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I went to bed that night but could not sleep, the possibility of father ending in jail occupied my mind and I knew that I had to do something about it, I will not let my father be treated like that and I will definitely not let someone like this Mr cullen hurt my loved ones, so I decided to do the best that I could to help solve this problem even if father thinks that I can not do anything.

The next morning first thing I did was going to see Jake. I knew he probably already knew about all of this and that is probably what he's been hiding. I wore a comfortable dress that looked simple but suitable enough that mother will not give me a lecture about looking presentable, I pulled my brown hair up and looked in the mirror, my cheeks were red and my skin looked pale, I sighed and went downstairs.

"where are you heading Isabella? It is too early to go out yet" mother asked I did not even see her sitting outside.

" I am going to see Jake" I said not wanting to lie

" you mean Mr black? what did I tell you about calling him Jake dear, it is not proper for a young lady like yourself to call a fine gentleman by his first name what will people think?"

I rolled my eyes while grabbing a drink before heading out I turned around and looked at her

"mother he is practically like my brother people will not be saying anything" I argued

"he is not like your brother Isabella, his mother told me that he has feelings for you and if you know whats best for you, you'll think of that before its too late, once we lose this land no one will be there for us and it would be better if you were married to a fine gentleman like Mr black"

"mother I will not marry Mr Black just because we are losing our land.. and beside Jake deserve someone who would love him back not someone who would love his shelter"

I turned around to leave "i'm not going to be too late say good morning to father for me"

"wait Isabella..." she called and I stopped and turned to look at her she smiled and said "you look beautiful this morning dear" and then she had to ruin it "don't forget to pinch your cheeks before you knock on the door and say hello to his mother for me" I rolled my eyes and started walking again.

It didn't take long to get to the black's as they don't live that far from us I walked through the gate and found an expensive looking carriage outside..wonder who is there to visit them this early.

I walked closer to the front door and there stood two men both looking in there late twenties they both looked straight ahead and each of them were on either side of the door they were wearing the same uniform but not the officers ones these ones were grey and black which made me think they looked like bodyguards or something.

I walk in half expecting them to stop me but they didn't apparently whoever they are protecting doesn't think someone like me would harm them. I went to the living room only to be met with someone's back. It was an unfamiliar tall man he was wearing a black coat and you could see a grey neck scarf peaking from the back of his neck. He had the wildest bronze hair I have ever seen and I got the urge to run my fingers through it to see if its sooth or not.

I took a step back not knowing who this is and wanting to find Jake but apparently I wasn't as quite about it because he turned around and his eyes landed on me. And I was lost in the deepest green eyes I have ever seen. I could not speak, his beauty was striking and I was speechless.

He bowed and I was reminded of my manners and so I did the same when I looked back to his eyes I saw him staring at me and looking at me from head to toe and I felt exposed to those green eyes he looked back to my eyes and I was trying to get my brain to work unsuccessfully.

"is your sir here yet?" he said with a velvet voice but he sounded impatient.

I just looked at him not understanding his question really.

He looked annoyed by the fact that I did not answer "Mr black is he here yet? Can you let him know I am waiting for him or get one of the other maids to do so?" he asked and I just stood there shocked.

He thought I was a maid.

A maid. Do I look like a maid to him?

" I am sorry sir but I am not a maid!" I said using my angry tone which did not really affect him. he did not even look sorry he just stood there and raised his eyebrow as if telling me well you look like it! And I saw him moving his eyes over my body sizing me. I coughed feeling uncomfortable under his stares his eyes moved back to mine and he tilted his head to the side. And if it wasn't for his offensive words I would have been thinking the most sinful thoughts about this stranger.

"well are you going to call for him or not? I am very busy this morning and would like to speak to him immediately" he said unfazed by what I said to him as if he does not care that I am not a maid as long as I am there to serve him. And I knew then that he is probably one of those rich people who thinks everyone else around them are their slaves just because they are from different classes, and I could not stand people like that.

And so I just stood there and glared at him and he looked actually bored "looks like you are going to to have to wait for someone to serve you sir, have a good day" I said then bowed, turned around and walked out of the room and to the back yard in search of Jake. By the time I found Jake I was already calm and my thoughts had gone back to why I am here.

"bella!" Jake said sounding excited to see me and smiled "thats twice a week I must be a lucky man to see you again so soon"

I laughed and looked around to notice that he was cleaning one of the hunting guns

"what are you doing back here? Are you going hunting or something?" I asked

" no i'm not actually but father is having some visitors that I would rather not see so I decided to occupy myself. What about you what are you doing here so early" he said still smiling

I sighed "i wanted to talk to you about something that is really important and was wondering if you have the time"

" sure bella what's wrong?" and so I told him everything from when I left him last night till I walked here this morning.

"and so we are in a lot of trouble and I have no idea what to do, I mean I can't just let my father go to jail" I finished and looked up to see that he had a guilty look on his face

"you knew didn't you?" I asked knowing the answer already

"yes I did for a while now, I really wish I could help him by giving him the money or something but your father owes them a lot of money...money I don't even own"

"i have no idea how we got to this, and why would Mr cullen offer to help him from the first place" I sighed "i wish he never came back than this would've never happened to us you know"

"look bella I know this is hard but what else can we do, I mean Mr cullen wanted your land as soon as he knew who owned it, claiming that it is their land and they want it back, and he new what he was doing all along tricking your father. The only thing we can do is to see if he could repay him the money in another way"

"what other ways do we have Jake?"

"well how about we talk to Mr cullen maybe he could let your father work for him without asking for an income or something along those lines, i'm sure we could figure something out"

"what about us? how are we going to live without an income"

"i'll help you thats not a problem as long as your father doesn't end up in jail"

I started thinking about that. It could actually work if father offered his service for nothing in return we could manage on our own and that way he would be able to repay him

"and how are we going to see this Mr cullen I have never met him before"

"i'll go see him myself you don't worry about it"

"no Jake I want to go with you if you will not take me i'll go by myself" I argued

"fine i'll see what we can do"

true to his words Jake came the next morning to my house to let me know that Mr cullen will meet us in the afternoon and I was glad that i'll finally get to meet this Mr cullen. Jake stayed over for lunch and then we decided to head to the city as we will be meeting Mr cullen in his office as he told Jake that it shall be a business meeting and that was fine by me.

We entered the office and it was nothing like the offices that I have seen before, the interior was beautiful and gave me a sense of warmth there was a huge red rug that covered most of the floor and the desk that was at the right side of the room was dark wood which was complemented by the dim light coming from the little lamp on the desk, and from the ceiling hanged an old chandelier that looked like it costs more than everything in this room all together.

My thoughts were cut as an elder man came from the opposite door. He walked in and looked at us

" hello, how can I help you" he asked looking at Jake while walking around the desk and sitting in the chair behind the desk. He had glassed on and he looked like a nice man, nothing I expected maybe this Mr cullen wasn't as bad as I thought and maybe all this was a misunderstanding.

"uh.. we have a meeting with Mr cullen" said Jake looking uncomfortable

"ahh yes you must be Mr black am I right?" the man asked

"yes" Jake answered shortly, then the man's eyes travelled from Jake to me and he looked at me and smiled

"and who's this beautiful lady?"

I bowed "i'm Isabella Swan" I said in a quite voice while smiling back at him

"alright then you both may go in as Mr cullen just finish his work and is waiting on some papers"

"thank you sir" said Jake and he turned to me and motioned for me to follow him and so I did.

We entered the office and if I thought the front one looked beautiful this one was breathtaking. Most of the interior was wood and gold and like the front one there was a red rug in the middle of the room but this one had book shelves on either sides of the room and I had the urge to go and explore what type of books there are.

The back of the chair was facing us and upon hearing us enter the man sitting in it turned around and I was met with the oh too familiar face. It was the rude man from yesterday the one who thought he owned the word with his good looks and money, and I was not surprised to know that this was Mr cullen...figures.

He looked at Jake first and then his eyes travelled to me and you could tell that he recognised me as a knowing smirk appeared on his face and he raised his eyebrow.

Mr cullen bowed and I did the same looking away and noticing that Jake didn't miss the look he gave me.

"so you are the famous Miss Swan, you know I was expecting to see Mr Swan but this will do I guess. What can I do for you?" he said with an arrogant tone.

Jake beat me to the answer "we came to see if there is another way in which the Swans might be able to repay you your money sir, without them getting removed from their own land" I was glad that Jake spoke first because anything that I might have said would've made our situation even worse knowing all the colourful thing I wanted to say to him.

"ahhh I knew that's what you are here for" Mr cullen replied coming from around his desk to stand in front of it as he leaned on it and crossed his legs looking at Jake " I am afraid that there is nothing that I can do about this, Mr Swan has been living off of my money for the past three years and I think its about time he payed me back" then he looked at me and smiled again but it was a cruel smile " don't you think thats fair Miss Swan?"

" I think you should have never helped us to begin with you only did this to trick my father into giving you his land which does not even belong to you" I said unable to hold back anymore

" what? you think your grandfather actually owned this land I am merely getting whats rightfully mine you know nothing about how we lost this land and what it actually means to us.. what it means to me" he said sounding angry and I had no idea what he is talking about as far as I know my grandfather actually bought this land

"i guess your father, Miss Swan was not as careful about his land as the black's here" he said pointing at Jake and I turned to give Jake a confused look and I heard Mr cullen laughing

"i guess you do not know do you, you see Miss Swan your father was not the only one that owes me money the Black's did as well but unfortunately for me Mr black was able to pay me back my money yesterday after he got some help from his relatives outside of town, and so I have no reason to take there land now" he said looking at Jake and smirking.

I turned to find Jake giving me a worried look and so I smiled at him I did not feel betrayed of course he is family to me and I would not want him to be in the same situation as us. I guess thats where Mr black was for the past two weeks, he was getting help from his relatives, well unfortunately for us we did not have relatives as we come from a very small family.

I turned back to Mr cullen to see him frowning and looking from me to Jake.

" I guess you have no choice... although you can always stay in the land and let Mr Swan serve few years in jail after all it is his fault and I would not expect the rest of your family to pay for his action" he said enjoying the anger that was bubbling from my eyes

" I will not allow you to hurt my father or any members of my family for that matter and I will find a way to get us out of this" I said and realised that Jake had a hold on my elbow I guess he was afraid that I might attack Mr Evil in front of me

"Bella..." Jake whispered "let us go we will figure this out" I turned to look at Jake hoping that he would have a solution for all this but my vision was blurred by my tears and he whipped one that escaped with his thumb.

"tell your father he has two weeks before I take action" I turned to see the angriest look upon Mr cullens face and I was confused to why he would be angry " and know that I always get what I want Miss Swan"

With that me and Jake turned and left the office with no clue to what to do next.

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