Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Unlock Your Heart

By Momma2Fan

Chapter 21:

Bella lay in bed, staring at the ring that adorned her left hand. She couldn’t believe Edward had proposed. Her life seemed like it was one big whirlwind. Nothing was going the way she had planned for herself. She had always thought she would be married to Mike and have at least one child.

Now Mike was dead, and she was pregnant by her best friend. Fate sure has a way of turning the tides.

“What are you thinking about?”

Bella rolled over and met the emerald gaze. She placed her hand against his cheek. “How different my life is now.”

Edward turned his head and kissed her palm before taking her hand in his. “What do you mean?”

“Well, think about it: five months ago, I was engaged to Mike and planning our life. Then everything fell apart. I didn’t think I would be this happy after he cheated on me, but with you…everything is perfect.”

Edward smiled at her before leaning down to kiss her. When he finally pulled away, he pressed his forehead to hers. “Bella, I plan to make you happy forever.”

Bella smiled at him and melted into another kiss. All too soon, their passion was spent and Bella woke to an empty bed.

She got up, quickly showered and got dressed, and then went in search of her fiancé.

“Edward?” she walked down the stairs, following the voices she heard until she found him in his office. Only he wasn’t alone.

“…get her out of there, Jasper. Before Victoria and Karen get wind of what has happened.”

“What’s going on?” Bella asked as she walked through the open door.

“Tanya ‘overheard’ a rather interesting conversation last night that gives us the ability to put Victoria and Karen away for a very long time,” Jasper answered.

“Were we able to confirm any of it?”

Edward nodded. “Demetri and Felix went with Renata and Ben to confirm everything. All of the proof we need is in Renata’s very capable hands”

Bella looked at Edward. “We need to get Tanya out of there.”

“Bella, have you thought about what your Mom and Dad might think about you helping her?”

Bella turned her head and looked at Emmett. She hadn’t even noticed that he was there. “Emmett, I didn’t know that you were here.”

He just grinned and leaned to look behind her. Bella turned and saw her brother. She walked over and leaned down to kiss his cheek. “Hey, Gar.”

“Bells.”

Bella grinned and turned back to Emmett. “My Mom is the one who made arrangements with Gran for the kids to stay there, Emmett. Amazingly enough, even after what Tanya did to her and my father, my mother has forgiven her.”

Garrett was nodding his head behind her. “Emmett, it will all be fine.”

Emmett nodded and then turned to look at his brother. “So what’s next for the Newton’s, bro?”

**UYH**

Karen Newton paced the small four by six cell and grumbled under her breath. “This is taking too long. We should have been out of here weeks ago.”

Victoria sat on her bunk and watched her mother walk back and forth. She was starting to get on her nerves. “Mother, sit down.”

Karen glared at her daughter and continued to pace. She was trying to plan a way out. That rat bastard Jenks should have gotten her out of here by now. Where the hell was he? She had helped him too many times over the years to be suffering like this now.

“Mother, sit down before I put you down!” Victoria ordered.

Karen turned and wrapped her hand around her daughter’s throat. “Watch your tone, young lady. I brought you into this world, and I will take you out.”

“Like you did my father?” Victoria wheezed.

Karen dropped her hand like she had been burned. “What? How?”

Victoria coughed and rubbed her neck. “Oh, please. Daddy would never have left Mike and me with you willingly. I’m not a fool, even if you do believe I am. I know you killed him. All I want to know is where you put him.”

Karen was seething, “How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are, little girl?” Victoria grinned but didn’t answer. Karen didn’t like the silence that she received, so she decided to bait her daughter more. “You want to know where your precious father is? I had his body taken and buried in the local lime factory. You can’t smell a dead body under the lime. Same with the rest of them. When they were no longer useful, I moved on, but made sure they couldn’t follow.”

Victoria was shocked. She knew her mother was evil and had many lovers, but she was in no way prepared to learn her mother was a black widow.

**UYH**

Bella sat on the exam table and swung her legs in boredom. She had been waiting to see the doctor for twenty minutes now. She was hungry, needed to pee, and her legs were sticking to the uncomfortable paper on the table. Where the hell is the doctor already?

“Miss Swan?” Her door opened a crack.

Bella turned her head, “Yes?”

“Sorry, the doctor should only be a few more minutes. There is a man out here that is causing quite the ruckus, and refuses to calm down until he sees you. May I please bring him back?”

Bella giggled and nodded her head. No doubt Edward was being quite irritating. She couldn’t help but laugh when he walked in. His hair was in disarray, like he was continuously running his hands through it.

“Edward, what were you doing? Sweetie, this shouldn’t take much longer.”

Edward shrugged and walked around to sit at Bella’s side. “I was bored and this is taking forever.”

Bella laughed as a knock sounded on her door before it was slowly pushed open. “Isabella Swan?”

“Who the fuck are you?” Edward demanded.

“Edward!” Bella hissed.

“I’m sorry. My name is Dr. Forge. Dr. Young is in a delivery right now, so she will be unable to attend your appointment.” The older gentleman stuck out his hand to Edward first and waited.

“Edward, shake his hand,” Bella muttered.

Bella watched as Edward reluctantly shook the doctor’s hand and then smiled when he turned her way. “Nice to meet you, Dr. Forge.”

“You, as well. I see here you are about sixteen weeks. How have you been feeling?”

“Fine, a little tired, but that isn’t unusual.” Bella smiled.

“Okay, well we are gonna do an ultrasound and maybe see if we can’t tell what you’re having. It may be too soon, but you never know. Is that something you want?”

Bella looked at Edward. “Do you want to know?”

“Do you? Sweetheart, I’ll do whatever you want.”

Bella thought about it and then decided they would find out and then have a family dinner to tell everyone. With that decided, they got through the rest of the appointment with little trouble. At least until the doctor had to check Bella’s cervix, then Edward came unhinged again.

“Edward Anthony, shut the fuck up, or I am gonna kick your ass from here to kingdom come! This is normal!” Bella threatened.

Edward sat down and sulked for the rest of the appointment. Bella didn’t speak to him on the drive home, either. She went into the house and ignored him, going straight to the kitchen to prepare the dinner.

Edward went to his office, called their parents, invited them to dinner, and asked them to call the siblings. When he felt he had waited long enough, he sought out his fiancée. He found her in the kitchen roughly chopping vegetables.

“Bella?” he approached cautiously.

“You better not come near me while I’m holding a knife. It may end up embedded in your leg. Your behavior this afternoon was embarrassing.” Bella continued to chop.

“I’m sorry, Bella. I just don’t like another man having his hands on my wife.”

Bella spun on him and pointed her knife wielding hand at him. “I am not your wife yet. Edward, you need to remember his job is to make sure our child is safe until it’s time for it to come out. You better never act like that again!”

She turned back to making dinner. She jolted when she felt Edward press against her from behind. She could feel his arousal pressing into her back and felt her panties grow wet at the contact.

“Whether or not you are legally my wife, I still think of you that way. The idea of another man’s fingers, doctor or otherwise, going inside you is going to make me angry.” As he spoke, his hand trailed around to the waistband of her jeans. He deftly flicked open the snap and had the zipper down before she could protest. Bella moaned when his hand slipped inside her panties and into her moist heat. “You’re so wet for me,” he groaned and nudged her legs further apart. He flicked her clit and slid a finger inside her, moving it in time with his thumb.

Bella let her head fall to his chest and dropped the knife from her hand. “Edward…” she whispered breathlessly. Edward inserted another finger and quickly sent her over the edge.

Bella leaned against his chest, waiting for her breathing to return to normal. Once it had, she looked up at Edward and smiled when he grinned down at her.

“I love you, Bella.”

“I love you, too, Caveward.” She grinned when he chuckled.

**UYH**

The family was loud and boisterous as they enjoyed the meal that Bella had prepared. When they finally calmed down a bit, Edward cleared his throat. When he had everyone’s attention, he spoke.

“Bella and I have an announcement to make.” Edward smiled.

Bella carefully brought her left hand up on the table and immediately heard a gasp from all the women.

“You’re getting married!”

Bella smiled. “That’s not all.” She waited until they were silent again. “I’m pregnant.”

The women began to squeal and cry again—even Esme and Renee, who had kept the pregnancy a secret, while the men turned to congratulate Edward. The evening was filled with celebration and wedding talk until the doorbell rang, stopping all conversation.

Alistair entered, followed by Renata and Tanya. Bella rose, walked over to Tanya, and whispered in the woman’s ear before pulling her into a hug.

Renee stood next and went over to Tanya. “Come on. Let’s go call your children.”

Tanya nodded and followed the woman whose husband she had tortured out of the room.

Bella invited Renata to join them. The two women sat down and conversation resumed.

“Ren, what’s going on?” Jasper questioned.

“I had an interesting visitor today,” Renata commented between bites of curry chicken. “Bella, this is fabulous!”

Bella smiled. “Thanks.”

“So, who was this visitor, Ren?” Edward asked.

“It was the director of the FBI. I don’t think the charges against Victoria Newton are gonna stick.”

Silverware clattered to plates as everyone stopped eating and all eyes were on her.

Renata grinned, knowing what she told them next would send them into a tailspin. She just needed to check on something first. “Before I tell you anything, Bella, I need to know how the baby is doing. Everything cooking alright?”

“Yes, the baby and I are fine, now spill, Ren.” Bella sat back in her chair. She looked at the other end of the table and met the eyes of her very pale fiancé. “Edward, are you okay?”

“I don’t know,” Edward said honestly.

Renata cleared her throat. “Firstly, let me say this. Edward, I know your blood tests came back positive for Rohypnol, but I don’t believe you had sex with anyone and neither does the FBI. They had some forensic examiners look at it, and they believe the video was doctored.”

“Why would they think that, Renata?” Carlisle wanted to know.

“Because, they’ve had an agent inside Karen’s ring the entire time,” Renata threw out.

“Who?” Edward asked.

No one would have ever expected the name that came from Renata’s mouth…