My phone vibrated in my pocket. I sighed and stopped running long enough to answer it.
"Edward, listen. Come home now. Bella is in trouble," Alice yelled at a vampire speed into the phone.
"She's what?!" I yelled, taking off running back through the forest in the direction of Forks. "What happened?!"
"She went to visit the dog," she started, but she stopped when I snarled furiously.
"He lost control near her, didn't he!? I'm going to kill that stupid mongrel!"
"No, Edward. He called about three hours later asking where she was. He said she never made it to his house."
"The Volturi got her, didn't they?" I said more quietly. How could this happen? How could they all be so stupid as to let her go on her own to the mutt's house? They should have known she'd get into trouble on the way there.
The whole point of sending her to the mutt's home was to make sure she was safe while my family patrolled the forests nearby to make sure they didn't get to her. Alice had seen them coming, so how could she have missed this?
When I didn't talk for a while, Alice finally did. "Edward, there's… there's more."
"What is it?" I asked slowly, afraid of what I was about to hear.
"Well… we followed her scent a ways into the forest, and… well, we found a bit of her clothing torn on the ground and… blood. Her blood, Edward. We think she's dead."