Mafia Princess

Chapter Ninety-Two

Twilight...not mine (sigh).

Chapter Ninety-Two

"Daddy!" Bella beamed, skipping over to father. He enfolded her in a warm embrace. "How was the flight?"

"Long," he grumbled, kissing her cheek. "How have things been here?"

"Good," I replied. "Quiet. No sign of Jane or any of Volturi's mooks."

Emmett walked over to me, waggling his brows. "You're looking mighty relaxed, Masen," Emmett snickered, elbowing me in the ribs. I gave him a fierce stare. Yeah, the Cullen-death-glare, as Rose called it. "Or not."

"Go, shower, relax. Edward and I have got dinner under control. I know the first thing I did when I got to the villa was shower," she said, shooting me a wink.

Right, Little One. We made out and dry humped each other until we both came. Let's not forget that I had your tit in my mouth.

"That sounds absolutely perfect," Charlie breathed. "Everyone know where they're going?" Weary nods were all around and everyone left the kitchen.

"Edward, can you set the table?" Bella asked, obviously not continuing our conversation from earlier.

"Sure, Little One," I answered, grabbing plates and silverware. We worked together to make the meal, putting it together in record time. By the time Charlie, Emmett and everyone else came out of their rooms, dinner was being served and I was uncorking the wine.

Dinner conversation was dominated by Charlie and his plans to bring down Aro Volturi. He was obsessed on ending Aro because of what he did to Bella. Jane, Alec and Marco were still at large and the last we heard, were all in Italy. Charlie had some of his connections in Italy track down the three of them to the Volturi compound in Sicily. Bella began trembling and without thinking, I grabbed her, cradling her in my lap. I murmured quietly in her ear that I would keep her safe. She gripped my t-shirt, wanting to believe me but the fear in her eyes indicated that she couldn't do it.

Charlie's gaze was honed in on our intimate embrace. Bella was in my lap with her arms wrapped around my neck. Her face was pressed against my shoulder and she was trying to get closer to me. My arms were holding her securely to my lap around her waist. While I held Bella, Carino mewled from the floor and put her paw on my foot. "Carino's worried about you, Little One," I whispered against her soft hair.

Bella swept the gray ball of fur, holding her to her chest but stayed in my lap. "Isabella Marie, why do we have a cat?" Charlie grumbled.

"She triggered the motion sensor and she was so cute," Bella answered, tickling Carino's neck. "Yes, you're so cute, Carino. Even cuter than your daddy."

I blushed. "Bella, I'm not the cat's father," I muttered. Carino gave me a look and she hopped up onto my shoulder. "Dear God." Parrot-cat strikes again.

"Face it, Edward, you are the parent to a very adorable cat," Emmett snickered. "And you're soooooooo pussy whipped."

"Emmett!" Charlie barked.

"By the cat, Uncle Charlie. The gray thing on Edward's shoulder," Emmett bellowed.

"What are we going to do?" I asked, ignoring stupidity that was Emmett McCarty.

"Nothing. We will do nothing. I do not want to bring attention to the fact that we're here. We're going to enjoy our vacation and at the end of the month, head back to the states and prepare for the destruction for Aro Volturi. He will pay for what he did to Bella. He will pay for what he tried to do to me. Mark my words, Aro Volturi will not be alive to see his next birthday," Charlie said, his eyes narrowing and looking very much like a lethal mobster he was.

I agreed with what Charlie was saying. Aro did need to pay for what he did to Bella, but Charlie couldn't kill him. I don't want to add murderer to the list of charges against him.

Don't get involved, Edward. It's your job to put him away.

"Uncle Charlie, I get what you're saying, but you need to not be involved," Emmett said. "You cannot be linked Aro's murder in anyway. I think that's why he's baiting you."

Charlie glared at Emmett. I wanted to kiss Emmett.

"He's right, Daddy. You can't know anything. Plausible deniability. You can't say anything about what you don't know," Bella chirped.

"Edward, what do you think?" Charlie asked.

"I'm with both of them. You cannot have your hands in Aro's demise. If you do, they could arrest as an accessory to murder," I said, sounding like an attorney. Tone down the lawyer talk, Edward.

"You're right," Charlie grumbled. "Damn it. I just want to make sure it gets done right, you know?"

"Have faith that it will, Daddy," Bella said, reaching to hold his hand. "Go to sleep and everything will seem better in the morning, okay?"

"Yeah," Charlie sighed. "Thank you for cooking, baby girl. This was delicious."

"You're welcome," Bella smiled. She turned to Emmett. "Em, I need to drop of Carino at the vet tomorrow morning. Can you take me?"

"Why can't Edward take you?" Emmett whined.

"Because I haven't talked to you since we got here," she hissed. She gave him a stern glare.

"Fine," Emmett muttered. "What time?"

"Be ready to go by six," she said.

"You suck, bambina."

A/N: A bit of transition-type chapter. I do promise that things will pick up. My goal is to have this bad boy done in 200 chapters (which seems like a lot, but when the chappies are 1000 words or less...yeah.). So we're roughly half-way through this. Leave me some lovin, please!

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