Chapter 2

Surprises

I woke up disoriented, the sun was making a rare appearance, but that's not what caught my attention. I was alone, "Edward, Edward," if he was in the house I knew he would hear me. No reply, Is he gone? I got up on shaky legs, I looked down at myself and realized my shirt was gone. I looked around and saw that it was ripped to shreds; I remember hearing something tear last night but I was too consumed to notice when my attention is other wise occupied. I saw a black blouse and a jeans skirt laid for me on the side so I went to the down stairs bathroom washed up, and put the cloth on.

I was climbing the steps to his room but when I finally reached it everything was in boxes. His journals were gone and the things that were of importance. I caught sight of the frame that had contained a picture of Edward and I; it was empty. I felt as if I was falling apart so I put my arms around myself hoping I could keep myself stitched together.

I want over to his couch and laid in a fetal position I could still smell his natural scent all over it. I wanted to soak it all up before its too late, before its gone like he was.

What felt like hours later I could hear the phone ringing but I didn't have it in me to get up. So I remained lying on the couch listening to the sound of the phone ringing every time it stopped, it would start again. I looked up at the clock and noticed it had been ringing for almost an hour. I had been lying there all day falling in and out of consciousness. I wondered why the phone was still in service.

All the sudden I felt the hairs in the back of my neck stand up, I was being watched. My instincts were on alert something dangerous was close, but I welcomed it at the moment. I heard the phone being roughly unplugged and seemed as if the person must have crushed it. Before I even lifted my head right there before my eyes stood Laurent. He was a couple of feet away looking at me oddly, but prominent one I felt like a giant stake.

I did not understand what he was doing here, but I had a bad feeling about his sudden visit. From what I heard last he was staying with Denali's and he was giving the "vegetarian" lifestyle a chance, but I can see clearly that his eyes were a frightening dark crimson. It made my heart beat faster "I had heard that the Cullens were moving on, but I thought Edward would take his pet. You must not be as important as Victoria presumed you to be, where is young Edward?" he asked. "He left," I knew the moment I spoke those words that it was the wrong thing to say, but I didn't have it in me to care. I knew I couldn't escape him, and to try to put up a fight was out of the question.

I was alone and Edward was not here to save me no more.

"Victoria? Are you not staying with the Denali's?" "Yes I am, but I must say following their diet has been very difficult for me. You understand. " I didn't answer I simply stayed quiet, but what surprised me was my demeanor. Through all the pain I was speaking to him as if he was an old college friend,

"I am feeling merciful, and you smell amazing. If only you knew what Victoria has in store for you, but I will make it very quick." He looked at me like the way Charlie would look at a giant steak. "Its nothing personal, I could smell your fear. I'm doing you a favor by making quick. I'm still curious why he was enamored or should I say entertained by you." I felt even more pain from his words. I started to laugh hysterically, he tilted his head to the side looking at me strangely. Maybe I had finally lost it. Now I was sitting on the couch with my arms rapped around myself and Laurent stood a couple of feet watching me curiously. When the high from the adrenaline rush was over I had nothing to really say, so I just stood there looking at him. With his long dreadlocks, dark crimson eyes, and his dark skin. Laurent was somewhat handsome, and if what he said is true maybe him killing me would be easier then Victoria. I wished I could have said goodbye to Renee and Charlie, but how do you say goodbye. Maybe this was better.

Suddenly he grabbed my arm lifting me off the couch his nose ran through the contours of my neck, "you really do smell delicious." He barred his teeth, when a loud growl shook the room. I had never heard anything so scary in my life, I looked to the side Edward was croached like an animal. I had never seen Edward like this, even the first day we met when he was consumed with his blood lust. He was both terrifying and beautiful.

"Let. Her. Go." He said each word with so menacingly that I actually feared for Laurent.

"Young Edward I was just being merciful to your beautiful pet before Victoria gets her. Victoria seemed to be under the assumption that you would never leave your pets' side, but as your pet has already informed me you had left. Did you want to save her for yourself?" That made Edward if possible growl even louder.

I guess Alice must have called him, and Edward being Edward must have felt guilty. In that moment while I was in Laurent arms across the room from Edward, I wanted to think of something good. So all I had to do was recall the summer that just passed, it was the greatest summer of my life. Edward had made me feel like a queen and I just don't know how everything could have been a lie. Was I just a pet? I couldn't help the tears that came down my eyes. I looked up to Edward, and he looked terrifyingly beautiful but his eyes looked dead. As if someone had suck the life from him.

I felt so foolish because all I wanted to do was comfort him like the dumb pet that I was. I don't know what Edward saw in my face because he looked concerned, "Bella" he said my name worriedly; but I looked away from him feeling anger for the first time towards him. How dare he look at me like he cares. I didn't miss the look of shock on his face. I let myself feel anger for the first time, and I was afraid of him for the first time. Maybe its the fact that I was feeling this deep crumbling pain because of him, and he's hurt me in worst possible way.

"Why don't we see what your little human pet chooses?" Laurent suggested. Edward's growl became more fierce and he seemed afraid of what I would choose. Before yesterday afternoon this would not have been a choice because I had trusted him and I had him in such a high pedestal. Maybe that was the problem.

If I choose not to go to Edward, what's the worst Laurent would do? Kill me, but he had promised it would be quick. With Edward what he would do will be slow torture. I remember Alice had told me that I was his mate. How could I be his mate? I can't imagine Emmet leaving Rosalie, or Jasper leaving Alice.

"Bella, please come to me," he was pleading he looked desperate, but I shook my head. "Please" I shook my head again, I had yet to retain the ability to speak. "I lied, I was just trying to protect you from what I was. I wanted you to have a normal life. All I ever did was put you in danger." He was trying to coax me. A part of me didn't believe him, and another was angry because if he was telling the truth he made the choice for me. Was I not an active partner in the relationship? Who was he to make a choice for me. He took a step forward and I took a step back making m back hit Laurent's' chest. "I think she made her choice," Laurent concluded. Edward pounced too fast for me conceive, and I found my self on the couch. The whole glass wall shattered, and they were both gone. I feared Edward would get hurt. I could not see anything but I heard was sounded like two object clashing like thunder." Moments later I saw what looked like smoke.