CHAPTER 395

Bella knocked on the door, then stood back and waited for Charlie to open up. A completely healthy looking man opened the door. He was tall with dark hair and a pornstyle moustache, he had Bella's eyes.

"Yes, how can I help you?" he asked.

"I'm your daughter, Isabella," Bella told him, and he took a comical second look at my wife.

"How do I know it's you?" he asked, and Mum and I went through all the things that linked Bella to Charlie. It took five minutes going over and over the facts before Charlie accepted that Bella was his daughter. It finally sunk in that Bella wanted to be a part of his life for most of hers.

CHAPTER 396

Charlie invited us into his house. It wasn't excessively furnished, but we could tell that he wasn't struggling for money.

Bella and Charlie started to talk about everything under the sun. When my phone began to ring, I looked at the screen and saw that it was Jonathan.

"Excuse me Bella, Charlie. I have to take this call, will you be ok with mum and dad?" I asked her.

"Yes Edward, I will be," she told me. I kissed her quickly on the lips and nodded to both Mum and Dad who responded in kind.

CHAPTER 397

"Hello, John, how can I help you?" I asked him once I pushed the answer button.

"Edward, sorry to disturb you but I thought you'd want to know that since we last talked the Amber Peacock book has exploded in the market. It hit five million in sales," he informed me.

"Thank you for that news, I need to get back to what I was doing," I told him.

"Welcome, Sir," he told me. I hung up and walked inside to find a stalemate. Mum and Dad were standing on one side of the room, with Bella standing behind my parents. Charlie was on the other side holding a gun. Fuck, what is it with her family and guns?

CHAPTER 398

"What's going on here?" I asked the room, moving to stand next to my wife. I took her hand.

"I want all the money I ever gave the evil shrew," Charlie said, waving the gun around. It wasn't your normal every day handgun. No, this was a Remington bolt action rifle.

"The money I sent her would total one million, eight hundred seventy two thousand dollars exactly," he told us.

"If I give you two million dollars will that be enough for you?" I asked him.

"Yes, it will."

We had started to leave the house when the gun was aimed at Bella's head.

"She stays until I get my money," Charlie growled.

CHAPTER 399

"Okay, okay Charlie," I told him, dropping Bella's hand and calling for Dad to follow me as I would need his help to get the money out of the bank.

We went to the local bank and had to call the branch in New York city, who directed us to the Seattle branch who agreed to send the two million to us under an hour.

We went back to Charlie's house to wait for the money to arrive. It was only two hours later when there was a knock on the door. Charlie told me to go answer it. I did so and took the bag and shook the delivery man's hand before he turned to leave. I went in and gave the bag to Charlie, who looked through it.

CHAPTER 400

"Thank you Edward, you can all go now and never return to my town, as I will have a loaded gun next time," Charlie told us. We took the opportunity and left, quickly.

"Edward, can we go home now?" Bella asked as we walked to our hotel rooms to get the rest of our family and drive straight back to our plane.

When we were on the plane the questions began from those who weren't there.

"What happened, Edward?" Rose asked me.

"We just had to pay Bella's father two million dollars so he wouldn't kill Bella" I explained. I felt Bella start to fall and I picked her up bridal style and took her to the back bedroom where we fell asleep to the drone of the engines.

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