EPOV

One of my men saw Irinia entering town, recognizing her immediately from the photo's I made everyone carry for reference.

"Where is he?"

"He stayed on her tail till she stopped and entered one of the empty buildings by the dock. When he called, he was waiting in his car for us to arrive."

"How much longer?"

"Look ahead, there's Jasper's car. He said he would meet us here."

Cauis squealed to a stop and we ran to Jasper who was leaning against the side of the car with his head hanging low.

"Jasper."

"Boss-"

"Have you caught sight of her? Is she still inside?"

I put in a new clip and started walking toward the building, dirt kicking up and covering the toes of my shoes.

"Boss! She isn't here."

"You said we had her!"

"Boss-"

"Shut the fuck up! Unless you can tell me exactly where she is, I don't want to hear you speak."

"Edward!" Jasper yelled, his voice raised. "I mean no disrespect, but you have to listen! She got him."

"Got who?"

Instead of answering he nodded inside of the car he was leaning against. I narrowed my eyes as I walked back to the car.

"Fucking shit!" I screamed, kicking the side of the car.

Paul had been shot in the head, right between his eyes which were frozen wide open. His mouth looking gaping in a silent scream.

"Antonio, go back to Isabella. I will stay here and see if she comes back."

"Cauis, he saw her and she killed him! Irinia is somewhere in this damn town and I have no clue where! I want to do nothing more than lock Bella up in a cave somewhere so that she's kept safe, she wont even stay in the house if I ask her to!"

Jasper's phone rang and he turned his back to us to answer it.

"Hello?"

I paced, wondering what our next move was going to be.

"Baby, are you there?"

That got my attention. As far as I knew Jasper and Alice were an item. Either he was cheating on her or he was calling her baby, either way I wanted to cut his balls off.

"Boss! We gotta go!" His eyes were wild, as he whipped around to look at me.

"What?"

"I gotta go, I gotta go!"

He began praying under his breath. Cauis grabbed his shoulders, preventing him from leaving.

"Alice, I gotta get to Alice! Irinia is there right now!"

"Please tell me this is another fuck up." I whispered.

My heart stopped beating, breath halting.

Isabella.

Luciano.

Matteo.

"She left the call connected, you can hear everything." He thrust the phone into my hands shakily.

I took the phone and put it on speaker.

"You are nothing more than an interfering bitch!"

"That's her." I mumbled, my brows coming together as I stared at the phone.

Gun shots.

I looked up at Cauis, the blood draining from my face. I felt sharp tingles covering my body in waves.

"Antonio!" Cauis shook me. "Breath. Don't panic."

My chest hurt but I did my best to breath through it.

Tires squealed from behind us and we looked over to see Jasper speeding away from us.

"Shit!" Cauis ran back to our vacant car and drove the eight feet to me, the passenger door flying opening.

"Get in!"

I was struggling with sluggish movements, my body was taken over and I felt as if I was looking on as a third person.

"Cauis."

"I know, focus on your breathing. When we get there I want you back, we are going in with a force."

Isabella.

Luciano.

Matteo.

"Hurry up." I demanded with a cold tone.

I snapped out of it, my vacant emotions fleeing and being replaced with anger. I straightened my shoulders, fixed the collar on my jacket and took the gun from the glove box to shove into the waist of my pants; adding to the one I still held in my hand. I looked up and we were already there. It was as if I snapped my fingers and we arrived, I was loosing track of time. Cauis parked behind Jasper's car, our doors flying open and running toward the house.

"Cauis, take the back door!"

Gun shots filled the air and we threw ourselves to the ground after only a few steps out of the car.

I let out a howl of rage, jumping to my feet while Cauis screamed at me to stop.

Consequences be damned.

My life didn't matter, only those of my wife and children were important.

A more few feet into my path and I came to a startling halt as Bella came running from the house covered in blood. She ran straight to me, her arms around my neck and legs around my waist.

"Bella."

I held her tightly to me before remembering the blood. I pulled her away and looked over her, trying to find the source.

"Where are you hurt, Amore?"

"Ed-Ed-" Her teeth were chattering, unable to make a coherent sentence.

"The boys?" Fear gripped my heart once more.

"Edward!" Alice was rushing out of the house in tears, Jasper following with my boys. A baby in each arm.

"Thank you God."

"Seth is hurt!" Alice screamed.

"Jasper, stay with the girls and my sons."

"I'm sorry-"

"We will talk about it later."

I motioned to Cauis and we both entered the house, our guns raised in front of us.

"Antonio." Cauis motioned with his head to a body laying on the floor in the room beside him.

Blond hair was spread out, blood seeping into the wooden floor of Alice's dinning room.

Irinia.

He bent and felt for a pulse.

"She's gone."

I lost all rationality. I was pissed that I wasn't the one to do it instead of being thankful that it was taken care of.

We heard a cough and straightened once more, going further into the house. We found Seth half laying on a couch.

"Seth." I said quietly.

I took the three steps to his side, kneeling to get a better look.

"Bella." He sighed.

"She's fine. Let's get you out of here and then you can tell me what happened."

In truth I was afraid of move him. I didn't know if he was going to make it regardless of what we did.

"Cauis, call Carlisle."

X

"She came into the house only moments after you left. It couldn't have been more than five minutes." Bella spoke quietly.

I had drawn her a bath, the bubbles covering her body while I massaged her back gently with a cloth. The boys were kicking their feet in the little bouncy chairs Alice had bought them on either side of me.

"I don't really know what happened when she first entered. I saw her and I could only think of Luciano and Matteo. They were sleeping in the bedroom so luckily she didn't know of them at first."

"The gun shot?" I asked with a gravely voice.

"Alice hid her phone behind her when Irinia forced us to sit on the couch. She dialed Jasper's number and hid it between the cushions. I suppose she either didn't see Seth or forgot about him. She just kept going on and on..."

"About what?"

"Her family. All the things that have happened for the past few years. Jasper and Rosalie's parents... their death was no accident. She admitted as much. Apparently she went to her Papa's family and explained of her and Tania's existence. The accident that killed Rose and Jasper's parents happened around the same time Tania disappeared. Irinia's new family decided they wanted to achieve more power, thinking the way to do it was take over the Cigno family in America. They knew of the connection Nonno Masini had with my Nonno and Papa. They wanted to have the power to eliminate the Masini family altogether."

"She told you all of this?"

She just nodded.

"The drugs she was forcing on me while she had me captured, she got the idea from Tania."

"What?" I gasped out.

"Tania never returned to Cauis because Irinia and their father's family refused to allow her to leave. She was kept hostage, having her baby with a midwife in the same room that had been her prison. After Camilla was born she turned to drugs. Irinia blamed me for Tania's suicide, but I think she was drugged up at the time. Irinia said she was killing herself with the drugs, making her unaware of time or her whereabouts, slowly losing sense of reality."

"I wondered why she stayed hidden for so long only to be cryptic with you. Why she spoke of me instead of Cauis."

"Irinia laughed, talking of how she convinced Tania that Cauis had moved on. Tania's drug induced mind began a hero worship of you from what Irinia said. Tania talked of you and your kindness to Irinia daily."

"What happened after she spoke of all this?"

"I know I am making it sound like she presented a speech, it all happened so fast. Some of what I just said I put together in my mind."

"I understand." I kissed her bare shoulder.

"Seth, god he is so stupid! She ranted as she paced around the room, her gun waving about. When she aimed it at me, Seth came charging in. He threw himself infront of me and took the bullet meant for me. Alice started to scream when Seth's body collapsed against me, blood pouring out of him. Her screams woke the babies and it was like Irinia turned even more crazed. She started to make her way to the bedroom where the boys were. I tried to be gentle as I shoved Seth off, but I was more concerned about our children. I jumped onto her back, making her fall to the floor in surprise. I have no idea how long we fought till Jasper arrived. Irinia was above me, her gun pressed against my forehead when a shot rang out." Her body began to shake. "It was Jasper, he pulled her off of me and helped me to my feet. The boys were still crying and he ran from the room to them. Edward... He was so worried about our boys." Tears were falling from her eyes. "I have so many people to thank. Jasper shot her, saved me from Irinia and was more worried about our babies than anything else once I was safe. Seth, oh god. He killed himself to protect me!"

"Isabella, shh, he isn't dead."

I grabbed a towel and helped her out, holding her in my arms. My chest was growing damp from her wet body and tears.

"We don't know that."

"My father is working on him. He will do everything he can."

"My Papa?"

"He is still incarcerated. I don't know what is going to happen with him right now. There were more important things today I had to deal with. Your mother was called and she is there with Seth now."

I was honestly shocked that Renata rushed to his side. Carlisle called and told me she was holding his hand, assisting Carlisle with anything he needed to work on Seth.

"Let's get into bed. There is nothing more we can do today." I carried her to the bed, returning for the now sleeping boys and carrying them one at a time to place in the bassinet that sat beside our bed.

"I love you Isabella Cullen."

"I love you." She said sleepily, her exhaustion winning as breathing was soon evening out.

X

Two years later...

BPOV

"I'm so happy for your Alice!"

"Shh! I haven't told anyone else!"

I smiled, hugging her tightly. Watching as she made her way back to her husbands side, I looked around me. At all the people I loved.

Jasper smiled and wrapped his arm around Alice, kissing her lovingly. My mother sat with Esme, Rose and Seth's new girlfriend Rachel. Rachel was Jacob's sister, so Jacob stood a few feet away glaring. Jacob just got engaged a month before to his long time girlfriend Angela, who just slapped at his arm over the dirty looks he was giving Seth. Seth stood with Emmett, my father,and Carlisle. He survived the gun shot wound, after hours of surgery. He now had to walk with a cane, but he was alive.

I laughed when my mother stood up and made a plate of food, demanding Seth sit and eat. After his near death experience, my mother dotted on him as much as she did Emmett. She found it in herself to love him as her own child. She and my father were still separated, though according to Rosalie he was caught sneaking out of not only the house but my mothers bedroom most nights. I had a feeling they would be back under the same roof soon. Emmett still hasn't forgiven my father, angry that Seth had to struggle for so long. He felt guilty that he had never wanted for a thing while he had an unknown brother who went to bed hungry. He and Seth had a close bond now. Rosalie gave birth to their second child a year ago, a little girl named Stella.

Giggling brought me from my musing. Two little boys were laughing and running as fast as their little legs would allow as they ran from their father. Edward was hunched over, tickling their sides every so often so that their happy squeals would fill the air. Lucca was in the lead, Sam closing in from the front so that the three boys huddled together with screams and excited jumps. I laughed when Edward pretend to fall to the ground at the three small tackles his legs received. Rose and Esme strode toward the pile of boys and took the three small ones so that they would eat their dinner. Edward stood and brushed himself off, giving me his breathtaking smile.

"How are my girls?" He asked once he was at my side.

"Liliana just fell asleep." I whispered, swaying my body to rock the small baby in my arms.

"Let me take her so that you can eat." He said quietly, moving his arms under mine so that he could slip the baby away easily without waking her.

Liliana had just turned a month old. She wasn't as surprising as her brothers pregnancy had been. After Rose had Stella, Edward and I became eager to grow our family. Edward has been thrilled when we learned we had a little Liliana, not a Valentino. She was born with my dark hair, though when the sun hit it you could see the red color from her father. Her eyes were a startling blue that matched her Nonno Cullen, instead of the brown of the Cigno or green of the Masini.

"Your sister told me some news."

"Oh?" His eyes not moving from the little girl in his arms who still slept.

"Luciano, Matteo, and Liliana will have a new cousin."

"Rose is pregnant again?"

"No."

He slowly raised his head and looked at me. He whipped his head behind him and looked at Jasper who had noticed and was visibly paling under Edward's gaze.

"Edward! Leave the poor boy be. They are married."

"They have been married for two weeks! You know what that means?"

I giggled at his fierceness.

"They had premarital sex."

"Exactly, they had premarital sex! He had sex with my sister before he married her!" Hi voice carried out over the crowd, the silence deafening.

"Edward!" Alice screeched in anger.

He returned the baby to me and pointed at Jasper.

"You knocked up my sister before marriage."

He stalked to him and I heard everyone hold their breath. Edward had worked on his anger and impulse control, but he could still act on impulse often.

We all sighed and let out a laugh as he grabbed Jasper and embraced him.

"Congratulations." He said. "Treat them right or I will kill you."

I rolled my eyes but didn't say anything.

"I love you, Antonio." I smiled when he returned to me once more.

"I love you, Isabella Cullen."

"Mama, Mama!"

Edward squatted so that the boys could wrap their small arms around his neck and stood with the two attached to his back. They puckered their lips, a rim of chocolate lining their lips from the cupcakes their Nonna Esme gave them. I kissed them each, earning myself little grins and giggles. Cauis made his appearance with Camilla. The boys squealed at her sight and kicked to get free of their fathers arms.

Edward wrapped his arms around me, Liliana in my arms, as we watched them run off again with Lucca and Camilla, Stella doing her best to follow after them on unsteady legs.