."

"Thank you Edward." Bella replies with a genuine smile and Aro smiles as well as gives her a look that shouldn't be given to someone who isn't his wife, I have to suppress a shudder and a growl as Aro talks once more

"It is such good news that I now have two Grandsons to take over from her when the time comes. Now as I informed you over the phone James left a lot of issues behind that Isabella discovered, these have meant that I need to strike a deal with you that will allow my wife, other daughter and I to leave the country to my Italian estate and retire from this life in some kind of comfort.

Isabella will be left behind here in this house where she will raise my grandsons in the Volturi name to hopefully regain some of our honour that James and his goons stripped away. Whatever this deal we strike is, as long as I get my country estate in Italy with the vineyard that I am giving to my other daughter, Jane and Isabella here gets this compound and something to keep her and my grandsons comfortable for the rest of their lives, then I am willing to agree to anything."

I make my face look like I am thinking for a moment and take a deep breath before saying "Well from what I have heard your son has left a very big hole of crap to fill and from what I understand this will fall on mine and Isabella's shoulders, so when I last spoke to you Aro I told you that I agree to letting you leave for your country estate in Italy as long as you never come back here and you never cause any more trouble.

At the end of the day I don't care what you do while you're in Italy as long as it doesn't interfere in how I chose to manage the businesses and clients I buy and take over from you. As for working with your new heir sitting right next to me, I think I can do just that as long as she can work with me and I'll make sure that neither of you will have to worry about a thing.

Does that sound fair, Aro? Isabella?" I make sure to look at both of them in the eye with a stern look, my look to Aro was more so because I wanted to let him know that I meant business and that I wouldn't tolerate any bullshit or any underhanded tactics from him. I only gave Bella a lesser version of that same look to further what Aro thinks about me not knowing her.

I see both of them shrink a little in their chairs and I make a mental note to make it up to Bella later. After they recover from shrinking a bit, Bella sits up straighter and I see she has her game face on and I struggle to keep a smirk off my face as I know that she doesn't want to seem weak in front of Aro, don't know why though as I doubt that he would see her as weak at this point now.

Anyway, I look to Aro and see him nod his head and then replies in a tone that tells me he is resigned to his fate

"That sounds about as fair as I can expect under the circumstances. I've already got the plane tickets booked and we leave tomorrow afternoon, all our belongings have already been shipped over there and will be awaiting our arrival. I guess all that is left to do is sign some documents and give over all the contact details for all of mine and James' contacts and clients.

Isabella has a list of all the family's businesses and properties as well as land so that you and her can go over all of that as you please after I leave. Isabella, is there anything you wish to say before we sign the paperwork?" His tone told me he was expecting her to say something, even if she didn't want to and I gritted my teeth together so I didn't say anything.

I look over to her and see her thinking for a moment before nodding her head and then adding

"Thank you Father for this chance to speak, I would just like to make sure that Edward knows that I am more than just a female and that I do know what I am doing. I don't know if you know this Edward, but despite choosing not to follow in my biological father's footsteps I am more than prepared to follow in Aro's because I feel like it is the least I could do for the care he and his wife and Jane have given me since being here."

I almost chuckled at her obvious sarcasm to her tone at the end, but luckily I caught myself and continued to listen with my full attention to Bella, she looks down at her belly and then places both her hands lovingly over her small bump.

"Also since I am carrying James's children I feel it is only right to try and give them a better legacy than the one their father left for them, I am hoping that you understand this Edward and that your willing to truly help me to make their future bright and prosperous."

With that they both look to me for my reply. I pause for dramatic effect and then say "I do understand that you just want to look after your little family, Isabella and I have already promised to work with you and I will be fair as I promised Aro, from what I have been told by Aro and with how you have held yourself so far I believe Charlie Swan is losing out on an amazingly strong business woman who will do whatever it takes to make sure her family is looked after.

This is a quality that I can admire. Aro you chose well in naming her as your heir, now I am a very busy man and I would like to get this show on the road as soon as possible because I have a lot of calls to make in order to organise what needs to be done with everything I am taking on from both of you and the sooner I can get to that, the sooner I can organise a meeting with Isabella and go through what will be done and so on and so forth."

I leave it there and they look at each other, Bella smiles slightly and Aro nods his head before picking up a small stack of papers. He leans over the desk and hands them to me, he then says

"These are the papers we need to sign, most of them are just for you and I however, there are a few for Isabella to also sign with us as well as just the two of you. I hope this is ok with you, but in order to give over a lot of the businesses and assets someone with the Volturi name had to still be associated with them.

Then again such is the case with a lot of the family businesses I inherited and James would have, but luckily it's just name only so these can be the businesses you work with Isabella to help set her and my grandsons up for life with. I'll leave that up to the both of you though to figure out once I am gone."

I pull out my pen from my top pocket and then look at the papers in my hands and reply "That's fine Aro, let us get this out of the way quickly then shall we." With that we spend the next 2 hours going over the stack of paperwork.

Would have taken less, but Aro insisted on having a short discussion with each document to 'make sure' I understood every part of each document. Also it didn't help that Bella had to get up several times to go to the bathroom, I silently prayed for my twins be more helpful to their mum, but I knew that was useless as some women just have trouble holding their bladders during pregnancy from the baby (or in our case babies) pushing on or putting pressure on the bladder.

To be fair I did offer to sign the documents she needed to first, but classic stubborn Bella said that she was fine and that she had to learn how to cope sooner or later so it was better now with her father and someone who was understanding of her condition to learn.

Also Aro insisted on trying to haggle the amount of money he got from me for all of his businesses that I would actually be buying. I mean seriously they were almost worthless because he had mismanaged most of them and they were losing a lot of money or only just breaking even and I will most likely have to just sell them off myself so I thought that an even $5 million was more than generous, and this was mostly just property value and nothing else. Even then that's a little bit of a loss to me if I can't turn around most if not all of these businesses to what they were capable of.

Fucking prick thought they were worth more, thankfully Bella backed me up with some graphs she had done on the laptop that she pulled out from beside her that neither of us knew she had brought. The look on Aro's face was priceless, I know I was a little surprised but my girl thought ahead and I am so glad that she is my girl.

Once this was done, Aro asked if I would stay for lunch, but I politely declined saying I needed to get my copy of the paperwork filed with my lawyer and that I needed to work on organising what needs to be done with my side of my new assets.

I wished him and his family safe travels to Italy and that I hope they all live in peace and quiet for the rest of their lives, I then wished Isabella a good day and that I would be in touch with her soon about discussing our joint assets or if I had any further questions and so on and so forth, then I walk back out where my car is waiting for me. It drives me home and as soon as I am there I have a quick meeting with my dad, Rosalie and Alice and let them know what was going on and also for Rosalie to look over the paperwork one more time.

Alice needs to file some of it in the computer and we need to get an audit done of all the businesses. I also needed my father to contact Aro and James' Clients and try to set up meetings and to smooth things over and what not.

I sigh as I am having a shower to freshen up, I won't be able to go back to the compound until after Aro and his wife and daughter leaves because there is two of the clients that I need to contact personally.

These two, one from Aro and the other from James, won't deal with my father but thankfully with deal with me. I really wanted to get back to see Bella, but I think she will have her own hands full with her side of things for Aro.

Seriously that man is a micro manager and I can foresee Bella having a very bad headache by the end of today alone. I have Esme, Emmett and Jasper looking after her, I'll call Jasper to ask if the coast is clear for me to call Bella. Even though I could call under the pretext of working on one of the businesses that we now jointly own, but I don't want Aro or the other two to be there and interfere as well as stop Bella and I talking more freely.

Anyway, I get out of the shower and get dressed and make my way down to my office where I spend the rest of the day on the phone and sending and answering emails. Before I know it, there is a knock on the door and I call out for whomever it is to come in, not even looking up from the computer screen.

Out of the corner of my eye I see Alice bringing in a tray and the unmistakable smell of lasagne and a small bottle of wine, you know the ones that only have like a glass or two worth in them, with a glass. I finally look at her and smile, she knows me too well and in this moment I am glad I have her here.

"Thanks Alice, whatever would I do without you little sis?" She smiles at me and practically runs to my side and throws her arms around my neck, I hug her back and then pull her back to look at her smiling face as she replies

"Oh Edward you'd starve to death and fall apart, but seriously I am so happy for you and I knew you were heaps busy and would get far too engrossed in work to even keep track of the time. I already figured you would want to talk to Bella so I have Jasper texting you the moment no one is around her.

Now as for the filing, everything is in the computer database now. I feel some of those businesses have been left to rot and may need to be liquidated in order to salvage anything from them, but I'll let you and Bella look into them as you may see something I didn't. Now big brother, eat and have a break."

With that she walks out and closes the door behind her. All I can do is shake my head at her, she really is a smart little pixie and I am fucking glad she is my sister. I tuck into my food and take a very muchly needed brake. After eating I put the tray aside to get back to work when I get a text, I look at it and see it is from Jasper.

Looking at it I see that I can call Bella right now. I don't even bother to reply and call Bella, not caring that I am calling from my phone because if anyone asks she can just tell them I was asking about one of our joint businesses.

It rings twice before it is picked up I hear her voice for the first time in hours and she sounds tired

"Hello, who is this?" I smirk at her question; she must really be tired for her to not recognise my number.

"You forgotten my number already Bella?" I hear her gasp and then swear as I hear the unmistakable sound of the phone dropping, I try not to laugh but I can't stop the chuckle that comes out of my mouth at how cute she is. I hear her footsteps and then a door closing and locking, I smile even more at her actions knowing that now we can have some more privacy without anyone being able to stealthily listen in that we don't want to.

"Oh gosh, I am so sorry. I was just so tired that I didn't recognise it, plus to be fair it has been a while. I have missed you so much!"

"It's ok Bella, I was only teasing. I missed you too, I wish I could be there with you, but I have had so much work that Alice had to force me to take a break for dinner just now. How have you and the babies been?"

"I have been busy as well, I have been trying to make heads and tails of the mess we are being left with and I have a huge headache to the point that my head spun so much I almost brought up everything I had for dinner. Which by the way Aro insisted on feeding me again, saying something about how he won't be able to do this after tonight.

Then when I went to have a shower earlier his wife and daughter insisted on bathing me instead saying that same fucking crap! Seriously I think these people are sex crazed psychos, I will be so glad to be rid of them after tomorrow. Although Aro made me promise to send email updates on his grandsons, like what the fuck are we going to do if they have your hair and if they turn out to be girls? Wha-"

"Bella, take a breath baby!" I interrupt her mid word "Everything will be ok and we will work everything out, I already guessed he may want updates and photographs can be photoshoped now a days so we got this covered. Anything else we will work it out when it comes to it, plus he signed off on not interfering or having someone else interfere on his behalf ever for the rest of his, his wife and Jane's lives so there is nothing he can do, ok?"

She sighs before replying "Your right Edward, your completely right! God I can't wait to be home, I miss home! I hate this constant need to look over my shoulders and having to make sure I say the right thing all the time for fear that they will find out. Oh I so have to hug my dad after this because I feel so guilty for calling that sexual predator father, I know I shouldn't as it was part of the mission, but I still do."

"It will be good to have you home, love. I miss you being here with me and I know your father won't be upset with what you have had to do and say. I have to let you know that I recorded the footage of you killing James as proof for some of the more irate ex-clients of his that wanted him dead as well and as such I had Carlisle show a copy to your dad so he knew you were getting revenge for your mother for the both of you.

Charlie called me after watching and told me to tell you how proud of you he is and that he loves you and you did good baby and I agree with him, you really did do good love, this whole entire time. You have done more for me and my family in your short time being with me and any doubts of us being a good team and making this arranged marriage work that I had right at the beginning got completely smashed and ripped apart with this mission.

I don't know how to really say this because I am not good at the emotional stuff, but since meeting you and watching how you work I have fallen more and more in love with you every day. You have become so ingrained into who I am as a person that I don't think I can ever be without you now and I am really happy that you are who I am marrying and that you are the mother to my kids and I want you to know that you have made me feel true happiness for the first time in my life.

I promise you I will never allow you to do another mission like this one ever again, at least not without me right there in the thick of it with you as I don't think I could stand to be separated from you ever again like this."

I finish up my soppy speech and I hear Bella sniffle, I worry for a moment that I said the wrong things, but then she answers in a happy tone

"For someone who isn't good at the emotional stuff you sure know how to say the right things at the right time that I need to hear and I love you for it. I don't think you can promise that there will never be another mission like this one, but I know that we will get through it just like we did with this one."

"You're the only one to bring this side out of me, I know that my Aunt and Sister have seen a softer side of me more than anyone else, but you're the only one who has actually brought it out of me and you let me be me around you without judgement. I really hope you know how much you are loved by me and I'll spend the rest of my life showing you.

By the way I didn't mean to make you shrink away from me today in the office, but I had to make it look like I was talking to both of you and not just him."

"It is ok Edward, I already guessed that was why you were looking at me like that. I almost didn't react to it, but I thought that I should for Aro's benefit." I hear her yawn and know that I should let her sleep as it has been a big long ass day for the both of us and it's not just her anymore in her body so she must be even more drained.

"Anyway Bella, you must be very tired judging from that yawn. I'll let you go to bed and I promise to come and get you as soon as it is clear to do so ok, just several hours more and then your home, for real, with me. I love you and those babies of ours."

"Ok Edward, I love you too."

"Sleep sweet my love."

"I will when I am back in bed with you." I smile at this and then say a final goodbye, which she returns and then hangs up. Tomorrow is going to go by so slowly till those fucking stupid idiots leave, but at the end of the day Bella will be home.

Although I think the first thing we will do is go to Carlisle's practice and get a full check-up of Bella and our twins done and then I am going to delegate my family to work on all the shit we have just taken over and get Bella to do the same with the parts she has to do as Isabella Volturi and then we are going to go away for a week, just the two of us to reconnect as a couple.

Well reconnect isn't quite the right word for it as we haven't really had the time to just be a couple before all this shit. Also we need to plan our wedding and make sure that it isn't too long a wait, but long enough that it doesn't look suspicious, I let out a long sigh as I sign out of my computer for the night.

I make my way to my room and then get undressed. Once in bed I lay looking up at the ceiling for a long time before closing my eyes and trying to let sleep drag me under for the night.

These last few months have most certainly been very eventful.

From being forced to accept an arranged marriage with my rival to having to complete a mission that forced my rival and budding lover to marry the enemy and take everything that is theirs away from them to finding out that I am going to be a father of twins, like what the fuck!

It's been so much that I still can't wrap my head around it and I sigh yet again, rolling over to pick up my phone. I scroll through my photo's till I get to the photo of Bella I lifted from the security camera on my last day there before today and then I look at the ultrasound picture of our babies.

I smile and then put my phone back on the bedside table. I get comfy again and then close my eyes once more, only this time my only thoughts are of Bella and our twins as the darkness of sleep finally find me.